Tag: 1940
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MODELS’ GOAL ~ STARDOM!
July 19, 1940 Hollywood is the mecca of all beautiful models who sooner or later turn their pretty faces westward in search of fame fortune and cinematic stardom. Few of the pulchritudinous legion however attain their goals and the majority of them — after various and invariable discouraging encounters with casting offices — return to…
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YOU CAN’T FOOL YOUR WIFE
May 21, 1940 Director: Ray McCarey Producer: Lee S. Marcus and Cliff Reid for RKO Radio Pictures Writers: Jerome Cady, based on a story by Richard Carroll and Ray McCarey Synopsis ~ Feeling neglected by her husband Andrew (James Ellison), drab housewife Clara Hinklin (Lucille Ball) walks out on him, much to the delight of her busybody mother-in-law (Emma Dunn).…
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THE MARINES FLY HIGH
March 7, 1940 Directed by George Nichols, Jr. and Benjamin Stoloff Produced by Robert Sisk for RKO Radio Pictures Screenplay by Jerry Cady and A.J. Boulton, story by A.C. Edington Filmed October 1939 World Premiere on March 4, 1940 Wide Release on March 7, 1940 CAST Lucille Ball (Joan Grant) marks her 48th feature film since coming to…
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TOO MANY GIRLS
October 8, 1940 Too Many Girls was an RKO film musical based on the stage musical of the same title. It was produced and directed by George Abbott, who had also directed the Broadway production. The music was composed by Richard Rodgers, the lyrics by Lorenz Hart, and the book was by George Marion, Jr. although…
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HOOSIER ‘DANCE’ GIRLS: MISS HARA & MISS O’BALL
September 14, 1940 On September 14, 1940, Lucille Ball and Maureen O’Hara reached the end of their whirlwind press tour to promote their new RKO film Dance, Girl, Dance. Ball and O’Hara made four personal appearances between screenings of the film, introduced by local radio star Roy Brandt of WFBM. On September 1, 1940, The…
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RED SCARE!
July 22, 1940 Being the Ricardos (2021) is built around several real-life events in the lives of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz. Perhaps the most critical is the accusation that Lucille Ball was a Communist. Pointedly, the Los Angeles Herald Express used red (the color of communism and Ball’s famous locks) ink for a rare…
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