Tag: Newspaper
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LUCY SHUNS AUDITIONS
July 21, 1950 [In the below article, reprinted verbatim, Johnson writes using a lot of imagery and insider jargon. This sort of article was common in trade papers like Variety, but seems odd in a daily newspaper.] Hollywood—(NEA) Lucille Ball slipped me the lowdown on her failure to pin to the canvas the dumb chick role…
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BEST DRESSED
July 18, 1936 “There are few well-dressed women in Hollywood, avers Bernard Newman, de- signer-in-chief to RKO Radio. "There is no incentive to dress well because of the lack of functions, night clubs and theaters. Many of the stars, unfortunately, are not interested in clothes. "Katharine Hepburn, for Instance, would far rather wear a shirt…
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LUCILLE WINS 10 YEAR FIGHT
July 15, 1943 By ERSKINE JOHNSON It took Lucille Ball 10 years to travel five miles to stardom. There’s a smooth, concrete highway all the way with only an occasional boulevard stop. “But its the toughest five miles,” Lucille said today, "that I’ve ever traveled in my life.” With, she added, plenty of stops and…
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TV TIMES
June 27, 1965 Every so often a new comedienne is hailed and toasted by the critics and public. None of them in the past 15 years has shown the talent or endurance of Lucille Ball. Cara Williams (1) was touted as “the new Lucy.” She never came close because the old Lucy was too good for…
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INTERFERENCE
June 26, 1948 On June 26, 1948, Dorothy Manners’ column reported that Lucille Ball was cast in Interference, a film about pro football starring Victor Mature, to be produced by RKO. Manners remarks that when she saw Ball on stage in Dream Girl, she sat next to famed suspense director Alfred Hitchcock, who praised Lucille…
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MRS. LUCILLE CRAWFORD?
June 19, 1936 In 1936 Lucille Ball was engaged to be married to actor Broderick Crawford. Broderick Crawford and Lucille Ball were both the same age (and died just a few years apart) and took similar roads to success. William Broderick Crawford (1911 – 1986) was a stage, film, radio, and television actor, often cast…
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LYDIA LANE on LOVELY LUCY
June 14, 1953 By LYDIA LANE Five years ago Lucille Ball was one of the unhappiest girls in Hollywood. Her career was sick and her marriage was shaky. I remember we were on our way to visit wounded soldiers when Lucille expressed a wish: To see so little of Desi, but I can’t sing, and…
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SUNDAY NEWS COLOROTO
April 19, 1942 Lucille Ball appeared on the Coloroto supplement section of the Sunday New York News on April 19, 1942. The blurb inside uses the usual studio publicity for Lucille, some of it exaggeration. She was not born in Butte, Montana (Jamestown, New York), nor was she 28 in 1942 (30). While Lucy was…
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6 WEEKS turns into 3 YEARS
April 17, 1938 Lucille Ball’s 6-Week Stay In Filmland Lasts 3 Years By Harriet Parsons (Special to The Examiner) HOLLYWOOD Practically everyone who saw “Stage Door" wanted to know the name of “the funny tail girl who went home to Oregon to marry a lumberman." They know now she’s Lucille Ball… and she’s since been…
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CHANGE IN TONE
February 21, 1947 [In the above article, there are a couple of misspellings: “nightie” and “reporter”.] Production officially began on February 17, 1947 and ended on March 25, 1947. By the time the film premiered on November 12, 1947, it was titled Her Husband’s Affairs. More changes! The Spanish title of the film is literally ‘The Modern Quixote’.…