Tag: I love lucy
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RIP TIM CONSIDINE
1940-2022 Tim Considine was born into a theatrical family. His father John Considine Jr. was a famous film producer. His maternal grandfather was Alex Pantages, founder of the Pantages Theatre chain. His paternal grandfather was vaudeville impresario John W. Considine. He made his screen debut at age 12 in the film The Clown (1953) starring…
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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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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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RIP RALPH CARMICHAEL
1927-2021 Ralph Carmichael was an composer and arranger of both secular pop and contemporary Christian music, regarded as The father of Contemporary Christian music. In the mid-1950s he joined Desilu as an assistant musical director, composing and arranging background and incidental music for “I Love Lucy”. On television, however, his most famous contribution was the theme song…