Birthday - Posts - Page 17

Happy Birthday, Jack Johnstone!

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on May 7th 2019

A September 24, 1938 edition of Radio Guide describes a “radio first” executed by actress Alice Frost and Jack Johnstone, t

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on May 3rd 2019

The man born Norman Lewis Corwin on this date in 1910 is universally recognized as “the poet laureate of radio.” Norman Co

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Apr 26th 2019

“Danger’s my stock-in-trade,” observed George Valentine weekly on the popular Mutual crime drama Let George Do It. For act

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Apr 14th 2019

Sir John Gielgud made his cinematic debut in a 1924 silent film, Who is the Man? Yet the celebrated actor, born in South K

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Apr 1st 2019

A 1946 issue of Radio Mirror noted that “practically everyone connected with the Boston Blackie show is a former athlete.”

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Mar 29th 2019

As a boy, actor Earle Ross had been gifted with a beautiful soprano voice—one that he put to good use singing in the boys’