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/ Subscribe to the podcast Substack at https://onthetinselfront.substack.com/ 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