Tag: Lucille Ball
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MANIKINS ENTER MOVIES
July 24, 1933 Manikins (aka mannequins) implies that the girls were chosen for their looks, not their talents. Indeed some reports called the seven ‘poster girls’ because most of them, including Lucille Ball, were familiar faces from appearing as models on posters for various products. Casting New York-based models was a publicity ploy by Goldwyn. The…
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OLD FORMULA
July 24, 1957 Desi Arnaz and Lucille Ball’s new format next year [five one-hour filmed shows] won’t be flamboyant star-crammed musicals. (1) They’ll use same characters, including William Frawley and Vivian Vance, in same type of stories. The first program, for instance, with Ann Sothern, Cesar Romero and Rudy Vallee as guests, will describe how…
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SEEIN’ STARS!
July 23, 1938 “Feg” Murray was an American athlete, radio host and Olympic medalist who was also active as a sports cartoonist. His best known feature was the Seein’ Stars column (1933-1951), which featured trivia and news about Hollywood stars and their latest pictures. Lucille Ball previously appeared in Feg Murray’s Seein’ Stars on August…
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COURTSHIP BECOMES TV
July 23, 1957 BY MARGARET McMANUS, Free Press Special Writer NEW YORK – Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz will present the first of their new series of five musical comedy programs at 9 p.m. Wednesday on WJBK-TV. The shows were each scheduled to be one hour long, but this premiere offering will actually run one hour…
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LUCY IS A CHAMELEON PARENT
July 22, 1963 Lucille Ball confesses that she Is an inconsistent mother. In psychology we call this type of person a “chameleon parent.’’ Children will not hate you if you punish them wisely and judiciously but try to be an “expressive" mother instead of a chronic “no no no" or “repressive" parent. CASE Q-401: Lucille…
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LUCY SHUNS AUDITIONS
July 21, 1950 [In the below article, reprinted verbatim, Johnson writes using a lot of imagery and insider jargon. This sort of article was common in trade papers like Variety, but seems odd in a daily newspaper.] Hollywood—(NEA) Lucille Ball slipped me the lowdown on her failure to pin to the canvas the dumb chick role…
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NEW LIFE IN LUCY
July 20, 1952 By WILL JONES, Minneapolis Tribune Staff Writer WITH HER SECOND BABY on the way and her second career in its peak, Lucille Ball is busy trying to make the facts of real life jibe with the facts of TV life. The complications are going to affect all fans of the nation’s No.…
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MODELS’ GOAL ~ STARDOM!
July 19, 1940 Hollywood is the mecca of all beautiful models who sooner or later turn their pretty faces westward in search of fame fortune and cinematic stardom. Few of the pulchritudinous legion however attain their goals and the majority of them — after various and invariable discouraging encounters with casting offices — return to…
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BEST DRESSED
July 18, 1936 “There are few well-dressed women in Hollywood, avers Bernard Newman, de- signer-in-chief to RKO Radio. "There is no incentive to dress well because of the lack of functions, night clubs and theaters. Many of the stars, unfortunately, are not interested in clothes. "Katharine Hepburn, for Instance, would far rather wear a shirt…
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TV GUIDE: TACKLING MOVIES!
July 17, 1953 During the summer of 1953, “I Love Lucy” was replaced by “Racket Squad” on CBS’s Monday night line-up.
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