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100 ARTISTS & ENTERTAINERS OF THE CENTURY
June 8, 1998 Lucille Ball was one of the figures chosen to appear on the cover of Time Magazine’s June 8, 1998 issue celebrating the top 100 artists and entertainers of the century. In a drawing by Al Hirschfeld, Ball shares the cover with filmmaker Stephen Spielberg, musician Bob Dylan, and artist Pablo Picasso. In…
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TWO SMART PEOPLE
June 4, 1946 Director: Jules Dassin Producer: Ralph Wheelwright for MGM Writers: Ethel Hill & Leslie Charteris, story by Ralph Wheelwright & Allan Kenward Synopsis ~ One of two con-artists ends up arrested and given five days of freedom before he must go to jail. The man loves to eat; knowing that prison food is lousy, he decides to…
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TRIB TV WEEK TURNS TEN!
June 4, 1966 Lucille Ball was one of ten stars who were on the cover of the Chicago Tribune’s TV Week Tenth Anniversary issue for the week of June 4, 1966. 1. BOZO the CLOWN ~ was first played by Pinto Colvig, who voiced dogs for “The Lucy Show” in 1964. The Chicago Bozo franchise was…
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JACK MANNING
June 3, 1916 Jack Manning was born as Jack Wilson Marks in Cincinnati, Ohio. He developed an interest in acting while he was at the University of Cincinnati. He changed his professional name to Jack Manning after he was advised that Jack Marks was too short to appear on a theater marquee. Following graduation, Manning moved…
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A CLOSE-UP ‘LOOK’
June 3, 1952 Lucille Ball was on the cover of Look Magazine on June 3, 1952, volume 16, no. 12. She was joined by Marilyn Monroe, Governor Adlai Stevenson, boxer Harry Matthews, and an unnamed baby. The issue reviews Monroe’s film Clash By Night, although the photo was from Don’t Bother To Knock. “How Lucy…
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THEY DRIVE BY NIGHT
June 2, 1941 Lux Radio Theatre (1935-55) was a radio anthology series that adapted Broadway plays during its first two seasons before it began adapting films (”Lux Presents Hollywood”). These hour-long radio programs were performed live before studio audiences in Los Angeles. The series became the most popular dramatic anthology series on radio, broadcast for…
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BLAZING BEULAH FROM BUTTE
May 31, 1950 Hedda Hopper kicked off her May 31, 1950 column with the news that Lucy and Desi were planning a film for the pair titled “Beulah from Butte.” The plot would concern a Mexican man (Desi) who comes to America to marry a cultured woman – and falls for Lucy (aka Beulah). Needless to…
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HAROLD MILLER
May 31, 1894 Harold Miller was born as Harold Edwin Kammermeyer in Redondo Beach, California. He was a veteran of more than 425 television programs and films, most of them as a background performer, nearly all uncredited. He made his screen debut in the Selznick Pictures 1919 release Upstairs and Down. From 1938 to 1947…
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RIP GAVIN MACLEOD
1931-2021 Although Gavin MacLeod never acted with Lucille Ball, she was responsible for his first role on television, as he recounts in his autobiography This Is Your Captain Speaking. On February 18, 1954, MacLeod had a brush with Lucy and Desi, who were attending the premiere of their film The Long, Long Trailer. A few years…
Papermoon Loves Lucy 