Wednesday, October 22, 2025
Today’s new Travalanche posts for October 22, 2025 are about John Reed and the movie Reds, Dory Previn, Parker Fennelly (The Fred Allen Show) and Sidney Miller. I have also done a complete…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 06:06PMComic actor Parker Fennelly (1891-1988) has to rank among the last performers with a vaudeville background to have a prominent place in American pop culture, though most Americans never knew…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 03:54PMWow! Just wow. I am so floored by the credits of actor/director/songwriter Sidney Miller (1916-2004) and shocked myself that I’m just now getting around to him. Miller started out as a juv…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 02:48PMOctober 22 was the birthday of journalist John Reed (1887-1920) and October was the month of the Russian Revolution (by the old calendar; it took place in November according to the modern on…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 11:36AMBorn 100 years ago today, Dorothy Langdon Previn Shannon (1925-2012), commonly known as Dory Previn, through her marriage to composer/conductor Andre Previn, to whom she was married from 195…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 04:12AMTuesday, October 21, 2025
Today’s new Travalanche post for October 21, 2025 is a menu of recommendations for some cool new things you might want to check out! Earlier Travalanche posts for October 21 (in no particu…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 12:06PMHaving no planned essay for today, and an ungodly number planned for tomorrow, I thought I’d share this little goody bag of plugs for things I am excited about at the moment. Together they…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 10:02AMMonday, October 20, 2025
Today’s new Travalanche post for October 20, 2025 is about “alien abductees” Betty and Barney Hill and the telefilm about same, entitled The U.F.O. Incident (1975). Earlier Travalanche…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 11:02AMOctober 20, 1975 was the premiere air date of the made-for-tv movie The UFO Incident. Right away you may find yourself asking, “THE incident?” Well, yes, that was a simpler time, before …
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 10:02AMSunday, October 19, 2025
Today’s new Travalanche posts for October 19, 2025 are about Samantha Eggar, Bob Sweeney, Kate Manx, and Louis John Bartels. And also an account of yesterday’s No Kings march in NYC with…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 06:42PMWell, the results are in, and it looks like yesterday’s No Kings rally was the biggest one-day nationwide protest event in American history, beating out the previous No Kings protest by a …
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 04:31PMSamantha Eggar (b. 1939) passed away earlier this week. The British beauty wasn’t a hugely memorable actress, but the fact that it’s the Halloween season made me note the great proportio…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 02:12PMA few words on a pretty spectacular footnote, starlet Kate Manx (Kathryne Barbara Mylroie, 1930-1964). Mylroie is a pretty exotic surname, and I always look this up. Most sources give Irish …
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 01:12PMHere’s a somewhat major if unsung figure in American comedy I stumbled upon surprisingly recently. Bob Sweeney (1918-1992) was successful in live performance, radio, films, and television.…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 11:02AMLouis John Bartels (1895-1931) was a man comedy fans at least would have likely known a lot better if he’d lived a few more years. As it is, he did make quite a significant mark, but his h…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 08:48AMSaturday, October 18, 2025
Well, today we bid a sad farewell to a sideshow Renaissance man. I had the honor of working with Scott Baker (1948-2025) eleven years ago in Dick Zigun’s play Dead End Dummy at Coney Islan…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:02AMToday’s new Travalanche post for October 18, 2025 is about the passing of the late Scott Baker. Earlier Travalanche posts for October 18 (in no particular order) include ones on: BBC Forme…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:02AMFriday, October 17, 2025
Today’s new Travalanche posts for October 17, 2025 are about Captain Midnight, the late George Wendt, and a new play about Saturday Night Live. Earlier Travalanche posts for October 17 (in…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:06PMI truly wanted to like Not Ready For Time, a new play about the first five seasons of Saturday Night Live (1975-80) which is now playing at the very-complicated to say Newman Mills Theater a…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 07:54PMUniversally beloved character actor George Wendt (1948-2025) passed away in May of this year, from a number of conditions related to his enormous girth (over 450 pounds at the max, although …
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 12:24PMOctober 17, 1938 marked the debut of the radio adventure series Captain Midnight. Like The Shadow, The Green Hornet, and others, Captain Midnight is an interesting for being what is essentia…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 10:12AMThursday, October 16, 2025
October 16 was the birthday of Alice Pearce (1917-1966) most widely known as the first Mrs. Kravitz on Bewitched. In light of which fact, there is a temptation to use a photo from the show, …
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 01:36PMToday’s new Travalanche posts for October 16, 2025 are about Noah Webster, creator of the American dictionary; and Alice Pearce, who played Mrs. Kravitz on Bewitched. And there you have th…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 01:36PM200 years ago Noah Webster (1758-1843) finished the first edition of what we now call, many editions later, the Meriam-Webster Dictionary. The 70,000 word original, known as the American Dic…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 10:12AMWednesday, October 15, 2025
Today’s new Travalanche posts for October 15, 2025 are about Virginia Leith (The Brain That Wouldn’t Die); radio star Ransom Sherman; B movie star Judd Holdren; a screening of the myster…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 07:12PMYesterday was the publication date for our friend Pam Grossman’s latest book Magic Maker: The Enchanted Path of Creativity, and we were delightd to be there last night for the launch party…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 05:02PMApologies for the late notice, but better late than never. If you happen to be in NYC, my friends at the Silent Clowns Film Series are screening Undercrank’s restored version of Roland Wes…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 02:54PMOctober 15 was the birthday of B movie star Judd Holdren (1915-1974). Holdren had a hot couple of years as a star of serials like Captain Video: Master of the Stratosphere (1951), Zombies of…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 01:48PMSultry actress/model Virginia Leith (1925-2019) was born 100 years ago this day. Having trouble placing her? She was the lead head in The Brain That Wouldn’t Die (1962) — and it’s just…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 10:31AMA few quick lines about a popular personality who was well known in America for at least three decades, now completely forgotten, Ranson Sherman (1898-1985). As is not uncommon, Sherman’s …
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 10:31AMTuesday, October 14, 2025
Today’s new Travalanche post for October 14, 2025 observes the 30th anniversary of the debut of Mad TV. Earlier Travalanche posts for October 14 (in no particular order) include ones on: H…
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