Tag: Life With Lucy
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PAPERMOON’S GUIDE TO MOVING!
August 17, 2021 I’m moving! After nearly nine years in a mobile home, I’ve decided it’s time to move on! Of course, I couldn’t do it without Lucy, so here’s my move – Lucy style! Goodbye mobile home living – hello condo by the sea! My real estate broker was a regular Rosie Hannigan (aka…
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REMINISCING
August 14, 1977 By Frank Swertlow, Chicago Daily News BEVERLY HILLS – During the first years of television, Ed Wynn, the radio and stage comic, was trying to break into television with a half-hour comedy on CBS. (1) One night, he invited a couple of second echelon performers to make an appearance: a comedienne, known…
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LUCY – WHAT I AM IS BRAVE
June 16, 1983 By Lynne Hirschberg, Rolling Stone Magazine. Reprinted in the Dayton (OH) Journal-Herald Lucille Ball is not Lucille Ball. She is Lucy. In Los Angeles, everyone knows where Lucy lives. The mansion is a big, white affair in Beverly Hills. Fans pose for photos in front of it, and they dig up Lucy’s…
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AARON SPELLING
April 22, 1923 Aaron Spelling was born in Dallas, Texas. After attending high school, he served in the United States Army Air Corps as a pilot during World War II. Spelling later graduated from Southern Methodist University in 1949, where he was a cheerleader. Spelling made his first appearance as an actor in a film as…
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EASTER BUNNIES
Easter Sunday Lucille Ball kept large white Belgian Hares ~ 1938 In this newspaper photo, the rabbits have multiplied! The Rutland (VT) Herald ~ April 2, 1938 “The Abbott and Costello Show” on NBC Radio. Abbott and Costello meet Bugs Bunny, featuring Lucille Ball ~ November 18, 1943 Indoor TV antenna were called rabbit ears for obvious…
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PETER GRAVES
March 18, 1926 Peter Graves was born Peter Duesler Aurness on March 18, 1926, in Minneapolis, Minnesota. His elder brother was actor James Arness. After high school, he served in the US Air Force. Afterwards, he enrolled at the University of Minnesota. His screen debut came while he was in the Air Force, as part…
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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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THE MARINES FLY HIGH
March 7, 1940 Directed by George Nichols, Jr. and Benjamin Stoloff Produced by Robert Sisk for RKO Radio Pictures Screenplay by Jerry Cady and A.J. Boulton, story by A.C. Edington Filmed October 1939 World Premiere on March 4, 1940 Wide Release on March 7, 1940 CAST Lucille Ball (Joan Grant) marks her 48th feature film since coming to…
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LUCY & THE PRESIDENTS
Presidents’ Day On a November 1, 1971 episode of “Here’s Lucy”, When Lucy asks Harry to move up payday to Tuesday, he replies “Not a chance! They can shove Washington’s birthday anywhere they want to, but my payday remains Friday.” In June 1968, a bill was enacted that consolidated Washington and Lincoln’s birthdays into one…
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