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Happy Birthday, Junius Matthews!

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Jun 12th 2023

Character actor Junius Conyers Matthews—born in Chicago, Illinois on this date in 1890—would achieve his show business immor

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

“The Big Easy” (New Orleans, Louisiana) welcomed actress Mary Lansing on this date in 1911. From 1933 until 1970, Lansing w

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Mar 28th 2023

The actor fondly remembered by old-time radio fans as the reporter who covered the “night beat” for the fictional Chicago S

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

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Sep 2nd 2022

With the introduction of Gunsmoke to audiences in April of 1952, the “adult western” soon began to come into fashion on rad

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Aug 6th 2022

It couldn’t have been easy for Jim Ameche, pursuing a radio career in the same manner of his famous brother Don. The man bor