Tag: Desi Arnaz
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PAPERMOON’S GUIDE TO MOVING!
August 17, 2021 I’m moving! After nearly nine years in a mobile home, I’ve decided it’s time to move on! Of course, I couldn’t do it without Lucy, so here’s my move – Lucy style! Goodbye mobile home living – hello condo by the sea! My real estate broker was a regular Rosie Hannigan (aka…
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ROUGH ROAD TO TOP
August 16, 1953 (1) One of the more famous CBS-TV shows is “I Love Lucy.” Its two chief characters – Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz – have had a rocky road to their present status as one of the top comedy teams in the country. At the end of Lucille’s first year in dramatic school…
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REMINISCING
August 14, 1977 By Frank Swertlow, Chicago Daily News BEVERLY HILLS – During the first years of television, Ed Wynn, the radio and stage comic, was trying to break into television with a half-hour comedy on CBS. (1) One night, he invited a couple of second echelon performers to make an appearance: a comedienne, known…
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NEW TV SHOW
August 14, 1962 HOLLYWOOD (UPI) – There is something ludicrous in the sight of a man trying to do a woman’s work. A man looks about as silly wielding a dust mop as a woman does trying to throw a baseball overhand. But even funnier, I think is a woman trying to do a man’s…
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THEATRE CONCEPT
August 10, 1954 The concept of treating “I Love Lucy” as a theater play, with the camera representing the audience, was Desi Arnaz’s, according to Bill Asher, the program’s director. “Nothing is supposed to be done you could not do in a theater,“ he said. (1) “There is no fourth wall,” Asher added. ‘‘Something is…
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TV GUIDE: MAIDEN NAME GAME?
August 7, 2005 On August 7, 2005, Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz appeared on the cover of TV Guide, (volume 32, issue #27320 although they were not the ‘cover story’ – that honor went to “CSI: Miami” featuring Emily Proctor and David Caruso. Lucy and Desi were on the top of the cover to promote a TV…
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TRIPLE PLAY BALL
August 2, 1943 At the time, Desi was serving in the Army at a base in the San Fernando Valley, near Chatsworth, wear the couple lived. Edward Sedgwick (1892-1953) was a good friend of Lucille and Desi who worked for Desilu. He is credited with discovering Lucille Ball and directed the unreleased “I Love Lucy”…
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PEOPLE TODAY: TWO-HEADED FAMILY
July 30, 1952 Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz were on the cover of People Today (”a magazine about headline people”) on July 30, 1952. Inside featured nine photos of Lucille Ball making faces (”The Rarest Bird: A Clown With Glamour”) and Desi Arnaz warming up the studio audience at “I Love Lucy” (”Filmed before a live…
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LUCILLE BALL: NUMBER 1, BUT STILL TRYING HARDER
July 29, 1974 Editor’s note: following is the final part in a series of eight profiles on America’s self-made women. By PHYLLIS BATTELLE “Success – whaddya you mean by that?” rasps Lucille Ball in that rowdy voice which strikes adoration into the hearts of Lucy lovers. “If your concept of success is happiness in what…
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