Tag: The Lucy Show
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LUCY DAY at the WORLD’S FAIR!
August 31, 1964 Monday, August 31, 1964, was declared Lucille Ball Day at the 1964 World’s Fair in Queens, New York. The event featured a live appearance by Ball, who spent from 10am to 6pm visiting various pavilions at the fair. At the time, Ball was about to premiere the third season of “The Lucy…
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CHARLES BOYER
August 28, 1899 Charles Boyer was born in Figeac, Lot, France, the son of a merchant. Boyer was a shy, small town boy who discovered the movies and theatre at the age of eleven. He performed comic sketches for soldiers while working as a hospital orderly during World War I. In 1920 in Paris, his quick memory…
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LUCILLE BALL: WE LOVE LUCY
September 12, 2020 ‘Lucille Ball: We Love Lucy’ premieres Saturday, September 12 at 8pm ET / 5pm PT on Reelz. “Lucille Ball didn’t just make millions of people laugh uproariously. She blazed a whole new path for women in the entertainment industry that still resonates today. Her bravery and willingness to try absolutely anything to elicit…
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BYRON FOULGER
August 27, 1899 Byron Kay Foulger was born in Ogden, Utah. He attended the University of Utah and started acting through in community theatre. He made his Broadway debut in March 1920 in a production of Medea featuring Moroni Olsen (the Judge in “The Courtroom”), and performed in four more productions with Olsen on the ‘Great…
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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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papermoon4: In the first episode of Season 2 of THE UMBRELLA ACADEMY on Netflix, a Dallas appliance salesman (Kevin Rankin) in 1960 is pitching the new SilverTone Omega model Television Set with ColorVision! He remarks: “Ha! Who knew that Lucy’s hair was red?” The Umbrella Academy is a work of fiction based on a popular comic book, so…
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NATIONAL HAWAII DAY!
JULY 5th National Hawaii Day is observed annually every July 5th to celebrate becoming the 50th state of the US. However, statehood was officially granted on August 21, 1959. It’s not known why the holiday is held on July 5th. Hawaii holds the distinction of being one of four states that were once independent nations, along…
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GLORIA BLONDELL
August 16, 1910 Was born to theatrical parents in New York City in 1910. She once said, “[S]ome member of my family has been in the theater ever since the time of Richard the Lionhearted.” She is the younger sister of Joan Blondell, also an actress. First appearing on Broadway in the 1935 Three Men on…
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BOB CARROLL JR.
August 12, 1918 Born Robert Gordon Carroll in McKeesport, Pennsylvania, his family moved to Florida when he was three years old. The family also moved to California for a time in conjunction with Carroll Sr.’s work, but eventually settled back in St. Petersburg, Florida. Bob Carroll Jr. attended St. Petersburg College where he studied French. In 1940,…
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