Cary Grant (Archibald Alexander Leach)
        
               (January 18, 1904 – November 29, 1986)

Grant was named the second Greatest Male Star of All Time
(after Humphrey Bogart) by the American Film Institute. He was
known for both comedic and dramatic roles; his best-known films 
include The Awful Truth (1937), Bringing Up Baby (1938), The 
Bishop’s Wife (1947), To Catch a Thief (1955), An Affair to 
Remember (1957), North by Northwest (1959), and Charade
(1963).

Nominated twice for the Academy Award for Best Actor Penny
Serenade (1941) and None But the Lonely Heart (1944) and
five times for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor.

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Robert Duvall’s film debut in To Kill a Mackingbird, 1962
 

Duvall in Apocalypse Now, 1979

Actor/director Robert Selden Duvall has been nominated for six 
Academy Awards, winning one for his performance in Tender
Mercies (1983), six Golden Globes, winning four, and has had
multiple nominations and one win each of the BAFTA, Screen
Actors Guild Award, and Emmy Award. He received the National
Medal of Arts in 2005.


 

Joseph Curtin and Alice Frost played Jerry and Pam North

In 1946, Mr. and Mrs. North received the first Best Radio Drama
Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America. Though the
program aired one time in 1941, it began a continuous original 
run on CBS from December 30, 1942 through December 1946.   

The radio show Mr. and Mrs. North was based on a series of 
26 novels written by the husband-wife team of Frances and 
Richard Lockridge starting in 1940 and continuing until the 
the death of Frances in 1963.

The movie It’s a Wonderful Life is a 1946 Christmas fantasy comedy-drama
produced and directed by Frank Capra, based on the 1939 short story
"The Greatest Gift" by Philip Van Doren Stern. The film is considered one
of the most loved films in American cinema and has become traditional
viewing during the Christmas season, alongside popular classics such
as Holiday Inn (and its "remake", White Christmas), A Christmas Carol,
Meet Me in St. Louis, and Miracle on 34th Street.

The pilot for Dragnet, "The Human Bomb" aired on NBC-TV as a special
presentation of the variety series Chesterfield Sound-Off Time. The show
garnered such high ratings that sponsor Liggett & Myers Tobacco dropped
the variety show and went with the police drama. The series officially began
on January 3, 1952 and ran until 1959.