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Happy Birthday, Dale Evans!

Happy Birthday, Dale Evans!

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Oct 31st 2017

On January 14, 1953, TV’s This is Your Life paid tribute to “The King of the Cowboys”—none other than Roy Rogers himself.
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Happy Birthday, Joan Banks!

Happy Birthday, Joan Banks!

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Oct 30th 2017

In 1949, at the height of the success of radio’s My Friend Irma, actress Cathy Lewis—who originated the character of roomma
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Happy Birthday, Jean Vander Pyl!

Happy Birthday, Jean Vander Pyl!

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Oct 11th 2017

Universal Pictures brought a live-action version of the classic TV cartoon series The Flintstones to the big screen in 1994
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Happy Birthday, Groucho Marx!

Happy Birthday, Groucho Marx!

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Oct 2nd 2017

If comedian Groucho Marx—born Julius Henry Marx in New York City on this date in 1890—had achieved his childhood ambition o
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“Laugh a while/Let a song/Be your style…”

“Laugh a while/Let a song/Be your style…”

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Sep 29th 2017

Though he had firmly established his persona as a flashy, hard-drinking playboy with an eye for exquisite female pulchritud
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Let’s have another cup of coffee…

Let’s have another cup of coffee…

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Aug 25th 2017

No less an authority than TV Guide declared Father Knows Best to be “the quintessentially comforting 50s sitcom.” A generat
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