Tag: 1952
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EXTRA! EXTRA! LUCY IN THE PAPES!
September 26, 1952 Friday, September 26, 1952 was a particularly busy news day for Lucille Ball. “I Love Lucy” had just kicked off season two with the iconic “Job Switching” episode and followed up with the memorable “The Saxophone”. That day, several press releases and Lucille Ball references hit the nation’s newspapers all at once! Let’s take…
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BALL and BERLE are BACK!
September 12, 1952 TV GUIDE ~ Volume 5, #37 This pre-national TV Guide for the New York region chose to colorize the photograph on the cover, which is a composite shot of Lucille Ball and Milton Berle, not one posed together. New York being the most important of the television markets, an attractive color cover…
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TV SHOW: LUCY & DESI
September 1952 The September 1952 edition of TV Show Magazine featured Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz on the cover in a romantic pose. The magazine was a publication of ANC (American News Company). ANC was founded in 1867. The company’s abrupt 1957 demise caused a huge shakeup in the publishing industry, forcing many magazine, comic book,…
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TV DIGEST
August 9, 1952 On August 9, 1952 Lucy and Desi were featured on the cover of TV Digest, a competitor of TV Guide as part of their inside story “Visiting The Stars on Vacation”. The Digest was eventually absorbed by TV Guide when it went national in March 1953. The Atlanta edition of TV Digest used…
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The Marriage That Fooled Hollywood
June 6, 1952 On June 6, 1952, Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz appeared on the cover of TV Guide. This was 14 months before Ball and newborn Desi Jr. appeared on the first National Edition of TV Guide. The cover story is “Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz: “The Marriage that Fooled Hollywood” which refers to Lucy…
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ELLIS IN FREEDOMLAND
Spring 1952 Directed by Abby BerlinProduced by Roland D. ReedWritten by Arthur HoerlMusic by Albert ColomboChoreography by Alex Romero Synopsis ~ A 82 minute, technicolor promotional film for salesmen of Westinghouse appliances, featuring the voices of major Hollywood celebrities. Westinghouse claims its electric appliances “freed women from the drudgery of housework.” The first half involves…
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“I Love Lucy” ~ Season 2
A handy dandy guide to helping you find your favorite episode blogs here at Papermoon Loves Lucy. Click on the hyperlinks to be taken directly to that episode’s trivia, background, and bloopers! “Job Switching” (S2;E1) ~ September 15, 1952 Directed by William Asher. Written by Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh and Bob Carroll, Jr. Filmed May…
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“I Love Lucy” ~ Season 1
A handy dandy guide to helping you find your favorite episode blogs here at Papermoon Loves Lucy. Click on the hyperlinks to be taken directly to that episode’s trivia, background, and bloopers! “The Girls Want To Go To A Nightclub” (S1;E1) ~ October 15, 1951 Directed by Marc Daniels. Written by Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh…
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“WOMEN” of COLOR
On December 14, 2018, CBS broadcast a colorized version of “Pioneer Women” (ILL S1;E25). As usual, some moments of the original show were edited out to make room for more commercials. Here’s what you missed… Morning Coffee – The entire process of Lucy making coffee was cut, which includes Lucy ladling water into the kettle from…
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LUCY: 40 YEARS OF TELEVISION
1953 Part One ~ JANUARY to JUNE The new year kicks off with a baby – two babies – Little Ricky and Desi Jr. “Ricky Has Labor Pains” (ILL S2;E14) ~ January 5, 1953 Filmed on Halloween 1952, the episode show’s a very pregnant Lucy reading McCall’s with the words “I Love Lucy” very clearly…