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Happy Birthday, Shirley Mitchell!

Happy Birthday, Shirley Mitchell!

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Nov 4th 2013

With the celebration of her ninety-fourth birthday today (she was born in 1919), actress Shirley Mitchell is the last survi
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Happy Birthday, Herb Butterfield!

Happy Birthday, Herb Butterfield!

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Oct 28th 2013

Today’s birthday celebrant—born in Providence, Rhode Island on this date in 1895—may not possess the cachet of other charact
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Happy Birthday, Barbara Britton!

Happy Birthday, Barbara Britton!

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Sep 26th 2013

The actress fondly remembered by classic television and old-time radio fans for portraying the female half of the sleuthing
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Happy Birthday, Eddie “Rochester” Anderson!

Happy Birthday, Eddie “Rochester” Anderson!

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Sep 18th 2013

On this date in 1905, one of radio and television’s most prized sidekicks was born in Oakland, CA to a family of show busine
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Happy Birthday, Tom Conway!

Happy Birthday, Tom Conway!

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Sep 15th 2013

Thomas Charles Sanders was born on this date in 1904 to English parents in St. Petersburg, Russia. Old-time radio fans, of
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