Tag: Lucy
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GALE on LUCY: REAL PRO
July 28, 1966 By GALE GORDON (For Cynthia Lowry) EDITOR’S NOTE – Gale Gordon is a familiar television face – usually apoplectic – that goes back to the old “Our Miss Brooks” and “Dennis the Menace” days. (1) Here he writes, with vast affection, of the joys of playing straight man for Lucille Ball. HOLLYWOOD…
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BITS & BOBS
July 25, 1938 – 1949 Keeping Lucille Ball’s name in the paper while she climbed the ladder of success often meant that the items were about everything and anything but her film career! Here’s a collection of miscellaneous news items that all appeared on the date July 25th, from 1938 to 1949. 1938 ~ Smart…
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LUCILLE BALL(S)
July 6, 1955 Binghamton (NY) Press, July 6, 1955 By Muriel Kappeler LUCILLE BALL washes dishes at 1009 Catherine Street, West Corners, and plays with a rattle at 328 Front Street, Vestal. No, the famous red-headed ball of fire, star of the “I Love Lucy” television program is not losing her mind, nor Is she…
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TV TIMES
June 27, 1965 Every so often a new comedienne is hailed and toasted by the critics and public. None of them in the past 15 years has shown the talent or endurance of Lucille Ball. Cara Williams (1) was touted as “the new Lucy.” She never came close because the old Lucy was too good for…
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LUCY – WHAT I AM IS BRAVE
June 16, 1983 By Lynne Hirschberg, Rolling Stone Magazine. Reprinted in the Dayton (OH) Journal-Herald Lucille Ball is not Lucille Ball. She is Lucy. In Los Angeles, everyone knows where Lucy lives. The mansion is a big, white affair in Beverly Hills. Fans pose for photos in front of it, and they dig up Lucy’s…
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BLAZING BEULAH FROM BUTTE
May 31, 1950 Hedda Hopper kicked off her May 31, 1950 column with the news that Lucy and Desi were planning a film for the pair titled “Beulah from Butte.” The plot would concern a Mexican man (Desi) who comes to America to marry a cultured woman – and falls for Lucy (aka Beulah). Needless to…
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TIME: A CLOWN WITH GLAMOUR
May 26, 1952 TIME: The Weekly News Magazine ~ Lucille Ball: Prescription for TV; a clown with glamour. May 26, 1952. On Monday evenings, more than 30 million Americans do the same thing at the same time: they tune in ‘I Love Lucy’ (9 p.m. E.D.T., CBS-TV), to get a look at a round-eyed, pink-haired…
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A GUIDE FOR THE MARRIED MAN
May 25, 1967 Gene Kelly (Director) Frank McCarthy (Producer for 20th Century Fox) Frank Tarloff (Writer, Based on His Book) Synopsis ~ Paul Manning discovers that his friend and neighbor Ed Stander has been cheating on his wife. Curious, he asks Ed about it, and is given the history and tactics of men who have…