Tag: tv
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TV GUIDE: LUCY’S NEIGHBORS
March 20, 1953 William Frawley and Vivian Vance appeared on the cover of the pre-National TV Guide (volume VI, #f12) for March 20 to 26, 1953. This was the penultimate issue of the regional Guide before it went national. The inside article is titled “Lucy’s Neighbors” with the subtitled “Don’t Be So Sure The Mertzes are…
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TRIB TV: CAROL + 2
March 19, 1966 BURNETT, BALL, AND MOSTEL – how do you get a comedic triple threat like that on the same TV show? If you’re Carol Burnett, you ask Zero to lunch and say: “Hey, wouldn’t it be fun to do a show together?” Then, even tho everybody says, “Forget it, you’ll never get her,” you…
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TV TIMES CARNIVAL!
March 17, 1968 Lucille Ball and Jack Benny appeared on the cover of TV Times, a supplement section of the Los Angeles Times, on March 17, 1968. The photo promotes Benny’s special “Jack Benny’s Carnival Nights” airing on March 20, 1968. Also on Sunday, March 17, Lucille Ball appeared on “The Ed Sullivan Show”. She introduces a clip…
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PETER GRAVES
March 18, 1926 Peter Graves was born Peter Duesler Aurness on March 18, 1926, in Minneapolis, Minnesota. His elder brother was actor James Arness. After high school, he served in the US Air Force. Afterwards, he enrolled at the University of Minnesota. His screen debut came while he was in the Air Force, as part…
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HARRY JAMES
March 15, 1906 Harry Haag James was born in Albany, Georgia, the son of a bandleader in a traveling circus. He started performing with the circus at an early age, first as a contortionist, then playing the drum in the band. James started taking trumpet lessons from his father at age eight, and by age twelve…
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MADELYN PUGH
March 15, 1921 Madelyn Laverne Pugh was born in Indianapolis in 1921. She became interested in writing at Shortridge High School with classmate Kurt Vonnegut. She graduated from Indiana University School of Journalism in 1942. Her first professional writing job was writing short radio spots for an Indianapolis radio station. When her family moved to California, she…
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WILLIAM R. HAMEL
March 14, 1906 William R. Hamel was born in Pennsylvania in 1906. He is best known as the first Maître d’ at the Tropicana on “I Love Lucy.” He made his screen debut in the 1948 short Big Sister Blues. The following year he was featured in Streets of Laredo (1949) starring William Holden. He made…
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FRANK WILCOX
March 13, 1907 Frank Reppy Wilcox was born in De Soto, Missouri, although he was raised primarily in Atchison, Kansas. He attended the University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kansas, for a year, where he was a fraternity brother of newsman John Cameron Swayze. He graduated in 1933 from St. Benedict’s College in Atchison. Wilcox came to California in…
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BOB WEISKOPF
March 13, 1914 Bob Weiskopf was born in Chicago, Illinois. He became an Emmy-winning writer and producer for television. At the start of World War II, he moved in with writer Jess Oppenheimer, who 13 years later would hire him to write for “I Love Lucy". Weiskopf was hired to write radio comedy for the legendary comedian…
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TV GUIDE
March 12, 1988 On March 11, 1988 Lucille Ball and Desi Aranz were featured (among others) on the cover of TV Guide (volume 36, number 11, issue #1824). This would be the last time Lucille Ball appeared on the cover of TV Guide during her lifetime. She was on the cover of the very first…
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