Tag: silent movies

• SALUTE TO STAN LAUREL

  November 23, 1965 on CBS Directed by Seymour Berns Produced by Henry Jaffe, Seymour Berns Written by Hugh Wedlock Jr., Charles Isaacs, Alan Manings with Carl Reiner and Aaron Ruben Cast (in order of appearance) Dick Van Dyke (Host, Himself) was born Richard Wayne Van Dyke in West Plains, Missouri, in 1925. Although he’d had…

  Michael T. Mooney

  September 19, 2018

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  A Salute To Stan Laurel, Audrey Meadows, Bern Hoffman, Betty Grable, Bob Newhart, Buster Keaton, Carl Reiner, CBS, Cesar Romero, comedy, Danny Kaye, Dick Van Dyke, Dorothy Coburn, Edgar Kennedy, Gregory Peck, Hal Roach, Harvey Korman, Laurel and Hardy, Leonid Kinskey, Louis Nye, Lucille Ball, Mary Foran, Oliver Hardy, Phil Silvers, Seymour Berns, silent movies, slapstick, Stan Laurel, Tina Louise, tv

• Ethel Merman and the Boy Scout Show

  S2;E19 ~ February 10, 1964 Synopsis When Ethel Merman headlines the Annual Boy Scout Show, Lucy and Viv are relegated to being costumers. Feeling sorry for them, Merman agrees to share the spotlight.   Regular Cast Lucille Ball (Lucy Carmichael), Vivian Vance (Vivian Bagley), Gale Gordon (Theodore J. Mooney), Ralph Hart (Sherman Bagley) and Jimmy…

  Michael T. Mooney

  April 9, 2017

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  1964, Am I Blue, Boy Scouts, CBS, Charleston, Cub Scouts, Ethel Merman, Ethel Merman and the Boy Scout Show, Everything’s Coming Up Roses, Gale Gordon, Glow Worm, Jimmy Garrett, juggling, Lucille Ball, On the Good Ship Lollipop, Radio, Ralph Hart, Roaring 20s, Saxophone, Shirley Temple, show business, silent movies, Ted Mack Amateur Hour, The Ed Sullivan Show, The Lucy Show, THere’s NO business Like Show Business, Tiptoe Through the Tulips, tv, Vaudeville, Vivian Vance

• Chris’s New Year’s Eve Party

  S1;E14 ~ December 31, 1962 Synopsis Chris doesn’t want her mother to chaperon her New Year’s Eve party, so Lucy, Viv and the boys go out for the night and leave the chaperoning to Harry. When Harry calls Lucy at the restaurant in a panic, Lucy rushes to save the party with a silent movie…

  Michael T. Mooney

  March 5, 2017

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  1962, Bess Flowers, CBS, Charlie Chaplin, Chris’s New Year’s Eve Party, Dick Martin, Donald Briggs, Hazel Pierce, James Gonzales, Jimmy Garrett, Lucille Ball, Orlons, PTA, Ralph Hart, silent movies, The Lucy Show, Tom Lowell, tv, Vivian Vance, Watusi

• “The Girls Go Into Business”

  (S3;E2 ~ October 12, 1953) Directed by William Asher. Written by Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh and Bob Carroll, Jr. Filmed September 11, 1953 at Ren-Mar Studios. Rating: 56.2/79 Synopsis ~ Lucy and Ethel buy a dress shop behind their husbands’ backs, and soon find that it won’t be as easy as they anticipated. The was the first episode filmed…

  Michael T. Mooney

  June 1, 2015

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  1953, Barbara Pepper, Communist, Desi Arnaz, Dress Shop, Eisenhower, Ethel, I love lucy, Johnny Belinda, Lucille Ball, Lucy, Lucy Ricardo, Mabel Paige, McCarthyism, Oliver Hardy, Red Scare, Ricky, silent movies, The Girls Go Into Business, tv, Vivian Vance