Tag: 1946
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EASY TO WED
July 11, 1946 Directed by Edward N. Buzzell Produced by Jack Cummings for Metro-Goldwyn Mayer Written by Dorothy Kingsley, based on the screenplay Libeled Lady by George Oppenheimer, Maurine Dallas Watkins (as Maurice Watkins), and Howard Emmett Rogers. Uncredited contributions by Buster Keaton. Synopsis ~ When a newspaper runs a scandalous story about debutante Connie Allenbury,…
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LUCY LOCO? DIZZY DESI?
July 1, 1946 On the first of July 1946, Dorothy Kilgallen reported that Lucille Ball was considering an offer by Broadway producer Jed Harris to come to New York in the fall and star in the play Loco written by Dale Eunson and Katherine Albert. Lucille Ball appealed to MGM where she was under contract, to allow her to…
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PERSONAL APPEARANCE
June 14, 1945 Personal Appearance (1934) is a stage comedy by playwright and screenwriter Lawrence Riley (1896–1974), which was a Broadway smash and the basis for the classic Mae West film Go West, Young Man (1936). Personal Appearance opened in 1934 at New York’s Henry Miller Theatre starring the famed stage and screen actress Gladys George (now…
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TWO SMART PEOPLE
June 4, 1946 Director: Jules Dassin Producer: Ralph Wheelwright for MGM Writers: Ethel Hill & Leslie Charteris, story by Ralph Wheelwright & Allan Kenward Synopsis ~ One of two con-artists ends up arrested and given five days of freedom before he must go to jail. The man loves to eat; knowing that prison food is lousy, he decides to…
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BILL STERN’S SPORTS NEWSREEL
May 24, 1946 “Bill Stern’s Sports Newsreel” was heard on NBC radio from 1937 to 1953, and CBS radio from 1953 to 1956. Until 1951, the fifteen-minute show was known as the Colgate Sports Newsreel. There were many guest stars and each show shared a story. The broadcast was heard under several different titles over…
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ZIEGFELD FOLLIES
April 8, 1946 Directors: Lemuel Ayers, Roy Del Ruth. Vincente Minnelli, George Sidney, Norman Taurog, Charles Walters. Robert LewisProducer: Arthur Freed for Metro Goldwyn Mayer The shooting schedule ran between April 10 and August 18, 1944, with retakes plus additional segments filmed on December 22, 1944 and then between January 25 and February 6, 1945. The film was first proposed in…
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RECONVERSION
February 3, 1946 By ERSKINE JOHNSON, NEA Staff Correspondent HOLLYWOOD, Feb. 3 (NEA) ~ Lucille Ball is reconverting and we do not mean her hair is changing color again. It is natural blonde and not the shocking pink which M-G-M insisted upon for Technicolor and which caused prop boys and junior scenarists to wear blinkers…
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SIR CEDRIC & JOHNSON GET ANSWERS ON LUCILLE’S DRESS
December 5, 1946 [This is syndicated columnist Erskine Johnson’s regular Hollywood column. The column was not always published on the same date in every newspaper. The column has been reprinted verbatim.] Sir Cedric Hardwicke (1893-1964) was an English-born actor who had great success on stage and screen in England and the United States. At the…
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RIP Jean Porter ~ Actress who was popular in “B” movies of the 1940s and 50s. As such, she did two films with Lucille Ball: ABBOTT & COSTELLO IN HOLLYWOOD (1945), in which Porter had a leading role while Lucy basically played herself; and EASY TO WED (1946), in which Lucy was the star and…