Happy Birthday, Steve Dunne!
Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Jan 13th 2015
Certified
couch potatoes have seen today’s birthday boy guest star in a number of TV
classics: Alfred Hitchcock Presents, B
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“Look out, Jerry—he’s got a gun!”
Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Dec 30th 2014
For
Nick and Nora Charles, the famed imbibing couple created by Dashiell Hammett in
the 1934 novel The Thin Man, sleuthing
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Review: Boston Blackie and the Law (1946)
Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Dec 22nd 2014
Previously
on the Radio Spirits blog, I discussed Alias Boston Blackie (1942),
the third entry in the popular Columbia Pict
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Happy Birthday, Jeff Chandler!
Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Dec 15th 2014
If you were given a name like “Ira
Grossel” at birth…chances are you’d have a long career as a certified public
accountant
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Happy Birthday, Richard Crenna!
Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Nov 30th 2014
The
go-to actor for radio’s squeaky-voiced adolescents was born in Los Angeles,
California on this date in 1926. Richard “D
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Review: The Phantom Thief (1946)
Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Nov 14th 2014
Horatio
“Boston Blackie” Black (Chester Morris…who later explains to a character in the
film that he’s “of the Philadelphia
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