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Happy Birthday, Van Johnson!

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Aug 25th 2019

During the 1940s, the man born Charles Van Dell Johnson in Newport, Rhode Island on this date in 1916 was known as Metro-Go

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

It’s a textbook example of how a mediocre movie can be redeemed by the appearance of a personality whose mere presence domi

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Aug 13th 2019

It was a story that he frequently told in interviews: when Sir Alfred Hitchcock was only five years old, his father (who re

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

For all his success in the literary world, and then later in Hollywood, author Raymond Thornton Chandler was a lonely man.

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Jul 20th 2019

It’s a bit of a stretch but try to imagine Verna Felton—the actress who appeared on Jack Benny’s radio/TV show as Dennis Da

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Jul 8th 2019

When he was five years old, actor Bill Thompson lost his voice campaigning around the country selling Liberty bonds (Americ