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Articles / NewsOur Miss Arden
By Elizabeth McLeod When critics discuss the stereotypes common in Old Time Radio, one that comes up often is ...
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Articles / News“Lights out…everybody!”
By Ivan G Shreve Jr In the early years of Radio’s Golden Age, those individuals who worked in radio ...
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Articles / News“…the bulkiest, balkiest, smartest, most unpredictable detective in the world…”
By Ivan G Shreve Jr On this date in 1943, the first of several attempts to introduce radio to ...
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Articles / NewsHappy Birthday, Frances Langford!
By Ivan G Shreve Jr “Just play it like a nagging wife” was comedy writer Philip Rapp’s suggestion to ...
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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 / 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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Articles / NewsTough Guy Triumphant: The Life of Dana Andrews
by Elizabeth McLeod Dana Andrews spent his entire career portraying tough, driven men on the screen and on the ...
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Articles / NewsHappy Birthday, Brace Beemer!
By Ivan G Shreve Jr On April 8, 1941, an actor named Earle Graser was killed in an automobile ...
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