Tag: Rio Rita
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STAYING YOUNG
July 29, 1941 HOLLYWOOD (UP) – Lucille Ball has worked out a system for staying young in Hollywood – keep busy and don’t worry. (1) “One nice thing about the town,” she said, “is that when it keeps you busy you don’t have time to worry. And when you don’t have time to worry, you don’t…
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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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LUCY, JOE & ALVIN, TOO!
Lucille Ball always wanted to be a star on Broadway – until the silver screen and the small screen claimed her for posterity. Using the stage name Diane Belmont, she was chosen to appear in Earl Carroll’s Vanities, for the third road company of Ziegfeld’s Rio Rita, and for Step Lively, but none of these…
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