Tag: Lucille Ball
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IT HAPPENED LAST NIGHT: LUCY & THE BOMPS!
by Earl Wilson, August 19, 1950 Lucille Ball wanted to keep Desi home and off the road so she petitioned for him to play her husband on radio’s “My Favorite Husband”. The network balked and Richard Denning got the role instead. When it came time to transfer the show to television, Lucy made the same demand.…
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LUCY: A TRIBUTE Closed!
August 17, 2015 On August 17, 2015, Universal Studios Florida (USF) closed their LUCY: A TRIBUTE exhibit and gift shop. The exhibit first opened its doors in May 1992, two years after the Orlando theme park / studios debuted. For the first two years of USF’s operation the building housed Silver Screen Collectibles, a movie-themed…
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GLORIA BLONDELL
August 16, 1910 Was born to theatrical parents in New York City in 1910. She once said, “[S]ome member of my family has been in the theater ever since the time of Richard the Lionhearted.” She is the younger sister of Joan Blondell, also an actress. First appearing on Broadway in the 1935 Three Men on…
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LOOK! MEN ARE MESSY!
August 14, 1951 For the final shot of “Men Are Messy” (ILL S1;E8), the “I Love Lucy” props department mocked up a magazine cover using the actual August 14, 1951 edition of Look (volume 15, #17). The episode was filmed on October 25 and aired on December 3, 1951. Lucy’s hillbilly photo covers up a trio…
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THE BIG STREET
August 13, 1942 Producer: Damon Runyon Director: Irving Reis Screenplay: Leonard Spigelgass, based on the short story “Little Pinks” by Damon Runyon, first published in Collier’s magazine. Dance Staging: Chester Hale Gowns: Renie Miss Ball’s Dancing Costume: Freddy Wittop Miss Ball’s Make-Up: Perc Westmore The film is sometimes referred to as Damon Runyon’s The Big…
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BOB CARROLL JR.
August 12, 1918 Born Robert Gordon Carroll in McKeesport, Pennsylvania, his family moved to Florida when he was three years old. The family also moved to California for a time in conjunction with Carroll Sr.’s work, but eventually settled back in St. Petersburg, Florida. Bob Carroll Jr. attended St. Petersburg College where he studied French. In 1940,…
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RICHARD REEVES
August 10, 1912 Richard Reeves was born on August 10, 1912 in New York City as Richard Jourdan Reeves. Although he specialized in playing henchmen, gangsters and street thugs, he actually came from a well-off family; his father was a bank executive he and grew up in an upscale section of Queens, New York. He studied…
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TV DIGEST
August 9, 1952 On August 9, 1952 Lucy and Desi were featured on the cover of TV Digest, a competitor of TV Guide as part of their inside story “Visiting The Stars on Vacation”. The Digest was eventually absorbed by TV Guide when it went national in March 1953. The Atlanta edition of TV Digest used…
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY, LUCY!
August 6, 1911 MIND READER’S ASSISTANT: (whispering) “What’s your birthday?”LUCY RICARDO: (whispering) “August the sixth.”MIND READER’S ASSISTANT: “August the sixth what?”LUCY RICARDO: “August the sixth period.” AUGUST 6 in LUCY HISTORY Filming Seven Days Leave (1942) “My Favorite Husband” (aired August 6, 1948) Filming The Facts of Life (1960)
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