Happy Birthday, Vic Perrin!
Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Apr 26th 2021
Old-time
radio fans remember actor Victor Herbert Perrin—born in Menomonee Falls,
Wisconsin on this date in 1916—as a membe
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Happy Birthday, Joan Alexander!
Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Apr 16th 2021
In 1938, aspiring actress Joan
Alexander found herself in Vienna after a lengthy tour of major cities in North
America, Lat
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Happy Birthday, Lawson Zerbe!
Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Mar 20th 2021
In
her 1968 autobiography Tune in Tomorrow: Or, How I Found the Right to
Happiness with Our Gal Sunday, Stella Dallas, John
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Happy Birthday, Leonore “Lee” Allman!
Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Mar 4th 2021
The
dirty little secret about show business is that it is a virtual petri dish for
nepotism. As Fred Allen jokes in It’s in
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Happy Birthday, Olan Soule!
Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Feb 28th 2021
In 1947, when the dramatic
anthology The First
Nighter Program moved from its long-time Chicago home to
Hollywood, leading
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“When man hunts man!”
Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Oct 27th 2020
The Golden Age of
Radio featured many programsthat, despite their excellence, failed to attract a large listening
audience.
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