Birthday - Posts - Page 18

Happy Birthday, Sammy Kaye!

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Mar 13th 2019

It was at a Cleveland, Ohio venue known as The Cabin Club where Sammy Kaye—born Samuel Zamocay, Jr on this date in 1910—wou

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Mar 12th 2019

If real life were like an old-time radio comedy program—and my gosh, don’t you think it should be?—I can’t think of any oth

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Mar 4th 2019

Life in motion pictures was never easy for actor Edgar Barrier. It wasn’t that the work was difficult—it’s that whenever E

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

A newspaper man once referred to actor Staats Cotsworth—born in Oak Park, Illinois on this date in 1908—as “the Clark Gable

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Feb 12th 2019

In the 1950s, with technological strides being embraced by the dying medium of radio, the Columbia Broadcasting System star

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Feb 9th 2019

On April 26, 1936, the small Arkansas town of Waters officially changed its name to Pine Ridge. It wasn’t because they wer