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Happy Birthday, Judy Garland!

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Jun 10th 2018

For generations both old and new, Judy Garland—born Frances Ethel Gumm in Grand Rapids, Minnesota on this date in 1922—will

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on May 21st 2018

Character great Jeanne Bates—born in Berkeley, California on this date in 1918—started her show business career as a billbo

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on May 17th 2018

It was a cold January day in 1946 when Jack Benny, attending the Rose Bowl game, made the acquaintance of a hot dog salesma

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

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Apr 30th 2018

At the height of her fame as the tart-tongued schoolmarm of radio and TV’s Our Miss Brooks, Eve Arden—born in Mill Valley,

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Apr 15th 2018

On a cold December night in 1915, young Marian Driscoll—born on this date in Peoria, Illinois in 1898—had no idea that afte