Happy Birthday, Jim Jordan!
Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Nov 16th 2017
During
my formative nostalgia years, my sisters and I rarely went to the movies unless
there was a “G” rating attached and
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Happy Birthday, Art Carney!
Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Nov 4th 2017
No
one could have possibly seen it coming. On the night of April 8, 1975, as
the live telecast of the 47th Academy Awards
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Happy Birthday, Joan Banks!
Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Oct 30th 2017
In
1949, at the height of the success of radio’s My Friend Irma,
actress Cathy Lewis—who originated the character of roomma
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Happy Birthday, Jean Vander Pyl!
Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Oct 11th 2017
Universal
Pictures brought a live-action version of the classic TV cartoon series The
Flintstones to the big screen in 1994
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Let’s have another cup of coffee…
Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Aug 25th 2017
No less an authority than TV Guide declared Father Knows Best to
be “the quintessentially comforting 50s sitcom.” A generat
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Happy Birthday, Jeff Corey!
Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Aug 10th 2017
In May of 2017, the memoirs of
character actor Jeff Corey—born Arthur Zwerling in Brooklyn on this date in
1914—were publis
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