Tag: Fernando Lamas
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RIP ARLENE DAHL
1925-2021 Arlene Dahl was born on August 11, 1925, in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Like Lucille Ball, she was a red-haired actress with an association to MGM who achieved notability during the 1950s. She was mentioned as one of Ricky’s possible “Don Juan” co-stars in “Ricky’s Screen Test” (ILL S4;E7 ~ November 15, 1954). Although TV audiences didn’t know it, an…
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FERNANDO LAMAS
January 9, 1916 Fernando Álvaro Lamas y de Santos was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He studied drama at school in his native country and later enrolled in a law course at college. He abandoned his studies to take up horse riding, winning trophies fencing and boxing and becoming the South American Freestyle Swimming Champion of…
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LIZ’S SUPERSTITIONS
October 21, 1949 “Liz’s Superstitions” (aka “Superstition”) is episode #59 of the radio series MY FAVORITE HUSBAND broadcast on October 21, 1949. This episode is sponsored by Jell-O. This was the seventh episode of the second season of MY FAVORITE HUSBAND. There were 43 new episodes, with the season ending on June 25, 1950. Synopsis…
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LUCY: 40 YEARS OF TELEVISION
1958 A few months into the hour-long format of “I Love Lucy”, Desilu joins forces with Westinghouse to create “The Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse” which will showcase new talent, new writing, and “The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour.” “Lucy Hunts Uranium” (LDCH E3) ~ January 3, 1958 Fred MacMurray and his wife June Haver guest star in the first hour-long…
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LUCY THE SPORTS FAN
In both her personal life and her screen roles, Lucy was always a sports fan! “The Bob Hope Buick Sports Award Show” February 15, 1961 on NBC Produced by: Jack Hope, Bob’s younger brother. He died 18 months after this special aired. Directed by: Jack Shea Written by: Mort Lachman, Bill Larkin, Lester White, John…
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Lucy and Viv Put in a Shower
S1;E18 ~ January 28, 1963 Synopsis Lucy decides that her home needs another shower and asks Harry to help her install it. Harry and Eddie get out of helping by paying a local plumber to do the job under the guise of being an old friend. After Lucy drives him away with her meddling, she…
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“Lucy Goes to Sun Valley”
(LDCH S1;E5 ~ April 14, 1958) Directed by Jerry Thorpe. Written by Madelyn Davis, Bob Carroll Jr., and Bob Schiller. Filmed in February 1958 at Sun Valley, Idaho, and Ren-Mar Studios, Hollywood. Synopsis ~ Lucy and Ethel go to Sun Valley, at first without Ricky and Fred. While at the resort, the girls meet…
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“The Black Eye”
Readers keepers, losers go look at television! (S2;E20 ~ March 9, 1953) Directed by William Asher. Written by Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh and Bob Carroll, Jr. Filmed September 15, 1952 at General Service Studios. Rating: 67.5/92 The script is based on “The Misunderstanding of the Black Eye,” episode #118 of Lucille Ball’s radio show “My…
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