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Happy Birthday, Brett Halliday!

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Jul 31st 2017

If we were to truly recognize the birthday of author Brett Halliday, we’d have to settle in for a series of blog posts. “

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Jul 19th 2017

It seems odd that an actor who claimed to have emoted on over 10,000 radio broadcasts and provided voiceovers for 700 comme

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Jul 12th 2017

At the height of his phenomenal fame on television as the star of The Texaco Star Theatre, Milton Berle was the target of a

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Jun 22nd 2017

“Paul Frees is EVERYWHERE!” A cartoonist of my acquaintance adopted that statement as both a personal mantra and a tribute

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Jun 16th 2017

The effort to cast the motion picture adaptation of Margaret Mitchell’s classic novel Gone with the Wind is almost as epic

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Jun 4th 2017

In the summer of 1949, with CBS working on the idea for what would eventually become Gunsmoke, an audition was recorded (“M