S2 E5: “Mother”

Season 2, Episode 5: “Mother”

Ollie participates in a Private Snafu story meeting, gets his animation tour from Julie and, with Lois and Shelly, meets Elle’s mother…

WRITTEN, PRODUCED AND DIRECTED by Christopher Bomba

STARRING:

• Brian Stanton as Oliver Whelan

with…

• Samara Frame as Elle and Florence Anderson
• Zane Acord as LA Times Reporter
• Dante Alexander as Citizen-News Reporter
• Caleb A. Fields as Daily News Reporter
• Alan Blumenfeld as Ted Geisel
• Jonah Weiland as Phil Eastman
• Tania Verafield as Julie
• Tom O’Connor as Pete
• Leda Siskind as Agness “Aggie” Underwood
• Katherine James as Shelly
• Robbie Trombetta as Lois
• Mary Bomba as the Host

Produced under the auspices of a SAG/AFTRA Micro-Budget Podcast Agreement.

MUSIC:

• Martin Landström, Wicked Man.  Courtesy of Epidemic Sound
• Niklas Gabrielsson & Martin Landström and his Orchestra, My Gal (Instrumental Version). Courtesy of Epidemic Sound

SOUND EFFECTS courtesy of Soundly.

While On The Tinsel Front purports to tell a true story, all the characters are fictional except for the real-life personalities – some more recognizable than others – who actually served in the wartime positions they do here.  For more information about these people, Hollywood during World War II and the actors, visit the podcast website at https://onthetinselfront.com/

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Thanks to evryone who made this podcast possible… and to these authors and books for their valuable information.

• Brian Jay Jones, “Becoming Dr. Seuss”
• Martha Sigall, “Living Life Inside the Lines: Tales from the Golden Age of Animation”
• Agness Underwood, “Newspaperwoman.” 
• Sam Weller, “The Bradbury Chronicles: The Life of Ray Bradbury”
• Ray Bradbury, “A Graveyard for Lunatics”
• Mauricio Mazón, “The Zoot Suit Riots: The Psychology of Symbolic Annihilation”
• And, of course, Wikipedia, YouTube and countless other informational websites. 

© Christopher Bomba 2026