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Happy Birthday, Maurice Tarplin!

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Apr 1st 2019

A 1946 issue of Radio Mirror noted that “practically everyone connected with the Boston Blackie show is a former athlete.”

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Mar 29th 2019

As a boy, actor Earle Ross had been gifted with a beautiful soprano voice—one that he put to good use singing in the boys’

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Mar 13th 2019

It was at a Cleveland, Ohio venue known as The Cabin Club where Sammy Kaye—born Samuel Zamocay, Jr on this date in 1910—wou

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Mar 12th 2019

If real life were like an old-time radio comedy program—and my gosh, don’t you think it should be?—I can’t think of any oth

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Mar 4th 2019

Life in motion pictures was never easy for actor Edgar Barrier. It wasn’t that the work was difficult—it’s that whenever E

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Feb 17th 2019

A newspaper man once referred to actor Staats Cotsworth—born in Oak Park, Illinois on this date in 1908—as “the Clark Gable