Classic television - Posts - Page 39

“Lights out…everybody!”

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Apr 17th 2016

In the early years of Radio’s Golden Age, those individuals who worked in radio discovered fairly quickly that the medium w

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Apr 2nd 2016

In his invaluable reference book The Great Radio Soap Operas, author Jim Cox opines that Gertrude “Trudy” Warner—born in Ha

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Mar 27th 2016

Today’s birthday celebrant was once dubbed “the Canadian Orson Welles”…and after leaving The Great White North in 1946, Fle

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Mar 25th 2016

If you were to ask character actor Edward James Begley—born in Hartford, Connecticut on this date in 1901—about the highlig

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Mar 5th 2016

The legendary Fred Allen had words of high praise in his book Treadmill to Oblivion for long-time Fred Allen Show regular

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

The last time we got together here on the blog we celebrated Sheldon Leonard’s birthday…and I described his career as a “hy