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Tuesday, March 4, 2025

Lucy Gilman - OTR Star of the Month - March 2025

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Image of 11 year old Lucy Gilman. From the Passaic Herald-News, Tuesday, October 13, 1936. The caption claimed that she was talked out of cu...
Friday, February 21, 2025

Building A Yolande Langworthy Research Collection

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Yolande Langworthy (center), director of Columbia Broadcasting System's children's programs c. 1928 - 1930.  She is picured with Art...
Thursday, February 20, 2025

Finding Dorothy Gregory’s First Star Portrait

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In the May-June 2023 edition of the Old Radio Times, I shared the story of how a thrift store purchase of old photos led to the story of a ...
Tuesday, December 3, 2024

Please Bring Me My Papa: A Christmas Cartoon of the Great War

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Brooklyn Daily Eagle, Sunday, December 19, 1915. By Nelson Harding. From Newspapers.com and the Brooklyn Public Library. https://bklyn.newsp...
Monday, December 2, 2024

From the Archives: Book Store Find Signed By Shari Lewis!

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"One-Minute Bedtime Stories" by Shari Lewis with Lan O'Kun I am constantly on the lookout for rare and unique materials that r...
Saturday, April 20, 2024

Winifred Toomey - OTR Child Star of the Month April 2024

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Winifred Toomey in Radio Digest December 1930, with her reported 28 brown curls. Winifred Toomey (1919 – 2005), Radio's First Contracte...
Sunday, March 3, 2024

Barbara Jean Wong 100th Birthday Part I: OTR Child Star of the Month - March 2024

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Barbara Jean Wong around age 9, from Radio Mirror July 1936. From  Media History Digital Library It was hard to decide on the Old Time Radio...