Tag: The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour
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RIP JAY SANDRICH
1932-2021 Jay Sandrich was born in Los Angeles, California. Sandrich was a television director who won two Emmy Awards for Directing of “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” and “The Cosby Show”. He started his career as Assistant Director of season six of “I Love Lucy”. After “I Love Lucy” ended, he moved with the cast and crew to become…
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I FEEL GREAT!
August 4, 1957 HOLLYWOOD – “I feel great. Everybody’s asking me how feel, and I have to tell ‘em I feel great because I do,“ says the world’s highest paid comedienne. Lucille Ball is probably the only TV comic who can make that statement today and mean it. She and husband Desi Arnaz have consistently grabbed…
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OLD FORMULA
July 24, 1957 Desi Arnaz and Lucille Ball’s new format next year [five one-hour filmed shows] won’t be flamboyant star-crammed musicals. (1) They’ll use same characters, including William Frawley and Vivian Vance, in same type of stories. The first program, for instance, with Ann Sothern, Cesar Romero and Rudy Vallee as guests, will describe how…
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LUCY THE FIRECRACKER!
July 1, 1962 To most people July 4 means a big celebration with family picnics and plenty of fireworks. Channel 8 celebrates two days early by welcoming a redheaded firecracker named Lucille Ball to its summer schedule. Lucy, along with the guest stars pictured with her on the cover, (1) will be featured in a…
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TV TIMES
June 27, 1965 Every so often a new comedienne is hailed and toasted by the critics and public. None of them in the past 15 years has shown the talent or endurance of Lucille Ball. Cara Williams (1) was touted as “the new Lucy.” She never came close because the old Lucy was too good for…
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DORIS PACKER
May 30, 1904 Doris Packer was born in Menominee, Michigan. Her family moved to southern California when she was young. She became interested in acting while in high school. After attending the University of California at Los Angeles, she moved to New York City to study drama and appeared in Broadway shows. It was there…
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RICHARD DEACON
May 14, 1921 Richard Deacon was born in Philadelphia, although he and his family later moved to Binghamton, New York. He attended West Junior High and Binghamton Central High School, where he met fellow Binghamton resident Rod Serling. During World War II, Deacon served in the Army medical corps. In 1946, upon completion of his…
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PEOPLE: LUCY 1911-1989
May 8, 1989 On May 8, 1989, People Weekly (vol. 31, no. 18) dedicated its cover to the late Lucille Ball (1911-1989). The cover photograph is by Neal Peters. QUIZ: Name the above episodes! Which is not from “I Love Lucy”? Which classic “Lucy” moment is missing from this collage? In the beginning… The movie years…. Broadway at…
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JOY OF LIVING
May 6, 1938 Directed by Tay Garnet Produced by Felix Young for RKO Radio Pictures Written by Gene Towne, Graham Baker, Allan Scott, based on an original story by Dorothy and Herbert Fields Synopsis ~ Broadway star Margaret Garrett (Irene Dunne) has spent her whole life working to support her sponging relatives. When she meets carefree Dan Webster…
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EDIE ADAMS
April 16, 1927 Edie Adams was born Edith Elizabeth Enke in Kingston, Pennsylvania. Her family moved around before settling in Tenafly, New Jersey, where she attended Tenafly High School. Ada Enke taught her daughter singing and piano. Adams’s grandmother, a seamstress, taught her how to sew. She earned a vocal degree from Juilliard and then graduated from Columbia…
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