Radio actors in the Golden Age had to be versatile. That was one way to get steady employment. When you could only hear them and not see the...

A wonderful cast of secondary players populated the Jack Benny radio show, ones who weren’t part of the opening credits. In the post-war ye...

It’s feast or famine in the freelance world, and no one learned that better than actress Sara Berner. By 1940, she had been appearing on rad...

She had appeared in films (animated and otherwise), on radio, and had made the transition into television. By 1952, Sara Berner was pretty w...

“American Idol” existed 80 years ago. Only it wasn’t called “American Idol,” and didn’t have catty judges, perma-smiling hosts or waste time...

The at-times rancorous debate whether all exaggerated impressions of non-white people are racist (and, conversely, why exaggerated impressio...