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Happy Birthday, Jeff Chandler!

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Dec 15th 2014

If you were given a name like “Ira Grossel” at birth…chances are you’d have a long career as a certified public accountant

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Dec 2nd 2014

The star of radio’s The Aldrich Family, Ezra Stone, may have portrayed an endearingly awkward teenager over the airwaves…bu

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Nov 30th 2014

The go-to actor for radio’s squeaky-voiced adolescents was born in Los Angeles, California on this date in 1926. Richard “D

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Nov 20th 2014

At the height of her popularity in the 1940s, Judy Canova—born in Starke, Florida on this date in 1913—started a pigtails-a

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Nov 14th 2014

Horatio “Boston Blackie” Black (Chester Morris…who later explains to a character in the film that he’s “of the Philadelphia

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Nov 6th 2014

One of old-time radio’s most important—and inarguably, most creative—director-producers was born on this date in 1916. A na