Tag: 1933
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IN THE BEGINNING…
August 6, 1933 Lucille Ball’s 22rd birthday coincided with her getting her name in the national newspapers! She was selected to travel to Hollywood with some other models to fill out the cast of Sam Goldwyn’s new Eddie Cantor film, “Roman Scandals”. She stayed and became one of the legendary figures of our time. Little did…
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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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Lucy Takes a Job at the Bank
S2;E21 ~ February 24, 1964 Synopsis When Jerry wants to buy a second-hand tuba, cash-poor Lucy talks Mr. Mooney into giving her a job at the bank. All she has to do is hand out toasters to people opening new accounts, but she has no success. Lucy talks Audrey Simmons into withdrawing her money and…
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The International Motion Picture Almanac 1937-38 Lucille Ball told producers she was born in Butte, Montana, because she thought it sounded more interesting than Jamestown, New York. She started making movies in 1933 (without screen credit) in “The Bowery” for United Artists. Also in the film were Irving Bacon, who would later appear as Ethel…