Tag: Paramount
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SCALING MOUNT PARAMOUNT
Lots of familiar faces are seen climbing Mount Paramount. Two of them are in black and white and date back to 1956. Lucy and Ricky (Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz) briefly scaled Mount Paramount in the Super Bowl Sunday ad introducing Paramount+ streaming service. The characters join Jeff from “Survivor”, Mr. Spock from “Star-Trek” (original series by…
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FANCY PANTS
July 19, 1950 Fancy Pants is based on the 1915 novel Ruggles of Red Gap by Harry Leon Wilson, which was adapted for the stage by Harrison Rhodes and opened on Broadway on December 25, 1915. It featured songs by Sigmund Romberg and Harold Atteridge and ran for 33 performances. It was first filmed in 1918 (starring Taylor Holmes…
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LUCY: 40 YEARS OF TELEVISION
1968 Part One ~ JANUARY to JUNE A tumultuous year. Lucille Ball sells Desilu Studios to Paramount, ends “The Lucy Show,” and creates Lucille Ball Productions (LBP) to produce “Here’s Lucy,” starring her real-life children! “Lucy and Viv Reminisce” (TLS S6;E16) ~ January 1, 1968 This is the first and only clips show on “The Lucy Show.”…
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