Tag: Desi Arnaz
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COURTSHIP BECOMES TV
July 23, 1957 BY MARGARET McMANUS, Free Press Special Writer NEW YORK – Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz will present the first of their new series of five musical comedy programs at 9 p.m. Wednesday on WJBK-TV. The shows were each scheduled to be one hour long, but this premiere offering will actually run one hour…
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LUCY SHUNS AUDITIONS
July 21, 1950 [In the below article, reprinted verbatim, Johnson writes using a lot of imagery and insider jargon. This sort of article was common in trade papers like Variety, but seems odd in a daily newspaper.] Hollywood—(NEA) Lucille Ball slipped me the lowdown on her failure to pin to the canvas the dumb chick role…
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NEW LIFE IN LUCY
July 20, 1952 By WILL JONES, Minneapolis Tribune Staff Writer WITH HER SECOND BABY on the way and her second career in its peak, Lucille Ball is busy trying to make the facts of real life jibe with the facts of TV life. The complications are going to affect all fans of the nation’s No.…
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TV GUIDE: TACKLING MOVIES!
July 17, 1953 During the summer of 1953, “I Love Lucy” was replaced by “Racket Squad” on CBS’s Monday night line-up.
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BACHELOR GIRL
July 17, 1960 When Lucille Ball divorced Desi Arnaz last spring, her friends were convinced that, for all practical purposes, her public life had come to an end. Life with Lucy, they whispered, would mean seclusion, or at least partial retirement. But Lucy surprised everyone, including herself. Partly because she needed to be busy to…
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GO FOR FUN!
July 21, 1955 The “I Love Lucy’’ addicts will soon see the whole TV show gang — Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz, Vivian Vance and Bill Frawley together in a movie that has nothing to do with the “Lucy” series. Instead, another coined “Go for Fun" by Madelyn Pugh and Bob Carroll Jr. has been bought…
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INDOMINATABLE LIFESTYLE
July 16, 1972 HOLLYWOOD – Indomitable funny girl Lucille Ball, with a messy scoop hair the color of an orange popsicle, flashes on the scene in a sad predicament. She’s got a lame leg. Lucy hobbled from her sleek silver Rolls Royce and into the yellow cubbyhole dressing room which is a sunny retreat near the…
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TOO MUCH KISSIN’
July 14, 1957 It was Desi who suggested Keith Thibodeaux go by the stage name Richard Keith. Despite this name change, Thibodeaux was never billed by either name on “I Love Lucy” or “The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour” – simply as ‘Little Ricky’. Another plus is that boys named Richard are often nicknamed Ricky, which not-so-coincidentally is also…
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TV GUIDE: PHONY PUBLICITY
July 12, 1958 A straightforward portrait of Lucille Ball was on the cover of TV Guide on July 12, 1958. It was one of 39 appearances by Ball on the magazine’s cover. “People keep saying I’m wild and uninhibited, a real wacky dame. Well, I’m not – really.” The photograph used on the two-page spread…
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STAGE MUSICAL!
July 11, 1955 Billion-dollar combination is the deal Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz are cooking with Rodgers and Hammerstein (1) for a Broadway musical to follow their TV tour of Europe (2). They’re figuring on an original story to fit their personalities, and it will bring these two back to the stage for the first…
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