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Happy Birthday, Richard Crenna!

Happy Birthday, Richard Crenna!

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Nov 30th 2014

The go-to actor for radio’s squeaky-voiced adolescents was born in Los Angeles, California on this date in 1926. Richard “D
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Happy Birthday, Judy Canova!

Happy Birthday, Judy Canova!

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Nov 20th 2014

At the height of her popularity in the 1940s, Judy Canova—born in Starke, Florida on this date in 1913—started a pigtails-a
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Review: The Phantom Thief (1946)

Review: The Phantom Thief (1946)

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Nov 14th 2014

Horatio “Boston Blackie” Black (Chester Morris…who later explains to a character in the film that he’s “of the Philadelphia
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Inner Sanctum at the movies

Inner Sanctum at the movies

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Oct 31st 2014

In 1943, Universal Pictures was reaping the rewards from a revived horror movie cycle, so the studio decided in June of tha
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Review: Gildersleeve’s Ghost (1944)

Review: Gildersleeve’s Ghost (1944)

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Oct 27th 2014

One thing you can say about Throckmorton P. Gildersleeve (Harold Peary): his political ambitions are boundless, and in the
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Review: A Close Call for Boston Blackie (1946)

Review: A Close Call for Boston Blackie (1946)

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Oct 22nd 2014

A Close Call for Boston Blackie begins in a particularly jaunty mood: Horatio “Boston Blackie” Black (Chester Morris) and h
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