Sixty-nine years ago on this date, CBS premiered The Jack Carson Show: a half-hour situation comedy starring the comic actor famous at that time for such films as Love Crazy, The Male Animal and The Hard Way (with his frequent onscreen partner, Dennis Morgan).  A series with strong echoes of both the Jack Benny and […]

On this date in 1890, actor-comedian Frank Morgan came into this world…born Frances Phillip Wupperman in New York City.  The youngest of eleven children (six girls, five boys), the Wupperman family were quite well-to-do and were thus able to give Frances a fine education at Cornell University (where he also joined the renowned Phi Beta […]

Sixty-nine years ago on this date, “radio’s outstanding theatre of thrills,” Suspense, first presented the most popular episode in its nearly twenty-year broadcast history (1942-62). Written by Lucille Fletcher (who was inspired by a disagreement she had with an elderly woman at a drugstore), “Sorry, Wrong Number” told the story of an invalid who overhears […]