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Happy Birthday, Eleanor Audley!

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Nov 19th 2019

The epitaph on the headstone adorning the final resting place of actress Eleanor Audley reads: “A Kind Friend to All.” And

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Nov 13th 2019

In 1949, RKO re-released She (1935)—a motion picture based on the series of H. Rider Haggard novels and starring Randolph S

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Oct 10th 2019

The origin story of Chandu the Magician is as follows: Frank Chandler, a student of the occult, has spent much of his time

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Sep 23rd 2019

“I was a 14-year-old boy for 30 years,” Mickey Rooney once jokingly observed of his show business career, which spanned sta

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Sep 3rd 2019

Old-time radio legend Frank Nelson (The Jack Benny Program) shared the following anecdote in Leonard Maltin’s The Great Ame

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Aug 13th 2019

It was a story that he frequently told in interviews: when Sir Alfred Hitchcock was only five years old, his father (who re