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“America’s favorite young couple…”

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Oct 8th 2022

On this date in 1935, bandleader Oswald George Nelson (we know him as “Ozzie Nelson”) tied the knot with Peggy Sue Snyder (

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Sep 30th 2022

One of the more charming features of the radio sitcom The Halls of Ivy was college president William Todhunter Hall’s (Rona

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Sep 13th 2022

The man born Richard Benjamin Haymes in Buenos Aires, Argentina on this date in 1918 was at one time a serious rival to Bin

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Aug 28th 2022

Actors, when they’re very lucky, concentrate on their chief profession: acting. The less fortunate thesps, however, often ha

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Aug 18th 2022

If the man born Walter Michael O’Keefe in Hartford, Connecticut on this date in 1900 had pursued his ambition to join the p

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Aug 6th 2022

It couldn’t have been easy for Jim Ameche, pursuing a radio career in the same manner of his famous brother Don. The man bor