Tag: Lucille Ball
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GETTING OLD
May 20, 1949 “Getting Old” (aka “Liz Is Feeling Her Age”) is episode #44 of the radio series MY FAVORITE HUSBAND broadcast on May 20, 1949 on the CBS radio network. Synopsis ~ Scanning her old high school yearbook, Liz decides she’s old, and everything George does to try to snap her out of it just…
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JOHN EMERY
May 20, 1905 John Emery was born in New York City to stage actors Edward Emery and Isabel Waldron. He was educated at Long Island’s La Salle Military Academy. Emery was in 22 Broadway shows between 1934 and 1960, including playing Benvolio to Basil Rathbone’s Romeo, Leartes to John Gielgud’s Hamlet, Caesar in Antony and Cleopatra…
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MURDER AT THE VANITIES
May 18, 1934 Director: Mitchell Leisen Producer: E. Lloyd Sheldon for Paramount Pictures Writers: Carey Wilson and Joseph Gollomb, based on the play by Earl Carroll and Rufus King Synopsis ~ Shortly before the curtain goes up at Earl Carroll’s Vanities, someone is attempting to injure leading lady Ann Ware, who wants to marry leading man Eric Lander. Stage manager Jack…
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LUCY IS RUTH-LESS!
May 18, 1946 On May 18, 1946, radio’s “Academy Award Theatre” presented a 30-minute version of My Sister Eileen, a 1942 film based on the 1940 play of the same title, which in turn was based on a series of autobiographical short stories by Ruth McKenney originally published in The New Yorker. The film was directed…
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VOGUE: $54,000,000 BONANZA
May 18, 1968 Lucille Ball was photographed by Alexis Waldeck for the May 1968 issue of Vogue (vol. 51, no. 9, whole no. 2199). The two-page spread (with unique upside-down orientation) also included text about Ball’s wealth. “Always the cause of catastrophe, Lucille Ball, the only 100-carat woman comedian, swings between disaster and destruction on…
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TV GUIDE: SURPRISE!
May 18, 1968 Lucille Ball’s surprise reunion with Vivian Vance on “The Mike Douglas Show” was the subject of an inside article in TV Guide on May 18, 1968. The cover featured Mike Connors, star of “Mannix.” “Mannix” was an hour-long crime drama that was saved from the scrap heap by Lucille Ball when she was in…
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SCREEN DIRECTOR’S PLAYHOUSE: MISS GRANT TAKES RICHMOND
May 19, 1950 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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TV WEEK: THE INDESTRUCTIBLES
May 16, 1964 Lucille Ball, Andy Griffith, and Danny Thomas were depicted as the three musketeers on the cover of the May 16, 1964 Chicago Tribune’s TV Week supplement. The caricature was done by Tribune artist William Sajovic. Interestingly, both Thomas and Griffith had hit shows that were filmed at or by Desilu Studios: “The Andy…
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TOP OF MY HEAD: WAX OF BALL
May 16, 1964 Last summer I was engaged to write a one-hour special comedy program starring this glamorous bouquet of names: Jack Benny, Danny Thomas, Garry Moore, Lucille Ball, Andy Griffith, and Phil Silvers. (1) I am not going to single out any certain name, but one of these stars gave me plenty of trouble.…
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