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Happy Birthday, Jeff Corey!

Happy Birthday, Jeff Corey!

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Aug 10th 2017

In May of 2017, the memoirs of character actor Jeff Corey—born Arthur Zwerling in Brooklyn on this date in 1914—were publis
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Happy Birthday, Brett Halliday!

Happy Birthday, Brett Halliday!

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

If we were to truly recognize the birthday of author Brett Halliday, we’d have to settle in for a series of blog posts. “
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Happy Birthday, Lou Krugman!

Happy Birthday, Lou Krugman!

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Jul 19th 2017

It seems odd that an actor who claimed to have emoted on over 10,000 radio broadcasts and provided voiceovers for 700 comme
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Happy Birthday, Milton Berle!

Happy Birthday, Milton Berle!

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Jul 12th 2017

At the height of his phenomenal fame on television as the star of The Texaco Star Theatre, Milton Berle was the target of a
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Happy Birthday, Paul Frees!

Happy Birthday, Paul Frees!

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Jun 22nd 2017

“Paul Frees is EVERYWHERE!” A cartoonist of my acquaintance adopted that statement as both a personal mantra and a tribute
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Happy Birthday, Ona Munson!

Happy Birthday, Ona Munson!

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Jun 16th 2017

The effort to cast the motion picture adaptation of Margaret Mitchell’s classic novel Gone with the Wind is almost as epic
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