Tag: Lucille Ball
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RIP Bill Macy
1922-2019 Although they never acted together, stage and screen actor Bill Macy (born Wolf Martin Garber) and Lucille Ball were connected by Beatrice Arthur, who was Lucy’s co-star in the film Mame (1974) as well as several TV variety shows and specials. Macy played Walter Findlay, the long-suffering husband in Bea Arthur’s first hit TV series, “Maude”…
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Lucie Arnaz Gives Back to Students in Musical Theater
Just as her mother continued the RKO tradition of training with the Desilu Workshop, Lucie Arnaz is mentoring up-and-coming musical theatre artists and has founded an awards program for them in California. Brava, Lucie! Lucie Arnaz Gives Back to Students in Musical Theater
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Ball & Bell: Lucy and the Telephone
In 1891, Lucille’s paternal grandfather Jasper becamem excited by the idea of a new discovery known as the telephone. With new found zeal he operated a primitive telephone switchboard in Busti, New York, a small community south of Buffalo. His second son, Henry (Lucille’s father) seemed to share his father’s enthusiasm for the telephone and…
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RIP Wayne Fitzgerald
1930-2019 Emmy Award-winning film title designer who created the main titles for the Lucille Ball film Mame (1974). Over a career that spanned 55 years, he designed close to a thousand motion picture and television main and end title sequences for top directors such as Francis Ford Coppola, John Huston, Mike Nichols, Robert Redford, Roman…
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RIP Diahann Carroll
1935-2019 Diahann Carroll and Lucille Ball never acted together, but they were both groundbreaking television personalities with network shows (”Here’s Lucy” and “Julia”) airing in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Both of their TV characters were widows who defied convention. They did appear together on the small screen several times. First, on “Dean Martin’s 1968 Christmas…
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Lucy statues vandalized in Lucille Ball Memorial Park
Lucy statues vandalized in Lucille Ball Memorial Park
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“The View” ~ September 23, 2019 The show’s Hispanic Heritage FYI highlighted the contributions of Desi Arnaz, the first Hispanic to star on American Primetime Television.
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RIP Sid Haig 1939-2019 Sid Haig (born Sidney Eddie Mosesian) was first employed by Desilu in a 1962 episode of “The Untouchables.” He was buried beneath bandages on “The Lucy Show” as the Mummy in “Lucy and the Monsters” (TLS S3;E18) in 1965. MUMMY: “Table for two? Right this way!” LUCY: “Please, Mummy! I’d rather do it myself!” Haig…
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71st Annual Primetime Emmy Awards ~ September 23, 2019 Comedy legends George Burns and Lucille Ball were represented by wax figures. Bob Newhart was represented by Bob Newhart!
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“Life With Lucy”
1986 A handy dandy guide to helping you find your favorite blogs here at Papermoon Loves Lucy. Click on the hyperlinks to be taken directly to that episode’s trivia, background, and bloopers! “One Good Grandparent Deserves Another” (S1;E1) ~ September 20, 1986 “Lucy Makes a Hit with John Ritter” (S1;E2) ~ September 27, 1986 “Love…
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