Tag: Eve Arden
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RIP GLORIA MCMILLAN
1933-2022 Gloria McMillan is probably best known to the world as Harriet Conklin on the radio and television sitcom “Our Miss Brooks” (starring Eve Arden). She also played the role in a 1956 big screen version of the show from Warner Brothers. She began playing the role in 1948 on radio. The character was daughter…
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LUCY PLEASES PUBLIC
June 30, 1952 Incredibly, this newspaper has misspelled the author’s name. Louella (not Luella) Parsons wrote about Hollywood from 1914 to 1965. At her peak, her columns were read by 20 million people in 700 newspapers worldwide. Louella (or Lolly, as she was sometimes called) was mentioned on “I Love Lucy” and “The Lucy Show,” usually in…
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EVE ARDEN
April 30, 1908 Eunice Mary Quedens (aka Eve Arden) was born in Mill Valley, California, near San Francisco. She was interested in show business from an early age. At 16, she made her stage debut after quitting school to joined a stock company. She made her screen debut (using her given name) in Columbia’s Song…
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WILLIAM HOLDEN
April 17, 1918 William Holden was born as William Franklin Beedle Jr. in O’Fallon, Illinois. His family moved to South Pasadena when he was three. After graduating from South Pasadena High School, Holden attended Pasadena Junior College, where he became involved in local radio plays. He made his screen debut in an uncredited role in…
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MAURICE MARSAC
March 23, 1915 Maurice Marsac was born on March 23, 1915 in Croix, Nord, France. He made his screen debut (appropriately) as a French policeman in Paris After Dark (1945), a film that employed many French World War II immigrants. He also appeared in two 1952 Paris-set films: Assignment: Paris and April in Paris. Later…
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RICHARD CRENNA
November 30, 1926 Richard Donald Crenna was born in Los Angeles, California, the only son of a pharmacist and a hotel manager. Following high school, Crenna served in the U.S. Army during World War II, where he saw combat in Belgium during the Battle of the Bulge. He also briefly served in the Pacific Theater of…
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WOMEN COMICS: WHY THEY TRY HARDER
November 21, 1971 Lucille Ball was on the cover and profiled in the November 21, 1971 issue of Parade, the national Sunday Newspaper Magazine supplement. The inside article was titled “Women Comics: Why They Try Harder” by associate editor Linda Gutstein. The cover photo was taken from “Lucy and the Indian Chief” (HL S2;E3) in 1969. …
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WHO’S QUITTING!
July 31, 1954 The July 31, 1954 issue of TV Guide (volume 2; number 31) featured actor William Bendix on the cover with the headline: “Who’s Quitting! Say Lucy and Desi”. The last day of the listings in this Guide is August 6, 1954, Lucille Ball’s 43rd birthday! The inside article is by Desi Arnaz,…
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MARILYN MONROE
June 1, 1926 – August 4, 1962 Marilyn Monroe (born Norma Jeane Mortenson) was an actress, model, and singer. Famous for playing comedic “blonde bombshell” characters, she became one of the most popular sex symbols of the 1950s and early 1960s and was emblematic of the era’s changing attitudes towards sexuality. She was a top-billed actress…
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SID MELTON
May 22, 1917 – November 2, 2011 Sid Melton (born Sidney Meltzer) played the roles of incompetent carpenter Alf Monroe in the CBS sitcom “Green Acres” and Uncle Charlie Halper, proprietor of the Copa Club, on “The Danny Thomas Show” and its spin-offs. He appeared in about 140 film and television projects in a career that…
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