Tag: Mame
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LUCY v LUCY!
November 5, 1973 Almost six months before it’s premiere, Lucy talks about her upcoming movie musical Mame. Although Lucy says the buzz has been good, she sounds cautious about the hype. In hindsight, Ball did not re-sign for a seventh season of “Here’s Lucy” choosing to end her sitcom with season six, just like her previous…
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FASHION LETS IT’S HAIR DOWN
November 4, 1973 On November 4, 1973, Lloyd Stewart of the Star-Telegram wrote about Lucille Ball and Shirley Jones meeting the fashion press at the Burbank Studios (TBS) in Hollywood. [Pre-spell check! The headline misspells “its”! This is the possessive contraction which would read “Fashion Lets It Is Hair Down”!] On the same date, syndicated entertainment columnist Rex…
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DESIREE ‘DEDE’ BALL
September 21, 1892 Desiree Evelyn Hunt was born on September 21, 1892 in Jamestown, New York. Her ancestors were mostly English, but a few were Scottish, French, and Irish. Some were among the earliest settlers in the original thirteen colonies, including Elder John Crandall of Westerly, Rhode Island, and Edmund Rice, an early emigrant from England…
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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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BALL at the PEAK
July 15, 1967 After 15 consecutive years on television, Lucille Ball was still receiving acclaim for “The Lucy Show”. In 1967, Ball won the Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series. “Bold and graphic day-glow like colors are on full display in this ‘Groovy’ work by one of America’s great post-war illustrators.…
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THE LUCY MUSEUM of ART
A look at the various paintings seen on Lucycoms! The artwork seen on Lucille Ball’s four sitcoms was coordinated by the set decorator, generally pulled from props and set stock. It was not unusual for a piece to turn up in more than one location and even on another series! Note: For this blog, we are…
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A VERY LUCY CHRISTMAS
with Cary Grant and Ann Sheridan lost flashback opening for a rerun of “Lucy in Snow Valley” (LDCH S1;E5)
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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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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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