Tag: Lucille Ball
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CHARLOTTE LAWRENCE
April 22, 1921 Charlotte Lawrence was born Charlotte Sorkin in Los Angeles, California. She attended Fairfax High School in Los Angeles where she was active in Theater. She moved to New York in the early 1940’s to pursue a career in radio. She had a lucrative career as a radio actress, but left New York…
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AARON SPELLING
April 22, 1923 Aaron Spelling was born in Dallas, Texas. After attending high school, he served in the United States Army Air Corps as a pilot during World War II. Spelling later graduated from Southern Methodist University in 1949, where he was a cheerleader. Spelling made his first appearance as an actor in a film as…
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GO CHASE YOURSELF
April 22, 1938 Directed by Edward F. Cline Produced by Robert Sisk for RKO Radio Pictures Written by Paul Yawitz and Bert Granet, with contributions by Winifred Leah Lawrence, Edward Mecher, and William W. Watson, based on an original story by Walter O’Keefe Synopsis ~ A mild-mannered bank clerk finds himself stuck a speeding trailer towed…
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TIME BUDGETING
April 22, 1949 “Time Budgeting” (aka “George and His Trained Seals”) is episode #40 of the radio series MY FAVORITE HUSBAND broadcast on April 22, 1949 on the CBS radio network. Synopsis ~ George is so fed up with Liz’s being late for everything that he puts her on a strict schedule. Note ~ This script…
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TOO MANY HUSBANDS
April 21, 1947 The Gulf Screen Guild Theater present Wesley Ruggles’ Too Many Husbands, which was a 1940 Columbia Pictures release. Produced and Directed by: Bill Lawrence Music by: Wibur Hatch Synopsis ~ Vicky Lowndes (Lucille Ball) loses her first husband, Bill Cardew (Bob Hope), in a boating accident in which he is presumed drowned. The…
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LOOK: 2 BABIES IN 1 NIGHT!
April 21, 1953 On April 23, 1953, the Arnaz Family (Lucy, Lucie, Desi, and Desi Jr.) appeared on the cover of Look Magazine. The inside story is “Lucille Ball gives birth to two babies in the same night, one in the hospital and one on TV". Desi Jr.’s yellow ruffled outfit is the same one he…
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DICK SARGENT
April 19, 1930 Dick Sargent was born Richard Stanford Cox in Carmel, California. His mother was an actress and his father was an entertainment industry manager. Sargent attended the San Rafael Military Academy before majoring in drama at Stanford University. He was most famous for being the ‘second Darrin’ on “Bewitched”. His first screen appearance was on “I…
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SUNDAY NEWS COLOROTO
April 19, 1942 Lucille Ball appeared on the Coloroto supplement section of the Sunday New York News on April 19, 1942. The blurb inside uses the usual studio publicity for Lucille, some of it exaggeration. She was not born in Butte, Montana (Jamestown, New York), nor was she 28 in 1942 (30). While Lucy was…
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BOB HASTINGS
April 18, 1925 Robert Francis Hastings was born in Brooklyn, New York. He started out as a boy singer on “National Barn Dance”, “Doug Gray’s Singing Gang” and “Coast to Coast on a Bus”. He also portrayed Jerry on the radio program “The Sea Hound.” Hastings served during World War II in the United States Army Air…
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6 WEEKS turns into 3 YEARS
April 17, 1938 Lucille Ball’s 6-Week Stay In Filmland Lasts 3 Years By Harriet Parsons (Special to The Examiner) HOLLYWOOD Practically everyone who saw “Stage Door" wanted to know the name of “the funny tail girl who went home to Oregon to marry a lumberman." They know now she’s Lucille Ball… and she’s since been…
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