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WILDCAT
December 17, 1960 Wildcat is a musical comedy about Wildcat Jackson and her sister who come to oil country in 1912 to strike it rich. She runs into the prowess of Joe Dynamite, and a battle of the sexes and the oil tycoons ensues. Wildcat wasn’t written with the 48 year-old queen of comedy in…
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TV GUIDE: LOST & FOUND
December 16, 1989 On December 16, 1989, Lucille Ball was featured on the cover of TV Guide on a side bar story about the long-lost “I Love Lucy Christmas Special”. The main cover story profiled Neil Patrick Harris star of “Doogie Howser M.D.” a series about a young prodigy doctor. The inside article was penned…
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GEORGE’S CHRISTMAS PRESENT
December 16, 1949 “George’s Christmas Present” (aka “The Christmas Present Switch”) is episode #67 of the radio series MY FAVORITE HUSBAND broadcast on December 16, 1949. Synopsis ~ Liz vows to finish knitting George a sweater by Christmas. She finds George’s Christmas presents for her and exchanges it too early. This was the 16th episode of…
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THE CHRISTMAS CARDS
December 16, 1950 “The Christmas Cards” (aka “Christmas Card Pictures”) is episode #110 of the radio series MY FAVORITE HUSBAND broadcast on December 16, 1950. This was the 12th episode of the third season of MY FAVORITE HUSBAND. There were 31 new episodes, with the season ending on March 31, 1951. Synopsis ~ Liz…
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GAIL BONNEY
December 15, 1901 Gail Bonney was born Goldie Bonowitz in Columbus, Ohio. She has a twin sister. Her screen career began in the late 1940s and continued for three decades. Her first screen credit came in January 1948 playing a gossipy woman (uncredited) in Slippy McGee. Bonney was seen in two 1950 films featuring Lucille Ball. …
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JOHN HART
December 13, 1917 John Lewis Hart (sometimes credited as John Hilton) was born in Los Angeles. He grew up in San Marino and graduated from South Pasadena High School. His mother was a drama critic for the Pasadena Star-News and he later trained at the Pasadena Playhouse where he was discovered by a Paramount talent…
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LUCILLE BALL CHATS ABOUT CHRISTMAS DINNERS
December 12, 1971 Lucille Ball, in conversation with Helen Dorsey for Family Weekly, a Sunday supplement. “Christmas Is for children, and it’s not quite as much fun now that the children are grown up. We still enjoy Christmas though – it’s always been very important in our family.” “We all patterned ourselves from my grandmother…
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RIP ‘THE 21 CLUB’
1930 – 2021 The 21 Club, Manhattan’s iconic nightspot and restaurant, will close for good by March 2021. The former prohibition-era speakeasy is located at 21 West 52nd Street (hence the name) in New York City. Perhaps the most famous feature of 21 is the collection lawn jockeys adorning the balcony above the entrance. In…
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TV GUIDE: STILL IN THE DRIVER’S SEAT
December 10, 1955 TV GUIDE ~ Volume 3, no. 50, issue #141, week of December 10 – 16, 1955. This was Lucille Ball’s sixth of 39 covers. Image by Paul Hesse. Paul Hesse (1896-1973) was born in New York City. While attending Pratt Institute he experimented with photography. After World War I he became a…
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