Happy Birthday, Van Heflin!
Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Dec 13th 2018
“Louis
B. Mayer once looked at me and said, ‘You will never get the girl at the end,’”
recalled actor Van Heflin once in an
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Happy Birthday, Agnes Moorehead!
Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Dec 6th 2018
In my
days of higher education—where it was joked that I had spent so much time in
college, ivy had started to grow up my l
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Happy Birthday, Rex Stout!
Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Dec 1st 2018
He
became famous for creating Nero Wolfe—a character memorably described by
an author at The Thrilling Detective Website a
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Happy Birthday, Elliott Lewis!
Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Nov 28th 2018
“Elliott
Lewis was the greatest actor of them all,” declared veteran radio scribe E.
Jack Neuman in an interview with Leona
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Happy Birthday, Bernard Lenrow!
Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Nov 24th 2018
When
the popular radio crime anthology known as The Mollé Mystery Theatre premiered
over NBC in the fall of 1943, the host
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Happy Birthday, Don Quinn!
Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Nov 18th 2018
The
most fortuitous event that occurred in the life of writer-cartoonist Don
Quinn—born in Grand Rapids, Michigan on this d
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