Happy Birthday, Paul Sutton!
Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on May 14th 2018
From
1938 to 1955, Detroit radio station WXYZ was the home of Sergeant
William Preston—the stalwart Canadian Mountie who, w
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Happy Birthday, Orson Welles!
Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on May 6th 2018
Author
Gore Vidal once remarked of Orson Welles: “For the television generation he is
remembered as an enormously fat and g
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Happy Birthday, Lou Merrill!
Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Apr 1st 2018
An
item in the September 25, 1939 edition of The Van Nuys News trumpets
the motion picture debut of actor Louis Merrill—bor
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Happy Birthday, Charles Russell!
Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Mar 31st 2018
Fans
of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar are generally in
agreement that it was actor Bob Bailey who made “America’s fabulous fre
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Happy Birthday, Pat McGeehan!
Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Mar 4th 2018
Patrick
Joseph McGeehan—born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania on this date in 1907—enjoyed a
long and fruitful association with
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Happy Birthday, Barbara Jean Wong!
Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Mar 3rd 2018
It
became one of old-time radio’s most cherished traditions. The annual
Christmas broadcast of Amos ‘n’ Andy, in which&nbs
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