Tag: Lucille Ball
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HOLD THAT GIRL!
March 24, 1934 Directed by Hamilton MacFadden Written by Dudley Nichols and Lamar Trotti Produced by Fox Film Corporation Synopsis ~ "That girl" is newspaper sob-sister Toni Bellamy (Claire Trevor), whose nose for news gets her into one jam after another, especially when she poses as an exotic dancer to get the goods on a gangster.…
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PHIL OBER
March 23, 1902 Philip Nott Ober was raised in White Plains, New York. After attending a preparatory school and Princeton University, he worked in advertising before moving into acting. He made his debut on stage, playing Tom Faulkner in Technique in 1931. He appeared in Lawrence Riley’s Broadway show Personal Appearance (1934) opposite Gladys George. Ober’s film…
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PAULA WINSLOWE
March 23, 1910 Paula Winslowe was born Winifred Margaret Reyleche in Grafton, North Dakota. She was sometimes billed as Paula Winslow. On radio, she played Peg Riley on “The Life of Riley” from 1944 to 1951. On television, the role was played by Rosemary DeCamp (1948), and then Marjorie Reynolds (1953). Her first experience in Hollywood was…
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JOAN CRAWFORD
March 23, 1908 Joan Crawford was born Lucille Fay LeSueur in San Antonio, Texas. She made her film debut in 1923 with a short film called The Casting Couch. A controversial and provocative film of a sexual nature, MGM bought the rights to this film in 1935 (to protect their star) and the only existing…
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MAURICE MARSAC
March 23, 1915 Maurice Marsac was born on March 23, 1915 in Croix, Nord, France. He made his screen debut (appropriately) as a French policeman in Paris After Dark (1945), a film that employed many French World War II immigrants. He also appeared in two 1952 Paris-set films: Assignment: Paris and April in Paris. Later…
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Lucille Ball Scrapbook
March 22nd ~1936 to 1950 ~ MARCH 22, 1936 ~ ~ MARCH 22, 1939 ~ ~ MARCH 22, 1941 ~ ~ MARCH 22, 1941 ~ ~ MARCH 22, 1942 ~ ~ MARCH 22, 1943 ~ ~ MARCH 22, 1943 ~ ~ MARCH 22, 1943 ~ ~ MARCH 22, 1945 ~ ~ MARCH 22, 1945 ~ ~…
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I’LL LOVE YOU ALWAYS
March 20, 1935 Directed by Leo Bulgakov Writers: Lawrence Hazard (story), Vera Caspary, Sidney Buchman Produced by Everett Riskin for Columbia Pictures Synopsis ~ Actress Nora Clegg marries Carl Brent, an unemployed young engineer, whose estimation of his worth and ability keeps him from getting a job. He finally acquires a position that will require him…
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TV GUIDE: LUCY’S NEIGHBORS
March 20, 1953 William Frawley and Vivian Vance appeared on the cover of the pre-National TV Guide (volume VI, #f12) for March 20 to 26, 1953. This was the penultimate issue of the regional Guide before it went national. The inside article is titled “Lucy’s Neighbors” with the subtitled “Don’t Be So Sure The Mertzes are…
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ROY ROBERTS
March 19, 1906 Roy Roberts was born Roy Barnes Jones in Dade City, near Tampa, Florida. He began his acting career on the stage, first appearing on Broadway in May 1931 before making his motion picture debut in Gold Bricks, a 1936 two-reel comedy short released by 20th Century-Fox. He appeared in numerous films in secondary…
Papermoon Loves Lucy 