Happy Birthday, Marsha Hunt!
Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Oct 17th 2019
Actress
Marsha Hunt reminisced to writer-director-producer Roger C. Memos in 2014 that
her mother Minabel took her to see a
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Happy Birthday, Benita Hume!
Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Oct 14th 2019
When
Jack Benny and his writers concocted the script that would introduce
actor Ronald Colman as Jack’s “next door neighbor
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Happy Birthday, Kenny Baker!
Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Sep 30th 2019
From
1935 to 1939, Kenneth Laurence Baker—born in Monrovia, California on this date
in 1912—was welcomed into millions of h
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Happy Birthday, Mickey Rooney!
Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Sep 23rd 2019
“I was a 14-year-old boy for 30
years,” Mickey Rooney once jokingly observed of his show business career, which
spanned sta
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Happy Birthday, Penny Singleton!
Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Sep 15th 2019
She
had stiff competition for the film role that would make her a household name:
actresses Gloria Blondell and Una Merkel
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Happy Birthday, Van Johnson!
Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Aug 25th 2019
During the 1940s,
the man born Charles Van Dell Johnson in Newport, Rhode Island on this date in
1916 was known as Metro-Go
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