Happy Birthday, Don Ameche!
Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on May 31st 2015
Dominic Felix Amici was born on
this date in Kenosha, WI in 1908. When Dominic changed his name to Don Ameche,
however, tha
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Happy Birthday, Vincent Price!
Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on May 27th 2015
If actor Vincent Price—born Vincent
Leonard Price, Jr. on this date in St. Louis, Missouri in 1911—had decided to
ignore th
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Happy Birthday, James Stewart!
Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on May 20th 2015
James Maitland Stewart, the Academy
Award-winning actor beloved by theatergoers as “the boy next door” was born on
this dat
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Happy Birthday, Frank Nelson!
Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on May 6th 2015
It never fails…every time I tune
into an episode of The
Jack Benny Program (be it on radio or TV) and Jack
needs help from
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“Heavenly days!”
Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Apr 16th 2015
The
day that writer Don Quinn crossed paths with Jim Jordan at WENR in Chicago
would prove to be a most fortuitous one for
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“Out of the fog…out of the night…”
Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Apr 13th 2015
It was on this date in 1941 that
Captain Hugh “Bulldog” Drummond began what the announcer referred to as “his
American adve
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