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Happy Birthday, Jay Novello!

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Aug 23rd 2020

Radio actors learned practically from their introduction to the medium that their fortunes were set if their talents includ

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Aug 21st 2020

When Vic and Sade writer-creator Paul Rhymer decided to add a third character to his program in July of 1932, he had only o

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Jun 9th 2019

At the time I borrowed Joseph Julian’s This Was Radio from my hometown public library as a kid, I wasn’t all that familiar

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on May 7th 2019

A September 24, 1938 edition of Radio Guide describes a “radio first” executed by actress Alice Frost and Jack Johnstone, t

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Apr 1st 2019

A 1946 issue of Radio Mirror noted that “practically everyone connected with the Boston Blackie show is a former athlete.”

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

A newspaper man once referred to actor Staats Cotsworth—born in Oak Park, Illinois on this date in 1908—as “the Clark Gable