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Happy Birthday, Marsha Hunt!

Happy Birthday, Marsha Hunt!

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Oct 17th 2019

Actress Marsha Hunt reminisced to writer-director-producer Roger C. Memos in 2014 that her mother Minabel took her to see a
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Happy Birthday, Benita Hume!

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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Happy Birthday, Kenny Baker!

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!

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!

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!

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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