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On to the weekly highlights:
Some series debut anniversaries this week as we celebrate the quality Frank Lovejoy series Night Beat’s 71st with a First and Finale special. Plus we mark Dangerous Assignment’s 71st and Frontier Gentleman’s 63rd.
Heading up this week’s birthday tributes are two blocks for motion picture leading man Clark Gable. He recreates for radio his Oscar winning role in Lux Radio Theatre’s “It Happened One Night” plus he fills in for original lead Gary Cooper in Lux’s adaptation of “A Farewell To Arms”.
We also celebrate the birthdays of the following: motion picture actress and director Ida Lupino (she stars in two from Suspense plus visits Duffy’s Tavern); Ronald Reagan (Lux Radio Theatre); Zsa Zsa Gabor (Bob Hope Show); Bill Johnstone (The Line-Up, The Whistler, Pursuit); John Lund (Johnny Dollar, Suspense); Nigel Bruce (Dr. Watson on Sherlock Holmes); and Janet Waldo (cartoon voice legend featured on The Great Gildersleeve).
Also birthday tributes for child actress Gigi Perreau (The Family Theatre) she is turning 80; Eddie Bracken (Family Theatre, Suspense); author Charles Dickens (Mystery of Edwin Drood, The Signalman, The Weird Circle); Bennett Kilpack (Mr. Keen Tracer Of Lost Persons); and Hopalong Cassidy creator, writer Clarence E. Mulford.
Greg
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Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert (It Happened One Night 1934)
Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert (It Happened One Night 1934)
Clark Gable
Clark Gable
Clark Gable with Marilyn Monroe in The Misfits 1960
Clark Gable with Marilyn Monroe in The Misfits 1960
Ida Lupino
Ida Lupino
Howard Duff with wife Ida Lupino
Howard Duff with wife Ida Lupino
John Lund with Olivia de Havilland (To Each His Own 1946)
John Lund with Olivia de Havilland (To Each His Own 1946)
John Lund with Marie Wilson (My Friend Irma Film 1949)
John Lund with Marie Wilson (My Friend Irma Film 1949)
Ronald Reagan (at WOC and WHO Des Moines)
Ronald Reagan (at WOC and WHO Des Moines)
Ronald Reagan with Jane Wyman
Ronald Reagan with Jane Wyman
Nigel Bruce (Dr. Watson on Sherlock Holmes)
Nigel Bruce (Dr. Watson on Sherlock Holmes)
Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce (Holmes and Watson)
Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce (Holmes and Watson)
Janet Waldo and Sam Edwards (Meet Corliss Archer)
Janet Waldo and Sam Edwards (Meet Corliss Archer)
Janet Waldo
Janet Waldo
Eddie Bracken with Veronica Lake
Eddie Bracken with Veronica Lake
Eddie Bracken as Roy Walley with Chevy Chase (Vacation 1983)
Eddie Bracken as Roy Walley with Chevy Chase (Vacation 1983)
Zsa Zsa Gabor (The Girl In The Kremlin 1957)
Zsa Zsa Gabor (The Girl In The Kremlin 1957)
Bennett Kilpack (Mr. Keen Tracer Of Lost Persons)
Bennett Kilpack (Mr. Keen Tracer Of Lost Persons)
Marjorie Anderson with Bill Johnstone (The Shadow)
Marjorie Anderson with Bill Johnstone (The Shadow)
Bill Johnstone (Center) with Wally Maher (L) and Edmond O’Brien (R)
Bill Johnstone (Center) with Wally Maher (L) and Edmond O’Brien (R)
Gigi Perreau 1960
Gigi Perreau 1960
Gigi Perreau with Barry Williams on The Brady Bunch 1970
Gigi Perreau with Barry Williams on The Brady Bunch 1970
Gigi Perreau
Gigi Perreau
Walter Catlett
Walter Catlett
Walter Catlett (R) with Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn in Bringing Up Baby
Walter Catlett (R) with Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn in Bringing Up Baby
