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HERE’S LOOKING AT YOU
July 27, 1941 Every star of our acquaintance has some system of aids to good grooming, but the set-up we like best is Lucille Ball’s. Lucille designed a wooden tray with sides and a handle, the tray divided into compartments. In one compartment is make-up, in another manicure utensils, in another brush and comb; one contains a…
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PEOPLE LOVE LUCY
July 26, 1952 PEOPLE LOVE LUCY Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz daren’t go to their studio these days. It’s flooded with mail. Seems everybody wants to know why they stopped their “I Love Lucy” show through the Summer. Nothing on our TV these Monday evenings.“ writes one woman "Too bad if, it’s on account of…
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EXPENDABLE to EXPENSIVE
July 25, 1943 BY EDWIN SCHALLERT She called herself an “expendable star” until about a year ago. This was because Lucille Ball thought she might be consigned to ultimate oblivion. Now she has a greater hopefulness about everything. “I was,” she said, “old Mother Ball the worrier. A louse if there ever was one. Now…
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BITS & BOBS
July 25, 1938 – 1949 Keeping Lucille Ball’s name in the paper while she climbed the ladder of success often meant that the items were about everything and anything but her film career! Here’s a collection of miscellaneous news items that all appeared on the date July 25th, from 1938 to 1949. 1938 ~ Smart…
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MANIKINS ENTER MOVIES
July 24, 1933 Manikins (aka mannequins) implies that the girls were chosen for their looks, not their talents. Indeed some reports called the seven ‘poster girls’ because most of them, including Lucille Ball, were familiar faces from appearing as models on posters for various products. Casting New York-based models was a publicity ploy by Goldwyn. The…
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OLD FORMULA
July 24, 1957 Desi Arnaz and Lucille Ball’s new format next year [five one-hour filmed shows] won’t be flamboyant star-crammed musicals. (1) They’ll use same characters, including William Frawley and Vivian Vance, in same type of stories. The first program, for instance, with Ann Sothern, Cesar Romero and Rudy Vallee as guests, will describe how…
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SEEIN’ STARS!
July 23, 1938 “Feg” Murray was an American athlete, radio host and Olympic medalist who was also active as a sports cartoonist. His best known feature was the Seein’ Stars column (1933-1951), which featured trivia and news about Hollywood stars and their latest pictures. Lucille Ball previously appeared in Feg Murray’s Seein’ Stars on August…
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COURTSHIP BECOMES TV
July 23, 1957 BY MARGARET McMANUS, Free Press Special Writer NEW YORK – Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz will present the first of their new series of five musical comedy programs at 9 p.m. Wednesday on WJBK-TV. The shows were each scheduled to be one hour long, but this premiere offering will actually run one hour…
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LUCY IS A CHAMELEON PARENT
July 22, 1963 Lucille Ball confesses that she Is an inconsistent mother. In psychology we call this type of person a “chameleon parent.’’ Children will not hate you if you punish them wisely and judiciously but try to be an “expressive" mother instead of a chronic “no no no" or “repressive" parent. CASE Q-401: Lucille…
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LUCY SHUNS AUDITIONS
July 21, 1950 [In the below article, reprinted verbatim, Johnson writes using a lot of imagery and insider jargon. This sort of article was common in trade papers like Variety, but seems odd in a daily newspaper.] Hollywood—(NEA) Lucille Ball slipped me the lowdown on her failure to pin to the canvas the dumb chick role…
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