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Happy Birthday, Van Heflin!

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Dec 13th 2018

“Louis B. Mayer once looked at me and said, ‘You will never get the girl at the end,’” recalled actor Van Heflin once in an

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Nov 28th 2018

“Elliott Lewis was the greatest actor of them all,” declared veteran radio scribe E. Jack Neuman in an interview with Leona

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Nov 24th 2018

When the popular radio crime anthology known as The Mollé Mystery Theatre premiered over NBC in the fall of 1943, the host

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Nov 6th 2018

The actor born Frank Winfield Russell Marion Derwent Readick, Jr. (that’s what he called himself in a 1932 issue of Radio G

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Oct 22nd 2018

It would become one of radio’s most beloved weekly rituals in the late 1940s: comedian Fred Allen would venture into “Allen

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Oct 2nd 2018

Despite the fact that radio’s I Love a Mystery had closed up shop over CBS Radio on December 29, 1944, Columbia Pictures wa