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“Get this and get it straight…”

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Jun 17th 2018

In 1932, having been dismissed from his position as a vice-president with the Dabney Oil Syndicate, Raymond Chandler decide

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on May 21st 2018

Character great Jeanne Bates—born in Berkeley, California on this date in 1918—started her show business career as a billbo

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

Author Gore Vidal once remarked of Orson Welles: “For the television generation he is remembered as an enormously fat and g

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Apr 11th 2018

On May 29, 1945, radio’s popular Inner Sanctum Mysteries welcomed inside “the creaking door” a new host to replace the depa

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

An item in the September 25, 1939 edition of The Van Nuys News trumpets the motion picture debut of actor Louis Merrill—bor

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Mar 31st 2018

Fans of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar are generally in agreement that it was actor Bob Bailey who made “America’s fabulous fre