Blog - Page 34 - Radio Spirits

Happy Birthday, Paul Sutton!

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on May 14th 2018

From 1938 to 1955, Detroit radio station WXYZ was the home of Sergeant William Preston—the stalwart Canadian Mountie who, w

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on May 6th 2018

Author Gore Vidal once remarked of Orson Welles: “For the television generation he is remembered as an enormously fat and g

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Apr 30th 2018

At the height of her fame as the tart-tongued schoolmarm of radio and TV’s Our Miss Brooks, Eve Arden—born in Mill Valley,

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Apr 15th 2018

On a cold December night in 1915, young Marian Driscoll—born on this date in Peoria, Illinois in 1898—had no idea that afte

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Apr 11th 2018

On May 29, 1945, radio’s popular Inner Sanctum Mysteries welcomed inside “the creaking door” a new host to replace the depa

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Apr 1st 2018

An item in the September 25, 1939 edition of The Van Nuys News trumpets the motion picture debut of actor Louis Merrill—bor