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Happy Birthday, Lucille Ball!

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Aug 6th 2015

One hundred and four years ago on this date in Jamestown, NY, the woman who would become virtually synonymous with televisi

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve. Jr. on Aug 3rd 2015

I’d never be able to prove it in a court of law…but I’d be willing to gamble that when the need arose for an actress to pla

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Jul 19th 2015

When Paramount Pictures brought the hit Broadway musical Grease to the big screen in 1978, some of the film’s casting decis

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Jul 7th 2015

Turner Classic Movies occasionally schedules a 1956 film noir directed by Fritz Lang entitled While the City Sleeps. In the

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Jun 30th 2015

Radio historian and Radio Spirits contributor Jim Widner once asked humorously of today’s birthday celebrant “Any detective

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Jun 15th 2015

On this date in 1909 in New York City, Maria Paoli and Pasquale DeSantis welcomed Joseph Vito Marcello DeSantis into the wo