Tag: Mort Sahl
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RIP MORT SAHL
1927-2021 Mort Sahl was a Canadian-born comedian, actor, and social satirist who poked fun at political and current event topics using improvised monologues and only a newspaper as a prop. He spent his early years in Los Angeles and moved to the San Francisco Bay Area where he made his professional stage debut in 1953. In 1960 he…
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LUCY & HENRY FONDA ~ Part One
1935-1968 Lucille Ball and Henry Fonda were more than just co-workers. When Lucy first got to Hollywood, the two actually briefly dated. Lucy remembers, “We worked long and hard, Ginger [Rogers] and I, in front of our mirrors. We used eye shadow, plenty of mascara, pancake [make-up], deep red lipstick, rouge, everything we’d been taught…