If he were alive today, actor
Richard Denning would be a 101! He was born on this day in 1914. In that year, the first airline flight cruised from St. Petersburg to Tampa; Ford Motor Co. began paying $5 for a 9-hour day; Charlie Chaplin played The Little Tramp, and
George Washington Carver began experimenting with peanuts.

Radio was a technology rather than a broadcast medium, and silent films were sweeping the nation.
After he'd toiled for years in many small film roles, Denning became a movie star and then dived headlong into the shimmering pool of radio. He starred alongside
Lucille Ball in
My Favorite Husband from 1948-'51. This program allowed Denning to work with, in addition to Ball, character actors such as
Hans Conried and
Gale Gordon.
After that, he got "married" to Barbara Britton, starring as a husband in a much different spouse program,
Mr. and Mrs. North. He became the third Jerry North on the long-running series, stepping into the lineage of Joseph Curtin and Carl Eastman.
We commemorate the birth of a popular actor and bigtime contributor to
oldtime radio. Here's to
Richard Denning.