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Happy Birthday, Marsha Hunt!

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Oct 17th 2019

Actress Marsha Hunt reminisced to writer-director-producer Roger C. Memos in 2014 that her mother Minabel took her to see a

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Oct 14th 2019

When Jack Benny and his writers concocted the script that would introduce actor Ronald Colman as Jack’s “next door neighbor

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Oct 10th 2019

The origin story of Chandu the Magician is as follows: Frank Chandler, a student of the occult, has spent much of his time

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Sep 30th 2019

From 1935 to 1939, Kenneth Laurence Baker—born in Monrovia, California on this date in 1912—was welcomed into millions of h

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Sep 23rd 2019

“I was a 14-year-old boy for 30 years,” Mickey Rooney once jokingly observed of his show business career, which spanned sta

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Sep 3rd 2019

Old-time radio legend Frank Nelson (The Jack Benny Program) shared the following anecdote in Leonard Maltin’s The Great Ame