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Happy Birthday, Truman Bradley!

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Feb 8th 2023

Automobile magnate Henry Ford was anxious to locate an announcer for his Sunday evening symphony program, known to radio li

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Jan 27th 2023

From 1936 to 1943—and a brief revival in the 1946-47 season—The Columbia Workshop was the go-to program for experimental ra

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Jan 15th 2023

At Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, the motion picture studio where she was employed, child star Margaret O’Brien and her fellow MGM st

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Jan 10th 2023

Of the artist born Raymond Wallace Bolger on this date in 1904 in Dorchester, Massachusetts, authors Ephraim Katz and Ronald

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Jan 7th 2023

By 1922, entertainer George Burns was a vaudeville “veteran.” He knew enough about show business to understand what would w

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Dec 28th 2022

From 1957 until his passing in 1974, Clifford Charles Arquette—born in Toledo, Ohio on this date in 1905—rarely appeared in