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Happy Birthday, Gloria Blondell!

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Aug 16th 2015

If Gloria Blondell—born in Manhattan, NY on this date in 1910—ever resented living in the shadow of older sister Joan, she

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve. Jr. on Aug 3rd 2015

I’d never be able to prove it in a court of law…but I’d be willing to gamble that when the need arose for an actress to pla

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Jun 30th 2015

Radio historian and Radio Spirits contributor Jim Widner once asked humorously of today’s birthday celebrant “Any detective

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Jun 15th 2015

On this date in 1909 in New York City, Maria Paoli and Pasquale DeSantis welcomed Joseph Vito Marcello DeSantis into the wo

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Mar 12th 2015

“I’m a product of radio,” actor Mandel Kramer confessed to an interviewer for a 1953 article in the March edition of Radio-

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Mar 6th 2015

In our natal anniversary spotlight today is one of old-time radio’s indisputable veterans. She would get a special nod for