Tag: Joseph McCarthy
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RED SCARE!
July 22, 1940 Being the Ricardos (2021) is built around several real-life events in the lives of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz. Perhaps the most critical is the accusation that Lucille Ball was a Communist. Pointedly, the Los Angeles Herald Express used red (the color of communism and Ball’s famous locks) ink for a rare…
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LUCY, JOE & ALVIN, TOO!
Lucille Ball always wanted to be a star on Broadway – until the silver screen and the small screen claimed her for posterity. Using the stage name Diane Belmont, she was chosen to appear in Earl Carroll’s Vanities, for the third road company of Ziegfeld’s Rio Rita, and for Step Lively, but none of these…