Happy Birthday, Benita Hume!
Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Oct 14th 2019
When
Jack Benny and his writers concocted the script that would introduce
actor Ronald Colman as Jack’s “next door neighbor
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“There are many tales told on radio, but only one Chandu…”
Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Oct 10th 2019
The
origin story of Chandu the Magician is as follows:
Frank Chandler, a student of the occult, has spent much of his time
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Happy Birthday, Kenny Baker!
Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Sep 30th 2019
From
1935 to 1939, Kenneth Laurence Baker—born in Monrovia, California on this date
in 1912—was welcomed into millions of h
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Happy Birthday, Mickey Rooney!
Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Sep 23rd 2019
“I was a 14-year-old boy for 30
years,” Mickey Rooney once jokingly observed of his show business career, which
spanned sta
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Happy Birthday, Penny Singleton!
Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Sep 15th 2019
She
had stiff competition for the film role that would make her a household name:
actresses Gloria Blondell and Una Merkel
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Happy Birthday, Alan Ladd!
Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Sep 3rd 2019
Old-time radio legend Frank Nelson
(The Jack Benny Program) shared
the following anecdote in Leonard Maltin’s The Great Ame
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