Tag: Look Who’s Laughing
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STAYING YOUNG
July 29, 1941 HOLLYWOOD (UP) – Lucille Ball has worked out a system for staying young in Hollywood – keep busy and don’t worry. (1) “One nice thing about the town,” she said, “is that when it keeps you busy you don’t have time to worry. And when you don’t have time to worry, you don’t…
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LUCY’S ‘PARACHUTE’ FAILS TO OPEN!
February 12, 1941 The RKO film Parachute Battalion was released on September 12, 1941, directed by Leslie Goodwins and starring Robert Preston, Edmond O’Brien, Harry Carey, and Buddy Ebsen. Lucille Ball was NOT cast. The role went to Nancy Kelly, who married Edmond O’Brien just a week after this item was published. The movie was filmed on…
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LUCILLE BALL REVEALS HER BEAUTY TREATMENT
January 9, 1942 On January 9, 1942, Lucille Ball discussed her beauty regimen with Jacqueline Hunt. In an odd coincidence, Lucille Ball’s maternal grandfather Fred was also named Hunt. In an even odder coincidence, he died exactly two years after this article was published, January 9, 1944. In January 1942, Ball’s film Look Who’s Laughing was…
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IRVING BACON
September 6, 1893 Irving Bacon was born in St. Joseph, Missouri, as Irving Von Peters. He was a character actor who appeared in hundreds of films, mostly as bewildered small-town blue collar workers. His film debut came in 1923 with a small role in a silent film of Eugene O’Neill’s Anna Christie starring Blanche Sweet. He appeared…
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