Birthday - Posts - Page 9

Happy Birthday, Shirley Temple!

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Apr 23rd 2021

There’s a classic Jack Benny Show telecast from the 1960s (but really…aren’t they all classics?) where Jack, having ordered

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Apr 16th 2021

In 1938, aspiring actress Joan Alexander found herself in Vienna after a lengthy tour of major cities in North America, Lat

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Mar 20th 2021

In her 1968 autobiography Tune in Tomorrow: Or, How I Found the Right to Happiness with Our Gal Sunday, Stella Dallas, John

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Mar 4th 2021

The dirty little secret about show business is that it is a virtual petri dish for nepotism. As Fred Allen jokes in It’s in

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Feb 28th 2021

In 1947, when the dramatic anthology The First Nighter Program moved from its long-time Chicago home to Hollywood, leading

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Feb 24th 2021

In the 1945 Warner Bros. cartoon Ain’t That Ducky, Daffy Duck encounters a most unusual hunter: a sportsman who looks and so