Tag: Desilu
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HAROLD MILLER
May 31, 1894 Harold Miller was born as Harold Edwin Kammermeyer in Redondo Beach, California. He was a veteran of more than 425 television programs and films, most of them as a background performer, nearly all uncredited. He made his screen debut in the Selznick Pictures 1919 release Upstairs and Down. From 1938 to 1947…
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RIP GAVIN MACLEOD
1931-2021 Although Gavin MacLeod never acted with Lucille Ball, she was responsible for his first role on television, as he recounts in his autobiography This Is Your Captain Speaking. On February 18, 1954, MacLeod had a brush with Lucy and Desi, who were attending the premiere of their film The Long, Long Trailer. A few years…
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RUTH PERROTT
May 30, 1899 Ruth Perrott was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota and raised in Grand Forks, North Dakota. She attended the University of North Dakota and Carnegie Institute of Technology and moved to New York City in 1920. On radio, she was one of two actresses to play Aunt Aggie on “The Judy Canova Show” (1943-53). She is…
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RUTA LEE
May 30, 1935 Ruta Lee was born Ruta Mary Kilmonis in Montreal, Quebec, the only child of Lithuanian immigrants. In 1948, her family moved to the United States settling in Los Angeles, where she graduated in 1954 from Hollywood High School and attended both Los Angeles City College and the University of California at Los Angeles. She…
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PETER LEEDS
May 30, 1917 Peter Leeds was born in Bayonne, NJ. Leeds received his training at the Neighborhood Playhouse. He received a scholarship from the John Marshall Law School, which he attended for one year. He also attended The Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre in NYC. He was in four Broadway shows, including the original…
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TIME: A CLOWN WITH GLAMOUR
May 26, 1952 TIME: The Weekly News Magazine ~ Lucille Ball: Prescription for TV; a clown with glamour. May 26, 1952. On Monday evenings, more than 30 million Americans do the same thing at the same time: they tune in ‘I Love Lucy’ (9 p.m. E.D.T., CBS-TV), to get a look at a round-eyed, pink-haired…
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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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TOP OF MY HEAD: WAX OF BALL
May 16, 1964 Last summer I was engaged to write a one-hour special comedy program starring this glamorous bouquet of names: Jack Benny, Danny Thomas, Garry Moore, Lucille Ball, Andy Griffith, and Phil Silvers. (1) I am not going to single out any certain name, but one of these stars gave me plenty of trouble.…
Papermoon Loves Lucy 