Tag: Mary Poppins
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TV GUIDE: FOUR DAYS
March 30, 1968 This is the 19th of Lucille Ball’s 39 TV Guide covers. Ball (and her infant son) appeared on the very first national issue on April 3, 1953. Mario Anthony Casilli (cover photograph) is best known for his work for Playboy magazine between 1957 and 1996. He also did many celebrity portraits for…
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ELSA LANCHESTER
October 28, 1902 Elsa Sullivan Lanchester was born in Lewisham, London. She studied dance in Paris under Isadora Duncan, whom she disliked. When the school was discontinued due to the start of the World War I, she returned to the UK. “My parents were always a bit arty. They were ‘advanced’. They supported pacifism, vegetarianism,…
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RETA SHAW
September 13, 1912 Reta M. Shaw was born in South Paris, Maine, on September 13, 1912. Her father was an orchestra leader. Shaw’s younger sister was actress Marguerite Shaw. The daughter and granddaughter of women who believed in spiritualism, Shaw reportedly once told a newspaper interviewer that she had been “brought up on a ouija board." She…
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Attention Academy Members!For Your Consideration: Lucille Ball in Disney’s “Mary Poppins Returns” featuring Mary Wickes as Granny Banks
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LUCY’S TENANT
S6;E7 ~ October 22, 1973 Synopsis Lucy’s rental agent mistakenly lets Kim’s old room to Kermit Boswell (Jackie Coogan), an obnoxious used car dealer. Lucy schemes to get rid of him, first by making the woman-hating Boswell think she’s in love with him and, when that doesn’t work, by pretending Harry is her long lost…
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KIM FINALLY CUTS YOU-KNOW-WHOSE APRON STRINGS
S4;E24 ~ February 28, 1972 Directed by Coby Ruskin ~ Written by Bob Carroll Jr. and Madelyn Davis Synopsis When Kim moves out, she goes to live at an apartment building in Marina Del Rey managed by her Uncle Herb. There she copes with a the amorous advances of an English race car driver with…
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Lucy’s Mystery Guest
S6;E10 ~ November 13, 1967 Synopsis When Lucy tears up the junk mail, she also rips up a letter from her eccentric Aunt Agatha, who is coming to to stay with Lucy. By the time Lucy figures out who it is, Aunt Agatha (Mary Wickes) is on her doorstep with a suitcase full of health…
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Lucy Saves Milton Berle
S4;E13~ December 6, 1965 Synopsis When Milton Berle is doing research to play an alcoholic, he disguises himself as a drunk and visits the soup kitchen sponsored by Mr. Mooney’s bank. Lucy and Mary Jane recognize him and so he tells them he is Milton Berle’s twin brother, Arthur. Lucy vows to get even with…