Tag: Two Smart People

• TWO SMART PEOPLE

  June 4, 1946 Director: Jules Dassin Producer: Ralph Wheelwright for MGM Writers: Ethel Hill & Leslie Charteris, story by Ralph Wheelwright & Allan Kenward Synopsis ~ One of two con-artists ends up arrested and given five days of freedom before he must go to jail. The man loves to eat; knowing that prison food is lousy, he decides to…

  Michael T. Mooney

  June 4, 2021

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  1946, Bess Flowers, Cleo Morgan, John Hodiak, Jules Dassin, Lloyd Nolan, Lucille Ball, MGM, Shelley Winters, Two Smart People

• COVER GIRL ‘47

  January 5, 1947 On January 5, 1947, film star Lucille Ball was the cover girl of the Picture Section of the Chicago Sunday Tribune.  During Lucille Ball’s pre-television career, she continued to say that she was born in Butte, Montana, instead of Jamestown, New York. In fact, her family did spend a short time living…

  Michael T. Mooney

  January 5, 2021

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  Chicago Tribune, Desi Arnaz, Erskine Johnson, January 1947, Jimmie Fidler, Lucille Ball, Newspapers, RCA, The Hucksters, Two Smart People

• BUYING A DREAM, LUCILLE BALL’S GOAL

  December 23, 1945 Below is an article by Philip K. Scheuer in the Los Angeles Times published on December 23, 1945, and reprinted verbatim. Except for the above headshot, photographs were added for editorial enhancement.   Philip K. Scheuer wrote about film for the Los Angeles Times from the 1920s until 1967. Bold Italics indicate quotes by…

  Michael T. Mooney

  December 23, 2020

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  1945, 20th Century Fox, Bottoms Up, Charles Laughton, Damon Runyon, Desi Arnaz, Goldwyn Girls, Henry Hathaway, Hollywood, Los Angeles Times, Lucille Ball, MGM, Philip K. Scheuer, RKO, Sorrowful Jones, Susan Peters, The Big Street, The Dark Corner, Two Smart People