Stephen Valentine Patrick William Allen
(December 26, 1921 – October 30, 2000

Television and radio personality, comedian,
musician, composer, writer and actor.
Steve Allen, in 1954 achieved national fame
as the co-creator and first host of The Tonight
Show, which was the first late-night television
talk show.

Allen died in his sleep from chest trauma caused
by injuries sustained in an earlier traffic accident.

Silver Screen was a monthly magazine focusing on the
film industry. It had its first issue in November 1930, and
continued publication through the beginning of 1977. It
contained reviews of the new releases in the film industry.

Jane Wyman (Sarah Jane Mayfield)
(January 5, 1917 – September 10, 2007)

Jane Wyman received an Academy Award (1948),
four Golden Globe Awards (1948, 1950, 1951 and
1983) and nominations for two Primetime Emmy
Awards (1957 and 1959).

Wyman was the first wife of Hollywood actor and
the future 40th president of the United States,
Ronald Reagan.

“The War of the Worlds”—Orson Welles’s realistic radio
dramatization of a Martian invasion of Earth, was broadcast
on the radio on October 30, 1938.

Welles was only 23 years old when his Mercury Theater
company decided to update H.G. Wells’s 19th-century
science fiction novel The War of the Worlds for national
radio. 

It was not planned as a radio hoax, and Welles had little
idea of how legendary it would eventually become.

Sunday evening in 1938 was prime-time in the golden age
of radio, and millions of Americans had their radios turned
on. But most of these Americans were listening to Edgar
Bergen with his dummy “Charlie McCarthy” on NBC and
only turned to CBS at 8:12 p.m. after the comedy sketch
ended and a little-known singer went on. By then, the story
of the Martian invasion was well underway.

George Orson Welles (May 6, 1915 – October 10, 1985)