Tag: Lucille Ball
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THE FRENCH LESSONS
December 9, 1949 “The French Lessons” (aka “Eavesdropping on French Lessons”) is episode #66 of the radio series MY FAVORITE HUSBAND broadcast on December 9, 1949. Synopsis ~ Liz and Iris are humiliated when they can’t read the menu at a French restaurant, so they decide to take French lessons. The lessons lead to the prospect…
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GLADYS HURLBUT
December 9, 1898 Gladys Hurlbut was an actress born in Dresden, a city in the Finger Lakes Region of Upstate New York, although some sources report that she was born in Norwich, Connecticut. She began her acting career on Broadway in 1920 and appeared in seven plays through 1949. As a playwright, she wrote three…
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THREE LITTLE PIGSKINS
December 8, 1934 Three Little Pigskins is a 1934 Columbia Pictures short subject directed by Raymond McCarey and starring slapstick comedy team The Three Stooges. It is the fourth entry in the series starring the comedians, who released 190 short films for the studio between 1934 and 1959. Synopsis ~ Moe, Larry and Curly are…
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SIR CEDRIC & JOHNSON GET ANSWERS ON LUCILLE’S DRESS
December 5, 1946 [This is syndicated columnist Erskine Johnson’s regular Hollywood column. The column was not always published on the same date in every newspaper. The column has been reprinted verbatim.] Sir Cedric Hardwicke (1893-1964) was an English-born actor who had great success on stage and screen in England and the United States. At the…
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Lucille Ball Reaches Top After Battle For Stardom
December 4, 1953 When you see Lucille Ball cavorting about the Ricardo apartment in the CBS Television “I Love Lucy” series, you can rest assured that he expert comedienne is giving her all to the role of Lucy Ricardo. It is doubtful, in fact, that there is another TV trouper who gives as much of…
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MARRYING OFF PEGGY MARTIN
December 2, 1950 “Marrying Off Peggy Martin” (aka “Trying To Marry Off Peggy Martin”) is episode #107 of the radio series MY FAVORITE HUSBAND broadcast on December 2, 1950. This was the twelfth episode of the third season of MY FAVORITE HUSBAND. There were 31 new episodes, with the season ending on March 31, 1951.…
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TORBEN MAYER
December 1, 1884 Torben Meyer was born in Denmark in 1884 and did more than 70 European films before immigrating to the United States. He was generally cast as thick-accented waiters, butlers, and doctors. His most prominent role was in Judgment at Nuremberg (1961), but he also appeared as a wealthy Dutch banker in Casablanca (1942). …
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RICHARD CRENNA
November 30, 1926 Richard Donald Crenna was born in Los Angeles, California, the only son of a pharmacist and a hotel manager. Following high school, Crenna served in the U.S. Army during World War II, where he saw combat in Belgium during the Battle of the Bulge. He also briefly served in the Pacific Theater of…
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TEMPO: BRINGING UP BABY
November 30, 1953 Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz were on the cover of the November 30, 1953, issue of Tempo (volume 1, no. 26), a digest-sized weekly news magazine. Tempo was published by Pocket Magazines Inc. and billed itself as “The Nation’s Only Pocket News Weekly.” It merged with Quick, another pocket-sized digest from the same…
Papermoon Loves Lucy 