Tag: Wildcat
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LUCY is BACK ON BROADWAY!
As a character in the new Broadway musical The Cher Show! According to The Hollywood Reporter: “Among the show’s nuttier moments is an encounter with Lucille Ball, when Cher is concerned about how the American public will react to her separation from Sonny Bono (Jarrod Spector) after he has worked her to exhaustion and shafted…
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THE STEVE LAWRENCE SHOW
September 13, 1965 ~ S1;E1 Directed by Stan Harris Written by Gary Belkin, Mel Diamond, Saul Turteltaub, Tony Webster, Sydney Zelinka Steve Lawrence (Himself / Host) was born Sidney Leibowitz in 1935. Between 1958 and 1960 he served in the US Army and was a vocalist with the US Army Band and Orchestra. After he…
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LUCY: 40 YEARS OF TELEVISION
1961 In her first year since 1951 without a series on television, Lucille Ball moves to Broadway to star in WILDCAT. While in New York City she makes a couple of appearances before returning to the West Coast. “What’s My Line?” (S11; E545) ~ January 1, 1961 Mystery Guest Lucille Ball uses a low, hushed voice to…
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LUCY on TONIGHT
1960-1985 “The Tonight Show” is a late night talk show first broadcast by NBC in 1954 and still airing as of this writing. It is the world’s longest-running talk show, and the longest running, regularly scheduled entertainment program in the United States. It is the third-longest-running show on NBC, after the news-and-talk shows “Today” and…
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LUCY on I’VE GOT A SECRET
1956 – 1966 “I’ve Got a Secret” is a panel game show derived from “What’s My Line?.” Instead of celebrity panelists trying to determine a contestant’s occupation, the panel tries to determine a contestant’s ‘secret’; something that is unusual, amazing, embarrassing, or humorous. The show premiered on June 19, 1952 on CBS and ran until…
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LUCY on HOUSE PARTY
February 1965 Art Linkletter (Host) was born in 1912 in Moose Jaw, Canada. He was the host of “House Party” (aka “The Linkletter Show”) which ran on CBS radio and television for 25 years, and “People Are Funny,” on NBC radio and TV for 19 years. Linkletter had one of the longest marriages of any…
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WORLD’S GREATEST GRANDMA
Unaired Episode {originally scheduled for broadcast December 20, 1986} Directed by Bruce Bilson ~ Written by Bob Carroll Jr. and Madelyn Davis ~ Story by Mel Sherer and Steve Granat Synopsis Becky signs up Lucy for her school’s Grandma Talent Contest. Unfortunately, Lucy doesn’t sing, dance, tell jokes, or do magic, so she decides to…
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RIP Peter Wyngarde – British stage and screen actor who was born in France to an English father and French mother. Lucille Ball personally asked Wyngarde to appear in the her TV special “Lucy in London” (1966) having seen him on Broadway in “Duel of Angels” starring Vivien Leigh in 1960 (while she was rehearsing…
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RIP CLIFFORD DAVID ~ who played Hank in WILDCAT starring Lucille Ball. He also starred in eight other Broadway shows from 1960 to 1994. He was 89 years old.