Tag: Chicago Tribune
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TRIB TV WEEK TURNS TEN!
June 4, 1966 Lucille Ball was one of ten stars who were on the cover of the Chicago Tribune’s TV Week Tenth Anniversary issue for the week of June 4, 1966. 1. BOZO the CLOWN ~ was first played by Pinto Colvig, who voiced dogs for “The Lucy Show” in 1964. The Chicago Bozo franchise was…
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TV WEEK: THE INDESTRUCTIBLES
May 16, 1964 Lucille Ball, Andy Griffith, and Danny Thomas were depicted as the three musketeers on the cover of the May 16, 1964 Chicago Tribune’s TV Week supplement. The caricature was done by Tribune artist William Sajovic. Interestingly, both Thomas and Griffith had hit shows that were filmed at or by Desilu Studios: “The Andy…
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CHICAGO TRIB TV WEEK
May 2, 1970 Lucille Ball appeared on the cover of Chicago Tribune’s TV Week on Saturday, May 2, 1970. The caption implies an inside story about “Lucy’s special talent” but no inside story was included. This is one of Lucille Ball’s stock glamour shots. Saturday night, May 2, 1970, CBS aired a re-run of “The Carol Burnett…
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GRAFIC LUCY
April 26, 1953 On April 26, 1953, Lucille Ball appeared on the cover of the Chicago Sunday Tribune’s Grafic Magazine. Inside, the article is titled “Lucille and Desi. $8,000,000 TV Stars” by Hedda Hopper. The photo on the cover is very similar to one that also appeared on this 1954 issue of Dell’s “I Love Lucy”…
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TRIB TV: CAROL + 2
March 19, 1966 BURNETT, BALL, AND MOSTEL – how do you get a comedic triple threat like that on the same TV show? If you’re Carol Burnett, you ask Zero to lunch and say: “Hey, wouldn’t it be fun to do a show together?” Then, even tho everybody says, “Forget it, you’ll never get her,” you…
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CHICAGO SUNDAY TRIBUNE
March 8, 1953 This full page photo is from the Picture Section of the Sunday Chicago Tribune on March 8, 1953. Interestingly, there is no story within, just the photo. The description misspells the named Riccardo. This is understandable since most viewers would not have seen the name in print, just heard it spoken on television. …
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LUCILLE BALL THRIVES ON MISTAKES
January 16, 1965 The original, un-cropped photograph. [CLICK ON THE UNDERLINED TEXT TO VISIT THE EPISODES WHERE LUCY LEARNS A NEW SKILL!] TV Week now presents a girl who has made a career out of making mistakes. Meet Lucille Ball. She admits that the art of making mistakes is not only fun, but highly educational. …
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COVER GIRL ‘47
January 5, 1947 On January 5, 1947, film star Lucille Ball was the cover girl of the Picture Section of the Chicago Sunday Tribune. During Lucille Ball’s pre-television career, she continued to say that she was born in Butte, Montana, instead of Jamestown, New York. In fact, her family did spend a short time living…
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TV WEEK / TV GUIDE – GALE GORDON
August 4, 1962 On August 4, 1962, Gale Gordon appeared on the cover of TV Week, a supplement to the Sunday Chicago Tribune newspaper. At the time, most all newspapers provided some sort of pull-out, stand-alone TV and/or radio guide. Although Lucille Ball was then filming episodes of her new series, “The Lucy Show” for CBS,…
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