Tag: Bette Davis
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FARM RELIEF
July 30, 1939 The glamour girls are finding out that they can get through a picture without 26 changes of costume. Very seldom these days do you find a star going into tantrums about the news that she’ll have to worry along with shop girls clothes in shop girl parts. Ending a Nuisance Bette Davis…
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LUCY SHUNS AUDITIONS
July 21, 1950 [In the below article, reprinted verbatim, Johnson writes using a lot of imagery and insider jargon. This sort of article was common in trade papers like Variety, but seems odd in a daily newspaper.] Hollywood—(NEA) Lucille Ball slipped me the lowdown on her failure to pin to the canvas the dumb chick role…
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LUCY ON THE DAIS – Part Two
“All-Star Party for Carol Burnett” December 12, 1982 on CBS Directed by Dick McDonogh Produced and Written by Paul Keyes Music by Nelson Riddle THE PARTY-GOERS Carol Burnett (Honoree) got her first big break on “The Paul Winchell Show” in 1955. A years later she was a regular on “The Garry Moore Show.” In 1959…