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Articles / NewsHappy Birthday, Maurice Tarplin!
By Ivan G Shreve Jr A 1946 issue of Radio Mirror noted that “practically everyone connected with the Boston Blackie show is a ...
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Articles / NewsHappy Birthday, Paula Winslowe!
By Ivan G Shreve Jr The untimely death of “platinum blonde” Jean Harlow at the age of 26 was ...
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Articles / NewsMcCambridge for the Defense: Mercedes McCambridge and Defense Attorney
By Elizabeth McLeod Often a supporting player, rarely a star — and yet she won an Oscar for her ...
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Articles / NewsHappy Birthday, Virginia Gregg!
By Ivan G Shreve Jr In our natal anniversary spotlight today is one of old-time radio’s indisputable veterans. She ...
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Articles / NewsHappy Birthday, Louise Erickson!
By Ivan G Shreve Jr Actress Louise Erickson was born in Oakland, California in 1928. In the 1940s, Louise ...
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Articles / News“From Times Square to Columbus Circle…the gaudiest, the most violent—the lonesomest mile in the world…”
By Ivan G Shreve Jr By the beginning of the 1950s, radio crime drama began to develop a new ...
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Articles / NewsMy Dear Watson, Nigel Bruce: America’s Favorite Englishman
By Elizabeth McLeod Scratch the average American and you’ll find an Anglophile — from Charles Dickens to Doctor Who, ...
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Articles / NewsThe Happy Anniversary Matter
By Ivan G Shreve Jr Who would have guessed that the premiere of a half-hour program about an independent ...
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Articles / NewsOn The Night Beat: Radio’s Hardboiled Reporter
By Elizabeth McLeod Newspaper reporters may seem a quaint relic of the past in this day of pajama-clad “citizen ...
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Articles / NewsHappy Birthday, Howard McNear!
By Ivan G Shreve Jr In the fictional town of Mayberry, North Carolina—as seen on the popular situation comedy ...
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