Tag: I love lucy
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LIZ & IRIS’S EASTER
March 24, 1951 “Liz and Iris’s Easter” (aka “Diet for Easter Dresses”) is episode #124 of the radio series MY FAVORITE HUSBAND broadcast on March 24, 1951. This is the penultimate episode of the series. Synopsis ~ The boys make a deal with the girls, if Liz and Iris can slim down to the same dress size they…
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PHIL OBER
March 23, 1902 Philip Nott Ober was raised in White Plains, New York. After attending a preparatory school and Princeton University, he worked in advertising before moving into acting. He made his debut on stage, playing Tom Faulkner in Technique in 1931. He appeared in Lawrence Riley’s Broadway show Personal Appearance (1934) opposite Gladys George. Ober’s film…
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PAULA WINSLOWE
March 23, 1910 Paula Winslowe was born Winifred Margaret Reyleche in Grafton, North Dakota. She was sometimes billed as Paula Winslow. On radio, she played Peg Riley on “The Life of Riley” from 1944 to 1951. On television, the role was played by Rosemary DeCamp (1948), and then Marjorie Reynolds (1953). Her first experience in Hollywood was…
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JOAN CRAWFORD
March 23, 1908 Joan Crawford was born Lucille Fay LeSueur in San Antonio, Texas. She made her film debut in 1923 with a short film called The Casting Couch. A controversial and provocative film of a sexual nature, MGM bought the rights to this film in 1935 (to protect their star) and the only existing…
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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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TV GUIDE: LUCY’S NEIGHBORS
March 20, 1953 William Frawley and Vivian Vance appeared on the cover of the pre-National TV Guide (volume VI, #f12) for March 20 to 26, 1953. This was the penultimate issue of the regional Guide before it went national. The inside article is titled “Lucy’s Neighbors” with the subtitled “Don’t Be So Sure The Mertzes are…
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THE WILLS
March 19, 1950 “The Wills” (aka “The Coopers Make Their Wills”) is episode #80 of the radio series MY FAVORITE HUSBAND broadcast on March 19, 1950. Synopsis ~ After Liz and George make out their wills, Liz is convinced that George intends to do away with her. Liz is startled to find a receipt for…
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EDWARD EVERETT HORTON
March 18, 1886 Edward Everett Horton was born in Brooklyn, New York. He began his stage career in 1906, singing and dancing and playing small parts in vaudeville and in Broadway productions. In 1919, he moved to Los Angeles, California, where he began acting in Hollywood films. During his long career, he was in five Oscar Best…
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TV TIMES CARNIVAL!
March 17, 1968 Lucille Ball and Jack Benny appeared on the cover of TV Times, a supplement section of the Los Angeles Times, on March 17, 1968. The photo promotes Benny’s special “Jack Benny’s Carnival Nights” airing on March 20, 1968. Also on Sunday, March 17, Lucille Ball appeared on “The Ed Sullivan Show”. She introduces a clip…
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MADELYN PUGH
March 15, 1921 Madelyn Laverne Pugh was born in Indianapolis in 1921. She became interested in writing at Shortridge High School with classmate Kurt Vonnegut. She graduated from Indiana University School of Journalism in 1942. Her first professional writing job was writing short radio spots for an Indianapolis radio station. When her family moved to California, she…
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