Tag: The Bowery
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HARVEY PARRY
April 23, 1900 Harvey Parry was born in San Francisco, California, in 1900. He became a stuntman and actor whose career spanned the silent era and the disaster movie genre of the 1970s. Parry worked as a circus aerialist in his youth and was working as a property man at the studios prior to discovering that…
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JAMES BURKE
September 24, 1886 James Burke made his stage debut in New York around 1912 and went to Hollywood in 1933. He made over 200 film appearances during his career between 1932 and 1964 including The Maltese Falcon (1948). Between 1934 and 1948, Burke did eight films with another prolific character actor, William Frawley (Fred Mertz). In…
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IRVING BACON
September 6, 1893 Irving Bacon was born in St. Joseph, Missouri, as Irving Von Peters. He was a character actor who appeared in hundreds of films, mostly as bewildered small-town blue collar workers. His film debut came in 1923 with a small role in a silent film of Eugene O’Neill’s Anna Christie starring Blanche Sweet. He appeared…
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The International Motion Picture Almanac 1937-38 Lucille Ball told producers she was born in Butte, Montana, because she thought it sounded more interesting than Jamestown, New York. She started making movies in 1933 (without screen credit) in “The Bowery” for United Artists. Also in the film were Irving Bacon, who would later appear as Ethel…
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“The Diner”
(S3;E27 ~ April 26, 1954) Directed by William Asher. Written by Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh, and Bob Carroll, Jr. Filmed March 18, 1954 at Ren-Mar Studios. Rating: 51.1/77 Synopsis ~ Tired of show business, Ricky suggests that the Ricardos and Mertzes go into business together. They pick a diner but then can’t agree on how to run…
Papermoon Loves Lucy 