Tag: Lucille Ball
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HOWARD KEEL
April 13, 1919 Harold Clifford Keel, known professionally as Howard Keel, was born in Gillespie, Illinois. It was stated that Keel’s birth name was Harold Leek. After his father’s death in 1930, Keel and his mother moved to California, where he graduated from high school at age 17. He worked various odd jobs until settling at Douglas…
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CRITIC’S CHOICE
April 13, 1963 Directed by Don Weis Produced by Frank P. Rosenberg for Warner Brothers Written by Jack Sher, based on the play by Ira Levin Synopsis ~ Parker Ballantine is a New York theater critic and his wife writes a play that may or may not be very good. Now Parker must either get out…
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QUICK: 8 MILLION DOLLAR BABY!
April 13, 1953 Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz Jr. appeared on the cover of Quick Magazine on April 13, 1953. The inside article was titled “Eight Million Dollar Baby: Lucy & Desi IV”. Quick Magazine was published by Cowles Magazines, Inc., from 1949 to 1953. They also published Life. Readers were encouraged to “Get Quick on…
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TIGHT SHOES
April 12, 1942 The Gulf Screen Guild Theater present Damon Runyon’s comedy Tight Shoes, which was a 1941 Universal Pictures success. Directed and Hosted by: Roger Pryor Music by: Oscar Bradley Written by: Damon Runyon The Screen Guild Theater (aka The Screen Guild Players), was one of the most popular drama anthology series during the…
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EARLY TO DEATH
April 12, 1951 A fight for $300,000 in stolen loot in the Mexican desert. Early To Death is a story of murder and greed. Writers: John Michael Hayes and E. Jack Newman Composer: Lucien Morowack Producer and Director: Elliott Lewis “Suspense” is a radio drama broadcast on CBS Radio from 1940 through 1962. One of…
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DICK PATTERSON
April 11, 1929 Dick Patterson was born Richard Neal Patterson in Clear Lake, Iowa, in 1929. In 1961, he got his ‘big break’ on Broadway replacing Dick Van Dyke in the original cast of the musical Bye Bye Birdie. His Broadway debut was in the short-lived Vintage ‘60. Next he was seen opposite Ken Berry in The…
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HAZEL PIERCE
April 10, 1893 Hazel Pierce was born in Los Angles, California. Because she was the same general height and weight as Lucile Ball, she was hired to be her camera and lighting stand-in on “I Love Lucy.” This required her to attend rehearsals where camera’s and lighting instruments would be aimed and focused, a time consuming and…
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CHUCK CONNORS
April 10, 1921 Chuck Connors was born Kevin Joseph Aloysius Connors in Brooklyn, New York. He was one of only 13 athletes in history to have played both Major League Baseball (Brooklyn Dodgers 1949, Chicago Cubs, 1951) and in the National Basketball Association (Boston Celtics 1947–48). With a 40-year film and television career, he is best…
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JANE KEAN
April 10, 1924 Jane Kean was born in Hartford, Connecticut on April 10, 1924. Her show business career spanned seven decades. Among her most famous roles were as Trixie Norton on “The Jackie Gleason Show”, and as the voice of Belle in the perennial favorite “Mister Magoo’s Christmas Carol.” Kean and her older sister Betty Kean, formed…
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