Tag: Lela Rogers

• BREAKFAST WITH VENORA

  April 30, 1936 Lucille Ball with Lela Rogers, head of talent development at RKO, at the RKO Little Theater, later known as Desilu Playhouse.  The RKO RADIO DRAMA SCHOOL presents presents BREAKFAST WITH VANORA by Fred Ballard at the RKO LITTLE THEATRE  Directed and Produced by Leila E. Rogers Lucille Ball (Vanora) at the time,…

  Michael T. Mooney

  April 30, 2021

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  Barbara Pepper, Breakfast with Vanora, Cleo Mendicos, Lela Rogers, Lucille Ball, RKO

• 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…

  Michael T. Mooney

  March 11, 2021

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  1939, Beauty for the Asking, Chautaqua Music Institute, Chesterfield Girl, Ernest Bachrach, Flo Ziegfeld, Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Hattie Carnegie, Hollywood, John Murray Anderson, Lela Rogers, Lucille Ball, Movies, Rio Rita, RKO, Sacramento Bee, Samuel Goldwyn, Seven Steps, Superstition, Twelve Crowded Hours

• HOLLYWOOD  THE GOLDEN YEARS: THE RKO STORY

  “A Woman’s Lot”(S1;E3) ~ July 17, 1987 “Hollywood the Golden Years: The RKO Story” is a six-part series produced and aired on the BBC in 1987. Each episode is at least an hour long, and touches on a different aspect of the studio’s history (1928 to 1957) mixing comments, clips, and interviews. Interviews with Lucille…

  Michael T. Mooney

  June 28, 2018

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  1987, Bachelor Mother, BBC, Bringing Up Baby, Christopher Strong, Desilu, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Edward Asner, Fay Kanin, Garsin Kanin, Ginger Rogers, Here’s Lucy, Hollywood, Howard Hughes, Katharine Hepburn, Kitty Foyle, Lela Rogers, Linwood Dunn, Lucille Ball, Mary of Scotland, Morning Glory, Pandro Berman, Professional Sweetheart, RKO, RKO Studios, Roberta, Stage Door, Sylvia Scarlett, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, tv