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Happy Birthday, John McIntire!

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Jun 27th 2021

In the mid-1930s, actor-announcer John Herrick McIntire—born in Spokane, Washington on this date in 1907—decided, along wit

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Jun 5th 2021

The man born Herbert (some sources spell it “Herburt”) Vigran in Cincinnati, Ohio on this date in 1910 would become one

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on May 16th 2021

For actor Henry Fonda, the old “third time’s the charm” idiom certainly rang true in 1982. He was recognized by his peers a

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on May 5th 2021

“Ben was one of the last of the true English gentlemen in the Edwardian sense of the word, with an accent on the gentle,” r

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on May 2nd 2021

The actor born Victor Herbert Erpelding on this date in Chicago, Illinois in 1908 put his hobby of collecting rare, tropica

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Apr 23rd 2021

There’s a classic Jack Benny Show telecast from the 1960s (but really…aren’t they all classics?) where Jack, having ordered