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  “…ace cameraman who covers the crime news of the great city…”

  By Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. Turner Classic Movies occasionally schedules a 1956 film noir directed by Fritz Lang entitled ...

  July 7, 2022
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  Happy Birthday, Santos Ortega!

  By Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. Radio historian and Radio Spirits contributor Jim Widner once asked humorously of today’s birthday ...

  June 30, 2022
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  Happy Birthday, Mel Blanc!

  By Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. In the 1949 Looney Tunes short Curtain Razor, cartoon star Porky Pig channels his ...

  May 30, 2022
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  Happy Birthday, Vincent Price!

  By Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. If actor Vincent Price—born Vincent Leonard Price, Jr. on this date in St. Louis, ...

  May 27, 2022
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  Happy Birthday, Arthur Conan Doyle!

  By Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. As a medical student at the University of Edinburgh from 1876 through 1881, Arthur ...

  May 22, 2022
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  Happy Birthday, James Stewart!

  By Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. James Maitland Stewart, the Academy Award-winning actor beloved by theatergoers as “the boy next ...

  May 20, 2022
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  Happy Birthday, Alice Faye!

  By Ivan G Shreve Jr During the 1930s and early 1940s, actress-singer Alice Faye—born in New York City in ...

  May 5, 2022
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  Happy Birthday, Wilms Herbert!

  By Ivan G Shreve Jr The actor born Victor Herbert Erpelding in Chicago, Illinois in 1908 put his hobby ...

  May 2, 2022
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  “Adventures in time and space…told in future tense!”

  By Ivan G Shreve Jr The premiere of NBC Radio’s Dimension X on this date sixty-six years ago was ...

  April 8, 2022
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  Happy Birthday, John Brown!

  By Ivan G Shreve Jr In the 1949 film The Life of Riley—based on the successful radio situation comedy ...

  April 4, 2022