Happy Birthday, Lou Krugman!
Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Jul 19th 2017
It
seems odd that an actor who claimed to have emoted on over 10,000 radio
broadcasts and provided voiceovers for 700 comme
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Happy Birthday, Paul Frees!
Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Jun 22nd 2017
“Paul
Frees is EVERYWHERE!” A cartoonist of my acquaintance adopted that
statement as both a personal mantra and a tribute
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Happy Birthday, Ona Munson!
Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Jun 16th 2017
The
effort to cast the motion picture adaptation of Margaret Mitchell’s classic
novel Gone with the Wind is almost as epic
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“They fight not for the lust of conquest. They fight to end conquest. They fight to liberate.” — President Franklin D. Roosevelt
Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Jun 6th 2017
On
this date in 1944, the landing operations of the Allied invasion of Normandy
got underway in one of the most pivotal bat
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Happy Birthday, Howard Culver!
Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Jun 4th 2017
In
the summer of 1949, with CBS working on the idea for what would eventually
become Gunsmoke, an audition was recorded (“M
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Happy Birthday, Dashiell Hammett!
Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on May 27th 2017
“I’ve
been as bad an influence on American literature as anyone I can think
of.” So declared the man born Samuel Dashiell
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