Tag: Barbara Pepper
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INTERNATIONAL NURSES DAY
May 12 “Lucy Plays Florence Nightingale” (HL S2;E14). Inset photo (right) from Look Who’s Laughing (1941) Carnival (1935) Room Service (1938) with the Marx Brothers The Big Street (1942) – Mimi Doyle as Hospital Nurse The Facts of Life (1960) Yours, Mine, and Ours (1968) “Lucy Goes To The Hospital” (ILL S2;E16) – Barbara Pepper…
Michael T. Mooney
Adele Claire, Barbara Pepper, Bernadette Peters, Danny Thomas, Dena Dietrich, Desi Arnaz, Gale Gordon, Hazel Pierce, Here’s Lucy, I love lucy, Jean Willes, Joe Namath, John Ritter, June Whitely Taylor, karen norris, Kathleen Freeman, Life With Lucy, Lucille Ball, Mary Jane Croft, Mary Wickes, Nurse, Nurses Day, Nursing, Paula Stewart, Peggy Rea, Room Service, The Lucy Show, Vana Barra, Vivian Vance, William Frawley -
BREAKFAST WITH VENORA
April 30, 1936 Lucille Ball with Lela Rogers, head of talent development at RKO, at the RKO Little Theater, later known as Desilu Playhouse. The RKO RADIO DRAMA SCHOOL presents presents BREAKFAST WITH VANORA by Fred Ballard at the RKO LITTLE THEATRE Directed and Produced by Leila E. Rogers Lucille Ball (Vanora) at the time,…
Michael T. Mooney
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BOTTOMS UP
April 13, 1934 Directed by David Butler Produced by Buddy G. DeSylva for 20th Century-Fox Written by David Butler, Buddy G. DeSylva, and Sid Silvers Choreography by Harold Hecht Synopsis ~ Spencer Tracy stars as fast-buck promoter Smoothie King. Our hero’s latest scam is to pass off Hollywood extra Wanda Gale (Pat Patterson) and forger Limey…
Michael T. Mooney
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BUY NOW CAMPAIGN
February 4, 1934 Six beautiful poster and magazine ad models, whose faces have become famous through the nation, worked with Eddie Cantor in Samuel Goldwyn’s new production, Roman Scandals. From left to right they are: Vivian Keefer, the Listerine girl; Jane Hamilton and Bonnie Bannon, Palmolive Soap models; Katharine Mauk, Lucky Strike girl; Barbara Pepper,…
Michael T. Mooney
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CANTOR’S GOLDWYN GIRLS
January 9, 1934 Katharine Mauk ~ was born in 1911 in San Angelo, Texas. Her only other credit was The Hell Cat (1934). Ruth Stovall ~ was the face of Ponds Cold Cream and Palmolive Soap print ads. Curiously, there is no record of her being in the film. Mary Lange ~ was born in 1912 in Carnegie,…
Michael T. Mooney
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BARBARA PEPPER
May 31, 1915 – July 18, 1969 Barbara Pepper was born Marion Pepper in New York City. Against her parents wishes, she entered show business at age 16, appearing as a Ziegfeld girl and in George White’s Scandals on Broadway. Pepper and Lucille Ball were friends from their showgirl days and also appeared in six films…
Michael T. Mooney
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I LOVE LUCY: THE PANDEMIC YEARS
If the worldwide Corona Virus had struck in the 1950s instead of 2020, what would television have looked like? We can only wonder… [This blog is intended as humor in a bleak time in our history. It is abstract satire and not meant to make light of the actual suffering and great loss that the…
Michael T. Mooney
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LUCY: 40 YEARS OF TELEVISION
1952 Part One ~ JANUARY to JUNE The second half of the first season of “I Love Lucy”. In February, the show is nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award, but loses to “The Red Skelton Show.” Lucille Ball learns that she is pregnant again. The first season ends with the most episodes (35) of any “Lucy-com”! “The…
Michael T. Mooney
1952, Babalu, Barbara Pepper, Bea Benadaret, Ben Wrigley, Bobby Jellison, CBS, Desi Arnaz, Ed Wynn, Edward Everett Horton, Elizabeth Patterson, Four Star Revue, Frank Nelson, Gale Gordon, Hal King, Hal March, Hayden Rorke, I love lucy, Irving Bacon, Janet Waldo, Jess Oppenheimer, Joseph Kearns, K.T. Stevens, Lita Baron, Lucille Ball, Mary Wickes, Richard Crenna, tv, Vivian Vance, William Frawley -
“The Freezer”
(S1;E29 ~ April 28, 1952) Directed by Marc Daniels. Written by Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh and Bob Carroll, Jr. Filmed March 21, 1952 at General Service Studios. Rating: 60.4/87 Synopsis ~ Hoping to save money, Lucy and Ethel purchase a walk-in freezer – as well as the meat to fill it! But how to hide their purchase…
Michael T. Mooney
1952, Barbara Pepper, Beef, Bennett Green, Butcher Shop, CBS, Cielito Lindo, Desi Arnaz, Ethel Mertz, Frank Sully, Fred Aldrich, Fred Mertz, Freezer, Hazel Pierce, I love lucy, Kay Wiley, Lucille Ball, Lucy, Lucy Ricardo, Mama Inez, Meat, Red Cross, Ricky Ricardo, The Freezer, tv, Vivian Vance, William Frawley -
“Lucy Goes to the Hospital”
“Ricky! It’s time!” (S2;E16 ~ January 19, 1953) Directed by William Asher. Written by Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh, and Bob Carroll, Jr. It was filmed on November 14, 1952 at General Service Studios. It was the 51st episode filmed. Rating: 71.8/92 Synopsis ~ With the baby due at any moment, Ricky and the Mertzes carefully rehearse the trip…
Michael T. Mooney
1953, Adele Longmire, Barbara Pepper, Bennett Green, Birth, CBS, Charles Lane, Desi Arnaz, Ethel Mertz, Fred Mertz, Hazel Pierce, I love lucy, James John Ganzer, Little Ricky, Lucille Ball, Lucy, Lucy Goes to the Hospital, Lucy Ricardo, Peggy Rea, pregnancy, Ralph Mongomery, Ricky Ricardo, Ruth Perrott, Tropicana, tv, TV Guide, Vivian Vance, Voodoo, William Frawley, William R. Hamel