Tag: 1957
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I FEEL GREAT!
August 4, 1957 HOLLYWOOD – “I feel great. Everybody’s asking me how feel, and I have to tell ‘em I feel great because I do,“ says the world’s highest paid comedienne. Lucille Ball is probably the only TV comic who can make that statement today and mean it. She and husband Desi Arnaz have consistently grabbed…
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OLD FORMULA
July 24, 1957 Desi Arnaz and Lucille Ball’s new format next year [five one-hour filmed shows] won’t be flamboyant star-crammed musicals. (1) They’ll use same characters, including William Frawley and Vivian Vance, in same type of stories. The first program, for instance, with Ann Sothern, Cesar Romero and Rudy Vallee as guests, will describe how…
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COURTSHIP BECOMES TV
July 23, 1957 BY MARGARET McMANUS, Free Press Special Writer NEW YORK – Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz will present the first of their new series of five musical comedy programs at 9 p.m. Wednesday on WJBK-TV. The shows were each scheduled to be one hour long, but this premiere offering will actually run one hour…
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EXECUTIVE SESSION
January 12, 1957 Lucille Ball was on the cover of TV Guide (volume 5; number 2) on January 12, 1957. This is Ball’s 7th (of 39) covers of the National TV Guide. Before 1957 is done, she will grace her 8th cover. The close-up photo is by John Engstead (1909-83). Engstead had photographed Lucille Ball…
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TV PREVUE & MORE!
December 29, 1957 On December 29, 1957, Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz appeared on the cover of TV Prevue, a television listings supplement to the Sunday Chicago Sun-Times. Inside, it lists the premiere of “Lucy Hunts Uranium” on January 3, 1958, part of the “Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour”. The episode guest-starred Fred MacMurray and featured his wife, June…
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LUCY’S COURTSHIP BECOMES HER FIRST NEW TV SHOW
November 3, 1957 On November 3, 1957, syndicated columnist Margaret McManus wrote about Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz’s new venture, “The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour”, which began airing on November 6, 1957 with “Lucy Goes to Havana”, an origin story of the Ricardos first meeting. The 75-minute program featured Hedda Hopper, Cesar Romero, Rudy Vallee, as well as…
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TV GUIDE(S)
November 2, 1957 The November 2, 1957 edition of TV Guide (Vol. 5, No. 44, issue #240) featured Lucille Ball on the cover in a caricature by noted artist Al Hirschfeld. This was Hirschfeld’s tenth TV Guide cover. This was Lucille Ball’s eighth of 39 covers, having appeared on the cover of the very first…
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LOOK: FALL TV FORECAST
September 17, 1957 Look Magazine (volume 21, #19) featured the 1957 Fall TV Forecast on the cover, including a photograph of Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz, and Richard Keith (aka Keith Thibodeaux) by Bob Vose. At the time of publication, “I Love Lucy” had ended its half-hour format and was about to launch an hour-long show airing…
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RIP Gene Reynolds
1923-2020 Although best known as the six-time Emmy-winning Producer of “M*A*S*H” (1972-83), he was also an actor who played the role of Mr. Taylor, who rents the Ricardo apartment when they move to Connecticut in “Lucy Hates To Leave” (S6;E16 ~ February 4, 1957). His wife (who wanted to cut the legs off Lucy’s new sofa)…