Tag: Movies
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SEVEN STEPS TO STARDOM
March 11, 1939 To Lucille Ball it’s not superstition. Seven is her lucky number just as it’s the fortunate digit that crap-shooters pray for. Try not to be too technical and you’ll soon see that Lucille (count the letters) reached stardom in “A" pictures in seven steps. (Meanwhile the portrait above proves that the RKO…
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EXTRA! EXTRA! LUCY IN THE PAPES!
September 26, 1952 Friday, September 26, 1952 was a particularly busy news day for Lucille Ball. “I Love Lucy” had just kicked off season two with the iconic “Job Switching” episode and followed up with the memorable “The Saxophone”. That day, several press releases and Lucille Ball references hit the nation’s newspapers all at once! Let’s take…
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SORROWFUL JONES
JULY 4, 1949 Sorrowful Jones is a remake of the 1934 Shirley Temple film, Little Miss Marker. In the film, a young girl is left with the notoriously cheap Sorrowful Jones (Bob Hope) as a marker for a bet. When her father does not return, he learns that taking care of a child interferes with…
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LUCY BALL HALL?
JUNE 16, 1938 Before meeting Desi Arnaz while making Too Many Girls, Lucille Ball was actually engaged to be married to divorced film director Alexander Hall, seventeen years her senior. Alexander Hall made his stage debut in 1898 at age four. He entered films in 1914 as an actor. Leaving the film industry to serve…
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Attention Academy Members!For Your Consideration: Marion Strong is VICE The Untold True Story That Changed East 68th Street Forever!
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Attention Academy Members!For Your Consideration: “If East 68th Street Could Talk” starring Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz, William Frawley, Vivian Vance & Kathryn Card as Mother McGillicuddy
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Possible Projects for Ricky Ricardo