Tag: The Danny Thomas Show
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JAY NOVELLO
August 22, 1904 Jay Novello was born Michael Romano in Chicago to Italaian-American parents. Novello began his 47-year acting career in the 1930s, performing on radio. Novello was limited mostly to bits in minor films, one of his notable being the officious Spanish consul in Frank Capra’s Pocketful of Miracles (1961). Novello’s first role as a…
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PARLEY BAER
August 5, 1904 Parley Baer was born in Salt Lake City, Utah. He studied drama at the University of Utah. Early in his career, Baer was a circus ringmaster and publicist before entering military service in World War II. In the 1950s, he had a job training wild animals at Jungleland and was a docent at the…
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ELLEN CORBY
June 3, 1911 – April 14, 1999 Ellen Hansen Corby was born in Racine, Wisconsin, in 1911, just two months before Lucille Ball. An interest in amateur theater while in high school led her to Atlantic City in 1932, where she briefly worked as a chorus girl. A year later she moved to Hollywood. She spent…
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MADGE BLAKE
May 31, 1899 – February 19, 1969 Madge Blake (née Cummings) was best remembered for her roles as Margaret Mondello on “Leave It to Beaver”, Flora MacMichael on “The Real McCoys,” and Aunt Harriet Cooper on “Batman”. Born in Kansas just before the turn of the last century, her father discouraged her from becoming an actress, so…
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RIP Jim Nabors (1930-2017) ~ Actor and singer who was most famous for playing the simple but sweet Gomer Pyle on television. Nabors made a cameo appearance as Pyle on a 1966 episode of “The Lucy Show" “Lucy Gets Caught Up In The Draft” (TLS S5;E9) and that one minute cross-over appearance set the whole Lucy-verse…
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Lucy and Viv are Volunteer Firemen
S1;E16 ~ January 14, 1963 Although a colorized photo from this episode was featured on Gold Key’s “The Lucy Show” comics in September 1963, the story inside was not the same as the episode. Synopsis Lucy’s letter-writing campaign to get Danfield a fire department leads to her becoming the captain of an all-woman volunteer brigade.…
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