Tag: Desi Arnaz
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BOB CARROLL JR.
August 12, 1918 Born Robert Gordon Carroll in McKeesport, Pennsylvania, his family moved to Florida when he was three years old. The family also moved to California for a time in conjunction with Carroll Sr.’s work, but eventually settled back in St. Petersburg, Florida. Bob Carroll Jr. attended St. Petersburg College where he studied French. In 1940,…
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RICHARD REEVES
August 10, 1912 Richard Reeves was born on August 10, 1912 in New York City as Richard Jourdan Reeves. Although he specialized in playing henchmen, gangsters and street thugs, he actually came from a well-off family; his father was a bank executive he and grew up in an upscale section of Queens, New York. He studied…
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TV DIGEST
August 9, 1952 On August 9, 1952 Lucy and Desi were featured on the cover of TV Digest, a competitor of TV Guide as part of their inside story “Visiting The Stars on Vacation”. The Digest was eventually absorbed by TV Guide when it went national in March 1953. The Atlanta edition of TV Digest used…
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY, LUCY!
August 6, 1911 MIND READER’S ASSISTANT: (whispering) “What’s your birthday?”LUCY RICARDO: (whispering) “August the sixth.”MIND READER’S ASSISTANT: “August the sixth what?”LUCY RICARDO: “August the sixth period.” AUGUST 6 in LUCY HISTORY Filming Seven Days Leave (1942) “My Favorite Husband” (aired August 6, 1948) Filming The Facts of Life (1960)
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PARLEY BAER
August 5, 1904 Parley Baer was born in Salt Lake City, Utah. He studied drama at the University of Utah. Early in his career, Baer was a circus ringmaster and publicist before entering military service in World War II. In the 1950s, he had a job training wild animals at Jungleland and was a docent at the…
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WHO’S QUITTING!
July 31, 1954 The July 31, 1954 issue of TV Guide (volume 2; number 31) featured actor William Bendix on the cover with the headline: “Who’s Quitting! Say Lucy and Desi”. The last day of the listings in this Guide is August 6, 1954, Lucille Ball’s 43rd birthday! The inside article is by Desi Arnaz,…
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RUDY VALLEE
July 28, 1901 Rudy Vallée was born Hubert Prior Vallée in Vermont and raised in Maine. He started his career as a saxophone player and singer and became a popular bandleader, hosting a hit radio program in the 1930s. His first film was 1929’s The Vagabond Lover. He also wrote a popular song of the same…
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DESILU SOLD!
July 27, 1967 Desilu Productions was formed in 1950 by Lucille Ball and her then-husband, Desi Arnaz. The name was a portmanteau of the couple’s first names and was originally applied to the Ball-Arnaz ranch. Desilu was one of many television production companies that sprung up all over the Hollywood catering to the growing needs…
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TYPEWRITER TESSIE!
Lucy and the Typewriter On July 23, 1829, American William Austin Burt patented a machine called the “Typographer” which is listed as the first typewriter. The London Science Museum describes it as “the first writing mechanism whose invention was documented”. Burt never found a buyer for the patent, so the invention was never commercially produced. …
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