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Happy Birthday, Van Heflin!

Happy Birthday, Van Heflin!

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Dec 13th 2018

“Louis B. Mayer once looked at me and said, ‘You will never get the girl at the end,’” recalled actor Van Heflin once in an
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Happy Birthday, Agnes Moorehead!

Happy Birthday, Agnes Moorehead!

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Dec 6th 2018

In my days of higher education—where it was joked that I had spent so much time in college, ivy had started to grow up my l
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Happy Birthday, Rex Stout!

Happy Birthday, Rex Stout!

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Dec 1st 2018

He became famous for creating Nero Wolfe—a character memorably described by an author at The Thrilling Detective Website a
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Happy Birthday, Elliott Lewis!

Happy Birthday, Elliott Lewis!

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

“Elliott Lewis was the greatest actor of them all,” declared veteran radio scribe E. Jack Neuman in an interview with Leona
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Happy Birthday, Bernard Lenrow!

Happy Birthday, Bernard Lenrow!

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Nov 24th 2018

When the popular radio crime anthology known as The Mollé Mystery Theatre premiered over NBC in the fall of 1943, the host
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Happy Birthday, Frank Readick!

Happy Birthday, Frank Readick!

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Nov 6th 2018

The actor born Frank Winfield Russell Marion Derwent Readick, Jr. (that’s what he called himself in a 1932 issue of Radio G
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