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Happy Birthday, Everett Sloane!

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Oct 1st 2016

In the 1941 movie classic Citizen Kane, Kane’s business manager Mr. Bernstein makes an observation that remains in the memo

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Sep 30th 2016

I’m certainly not the first person to observe that the best directors—whether they work in film, television, theater, or el

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Sep 20th 2016

In Leonard Maltin’s anecdotal old-time radio page-turner The Great American Broadcast, there’s a photograph of Parley Baer

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Sep 4th 2016

The actor best known for making his weekly entrance on Duffy’s Tavern with a cheery “Duhhh…hello, Arch!” was born on this d

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Aug 30th 2016

With his first credited film appearance in 1935’s Grand Old Girl, it didn’t take long before Frederick Martin MacMurray—bor

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Aug 22nd 2016

Actress Lesley Woods is described in author Jim Cox’s compendium The Great Radio Soap Operas as someone who “made a career