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Happy Birthday, Leonore “Lee” Allman!

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Mar 4th 2021

The dirty little secret about show business is that it is a virtual petri dish for nepotism. As Fred Allen jokes in It’s in

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Feb 28th 2021

In 1947, when the dramatic anthology The First Nighter Program moved from its long-time Chicago home to Hollywood, leading

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Oct 16th 2020

Berry Kroeger’s initial show business ambition was to become a concert pianist. Kroeger didn’t lack for talent, you unders

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Oct 10th 2020

The 1968 feature film comedy With Six You Get Eggroll served as actress-singer Doris Day’s cinematic swan song. Dodo would

Posted by Ivan G, Shreve, Jr. on Oct 6th 2020

In hindsight, the low ebb that marked Frank Sinatra’s show business career in the early 1950s should have been interpreted

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Aug 23rd 2020

Radio actors learned practically from their introduction to the medium that their fortunes were set if their talents includ