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Happy Birthday, Verna Felton!

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Jul 20th 2019

It’s a bit of a stretch but try to imagine Verna Felton—the actress who appeared on Jack Benny’s radio/TV show as Dennis Da

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Jul 8th 2019

When he was five years old, actor Bill Thompson lost his voice campaigning around the country selling Liberty bonds (Americ

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Jul 5th 2019

One night in 1941, child actor Tommy Cook was determined to see the Republic cliffhanger serial Jungle Girl. You see, he h

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

It was on a short-lived radio series entitled This is New York that comedian Ed Gardner found his creative muse…playing a p

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Jun 18th 2019

“I never try to force people into impossible situations on the shows,” observed Clayton “Bud” Collyer to Radio Mirror in Ju

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

At the time I borrowed Joseph Julian’s This Was Radio from my hometown public library as a kid, I wasn’t all that familiar