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RIP DEAN STOCKWELL
1936-2021 Robert Dean Stockwell was a film and television actor with a career spanning over 70 years. As a child actor under contract to MGM, he first came to the public’s attention in films such as Anchors Aweigh (1945), The Green Years (1946), Gentleman’s Agreement (1947), and Kim (1950). He was an uncredited extra in Abbott…
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“Miss Ball is issuing no treats this year!” ~ SLUMS OF BEVERLY HILLS (1998)
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RIP MORT SAHL
1927-2021 Mort Sahl was a Canadian-born comedian, actor, and social satirist who poked fun at political and current event topics using improvised monologues and only a newspaper as a prop. He spent his early years in Los Angeles and moved to the San Francisco Bay Area where he made his professional stage debut in 1953. In 1960 he…
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RIP RALPH CARMICHAEL
1927-2021 Ralph Carmichael was an composer and arranger of both secular pop and contemporary Christian music, regarded as The father of Contemporary Christian music. In the mid-1950s he joined Desilu as an assistant musical director, composing and arranging background and incidental music for “I Love Lucy”. On television, however, his most famous contribution was the theme song…
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IMPEACHMENT: “Not To Be Believed” (S3;E3)
Before founding “The Drudge Report” Matt Drudge (Billy Eichner) is manager of the CBS Store, where he dispenses his pop culture knowledge about Lucy and Desi.
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RIP LESLIE BRICUSSE
1931-2021 Leslie Bricusse was a British composer, lyricist, and playwright, most prominently working in musicals and movie music. He was best known for writing the music and lyrics for the films Doctor Dolittle, Goodbye, Mr. Chips, Scrooge, Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, and the songs “Goldfinger”, “You Only Live Twice”, “Can You Read My Mind”…
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RIP BETTY LYNN
1926-2021 Betty Lynn was born as Elizabeth Ann Theresa Lynn in Kansas City, MO. She was best known for her role as Thelma Lou, Deputy Barney Fife’s girlfriend, on “The Andy Griffith Show”. Although the series was filmed at Desilu Studios, she never appeared on screen with Lucille Ball. However, her co-stars (Andy Griffith, Fred…
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RIP JAY SANDRICH
1932-2021 Jay Sandrich was born in Los Angeles, California. Sandrich was a television director who won two Emmy Awards for Directing of “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” and “The Cosby Show”. He started his career as Assistant Director of season six of “I Love Lucy”. After “I Love Lucy” ended, he moved with the cast and crew to become…
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RIP PETER PALMER
1931-2021 Peter Palmer was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He is best remembered for his role as Abner Yokum in the 1956 Broadway production and 1959 film adaptation of the musical comedy LI’L ABNER. He won a 1956 Theatre World Award for the role. On stage, he starred opposite Edie Adams (later Mrs. Ernie Kovacs) as…
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