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LIFE: SEXY EYES OVER HOPE’S SHOULDER
March 17, 1961 On March 17, 1961, Lucille Ball and Bob Hope appeared in an article with photographs on the inside of LIFE Magazine. The article was timed to promote their film The Facts of Life, which had opened in November 1960 and was still in US cinemas. On the cover is model and dancer…
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PETER GRAVES
March 18, 1926 Peter Graves was born Peter Duesler Aurness on March 18, 1926, in Minneapolis, Minnesota. His elder brother was actor James Arness. After high school, he served in the US Air Force. Afterwards, he enrolled at the University of Minnesota. His screen debut came while he was in the Air Force, as part…
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WHEN IRISH EYES ARE LUCY’S
March 16, 1937 It must have been a slow news day in Somerset, PA, because leprechaun Lucy was front page news for the March 16, 1937 Somerset Daily American. ~March 16, 1937~ This brief item in Read Kendall’s March 16, 1937 column in the Los Angeles Times reports that Lucille was at the Trocadero with George…
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A WOMAN OF DISTINCTION
March 16, 1950 Directed by Edward N. Buzzell Produced by Buddy Adler for Columbia Pictures Written by Charles Hoffman; additional dialogue by Frank Tashlin; story by Ian McLellan Hunt and Hugo Butler Synopsis ~ College dean Susan Middlecott thinks there’s no room in her life for romance until she meets Professor Alec Stevenson, British lecturer on astronomy,…
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HARRY JAMES
March 15, 1906 Harry Haag James was born in Albany, Georgia, the son of a bandleader in a traveling circus. He started performing with the circus at an early age, first as a contortionist, then playing the drum in the band. James started taking trumpet lessons from his father at age eight, and by age twelve…
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MADELYN PUGH
March 15, 1921 Madelyn Laverne Pugh was born in Indianapolis in 1921. She became interested in writing at Shortridge High School with classmate Kurt Vonnegut. She graduated from Indiana University School of Journalism in 1942. Her first professional writing job was writing short radio spots for an Indianapolis radio station. When her family moved to California, she…
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A GIRL, A GUY, AND A GOB
March 14, 1941 Directed by Richard Wallace Produced by Harold Lloyd for RKO Radio Pictures Written by Bert Granet and Frank Ryan, based on a story by Grover Jones Synopsis ~ A shy, quiet executive for a shipping firm who finds himself with a dilemma: he’s become smitten with his young temporary secretary but she’s…
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WILLIAM R. HAMEL
March 14, 1906 William R. Hamel was born in Pennsylvania in 1906. He is best known as the first Maître d’ at the Tropicana on “I Love Lucy.” He made his screen debut in the 1948 short Big Sister Blues. The following year he was featured in Streets of Laredo (1949) starring William Holden. He made…
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TIME PEOPLE: LUCY & DESI
March 14, 1960 PEOPLE When TV’s foremost up-from-the-ranks production tycoons, Cinemactress Lucille Ball and Bandleader Desi Arnaz, were married in 1940, acquaintances of the volatile lovebirds gave their union six months at most before an inevitable explosion would send them on separate ways. Lucy herself doubted that the match was good for six weeks. Last…
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FRANK WILCOX
March 13, 1907 Frank Reppy Wilcox was born in De Soto, Missouri, although he was raised primarily in Atchison, Kansas. He attended the University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kansas, for a year, where he was a fraternity brother of newsman John Cameron Swayze. He graduated in 1933 from St. Benedict’s College in Atchison. Wilcox came to California in…
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