Tag: Lucille Ball
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HAROLD MILLER
May 31, 1894 Harold Miller was born as Harold Edwin Kammermeyer in Redondo Beach, California. He was a veteran of more than 425 television programs and films, most of them as a background performer, nearly all uncredited. He made his screen debut in the Selznick Pictures 1919 release Upstairs and Down. From 1938 to 1947…
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RIP GAVIN MACLEOD
1931-2021 Although Gavin MacLeod never acted with Lucille Ball, she was responsible for his first role on television, as he recounts in his autobiography This Is Your Captain Speaking. On February 18, 1954, MacLeod had a brush with Lucy and Desi, who were attending the premiere of their film The Long, Long Trailer. A few years…
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DOUGLAS FOWLEY
May 30, 1911 Douglas Fowley was born as Daniel Vincent Fowley, in the Bronx, New York. As a young man, he moved to Los Angeles and studied at Los Angeles City College. He served in the Navy during World War II. He is probably best remembered for his role as the frustrated movie director Roscoe Dexter…
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RUTH PERROTT
May 30, 1899 Ruth Perrott was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota and raised in Grand Forks, North Dakota. She attended the University of North Dakota and Carnegie Institute of Technology and moved to New York City in 1920. On radio, she was one of two actresses to play Aunt Aggie on “The Judy Canova Show” (1943-53). She is…
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DORIS PACKER
May 30, 1904 Doris Packer was born in Menominee, Michigan. Her family moved to southern California when she was young. She became interested in acting while in high school. After attending the University of California at Los Angeles, she moved to New York City to study drama and appeared in Broadway shows. It was there…
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RUTA LEE
May 30, 1935 Ruta Lee was born Ruta Mary Kilmonis in Montreal, Quebec, the only child of Lithuanian immigrants. In 1948, her family moved to the United States settling in Los Angeles, where she graduated in 1954 from Hollywood High School and attended both Los Angeles City College and the University of California at Los Angeles. She…
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PETER LEEDS
May 30, 1917 Peter Leeds was born in Bayonne, NJ. Leeds received his training at the Neighborhood Playhouse. He received a scholarship from the John Marshall Law School, which he attended for one year. He also attended The Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre in NYC. He was in four Broadway shows, including the original…
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LIZ SELLS DRESSES (1950)
May 28, 1950 “Liz Sells Dresses” (aka “Selling Dresses”) is episode #90 of the radio series MY FAVORITE HUSBAND broadcast on May 28, 1950. Synopsis ~ Liz accidentally returns a dress to a more expensive store than where she bought it, and makes money on the deal. She then decides to go into business buying dresses…
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LIZ IN THE HOSPITAL
May 27, 1949 “Liz in the Hospital” (aka “Liz Goes To The Hospital”) is episode #45 of the radio series MY FAVORITE HUSBAND broadcast on May 27, 1949 on the CBS radio network. Synopsis ~ The doctor pays a house call to see what’s wrong with George, and discovers that Liz needs to have her tonsils…
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