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Happy Birthday, Bill Goodwin!

Happy Birthday, Bill Goodwin!

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Jul 28th 2014

There are announcers…and there are personality announcers. The latter were integral to the success of any comedy program du
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Happy Birthday, Jackson Beck!

Happy Birthday, Jackson Beck!

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Jul 23rd 2014

Though he personally considered himself foremost an actor, radio veteran Jackson Beck—born in New York City on this date in
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Happy Birthday, Harriet Hilliard!

Happy Birthday, Harriet Hilliard!

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Jul 18th 2014

If actress-singer Harriet Hilliard—born on this date in 1909—had kept her birth name of Peggy Louise Snyder…do you think an
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Happy Birthday, Peter Lorre!

Happy Birthday, Peter Lorre!

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Jun 26th 2014

On this date in 1904, a son was born to Alajos Löwenstein and Elvira Freischberger in an Austria-Hungarian village that is n
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Happy Birthday, Mary Livingstone!

Happy Birthday, Mary Livingstone!

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Jun 23rd 2014

Today’s birthday girl was born Sadye Marks 109 years ago on this date in Seattle, Washington—the daughter of newly arrived
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Review: The Lineup (1958)

Review: The Lineup (1958)

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Jun 3rd 2014

As San Francisco antiquities dealer Philip Dressler (Raymond Bailey) disembarks from a cruise ship, a porter snatches one o
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