Tag: Hollywood
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RIP JANE POWELL
1929-2021 Jane Powell was born in Portland, Oregon, as Suzanne Lorraine Burce. Through the 1940s and 1950s, she had a successful career in movie musicals. However, in 1957, her career in films ended, as she had outgrown her innocent girl-next-door image. She has made brief returns to acting in front of the camera – on…
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BITS & BOBS
July 25, 1938 – 1949 Keeping Lucille Ball’s name in the paper while she climbed the ladder of success often meant that the items were about everything and anything but her film career! Here’s a collection of miscellaneous news items that all appeared on the date July 25th, from 1938 to 1949. 1938 ~ Smart…
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MODELS’ GOAL ~ STARDOM!
July 19, 1940 Hollywood is the mecca of all beautiful models who sooner or later turn their pretty faces westward in search of fame fortune and cinematic stardom. Few of the pulchritudinous legion however attain their goals and the majority of them — after various and invariable discouraging encounters with casting offices — return to…
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INTERFERENCE
June 26, 1948 On June 26, 1948, Dorothy Manners’ column reported that Lucille Ball was cast in Interference, a film about pro football starring Victor Mature, to be produced by RKO. Manners remarks that when she saw Ball on stage in Dream Girl, she sat next to famed suspense director Alfred Hitchcock, who praised Lucille…
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6 WEEKS turns into 3 YEARS
April 17, 1938 Lucille Ball’s 6-Week Stay In Filmland Lasts 3 Years By Harriet Parsons (Special to The Examiner) HOLLYWOOD Practically everyone who saw “Stage Door" wanted to know the name of “the funny tail girl who went home to Oregon to marry a lumberman." They know now she’s Lucille Ball… and she’s since been…
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WALTER WINCHELL
April 7, 1897 Walter Winchell was born in New York City, the son of immigrants. He left school in the sixth grade and started performing in vaudeville as a tap dancer. Winchell served in the U.S. Navy during World War I. He began his career in journalism by posting notes about his acting troupe on backstage bulletin boards.…
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WHEN IRISH EYES ARE LUCY’S
March 16, 1937 It must have been a slow news day in Somerset, PA, because leprechaun Lucy was front page news for the March 16, 1937 Somerset Daily American. ~March 16, 1937~ This brief item in Read Kendall’s March 16, 1937 column in the Los Angeles Times reports that Lucille was at the Trocadero with George…
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SEVEN STEPS TO STARDOM
March 11, 1939 To Lucille Ball it’s not superstition. Seven is her lucky number just as it’s the fortunate digit that crap-shooters pray for. Try not to be too technical and you’ll soon see that Lucille (count the letters) reached stardom in “A" pictures in seven steps. (Meanwhile the portrait above proves that the RKO…
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BELTED!
March 1, 1936 Nothing determines a season to Hollywood, but the weather. Residents of other climes are still swathing themselves in mufflers and making a beeline from the front door to the fireplace. But here it’s different. Hollywood has already shed its flannels. The sure way to set the season is to watch the tennis…
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BALL BITS
FEBRUARY 23, 1936-1952 On this date in Lucille Ball herstory the newspapers were littered with bits of Ball! Tidbits of news about fashion, food, make-up, and yes – even film! ~FEBRUARY 23, 1936~ ~FEBRUARY 23, 1939~ ~FEBRUARY 23, 1939~ ~FEBRUARY 23, 1939~ ~FEBRUARY 23, 1940~ ~FEBRUARY 23, 1941~ ~FEBRUARY 23, 1941~ ~FEBRUARY 23, 1941~ ~FEBRUARY…