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Happy Birthday, Shirley Temple!

Happy Birthday, Shirley Temple!

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Apr 23rd 2021

There’s a classic Jack Benny Show telecast from the 1960s (but really…aren’t they all classics?) where Jack, having ordered
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Happy Birthday, Joan Alexander!

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, Joan Crawford!

Happy Birthday, Joan Crawford!

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Mar 23rd 2021

“Joan Crawford has passed into myth as a demented martinet whose greatest need or belief concerned padded clothes hangers,”
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Happy Birthday, Lawson Zerbe!

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!

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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