Happy Birthday, Henry Fonda!
Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on May 16th 2021
For actor Henry Fonda, the old
“third time’s the charm” idiom certainly rang true in 1982. He was
recognized by his peers a
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Happy Birthday, Shirley Temple!
Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Apr 23rd 2021
There’s
a classic Jack Benny Show telecast from the 1960s (but
really…aren’t they all classics?) where Jack, having ordered
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Happy Birthday, Joan Crawford!
Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Mar 23rd 2021
“Joan Crawford has passed into myth
as a demented martinet whose greatest need or belief concerned padded clothes
hangers,”
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Happy Birthday, Olan Soule!
Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Feb 28th 2021
In 1947, when the dramatic
anthology The First
Nighter Program moved from its long-time Chicago home to
Hollywood, leading
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Happy Birthday, Victor Moore!
Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Feb 24th 2021
In the 1945 Warner Bros. cartoon Ain’t That Ducky,
Daffy Duck encounters a most unusual hunter: a sportsman who looks and so
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Happy Birthday, Ann Sheridan!
Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Feb 21st 2021
In
Tinsel Town, she was known as “The Oomph Girl.” Ann Sheridan—born on this
date in 1915—loathed the nickname. “Just bei
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