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I FEEL GREAT!
August 4, 1957 HOLLYWOOD – “I feel great. Everybody’s asking me how feel, and I have to tell ‘em I feel great because I do,“ says the world’s highest paid comedienne. Lucille Ball is probably the only TV comic who can make that statement today and mean it. She and husband Desi Arnaz have consistently grabbed…
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MEET THE PRESS
August 3, 1969 You are clued into the frank and tough talk to come by the way Lucille Ball swipes away with her handkerchief at the flies threatening the hors d’oeuvres The kerchief almost snaps like a wet towel. The scene is the pool patio of her home on Beverly Hills’ Roxbury Drive and a…
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CHATTING WITH SWERTLOW
August 2, 1973 BY FRANK SWERTLOW Lucille Ball, the biggest star in the history of television, sits in her spacious Beverly Hills home chatting about her career. Suddenly, almost in mid-sentence, she is interrupted by a loud knock at her front door. Then another. And another. “That’s just a fan,” said Miss Ball calmly. “Just…
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TRIPLE PLAY BALL
August 2, 1943 At the time, Desi was serving in the Army at a base in the San Fernando Valley, near Chatsworth, wear the couple lived. Edward Sedgwick (1892-1953) was a good friend of Lucille and Desi who worked for Desilu. He is credited with discovering Lucille Ball and directed the unreleased “I Love Lucy”…
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THE GRASS WIDOW(S)
August 1, 1948 In July and August during the summer of 1948, Columbia newbie Lucille Ball was playing musical chairs with film roles, swapping a part in the comedy “The Grass Widow” with Rosalind Russell’s next assignment, “Miss Grant Takes Richmond.” Both pix were to be directed by S. Simon Sylvan. Lucille seems ideal for the role…
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FARM RELIEF
July 30, 1939 The glamour girls are finding out that they can get through a picture without 26 changes of costume. Very seldom these days do you find a star going into tantrums about the news that she’ll have to worry along with shop girls clothes in shop girl parts. Ending a Nuisance Bette Davis…
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PEOPLE TODAY: TWO-HEADED FAMILY
July 30, 1952 Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz were on the cover of People Today (”a magazine about headline people”) on July 30, 1952. Inside featured nine photos of Lucille Ball making faces (”The Rarest Bird: A Clown With Glamour”) and Desi Arnaz warming up the studio audience at “I Love Lucy” (”Filmed before a live…
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LUCILLE BALL: NUMBER 1, BUT STILL TRYING HARDER
July 29, 1974 Editor’s note: following is the final part in a series of eight profiles on America’s self-made women. By PHYLLIS BATTELLE “Success – whaddya you mean by that?” rasps Lucille Ball in that rowdy voice which strikes adoration into the hearts of Lucy lovers. “If your concept of success is happiness in what…
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STAYING YOUNG
July 29, 1941 HOLLYWOOD (UP) – Lucille Ball has worked out a system for staying young in Hollywood – keep busy and don’t worry. (1) “One nice thing about the town,” she said, “is that when it keeps you busy you don’t have time to worry. And when you don’t have time to worry, you don’t…
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GALE on LUCY: REAL PRO
July 28, 1966 By GALE GORDON (For Cynthia Lowry) EDITOR’S NOTE – Gale Gordon is a familiar television face – usually apoplectic – that goes back to the old “Our Miss Brooks” and “Dennis the Menace” days. (1) Here he writes, with vast affection, of the joys of playing straight man for Lucille Ball. HOLLYWOOD…
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