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Happy Birthday, Lawson Zerbe!

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Mar 20th 2021

In her 1968 autobiography Tune in Tomorrow: Or, How I Found the Right to Happiness with Our Gal Sunday, Stella Dallas, John

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Mar 4th 2021

The dirty little secret about show business is that it is a virtual petri dish for nepotism. As Fred Allen jokes in It’s in

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Feb 28th 2021

In 1947, when the dramatic anthology The First Nighter Program moved from its long-time Chicago home to Hollywood, leading

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Feb 24th 2021

In the 1945 Warner Bros. cartoon Ain’t That Ducky, Daffy Duck encounters a most unusual hunter: a sportsman who looks and so

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Feb 21st 2021

In Tinsel Town, she was known as “The Oomph Girl.” Ann Sheridan—born on this date in 1915—loathed the nickname. “Just bei

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Feb 1st 2021

In Hollywood, he was reverentially referred to as “The King.” William Clark Gable, born in Cadiz, OH on this date in 1901,