Tag: Beauty for the Asking

• SEVEN STEPS TO STARDOM

  March 11, 1939 To Lucille Ball it’s not superstition. Seven is her lucky number just as it’s the fortunate digit that crap-shooters pray for.  Try not to be too technical and you’ll soon see that Lucille (count the letters) reached stardom in “A" pictures in seven steps. (Meanwhile the portrait above proves that the RKO…

  Michael T. Mooney

  March 11, 2021

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  1939, Beauty for the Asking, Chautaqua Music Institute, Chesterfield Girl, Ernest Bachrach, Flo Ziegfeld, Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Hattie Carnegie, Hollywood, John Murray Anderson, Lela Rogers, Lucille Ball, Movies, Rio Rita, RKO, Sacramento Bee, Samuel Goldwyn, Seven Steps, Superstition, Twelve Crowded Hours

• BEST BATHTUB SCENES OF 1939

  February 1, 1940 In advance of the whoop-de-do with which the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences grants its annual awards and closes the guessing season, almost everybody in town – from Mr. Benny’s Rochester to Miss Dietrich’s Sealyham – is making up a list. The best pictures, the best actor, best actress, best direction,…

  Michael T. Mooney

  February 1, 2021

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  1939, Ann Sheridan, Bathtub, Beauty for the Asking, Ellen Drew, Hedwige Feuillere, Irene Dunne, Isa Mirada, Jeanette McDonald, Joan Crawford, Lucille Ball, Madeleine Carroll, Marjorie Weaver, Mud Bath, Newspaper

• DVR Alert! Mini Lucille Ball Movie Marathon tomorrow, Tuesday July 2, 2019, on TCM!

  Michael T. Mooney

  July 1, 2019

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  Annabel Takes a Tour, Beauty for the Asking, Bunker Bean, Don’t Tell The Wife, Films, I Dream Too Much, Lucille Ball, Lucy, Next Time I Marry, TCM, The Affairs of Annabel, The Girl from Paris, Turner Classic Movies, tv