CONCERNING LUCILLE BALL…

December 22, 1947

On December 22, 1947, the Oakland (CA) Tribune reported that Lucille Ball was opening in the comedy Dream Girl. The newspaper misspells the name of Ball’s hometown as JOMESTOWN NJ instead of JAMESTOWN NY.  Lucy says that she was “red-headed” at the time, although most sources say she first dyed her hair red for her Technicolor movie Du Barry Was A Lady in 1943. 

On the very same page of the Oakland (CA) Tribune was a brief item about Ball’s appearance in the comedy Dream Girl, which she began acting in at Princeton’s McCarter Theatre on June 23, 1947. Hayden Rorke (”I Dream of Jeannie”) was also in the cast. 

Still on the same page of the same Oakland newspaper was an ad for Her Husband’s Affairs at the Piedmont, starring Ball and Franchot Tone. 

On December 22, 1947, Sheila Graham’s syndicated gossip column reported that Lucille Ball had signed to do a picture a years staring with a remake of Twentieth Century with Franchot Tone.  The project never came to pass. Ball never did another film with Tone. Ball’s first film with Columbia turned out to be Miss Grant Takes Richmond with William Holden in 1949. 

Meanwhile, in the Sacramento (CA) Bee on December 22, 1947, theatre critic Mila Landis called Dream Girl “Gay, Amusing Nonsense”. 

In Pasadena (CA) the Uptown offered Her Husband’s Affairs and the Strand was playing Lured.  The former was released in September and the latter in November.