Tag: Lucille Ball
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TIME: A CLOWN WITH GLAMOUR
May 26, 1952 TIME: The Weekly News Magazine ~ Lucille Ball: Prescription for TV; a clown with glamour. May 26, 1952. On Monday evenings, more than 30 million Americans do the same thing at the same time: they tune in ‘I Love Lucy’ (9 p.m. E.D.T., CBS-TV), to get a look at a round-eyed, pink-haired…
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A GUIDE FOR THE MARRIED MAN
May 25, 1967 Gene Kelly (Director) Frank McCarthy (Producer for 20th Century Fox) Frank Tarloff (Writer, Based on His Book) Synopsis ~ Paul Manning discovers that his friend and neighbor Ed Stander has been cheating on his wife. Curious, he asks Ed about it, and is given the history and tactics of men who have…
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BILL STERN’S SPORTS NEWSREEL
May 24, 1946 “Bill Stern’s Sports Newsreel” was heard on NBC radio from 1937 to 1953, and CBS radio from 1953 to 1956. Until 1951, the fifteen-minute show was known as the Colgate Sports Newsreel. There were many guest stars and each show shared a story. The broadcast was heard under several different titles over…
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LUCY LIKES ADVENTURE! May 23, 1938 Girl Once Selected as Ziegfeld Beauty Is Skillful Flyer – Using Own Airplane She Saved Boy From Icy Lake and Has Shot Crocodiles From the Air By MONROE LATHROP, Special Correspondent of the St. Louis (MO) Globe-Democrat HOLLYWOOD, CAL. – “I was with Ziegfeld.” That brief sentence helped Lucille…
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THEY STILL LOVE LUCY
May 23, 1977 [The article below is reprinted verbatim. Photos and Footnotes have been added for editorial enhancement.] There has already been some moaning at the bar that when Dinah Shore’s blithe talk show moves to Channel 5 in July, it will be on 3:30 in the afternoon instead of 6:30 p.m. I have letters…
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THEY CALLED HER MOUSEY
May 22, 1947 Directed by Mark Sloan Music Composed by Jack Miller Dramatized by Robert Sloan from the story “They Called Her Mousey” as it appeared in Reader’s Digest Radio Reader’s Digest was a compilation of short stories for radio, much like the print edition was to books. It began on CBS in 1942 sponsored by Campbell…
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HER HUSBAND’S AFFAIRS
May 22, 1949 Screen Directors Playhouse was a radio anthology series which brought leading Hollywood actors to the NBC microphones beginning in 1949. The radio program broadcast adaptations of films, and original directors of the films were sometimes involved, although their participation was usually limited to introducing the radio adaptations, and a brief “curtain call”…
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MRS. COOPER THINKS LIZ IS PREGNANT
May 21, 1950 “Mrs. Cooper Thinks Liz is Pregnant” is episode #89 of the radio series MY FAVORITE HUSBAND broadcast on May 21, 1950. Synopsis ~ Liz tells George’s mother that she’s ill so the older Mrs. Cooper won’t try to come to Liz’s bridge game, but George’s Mother thinks Liz is really pregnant, and tells…
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YOU CAN’T FOOL YOUR WIFE
May 21, 1940 Director: Ray McCarey Producer: Lee S. Marcus and Cliff Reid for RKO Radio Pictures Writers: Jerome Cady, based on a story by Richard Carroll and Ray McCarey Synopsis ~ Feeling neglected by her husband Andrew (James Ellison), drab housewife Clara Hinklin (Lucille Ball) walks out on him, much to the delight of her busybody mother-in-law (Emma Dunn).…
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Papermoon Loves Lucy 