Happy Birthday, Fred Foy!
Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Mar 27th 2017
Old-time
radio historian Jim Harmon minced no words in his book Radio Mystery
and Adventure and Its Appearances in Film, Te
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Happy Birthday, Paula Winslowe!
Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Mar 22nd 2017
The
untimely death of “platinum blonde” Jean Harlow at the age of 26 was
devastating news to moviegoers…but since the motio
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Happy Birthday, Claire Trevor!
Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Mar 8th 2017
On
March 24, 1949, actress Claire Trevor—born in Brooklyn, NY on this date in
1910—received one of the highest honors a per
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Happy Birthday, Jim Backus!
Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Feb 25th 2017
He was an actor who did it all:
stage, television, movies…and for us fans of the aural medium, plenty of
old-time radio. J
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Happy Birthday, Alonzo Deen Cole!
Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Feb 22nd 2017
Before
radio audiences eagerly anticipated each week the memorably unsettling sound of
a creaking door (on Inner Sanctum My
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Happy Birthday, Jimmy Durante!
Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Feb 10th 2017
From the 1920s and onward, James
Francis Durante—born in Manhattan on this date in 1893—was the entertainer who
advised aud
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