Tag: Charles Laughton
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BUYING A DREAM, LUCILLE BALL’S GOAL
December 23, 1945 Below is an article by Philip K. Scheuer in the Los Angeles Times published on December 23, 1945, and reprinted verbatim. Except for the above headshot, photographs were added for editorial enhancement. Philip K. Scheuer wrote about film for the Los Angeles Times from the 1920s until 1967. Bold Italics indicate quotes by…
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ELSA LANCHESTER
October 28, 1902 Elsa Sullivan Lanchester was born in Lewisham, London. She studied dance in Paris under Isadora Duncan, whom she disliked. When the school was discontinued due to the start of the World War I, she returned to the UK. “My parents were always a bit arty. They were ‘advanced’. They supported pacifism, vegetarianism,…
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HOOSIER ‘DANCE’ GIRLS: MISS HARA & MISS O’BALL
September 14, 1940 On September 14, 1940, Lucille Ball and Maureen O’Hara reached the end of their whirlwind press tour to promote their new RKO film Dance, Girl, Dance. Ball and O’Hara made four personal appearances between screenings of the film, introduced by local radio star Roy Brandt of WFBM. On September 1, 1940, The…