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Happy Birthday, Earle Ross!

Happy Birthday, Earle Ross!

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

As a boy, actor Earle Ross had been gifted with a beautiful soprano voice—one that he put to good use singing in the boys’
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Happy Birthday, Sammy Kaye!

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
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Happy Birthday, Harlow Wilcox!

Happy Birthday, Harlow Wilcox!

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
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Happy Birthday, Edgar Barrier!

Happy Birthday, Edgar Barrier!

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
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Happy Birthday, Staats Cotsworth!

Happy Birthday, Staats Cotsworth!

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
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Happy Birthday, Joseph Kearns!

Happy Birthday, Joseph Kearns!

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
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