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Articles / NewsFrom Chorus To Stardom: The Rise of Alice Faye
By Elizabeth McLeod It’s one of the most well-worn clichés in show business — the bright young thing in ...
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Articles / News“If trouble is around, yours truly will most likely get a chunk of it.”
By Ivan G Shreve Jr Sixty-seven years ago on this very date, actor Dick Powell whistled his very first ...
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Articles / NewsHappy Birthday, Gertrude Warner!
By Ivan G Shreve Jr In his invaluable reference book The Great Radio Soap Operas, author Jim Cox opines ...
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Articles / NewsHappy Birthday, Philip Rapp!
By Ivan G Shreve Jr Comedy writer Phil Rapp was born on this date in 1907, and during his ...
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Articles / News“Dad-rat the dad-ratted…”
By Ivan G Shreve Jr Seventy-seven years ago, one of radio’s best-remembered running gags was introduced…and it was as ...
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Articles / NewsCasey, Crime Photographer: Live From The Blue Note
By Elizabeth McLeod If the second half of the 1940’s was the Golden Age of radio detective drama, it ...
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Articles / NewsHappy Birthday, Cathy Lewis!
By Ivan G Shreve Jr When radio actress Cathy Lewis—born on this date in Spokane, Washington in 1916—married actor-director-producer ...
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Articles / NewsHappy Birthday to the Chairman of the Board!
By Ivan G Shreve Jr Francis Albert Sinatra—Oscar-winning actor, Grammy-winning recording artist, and star of the Emmy Award-winning television ...
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Articles / NewsHappy Birthday, Richard Crenna!
By Ivan G Shreve Jr The go-to actor for radio’s squeaky-voiced adolescents was born in Los Angeles, California on ...
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Articles / NewsHappy Birthday, Herb Butterfield!
By Ivan G Shreve Jr Today’s birthday celebrant—born in Providence, Rhode Island in 1895 —may not possess the cachet ...
