Tag: Eleonor Duse

• 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…

  Michael T. Mooney

  July 21, 2021

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