Tag: Broadway Bill
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BROADWAY BILL
December 27, 1934 A Columbia Motion Picture Directed by Frank Capra Produced by Harry Cohn Written by Robert Riskin, based on the short story “Strictly Confidential” by Mark Hellinger Lucille Ball played a telephone operator, uncredited. Also in the film were future “I Love Lucy” cast members Charles Lane, Irving Bacon, and Bess Flowers. Synopsis ~ Warner Baxter…
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PAUL HARVEY
September 10, 1882 Paul Harvey was born as Roy Paul Harvey on September 10, 1882 in Sandwich, Illinois. He starred on Broadway in The Awful Truth (1922, above left with Bruce McRae and Ina Claire) and repeated his role in the film in in 1929, which is now presumed lost, although it was remade twice (without…
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IRVING BACON
September 6, 1893 Irving Bacon was born in St. Joseph, Missouri, as Irving Von Peters. He was a character actor who appeared in hundreds of films, mostly as bewildered small-town blue collar workers. His film debut came in 1923 with a small role in a silent film of Eugene O’Neill’s Anna Christie starring Blanche Sweet. He appeared…
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MYRNA LOY
August 2, 1905 Myrna Loy was born Myrna Adele Williams in Radersburg (near Helena), Montana. When she was thirteen, Myrna’s father died of influenza in the great flu pandemic of 1918, and the rest of the family moved to Los Angeles. She was educated in L.A. and the Westlake School for Girls where she caught…
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