Tag: Lucille Ball

My Favorite Husband, I Love Lucy and … Us.

.Reading time 8 minutes.

  I Love Lucy was born on a hot Saturday afternoon in August, 1948. It would be three years until the title and faces would become familiar, but the genesis had its birth at that precise moment: when comedy radio writer Jess Oppenheimer received a phone call from CBS asking him to substitute …. for […]

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Pictorial Palette: Lucy

.Reading time 4 minutes.

Gosh. Isn’t she lovely? Our Pictorial Palette of the week is inspired by this delightfully whimsical piece of poster art from the 1943 film adaptation of Cole Porter’s DuBarry Was a Lady starring Red Skelton, Gene Kelly, and the woman of the hour: Lucille Ball. Lucy’s centennial is tomorrow, something made even sweeter by the […]

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