Radio comedy - Posts - Page 24

Happy Birthday, Paul McGrath!

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Apr 11th 2018

On May 29, 1945, radio’s popular Inner Sanctum Mysteries welcomed inside “the creaking door” a new host to replace the depa

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

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Mar 16th 2018

August 20, 2017 was for many fans of comedy a day to weep…not laugh. The man born Joseph Levitch (though other sources rep

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

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

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

Actress Louise Erickson—born in Oakland, California on this date in 1928—becomes a nonagenarian today…and we at Radio Spiri