Tag: Desilu
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HELEN KLEEB
January 6, 1907 Helen Kleeb was born in South Bend, Washington. She began acting on stage and on radio in Portland, Oregon, in the late 1920s. She is best remembered as Miss Mamie Baldwin (one of the moonshiner Baldwin Sisters) on “The Waltons” (1972-81) as well as in four Waltons specials. Her screen debut was also…
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LUCILLE BALL LOVES HER HECTIC TV LIFE
January 2, 1965 On Saturday, January 2, 1965, syndicated columnist Peter Dacre of the London Expressed published an article about Lucille Ball…a busy woman. As with most syndicated columns, publication dates and headlines varied by newspaper. Quotes from Lucille Ball are in bold italics. Photographs have been added for editorial enhancement. Peter Dacre (1925-2003) was…
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TV PREVUE & MORE!
December 29, 1957 On December 29, 1957, Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz appeared on the cover of TV Prevue, a television listings supplement to the Sunday Chicago Sun-Times. Inside, it lists the premiere of “Lucy Hunts Uranium” on January 3, 1958, part of the “Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour”. The episode guest-starred Fred MacMurray and featured his wife, June…
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CHRISTMAS AT SUN VALLEY / DIVORCE RUMORS
December 27, 1959 The “television show” referenced in the byline was “Lucy Goes To Sun Valley” (LDCH S1;E5). On Sunday, December 27, 1959, The Twin Falls (ID) Times-News did a story with photos about the annual influx of celebrities, including Lucille Ball, who spend their holidays at Sun Valley. Charles Denton also added grist to the rumor…
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JOHN HART
December 13, 1917 John Lewis Hart (sometimes credited as John Hilton) was born in Los Angeles. He grew up in San Marino and graduated from South Pasadena High School. His mother was a drama critic for the Pasadena Star-News and he later trained at the Pasadena Playhouse where he was discovered by a Paramount talent…
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LUCILLE BALL CHATS ABOUT CHRISTMAS DINNERS
December 12, 1971 Lucille Ball, in conversation with Helen Dorsey for Family Weekly, a Sunday supplement. “Christmas Is for children, and it’s not quite as much fun now that the children are grown up. We still enjoy Christmas though – it’s always been very important in our family.” “We all patterned ourselves from my grandmother…
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GLADYS HURLBUT
December 9, 1898 Gladys Hurlbut was an actress born in Dresden, a city in the Finger Lakes Region of Upstate New York, although some sources report that she was born in Norwich, Connecticut. She began her acting career on Broadway in 1920 and appeared in seven plays through 1949. As a playwright, she wrote three…
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KEITH THIBODEAUX
December 1, 1950 Keith Thibodeaux (aka Richard Keith) was born on December 2, 1950, in Lafayette, Louisiana. At the age of three he was making $500 a week touring as a drummer with the Horace Heidt Orchestra. When he was five, his father took him to audition for the role of Little Ricky Ricardo on…
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Herbert F. Solow, A Founding Father Of Star Trek, Dies At 89
Herbert F. Solow, A Founding Father Of Star Trek, Dies At 89
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GEORGE O’HANLON
November 23, 1912 George Samuel O’Hanlon was best known for his role as Joe McDoakes in the Warner Brothers live-action Joe McDoakes short subjects (1942-1956) and as the voice of George Jetson in Hanna-Barbera’s 1962 prime-time animated television series “The Jetsons” and its 1985 revival. He started working at 16 with his own stage show, but was fired…
Papermoon Loves Lucy 