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Happy Birthday, Jeff Chandler!

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Dec 15th 2014

If you were given a name like “Ira Grossel” at birth…chances are you’d have a long career as a certified public accountant

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Dec 2nd 2014

The star of radio’s The Aldrich Family, Ezra Stone, may have portrayed an endearingly awkward teenager over the airwaves…bu

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Nov 20th 2014

At the height of her popularity in the 1940s, Judy Canova—born in Starke, Florida on this date in 1913—started a pigtails-a

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Sep 22nd 2014

The actor who achieved his greatest fame on radio as the best foil Fanny Brice’s Baby Snooks could ever wish for was born o

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Sep 5th 2014

The man born in Boston, Massachusetts on this date in 1910 would soon make a big name for himself as the long-winded stooge

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Sep 1st 2014

On this date in 1900, the man who enjoyed an association with comedian Jack Benny for over thirty years was born in Lincoln