Tag: 1937
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GOING PLACES
August 12, 1937 An interesting new portrait of Lucille Ball, RKO Radio player. Miss Ball’s career is a bit unusual for a young actress, for she is building a name on the stage along with carving out a niche in the screen world. Lucille, after playing a featured part in Lily Pons’ “That Girl from…
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MON COPAIN
April 25, 1937 Mon Copain (literal translation ‘My Friend’) was a French-language movie magazine published from the 1930s through the 1950s. On April 25, 1937 RKO film star Lucille Ball appeared on the cover, holding a look-alike doll. Both Lucy and the doll are holding a cigarette. This is not the only time Lucille Ball would…
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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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EAGLE-RKO PERSONALITY POLL
March 6 & 7, 1937 The Personality Poll Editor’s office was considerably atwitter the other day when a real movie celebrity, in the person of Lucille Ball, RKO Radio Picture star, was ushered in. Miss Ball had gladly consented to come over the Brooklyn Bridge to examine some of the pictures of recent entrants In…
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DON’T TELL THE WIFE
March 5, 1937 Directed by Christy CabanneProduced by Samuel J. Briskin and Robert Sisk Screenplay by Nat Perrin, based on the play Once Over Lightly by George Holland Filmed late November to Early December 1936 at RKO Studios World Premiere February 18, 1937 in New York City Released wide on March 5, 1937 CAST Lucille Ball (Annie Howell, secretary to Mr. Winthrop) this…
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FASHION PLATE ‘37
January 29, 1937 On January 29, 1937, while under contract to RKO, Lucille Ball was also busily modeling the latest fashions. These photos were used in the ‘women’s pages’ of newspapers nationwide. All the while, Lucille was busily acting on stage in Hey Diddle Diddle in Baltimore and on movie screens in That Girl From Paris. Shiny…
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HATS, WRAPS, STAGE & SCREEN
January 27, 1937 On January 27, 1937, Lucille Ball was one of three Hollywood starlets modeling the newest trend in fashion – ‘12 in 1 hats’ in the Des Moines (IA) Tribune. Also on January 27, 1937, Lucille Ball was seen in the Oshkosh Northwestern (WI) modeling a ‘Coronation’ Hat. The coronation of King George VI would take …
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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…