Tag: Lucille Ball
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VACATION TIME
April 29, 1949 “Vacation Time” (aka “Trailer Vacation to Goosegrease Lake”) is episode #41 of the radio series MY FAVORITE HUSBAND broadcast on April 29, 1949 on the CBS radio network. Synopsis ~ It’s vacation time, and Liz and George have decidedly different plans. He wants to go camping with a trailer he borrowed from a…
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EVE PLUMB
April 29, 1958 Eve Aline Plumb was born April 29, 1958, in Burbank, California, to Flora June (née Dobry) and Neely Ben Plumb. She has one sister, Flora, and a brother, Ben She is best known for playing middle daughter Jan Brady on the sitcom “The Brady Bunch” (1969-74). She reprised the role on numerous reunion series…
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BACHELOR MOTHER
April 28, 1949 The Screen Guild Theater (aka The Screen Guild Players), was one of the most popular drama anthology series during the Golden Age of Radio. At this point it is being sponsored by Gulf Oil. From its first broadcast in 1939, up to its farewell in 1952, it showcased radio adaptations of popular…
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ANN-MARGRET
April 28, 1941 Ann-Margret Olsson was born in Stockholm, Sweden. The family moved back to Valsjöbyn, Jämtland a small town of she later described as one full of “lumberjacks and farmers high up near the Arctic Circle”. Ann-Margret and her mother joined her father in the United States in November 1946, and her father took…
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GRAFIC LUCY
April 26, 1953 On April 26, 1953, Lucille Ball appeared on the cover of the Chicago Sunday Tribune’s Grafic Magazine. Inside, the article is titled “Lucille and Desi. $8,000,000 TV Stars” by Hedda Hopper. The photo on the cover is very similar to one that also appeared on this 1954 issue of Dell’s “I Love Lucy”…
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STAFFORD REPP
April 26, 1918 Stafford Alois Repp was born and raised in San Francisco, California. He is best known for his role as Police Chief O’Hara on ABC’s “Batman” television series. Soon after the December 7, 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor, he served a stint in the United States Army Air Corps during World War II where he…
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CAROL BURNETT
April 26, 1933 Carol Creighton Burnett was born in San Antonio, Texas. As a child of alcoholic parents, she was left in the care of her grandmother, who moved them to Hollywood, where they lived in a boarding house and shared a great passion for the movies. During her six decade career she conquered Broadway,…
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LUCY AT 62
April 25, 1974 The April 1974 issue of Ladies’ Home Journal included an article about Lucille Ball titled “Lucy: Having A Ball at 62″ by Thomas Thompson. Ladies’ Home Journal was first published on February 16, 1883, and became one of the leading women’s magazines of the 20th century. In 1903, it was the first American…
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MON COPAIN
April 25, 1937 Mon Copain (literal translation ‘My Friend’) was a French-language movie magazine published from the 1930s through the 1950s. On April 25, 1937 RKO film star Lucille Ball appeared on the cover, holding a look-alike doll. Both Lucy and the doll are holding a cigarette. This is not the only time Lucille Ball would…
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