Happy Birthday, Dana Andrews!
Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Jan 1st 2017
Author
Carl Rollyson’s 2012 biography of actor Dana Andrews—born Carver Dana Andrews
on this date in 1909—is titled Hollywo
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Happy Birthday, Sydney Greenstreet!
Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Dec 27th 2016
Despite
appearances in only two dozen films in an eight-year time span, Sydney Hughes
Greenstreet—born on this date in 1879
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Happy Birthday, Howard Duff!
Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Nov 24th 2016
Have
you ever wondered why a lot of the announcers from the AFRS versions of your
radio favorites sound like Howard Duff?
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“It’s round-up time/On the Double-R Bar…”
Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Nov 21st 2016
“America’s
favorite singing cowboy,” Gene Autry, began his long-running radio series Gene
Autry’s Melody Ranch in January o
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Review: Partners in Time (1946)
Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Nov 16th 2016
In
1937, Chester Lauck and Norris Goff began to express interest in bringing the
characters from their popular radio show,
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“Extra, extra—get your Illustrated Press!”
Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Oct 19th 2016
The Golden Age of Radio—and this
may be a good or bad thing, depending upon your opinion of the Fourth
Estate—was a regular
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