Birthday - Posts - Page 28

Happy Birthday, Milton Berle!

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Jul 12th 2017

At the height of his phenomenal fame on television as the star of The Texaco Star Theatre, Milton Berle was the target of a

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Jun 22nd 2017

“Paul Frees is EVERYWHERE!” A cartoonist of my acquaintance adopted that statement as both a personal mantra and a tribute

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Jun 16th 2017

The effort to cast the motion picture adaptation of Margaret Mitchell’s classic novel Gone with the Wind is almost as epic

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Jun 4th 2017

In the summer of 1949, with CBS working on the idea for what would eventually become Gunsmoke, an audition was recorded (“M

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on May 29th 2017

We’re commemorating Memorial Day today…and it seems only fitting that the entertainer who established his legacy performing

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on May 27th 2017

“I’ve been as bad an influence on American literature as anyone I can think of.” So declared the man born Samuel Dashiell