Tag: Time Magazine
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LUCY PLEASES PUBLIC
June 30, 1952 Incredibly, this newspaper has misspelled the author’s name. Louella (not Luella) Parsons wrote about Hollywood from 1914 to 1965. At her peak, her columns were read by 20 million people in 700 newspapers worldwide. Louella (or Lolly, as she was sometimes called) was mentioned on “I Love Lucy” and “The Lucy Show,” usually in…
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100 ARTISTS & ENTERTAINERS OF THE CENTURY
June 8, 1998 Lucille Ball was one of the figures chosen to appear on the cover of Time Magazine’s June 8, 1998 issue celebrating the top 100 artists and entertainers of the century. In a drawing by Al Hirschfeld, Ball shares the cover with filmmaker Stephen Spielberg, musician Bob Dylan, and artist Pablo Picasso. In…
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BLAZING BEULAH FROM BUTTE
May 31, 1950 Hedda Hopper kicked off her May 31, 1950 column with the news that Lucy and Desi were planning a film for the pair titled “Beulah from Butte.” The plot would concern a Mexican man (Desi) who comes to America to marry a cultured woman – and falls for Lucy (aka Beulah). Needless to…
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TIME: A CLOWN WITH GLAMOUR
May 26, 1952 TIME: The Weekly News Magazine ~ Lucille Ball: Prescription for TV; a clown with glamour. May 26, 1952. On Monday evenings, more than 30 million Americans do the same thing at the same time: they tune in ‘I Love Lucy’ (9 p.m. E.D.T., CBS-TV), to get a look at a round-eyed, pink-haired…
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TIME: THE NEW TYCOON
April 7, 1958 THE NEW TYCOON Battered old movie posters still flapped in the Hollywood breezes on the high walls of the old RKO lot last week. But towering above the lot, in huge black letters on the freshly painted silver water tower, loomed a new hallmark: Desilu Studios. Below it, cameramen were already shooting…
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TIME PEOPLE: LUCY & DESI
March 14, 1960 PEOPLE When TV’s foremost up-from-the-ranks production tycoons, Cinemactress Lucille Ball and Bandleader Desi Arnaz, were married in 1940, acquaintances of the volatile lovebirds gave their union six months at most before an inevitable explosion would send them on separate ways. Lucy herself doubted that the match was good for six weeks. Last…
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ABSENTMINDEDNESS
February 25, 1949 “Absentmindedness” (aka “Liz’s Absent-mindedness”) is episode #32 of the radio series MY FAVORITE HUSBAND broadcast on February 25, 1949 on the CBS radio network. Synopsis ~ Liz goes to see a doctor about her absentmindedness, and then reports her car to be stolen when she forgets that George dropped her off at the…
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RIP HERMAN WOUK
1915 – 2019 Herman Wouk was the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the 1951 best-seller THE CAINE MUTINY. In 1954 he turned the book into a Broadway play titled THE CAINE MUTINY COURT-MARTIAL. A feature film followed a few months later. In “Lucy Writes A Novel” (ILL S3;E24), Lucy plans to name the sequel to her…
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THE CASE OF THE RECKLESS WHEELCHAIR DRIVER
S5;E6 ~ October 16, 1972 Directed by Coby Ruskin ~ Written by Fred S. Fox and Seaman Jacobs Synopsis A show business agent tries to sue Lucy for hitting his client with her wheelchair. but Lucy and Harry think the young man is faking and that the agent is a con artist. Kim plots to…