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Happy Birthday, Frances Robinson!

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Apr 26th 2019

“Danger’s my stock-in-trade,” observed George Valentine weekly on the popular Mutual crime drama Let George Do It. For act

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Apr 14th 2019

Sir John Gielgud made his cinematic debut in a 1924 silent film, Who is the Man? Yet the celebrated actor, born in South K

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Apr 6th 2019

Author Frederick Lewis Collins’ book The FBI in Peace and War became such a huge best seller in 1943 that a radio adaptatio

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Apr 1st 2019

A 1946 issue of Radio Mirror noted that “practically everyone connected with the Boston Blackie show is a former athlete.”

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Mar 29th 2019

As a boy, actor Earle Ross had been gifted with a beautiful soprano voice—one that he put to good use singing in the boys’

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Mar 12th 2019

If real life were like an old-time radio comedy program—and my gosh, don’t you think it should be?—I can’t think of any oth