Douglas Gilbert. American Vaudeville: Its Life and Times (1940)
Anthony Slide. The Encyclopedia of Vaudeville (1994)
Charles and Louise Samuels. Once Upon a Stage: The Merry World of Vaudeville (1974)
Bob Thomas. Bud & Lou: The Abbott & Costello Story (1977)
Ron Smith. The Stars of Stand-Up Comedy: A Bibliographical Encyclopedia (1986)
Otto Friedrich. City of Nets: A Portrait of Hollywood in the 1940s (1986)
John P. Springer. Hollywood Fictions: The Dream Factory in American Popular Literature (2000)
Steve Fuller. "The Cherry Sisters," The Palimpsest 60 (July/August 1979): 121-29. (Click on link for article.)
Norma Jane Langford. "Cherries Ripe, Cherries Red," Iowan, Fall 1969, pg. 8-11+

Radio and Television History

Home Front During World War II

Robert Heide and John Gilman. Home Front America: Popular Culture of the World War II Era (1995)
John W. Jeffries. Wartime America: The World War II Home Front (1996)

Peter M. Nardi, ed. Men’s Friendships (1992)
Frank B. Leib. Friendly Competitors, Fierce Companions: Men’s Ways of Relating (1997)