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Happy Birthday, Jeff Chandler!

Happy Birthday, Jeff Chandler!

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Dec 15th 2014

If you were given a name like “Ira Grossel” at birth…chances are you’d have a long career as a certified public accountant
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Happy Birthday, Ezra Stone!

Happy Birthday, Ezra Stone!

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Dec 2nd 2014

The star of radio’s The Aldrich Family, Ezra Stone, may have portrayed an endearingly awkward teenager over the airwaves…bu
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Happy Birthday, Richard Crenna!

Happy Birthday, Richard Crenna!

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Nov 30th 2014

The go-to actor for radio’s squeaky-voiced adolescents was born in Los Angeles, California on this date in 1926. Richard “D
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Happy Birthday, Judy Canova!

Happy Birthday, Judy Canova!

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Nov 20th 2014

At the height of her popularity in the 1940s, Judy Canova—born in Starke, Florida on this date in 1913—started a pigtails-a
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Happy Birthday, Norman Macdonnell!

Happy Birthday, Norman Macdonnell!

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Nov 6th 2014

One of old-time radio’s most important—and inarguably, most creative—director-producers was born on this date in 1916. A na
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Review: Gildersleeve’s Ghost (1944)

Review: Gildersleeve’s Ghost (1944)

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Oct 27th 2014

One thing you can say about Throckmorton P. Gildersleeve (Harold Peary): his political ambitions are boundless, and in the
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