The Greatest Cartoons Ever! Film Events March 27, 2026April 7, 2026 Greatest Cartoons Returns to the Alex Theatre Sunday April 12th at 2:00 PM Please join us for a fun-filled afternoon with family and friends, enjoying a new edition of the Alex Film Society's The Greatest Cartoons Ever! featuring tributes to animation directors like Tex Avery, Chuck Jones, the team of Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera, Friz Freleng, Dave Fleischer and more. You’ll see many of your favorite cartoon characters, including Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Popeye & Olive Oyl, Woody Woodpecker, Tom & Jerry, Droopy, and Yosemite Sam. Curated and introduced by animation veteran Frank Gladstone, The Greatest Cartoons Ever! promises to be an afternoon of classic animated treasures, once again on the big Alex Theatre screen as they were originally intended, filled with laughter and fun the entire family can share. Tickets Now On Sale Tickets are now available online at the Alex Theater website - with no additional fees - the price you see is the price you pay. Greatest Cartoons Ever! 2:00 PM Show The Program for the 2026 edition of The Greatest Cartoons Ever!: Tom & Jerry in Salt Water Tabby Bugs Bunny and Yosemite Sam in High Diving Hare (1949) Popeye & Olive Oyl in King of the Mardi Gras (1935) Mickey Mouse in The Band Concert (1935) Woody Woodpecker in Ski For Two (1944) Michigan J. Frog in One Froggy Evening (1955) Plus These Favorites Daffy Duck in Book Revue (1946) "Owl Jolson" in I Love to Singa (1936) The Road Runner in Scrambled Aches (1957) Droopy in Northwest Hounded Police (1946)
11th Annual The Greatest Cartoons Ever! on December 26th Film Events November 19, 2023December 17, 2023 This Show Has Been Postponed We regret to inform you that due to a number of circumstances beyond our control, we won't be able to bring the eleventh edition of our traditional day-after-Christmas cartoon show to the screen on December 26th. We realize that a number of you have attended over multiple years in the past, and we were looking forward to watching the show and laughing along with you. We hope to be able to present a program of classic animation early in 2024, and we'll let you know as soon as a program is finalized and a date is selected.
Greatest Cartoons Ever! Moves to the Heart of Hollywood! on June 5th, 2022 Film Events May 12, 2022June 2, 2022 Just Added! Long Lost Betty Boop Cartoon! We've been able to secure a last-minute booking for a Betty Boop cartoon that was considered lost for decades. Discovered in an archive in Russia in 2019, and restored by the UCLA Film & Television Archive with funding provided by ASIFA-Hollywood, you'll now have the opportunity to be one of the first to see it on a big theater screen. This adds another emblematic work to our tribute to Dave Fleischer. With eleven classic cartoons, informative and entertaining introductions by our animation historians, plus free parking and the opportunity to tour the Hollywood Heritage Museum at no charge, it adds up to the perfect way to spend a Sunday afternoon celebrating the Golden Age of Hollywood. New Date: Sunday, June 5, 2022 at 2:00 PM Thanks to a new partnership between the Alex Film Society, the Hollywood Legion Theater and Hollywood Heritage, we're finally able to present our rescheduled Christmas show, in the heart of Hollywood, at the historic Hollywood Legion Theater, just across the street from the Hollywood Heritage Museum. In addition to enjoying this year's impressive lineup of classic animation from Hollywood's Golden Age, you'll also have the opportunity to visit the Hollywood Heritage Museum. And thanks to the generosity of Hollywood Heritage, you'll be able to park for free in the lot adjacent to the museum and tour the Lasky-DeMille Barn for free before our show starts at 2:00 PM. Visit the Hollywood Heritage Museum Before the Show The Lasky-DeMille Barn, built in 1901 is the oldest remaining motion picture production
The Greatest Cartoons Ever! – 12/26/18 Film Events December 26, 2018April 13, 2020 Spend Boxing Day at the Alex Theatre What better way is there to spend the day after Christmas than sitting in Glendale's historic Alex Theatre with friends and family, enjoying the 8th edition of The Greatest Cartoons Ever!. This year we'll feature a celebration of Mickey Mouse's 90th birthday. In addition, many of your favorite animation characters will appear on the big Alex screen, including Popeye and Olive Oyl, Porky Pig, Jerry of Tom & Jerry, and of course Bugs Bunny. Please join us at the Alex on December 26th for fun the entire family can enjoy — shows at 2:00 and 7:00 PM. Among the animation classics to be screened this year: PLANE CRAZY (1928, Walt Disney, Ub Iwerks) Mickey Mouse's first cartoon – Here he tries to imitate ace pilot "Lucky Lindy" and takes Minnie Mouse on a dizzy airplane ride. THRU THE MIRROR (1936, David Hand) One of the best Mickey Mouse color spectaculars – here he dreams himself into an "Alice Through The Looking Glass" situation, dancing like Fred Astaire with caricatures of Greta Garbo and Charles Laughton as the King and Queen of Hearts. PROTEK THE WEAKEREST (1937, Dave Fleischer) Popeye is forced to take Olive's little pup for a walk and runs into Bluto with his vicious bulldog. Be sure to look for the 3-D backgrounds. TO SPRING (1936, Hugh Harman, Rudolf Ising, William Hanna) A rarely seen "Happy Harmonies" cartoon. The trolls who live underground prepare the Earth for the arrival of Spring. CRAZY MIXED UP PUP (1955, Tex Avery) Sam and his dog are given blood transfusions which get mixed-up,
