Tag: Lucy
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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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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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The Lucille Ball Specials
1974-1977 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 program’s trivia, background, and bloopers! “Happy Anniversary and Goodbye” ~ November 19, 1974 Featuring Art Carney, Nanette Fabray, Peter Marshall, and Arnold Schwarzenegger. “Lucy Gets Lucky” ~…
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“Here’s Lucy” ~ Season 3
A handy dandy guide to helping you find your favorite episode blogs here at Papermoon Loves Lucy. Click on the hyperlinks to be taken directly to that episode’s trivia, background, and bloopers! “Lucy Meets the Burtons” (S3;E1) ~ September 14, 1970 “Lucy the Skydiver” (S3;E2) ~ September 21, 1970 “Lucy and Sammy Davis, Jr.” (S3;E3)…
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RIP Valerie Harper
1939-2019 Valerie Harper’s first appearance with Lucille Ball was not on television, but in Broadway’s WILDCAT (1960) as a member of the ensemble (right). Valerie Harper won an Emmy Award in 1971 for playing Rhoda Morgenstern on “The Mary Tyler Moore Show.” Her co-star, Edward Asner, also won that night. Lucille Ball was in attendance because “Here’s…
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“The Lucy Show” ~ Season 1
A handy dandy guide to helping you find your favorite episode blogs here at Papermoon Loves Lucy. Click on the hyperlinks to be taken directly to that episode’s trivia, background, and bloopers! “Lucy Waits Up For Chris” (S1;E1) ~ October 1, 1962 “Lucy Digs Up a Date” (S1;E2) ~ October 8, 1962 “Lucy Is a…
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An “I Love Lucy” reference on POSE “In My Heels” (S2;E10), August 20, 2019 on FX
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Woodstock Playhouse