Tag: The Girls Go Into Business

• RED SCARE!

  July 22, 1940 Being the Ricardos (2021) is built around several real-life events in the lives of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz. Perhaps the most critical is the accusation that Lucille Ball was a Communist.  Pointedly, the Los Angeles Herald Express used red (the color of communism and Ball’s famous locks) ink for a rare…

  Michael T. Mooney

  July 22, 2020

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  1940, Broadway, Communist, Dan Jenkins, Danny Pino, Desi Arnaz, I love lucy, J. Edgar Hoover, Joseph McCarthy, Lucille Ball, Red Scare, Senator Joe, The Girls Go Into Business, Vivian Vance

• “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