Tag: 1943
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TRIPLE PLAY BALL
August 2, 1943 At the time, Desi was serving in the Army at a base in the San Fernando Valley, near Chatsworth, wear the couple lived. Edward Sedgwick (1892-1953) was a good friend of Lucille and Desi who worked for Desilu. He is credited with discovering Lucille Ball and directed the unreleased “I Love Lucy”…
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EXPENDABLE to EXPENSIVE
July 25, 1943 BY EDWIN SCHALLERT She called herself an “expendable star” until about a year ago. This was because Lucille Ball thought she might be consigned to ultimate oblivion. Now she has a greater hopefulness about everything. “I was,” she said, “old Mother Ball the worrier. A louse if there ever was one. Now…
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LUCILLE WINS 10 YEAR FIGHT
July 15, 1943 By ERSKINE JOHNSON It took Lucille Ball 10 years to travel five miles to stardom. There’s a smooth, concrete highway all the way with only an occasional boulevard stop. “But its the toughest five miles,” Lucille said today, "that I’ve ever traveled in my life.” With, she added, plenty of stops and…
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NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH
May 3, 1943 The Screen Guild Theater presents Nothing But The Truth, which was a 1941 Paramount Pictures release. Produced by: Arthur Hornblow Jr. Directed by: Elliott Nugent Written by: Ken Englund, John Hartman Synopsis ~ Gwen Saunders teams up with her uncle’s employee, Steve Bennett, in an attempt to double her $10,000 investment in the family firm. If she can…
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“WHY IT TOOK ME TEN YEARS TO BECOME A MOVIE STAR”
November 7, 1943 Mayme Ober Peak (ghost writer) became the first President of the Hollywood Women’s Press Club, and was cited by the Hollywood Reporter magazine as the “Number One Outstanding Screen Critic” in 1940. Parkinson’s disease slowed her down in the 1940s, but she carried on courageously, before retiring in 1947. She died in her…
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HOLLYWOOD BOND CAVALCADE
September 4, 1943 On September 4, 1943, the Hollywood Bond Cavalcade departed to raise money for America’s Third War Loan. It began in Washington DC and went through 16 American cities before ending in San Francisco 21 days later. Millions of Americans flocked to these events buying war bonds as their tickets, with seat prices…