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Happy Birthday, Jeanne Bates!

Happy Birthday, Jeanne Bates!

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on May 21st 2018

Character great Jeanne Bates—born in Berkeley, California on this date in 1918—started her show business career as a billbo
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Happy Birthday, Paul Sutton!

Happy Birthday, Paul Sutton!

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on May 14th 2018

From 1938 to 1955, Detroit radio station WXYZ was the home of Sergeant William Preston—the stalwart Canadian Mountie who, w
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Happy Birthday, Orson Welles!

Happy Birthday, Orson Welles!

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on May 6th 2018

Author Gore Vidal once remarked of Orson Welles: “For the television generation he is remembered as an enormously fat and g
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Happy Birthday, Eve Arden!

Happy Birthday, Eve Arden!

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Apr 30th 2018

At the height of her fame as the tart-tongued schoolmarm of radio and TV’s Our Miss Brooks, Eve Arden—born in Mill Valley,
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Happy Birthday, Paul McGrath!

Happy Birthday, Paul McGrath!

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Apr 11th 2018

On May 29, 1945, radio’s popular Inner Sanctum Mysteries welcomed inside “the creaking door” a new host to replace the depa
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Happy Birthday, Lou Merrill!

Happy Birthday, Lou Merrill!

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Apr 1st 2018

An item in the September 25, 1939 edition of The Van Nuys News trumpets the motion picture debut of actor Louis Merrill—bor
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