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thecrazyworldbuilder · 2 years ago

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papermoonloveslucy · 4 years ago

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SCREEN DIRECTOR’S PLAYHOUSE: MISS GRANT TAKES RICHMOND

May 19, 1950

Screen Directors Playhouse was a radio anthology series which brought leading Hollywood actors to the NBC microphones beginning in 1949. The radio program broadcast adaptations of films, and original directors of the films were sometimes involved, although their participation was usually limited to introducing the radio adaptations, and a brief “curtain call” with the cast and host at the end of the program. The series later had a brief run on television. The radio version ran for 122 episodes and aired on NBC from January 9, 1949 to September 28, 1951 under several different titles: NBC Theater, Screen Director’s Guild Assignment, Screen Director’s Assignment and, as of July 1, 1949, Screen Director’s Playhouse.

This radio adaptation of “Miss Grant Takes Richmond” stars Lucille Ball in her original film role of Ellen Grant. It was directed by Bill Cairn, produced by Howard Wiley. Composer and conductor was Robert Armbruster. The script was adapted by Richard Allen Simmons. It aired on NBC radio on May 19, 1950. On February 22, 1951, "The Screen Guild Theater" broadcast a 60 minute radio adaptation of the movie with William Holden reprising his film role.

Miss Grant Takes Richmond is a 1949 comedy film starring Lucille Ball and William Holden, directed by Lloyd Bacon and released by Columbia Pictures. It was released under the title Innocence is Bliss in the UK. Rita Hayworth was going to star in the movie, but Hayworth requested script revisions, and went on suspension to avoid making it.

Synopsis ~ An inept secretary goes to work for a bogus real estate firm thinking it's for real.

Note: The title is a pun on the historical fact that General Ulysses S. Grant ‘took back’ the city of Richmond, Virginia, from the Confederacy, who used it as their capital during the Civil War (April 1865).

CAST

Lucille Ball (Ellen Grant) previously appeared on Screen Directors Playhouse in “Her Husband’s Affairs” (May 22, 1949), a film she had also appeared in on screen. She will return for “A Foreign Affair” (March 1, 1951) in the role originated by Jean Arthur, and “Bachelor Mother” (March 8, 1951), taking the role originated by her friend Ginger Rogers. Miss Grant (1949) was Ball’s 72nd motion picture.

Lucille Ball repeats her film role of Ellen Grant.

Steve Dunne (Dick Richmond) replaced Howard Duff as the voice of the famous private eye in "The Adventures of Sam Spade," the 1946-1951 radio series.

Dunne was in the film version, but he played the minor role of Ralph Winton.

Arthur Q. Bryan (Judge Ben Grant, Ellen’s Uncle) had appeared with Lucille Ball in Look Who’s Laughing (1941). He is best remembered as the original voice of Elmer Fudd in the Warner Brothers cartoons. He played Mr. Chambers, new owner of the Tropicana in “Ricky Loses His Voice” (ILL S2;E9) in 1952.

On screen, the role was played by George Cleveland.

Frank Nelson (Mr. Woodruff) was born on May 6, 1911 (three months before Lucille Ball) in Colorado Springs, Colorado. He started working as a radio announcer at the age of 15. He later appeared on such popular radio shows as “The Great Gildersleeve,” “Burns and Allen,” “Fibber McGee & Molly”. and a dozen episodes of Lucille Ball’s “My Favorite Husband.” On “I Love Lucy” he holds the distinction of being the only actor to play two recurring roles: Freddie Fillmore and Ralph Ramsey, as well as six one-off characters, including the frazzled train conductor in “The Great Train Robbery” (ILL S5;E5), a character he repeated on “The Lucy Show.” Aside from Lucille Ball, Nelson is perhaps most associated with Jack Benny and was a fifteen-year regular on his radio and television programs, often playing store clerks like this one.

On screen, the role was played by Charles Lane, one of the few character actors that appeared as frequently as Nelson with Lucille Ball.

Herb Vigran (Mr. Kilcoyne) occasionally turned up on Lucille Ball’s radio show, “My Favorite Husband” (1948-50) in various roles. He appeared on “I Love Lucy” as Jule, Ricky’s music agent, in “The Saxophone” (ILL S2;E2) and “The Anniversary Present” (ILL S2;E3). He also played Mrs. Trumbull’s nephew Joe in “Never Do Business With Friends” (ILL S2;E31) and Al Sparks in “Lucy is Envious” (ILL S3;E23). He went on to appear on select episodes of “The Lucy Show” and Here’s Lucy.”

On screen, the role was played by Frank McHugh.

Jean Bates (Peggy Donato) was a model before becoming an actress, doing radio, TV and film. She worked from 1943 to 2001.

Norman Field was one of at least six actors to play Judge Hunter on the NBC-Radio soap, “One Man's Family” (1932-50). He played Charlie's school principal on “The Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy Show” (1939-56), Josh Chandler on “Dear John” (1940-44), Uncle George on “Meet Corliss Archer”, Inspector Danton on “Mystery Is My Hobby” (1947-49), and Judge Babson on “The Amazing Mr. Tutt” (1948).

Jimmy Wallington (Announcer)

Lloyd Bacon (Original Film Director Guest) was also a guest when three of his films were featured on “Screen Director’s Playhouse”: “You Were Meant For Me” (March 3, 1949), “Don’t Trust Your Husband” (September 23, 1949), and “It Happens Every Spring” (April 14, 1950).

EPISODE

From a busy typing pool headed by Mr. Woodruff (Frank Nelson), real estate employer Dick Richmond picks the inept Ellen Grant (Lucille Ball). He takes her back to the office and introduces her to Mr. Kilcoyne (Herb Vigran). Dick confides in Mr. Kilcoyne that he deliberately picked Miss Grant because she looks good but is pretty dim - the perfect cover for their bookie operation! Kilcoyne dictates to Ellen about some low cost housing. She tells him that no one can ever dictate too fast for her. If she misses a word, she just puts in a ‘doofer’ - something that’ll ‘do for’ now.

Ellen calls her Uncle Ben, a judge, to tell him about her new job. While she’s on the phone Peggy Donato barges in to see Dick. In the conference room, it is clear Peggy and Dick are in a relationship. Peggy is immediately suspicious of the new secretary. She is unhappy when she is rebuffed by Dick. Before leaving, she tells Ellen to give a message to Dick: Five thousand on the Flywell property at Belmont. Dick comes out of the conference room and tells Ellen that the low-cost housing project is off.

Ellen comes into the office with her Uncle Ben. She has arranged it so that Dick can buy the low-cost housing at a discount price. Judge Ben has even brought the papers. With no way out - Dick and Mr. Kilcoyne sign and the judge leaves. She suddenly remembers the message Peggy left for him. Alarmed, they check the papers and realize they owe Peggy fifty grand! In the conference room, Dick and Mr. Kilcoyne conspire to make Ellen quit before they go bankrupt. To put the plan in action, Dick kisses Ellen. Indignant at his liberty, she promptly quits. She no sooner returns and says that she will stay on to see through the low-cost housing project - but no further hanky panky will be tolerated! The two men adjourn to the conference room! End of Act One

A live commercial is for RCA television sets. The pitch involves getting a set that fits the consumer’s home. In the second part, Ellen still doesn’t realize her employers are NOT in the real estate business. Dick has a plan to go ahead and build the houses - and skim the profits off the top to pay their debt to Peggy. Knowing her mental acumen is not great, Dick pitches a promotion to Ellen - heading up the housing project.

As boss, Ellen starts making silly decisions that frustrate her contractors. Ellen is getting frustrated when the project starts to fall apart - physically and financially. The project grinds to a halt.

Dick makes the ultimate sacrifice, he humbles himself to Peggy and take her back - personally and professionally. It isn’t long before the scheme works and the company is flush again. The conference room phone rings and it is someone looking to bet on a horse. She realizes she has been conned. Dick returns and Ellen quits, humiliated at being duped. Kilcoyne takes her aside and tells Ellen that Dick cares for her and is looking to go straight - but can’t get out of his relationship with Peggy.

Ellen bursts in on Peggy and Dick - gun pointed at her. She tells Peggy that she is mother of Dick’s children - and fires a warning shot. Peggy quickly gives him up and Dick and Ellen leave together.

In the car, Dick and Ellen. She makes it clear that she’s in charge from now on. Miss Grant just took Richmond!

End of Act Two

Lucille Ball and Jimmy Wallington do an RCA Victor commercial. She says she milks the cows at Chatsworth listening to her RCA record collection.

Lucille introduces the evening’s director Lloyd Bacon. Bacon says he started in movies 1915. Ball extolls his talents in directing. They bid the audience good night.

Wallington returns to say that next week will feature “Flamingo Road” starring Joan Crawford recreating her original role.

CREDITS

Thanks to Columbia Pictures, currently represented by No Sad Songs for Me

Lucille Ball can be heard on her own radio show and soon in the film The Fuller Brush Girl

Lloyd Bacon appears courtesy of 20th Century Fox, producers of Ticket To Tomahawk

#Lucille Ball #Miss Grant Takes Richmond #Lloyd Bacon #Screen Directors' Playhouse #Radio #Steve Dunne #Herb Vigran #Frank Nelson #Arthur Q. Bryan #Jimmy Wallington #Jean Bates #Norman Field #RCA #RCA Victor

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lvaartebella · 6 years ago

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Louisville Artists: Carry On exhibit

September 23 through November 4, 2018 at LVA, 1538 Lytle Street, Louisville, KY 40203

Artist's Reception is Sunday, September 23 from 3-5pm.

LVA Gallery Hours for this exhibit will be:

Mondays through Thursdays, 10am-4pm

Weekend hours:

September 28 & 29, 12-4pm October 12 & 13, 12-4pm November 3 & 4, 12-6pm (Open Studio Weekend)

Artist featured in the exhibit:

Elmer Lucille Allen Ann Stewart Anderson Keith Auerbach Peter Bodnar III David Caudill Ying Kit Chan Caren Cunningham Fred diFrenzi Patrick Donley William Duffy Lynn Dunbar Bayus Gaela Erwin Wayne Ferguson Denise Furnish Angie Reed Garner Joyce Garner Lida G. Gordon Albertus Gorman James Grubola Kay Grubola Ed Hamilton Claudia Hammer Barbara Hanger Peggy Howard Bob Hower Brian Jones Ray Kleinhelter Frances Kratzok Peter Morrin Jacque Parsley Tom Pfannerstill C.J. Pressma Licia N. Priest Mark Priest Chris Radtke Guinever Smith Wendi Smith Deborah Stratford Chuck Swanson Ted Wathen John D Whitesell Marilyn Whitesell

#John Begley #A life in the arts #survey of Louisville artists

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thenamegarden · 8 years ago

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Hello baby namers. I’ve got another Generations Dice Roller game here to play! I hope you enjoy it. The names in this round are #60-80 in their year’s popularity.

The rules are as follows: Go to this dice roller, and adjust the settings to 6 sides, 3 die to roll and 5 times to roll them. Use the guide below to find out what to name your children.

First Number: Odd is a boy, even is a girl. Second Number: Your first name category. Third Number: Your middle name category. As an example, if you roll 2 - 3 - 4, you would have a girl (first number is even), you would pick your first name from List 3 and your would pick your middle name from List 4.

Pick from this 1900′s list if you roll a one. Boys - Lester, Theodore, Russell, Eddie, Frederick, Leroy, Clifford, Anthony, Jim, Jessie Girls - Blanche, Lucy, Fannie, Lula, Jennie, Katherine, Marion, Lucille, Stella, Rosa

Pick from this 1910′s list if you roll a two. Boys - Jesse, Chester, Bernard, Norman, Lewis, Lloyd, Ray, Benjamin, Edwin, Oscar Girls - Bernice, Marion, Mattie, Alma, Ella, Jessie, Doris, Mae, Lena, Anne, Marjorie, Betty

Pick from this 1920′s list if you roll a three. Boys - Floyd, Marvin, Gerald, Vernon, Herman, Clyde, Charlie, Philip, Vincent, Milton Girls - Geraldine, Juanita, Pearl, Laura, Vivian, Ida, Kathryn, Myrtle, Norma, Lorraine

Pick from this 1930′s list if you roll a four. Boys - Andrew, Leo, Dale, Wayne, Don, Gene, Glenn, Gordon, Alvin, Elmer Girls - Edith, Grace, Audrey, Clara, Ethel, Delores, Peggy, Wilma, Elaine, Sarah

Pick from this 1940′s list if you roll a five. Boys - Ernest, Stanley, Francis, Clarence, Samuel, Bill, Alfred, Allen, Terry, Patrick Girls - Sally, Sylvia, Joann, Gail, Ruby, Eleanor, Loretta, Rita, Roberta, Jo

Pick from this 1950′s list if you roll a six. Boys - Harry, Howard, Bobby, Louis, Craig, Randall, Christopher, Kevin, Barry, Ronnie Girls - Elaine, Vicki, Sherry, Theresa, Ellen, Joanne, Marsha, Rose, Sheila, Suzanne

My children would be: 1 - 4 - 4: Leo Gordon 2 - 4 - 1: Grace Katherine 2 - 2 - 4: Mae Clara 4 - 4 - 6: Audrey Rose 5 - 2 - 6: Benjamin Harry

#names #baby names #baby name game #baby name games #bng

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topbeautifulwomens · 6 years ago

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#Tommy #Lee #Jones #cool #dance #eyepencil #indonesia #love #maquillage #moda #outfit #photography #redcarpet

Born in San Saba, Texas, the son of Clyde C. and Lucille Marie (Scott) Jones, Tommy Lee Jones worked in underwater construction and on an oil rig. He attended St. Mark’s School of Texas, a prestigious prep school for boys in Dallas, on a scholarship, and went to Harvard on another scholarship.He roomed with future Vice President Al Gore and played offensive guard in the famous 29-29 Harvard-Yale football game of ’68 named “The Tie.” He received a B.A. in English literature and graduated cum laude from Harvard in 1969.

Following college, he moved to New York and began his theatrical career on Broadway in “A Patriot for Me” (1969). In 1970, he made his film debut in Love Story (1970). While residing in New York, he continued to search in various plays, both on- and off-Broadway: “Fortune and Men’s Eyes” (1969); “Four on a Garden” (1971); “Blue Boys” (1972); “Ulysses in Nighttown” (1974). During this time, he also appeared on a daytime soap opera, “One Life to Live” (1968) as Dr. Mark Toland from 1971-75. He moved with wife Kate Lardner, granddaughter of quick-story writer/columnist Ring Lardner, and her two children from a previous marriage, to Los Angeles.

There he began to get some roles on television: “Charlie’s Angels” (1976) (pilot episode); Smash-Up on Interstate 5 (1976) (TV); and The Amazing Howard Hughes (1977) (TV). While working on the movie Back Roads (1981), he met and fell in love with Kimberlea Cloughley, whom he later married. More roles in television–both on network and cable–phase and film garnered him a reputation as a strong, explosive, thoughtful actor who might tackle supporting also as leading roles. He made his directorial debut in The Good Old Boys (1995) (TV) on TNT. In addition to directing and starring in the film, he co-wrote the teleplay (with J.T. Allen). The film, based on Elmer Kelton’s novel, is set in west Texas where Jones has strong family ties. For that reason, this story of a cowboy facing the end of an era has special meaning for him.

Name Tommy Lee Jones Height 6' Naionality American Day of Birth 15 September 1946 Place of Birth San Saba, Texas, USA Famous for

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papermoonloveslucy · 4 years ago

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RIP Tom Kennedy

1927-2020

Tom Kennedy was born James Edward Narz in Louisville, Kentucky. He was the younger brother of host Jack Narz (1922-2008). The brothers wanted to avoid the perceived conflict of having two announcers with the same last name promoting competing products. Kennedy was a television host best known for his work in game shows.

From 1957 to 1958, Kennedy was the Announcer for the Betty White TV series “Date with the Angels” which was loosely based on the Elmer Rice play Dream Girl, a play that Lucille Ball appeared in 1947.

Kennedy’s first successful game show was owned by Desilu: “You Don’t Say!” (1963-75). Although Ball never appeared on the show, Lucy’s co-stars Vivian Vance and Gale Gordon did. She game show earned him an Emmy nomination in 1967 (the winner was Mike Douglas), the same year Lucille Ball won for “The Lucy Show.”

In 1970, Kennedy broke out of his game show mold to host a 90-minute syndicated talk show “The Real Tom Kennedy Show.” It lasted just one season. The chat-fest shared guests with “Here’s Lucy” such as Ruta Lee, Foster Brooks, Charles Nelson Reilly, and Bob Crane.

In 1980 he assumed hosting of “Password Plus,” which following the illness (and later death) of original host Allen Ludden.

Lucille Ball started appearing on “Password” in 1963. It was her favorite game show. Her first appearance with Kennedy as host was the during the first week in March 1981. Ball played with Betty White (Ludden’s widow), her “Lucy Show” TV boyfriend Dick Martin, and her real-life and “Here’s Lucy” TV son Desi Arnaz Jr.

Ball returned for All-Celebrity Week in December 1981, although no information is available about these programs. Although Ball returned to "Password” in 1986 when when it was re-invented as “Super Password,” Tom Kennedy did not. Hosting tasks were assumed by Bert Convy when Kennedy moved on to host “Body Language.” In a surprise twist, he returned as a celebrity contestant in January 1987.

Kennedy also hosted “Body Language,” a game show produced by Mark Goodson Productions which aired on CBS from June 4, 1984 until January 3, 1986. Pantomime and charades were a favorite pastime of Lucille Ball.

Ten years earlier, Lucille Ball had promoted a Milton Bradley board game of the same name, so when a television version finally premiered, Ball did two 1984 week-long guest stints; one in September and another in December.

“I don't like how some game shows today humiliate people and reward contestants for dishonesty. An example of this is ‘The Weakest Link’ (2000 & 2020). The host puts down contestants for incorrect responses while the object of the game is to vote off other contestants, mainly those that help the team succeed. I think it's a reflection of how selfish and cynical society today is at large, and I'm not a fan of it at all.” ~ Tom Kennedy

Kennedy retired in 1989. In 2005, Kennedy and his brother, Jack Narz, both received the Game Show Congress’ Bill Cullen award for lifetime achievement.

Kennedy was married to Betty Jane Gevedon. He died at age 93, survived by his three children. His nephew reports that he passed away peacefully.

#Tom Kennedy #Lucille Ball #Password #Body Language #Password Plus #You Don't Say #Jack Narz #Betty White #Date with the Angels #Dick Martin #Desi Arnaz Jr.

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papermoonloveslucy · 4 years ago

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BACHELOR MOTHER

March 8, 1951

“Bachelor Mother” was sponsored by Chesterfield, Anacin, and RCA and heard on NBC radio.

Bachelor Mother (1939) is an RKO romantic comedy film directed by Garson Kanin, and starring Ginger Rogers, David Niven and Charles Coburn. The screenplay was written by Norman Krasna based on an Academy Award-nominated story by Felix Jackson written for the 1935 Austrian-Hungarian film Little Mother. It was included among the American Film Institute's 2000 list of the 500 movies nominated for the Top 100 Funniest American Movies. The film featured future “Lucy” actors Barbara Pepper, Irving Bacon, Jack Chefe, Florence Lake, Nestor Paiva, Harold Miller, and Amzie Strickland.

It was remade as Bundle of Joy starring Debbie Reynolds and Eddie Fisher in 1952. The original film was re-released in 1945 and made its television debut in 1964.

RKO disliked the title Little Mother and tried out Nobody’s Wife and She Said I Do before settling on Bachelor Mother. In Denmark it was known as Polly’s Baby.

Bachelor Mother was adapted for radio on nine occasions between 1940 and 1952:

January 22, 1940 ~ “Lux Radio Theater” starring *Ginger Rogers, Frederic March, and *Frank Albertson

February 1, 1942 ~ “Screen Guild Theater” starring Laraine Day, Henry Fonda, and *Charles Coburn

November 23, 1942 ~ “Screen Guild Theater” starring Ann Sothern, Fred MacMurray, and *Charles Coburn

November 21, 1944 ~ “Theatre of Romance” starring Shirley Booth, Richard Kollmar, and Jack McBride

December 24, 1944 ~ “Old Gold Comedy Theater” starring Brenda Marshall, Louis Haywood and Jack McBride

May 6, 1946 ~ “Screen Guild Theater” starring *Ginger Rogers, *David Niven, and Francis X. Bushman

April 28, 1949 ~ “Screen Guild Theater” starring Lucille Ball, Joseph Cotton, and *Charles Coburn

March 8, 1951 - “Screen Director’s Playhouse” starring Lucille Ball, Robert Cummings, and Arthur Q. Bryan

April 20, 1952 ~ “Screen Guild Theater” starring Ann Sothern and Robert Stack

* = original film cast repeating their roles

Synopsis ~ An unemployed woman discovers an abandoned baby on the steps of an orphanage, and accepts an offer to take responsibility for the child in return for a job.

CAST

Lucille Ball (Polly Parrish, Toy Department Clerk at Merlin & Son and Bachelor Mother) previously appeared for Screen Directors Playhouse in “Her Husband’s Affairs” (May 22, 1949), “Miss Grant Takes Richmond” (May 19, 1950), both films she had appeared in on screen, and “A Foreign Affair” (March 1, 1951), the previous week.

On screen, the role was played by Ginger Rogers.

Robert Cummings (David Merlin, Son of the owner of Merlin & Son Department Store) first worked with Lucille Ball in “The Ricardos Go To Japan” (November 1959), and in a 1972 episode of “Here’s Lucy.” In 1973, Cummings returned to "Here’s Lucy”.

On screen, the role was played by David Niven.

Arthur Q. Bryan (J.B. Merlin, owner of Merlin & Son Department Store) had appeared with Lucille Ball in Look Who’s Laughing (1941). He is best remembered as the original voice of Elmer Fudd in the Warner Brothers cartoons. He played Mr. Chambers, new owner of the Tropicana in “Ricky Loses His Voice” (ILL S2;E9) in 1952.

On screen, the role was played by Charles Coburn.

Frank Nelson (Mr. Hargraves, Merlin & Son Floorwalker) was born on May 6, 1911 (three months before Lucille Ball) in Colorado Springs, Colorado. He started working as a radio announcer at the age of 15. He later appeared on such popular radio shows as “The Great Gildersleeve,” “Burns and Allen,” “Fibber McGee & Molly”. and a dozen episodes of Lucille Ball’s “My Favorite Husband.” On “I Love Lucy” he holds the distinction of being the only actor to play two recurring roles: Freddie Fillmore and Ralph Ramsey, as well as six one-off characters, including the frazzled train conductor in “The Great Train Robbery” (ILL S5;E5), a character he repeated on “The Lucy Show.” Aside from Lucille Ball, Nelson is perhaps most associated with Jack Benny and was a fifteen-year regular on his radio and television programs, often playing store clerks like this one.

On screen, the role was played by Paul Stanton.

Herb Vigran (Freddie Miller, a co-worker of Polly’s at Merlin & Son) occasionally turned up on Lucille Ball’s radio show, “My Favorite Husband” (1948-50) in various roles. He appeared on “I Love Lucy” as Jule, Ricky’s music agent, in “The Saxophone” (ILL S2;E2) and “The Anniversary Present” (ILL S2;E3). He also played Mrs. Trumbull’s nephew Joe in “Never Do Business With Friends” (ILL S2;E31) and Al Sparks in “Lucy is Envious” (ILL S3;E23). He went on to appear on select episodes of “The Lucy Show” and Here’s Lucy.”

On screen, the role was played by Frank Albertson.

Sidney Miller (Jerome Weiss) was an actor turned director who performed opposite Lucille Ball in “Lucy Helps Ken Berry” (TLS S6;E21), Yours, Mine and Ours (1968), and “Lucy Moves to NBC” (1980).

On screen, the role was played by Leonard Penn.

Jim Backus (Mr. Meachy) had appeared on Lucille Ball’s radio show “My Favorite Husband” but is best remembered as Thurston Howell the Third (aka The Millionaire) on TV’s “Gilligan’s Island”. His unique voice also gave life to Mr. Magoo. He appeared in two films with Lucille Ball: Easy Living (1949) and Critic’s Choice (1963).

On screen, the role is played by Ernest Truex.

Jerry Hausner (Johnnie the Baby) was occasionally heard on Lucille Ball’s radio show “My Favorite Husband” (1948-51) and played Jerry the agent in the “I Love Lucy” pilot and eight episodes of “I Love Lucy”. He also provided the off-screen crying of Little Ricky, Lucy Ricardo’s baby.

Jimmy Wallington (Announcer)

EPISODE

After acknowledging their sponsors, announcer Jimmy Wallington introduces “Bachelor Mother”.

Polly Parrish is working at a the toy counter of a Merlin & Son for demanding floorwalker Mr. Hargraves (Frank Nelson), who insists she keep the wind-up ducks wound at all times. Tomorrow is Polly’s last day due to the store’s ‘retrenchment’.

Hargreaves comes by the toy counter with the store owner’s son, David Merlin (Robert Cummings). Polly is not very friendly to him. Freddie (another store employee), however, is sweet on Polly. When he asks her out dancing she is not interested, until she hears there’s a dance contest with a $100 prize.

After leaving work with her friend Mary, Polly notices an old lady leaving a crying baby on a doorstep. Polly picks up the baby to soothe it. When the door opens, it is Mr. Meachy from the Atkins Foundling Home. He assumes that the baby is hers and she was about to leave it with them. She is unable to change his assumption.

POLLY: “My baby? I got this baby when I was waiting for a bus!”

Polly leaves the baby with Mr. Meachy and goes home.

Next morning at Merlin and Son, J.B. (Arthur Q. Bryan) chastises his son for being tardy. David says was out last night with a chorus girl named Gladys. Mr. Meachy has tracked down Polly at Merlin and Son and tells her that they have something for her - something that makes squealing noises and keeps the neighbors awake.

POLLY: “Mr. Merlin! A television set!”

Taking pity on her and as a birthday present, David re-hires her with a $5 a week raise. He says that that tonight Mr. Meachy will bring her the gift.

That night, Polly opens the door to Mr. Meachy, who presents her with the baby - still believing she is the mother - and goes before she can object. Freddy knocks on the door for their date and Polly hides the baby. Every time Freddy starts to talk - the baby cries and Polly brings it out from behind the sofa. Freddie wants to know where it came from.

POLLY: “I got it for my birthday.”

Polly tells Freddy they are going to bring the baby back to the man who gave it to her - David Merlin!

End of Act One

Jimmy Wallington does a live RCA commercial, touting their new Fairfield model televisions. He then introduces the second act.

Act Two

Freddie and Polly arrive home after dropping off the baby and winning the dance competition. Unfortunately, it the first prize was not $100 but a silver loving cup. When Freddy tries to kiss her at the door, it swings open and David Merlin is there. He slugs Freddy, sending him tumbling down the stairs. Merlin has brought her back the baby.

DAVID: “Any mother who’d dance the Charleston after giving her baby away - it makes my flesh crawl.”

Polly is adamant that she is not the mother of the baby. He fires her and refuses a letter of recommendation. Before he goes, she decides to beg for her job back and lies that it is indeed her baby - saying the abusive father ran off and left her. She convinces him and he leaves.

Mrs. Weiss, the landlady, comes in. She thinks the baby is adorable and tells Polly she will help her take care of the baby - just the way she did with her son Jerome when he was small. Mrs. Weiss asks the baby’s name and Polly quickly replies “Joan” - until they open the diaper!

POLLY: “Oh! I didn’t say Joan, I said John. Hello, Johnnie!”

Freddie notices that Polly is exhausted at work. He asks her to put in a good word with Mr. Merlin for him regarding a promotion, and she sleepily agrees. David comes by and says that all babies demand lots of attention at that age. Mr. Hargreaves stops David and says he wants to know who to promote to assistant floorwalker. David suggests promoting the senior of the team - Freddie Miller.

At home Polly is trying to feed a fussy Johnnie. David Merlin drops by to bring her a book - “Guide for a Happy Baby”.

POLLY: “I’m sure he’ll enjoy reading it.”

David thinks she may be doing it wrong. They consult the book. He insists she rub the oatmeal on the baby’s navel, but when she reads for herself, he has skipped a page and given her directions for relieving gas. To distract the baby, he winds up a mechanical duck - but overwinds it. The baby gurgles and calls David “daddy”!

POLLY: “Grab a spoon, Mr. Merlin, you’ve just become a father!”

The next day at work, Freddie Miller has let his promotion go to his head, shouting orders to Polly and Mary. Wearing a disguise, David arrives to exchange the duck he broke at Polly’s last night. The exchanges clerk says that he’d have to take the duck back to the Banzai Toy Company in Yokohama!

When he is unsuccessful at making a return, he pockets a new duck. Freddie spots him and calls Mr. Hargraves, who recognizes him as Mr. Merlin. David orders Hargraves demote Freddie. Angry, Freddie says he has written a letter to J.B. Merlin about Polly and David!

It isn’t long before J.B. is confronting his son about the letter. J.B. is upset that David hasn’t told him about his grandson! Without realizing that his father thinks he is the father of Polly’s baby, David decides to ask Polly to a fancy party that evening.

He arrives at Polly’s apartment with a new duck and a request for a date. Mrs. Weiss can sit with the baby.

POLLY: “Is it a big party?” DAVID: “Oh, tremendous. Everybody’s a millionaire. Except the butlers, they’re just regular Republicans.”

At the party, David introduces Polly as just over from Sweden. Polly gamely attempts some pidgin Swedish.

POLLY: “Ein, zwie, drie, drop dead!”

Polly is terribly popular at the party - so much so that David doesn’t see her until the taxi ride home. He passionately kisses her goodnight. A long, lingering kiss. David says he will meet them tomorrow on their Sunday walk through the park.

Next day, David and Polly meet in the park. David still doesn’t understand why his father is upset with him. J.B. has followed his son to the park and introduces himself to Polly. He asks her if he can hold the baby. After his father leaves, David suddenly realizes that his father thinks that Johnnie is his child!

At the office, J.B. yells at David that he’s been waiting 30 years for a grandson. He insists that he marry Polly at once. When David refuses, J.B. vows he will do whatever he has to do to get custody of his grandson.

David tells Polly that his father will take legal action to take Polly’s baby. When David tells her of J.B.’s ridiculous notion that he marry Polly, she dissolves into tears. She confides in Mrs. Weiss, who suggests she marry her boy, Jerome, instead. Polly convinces Jerome to come with her to see J.B. Merlin.

David Miller knocks on the door of Freddie Miller, and demands to know if he is the father of Polly’s baby. Freddie is taken aback - he thinks David is! David convinces him to help him with a scheme.

In J.B.’s office, Polly presents Jerome as her husband. David bursts in with Freddie, who he introduces as the father of Polly’s baby! Freddie and Jerome both contend to be the father! David assumes that Jerome is the REAL dad - the long-lost piano player of Polly’s past. Freddie confesses that he has been lying. They all accuse each other of fatherhood while J.B. asserts his grandparent’s rights!

Back at home, Polly tearfully packs. As she is leaving, David and J.B. approach and Polly and the baby hide in the landlady’s apartment. The men ask about Polly Parrish.

MRS. WEISS: “I don’t know any Lolly Poppish.”

Mrs. Weiss says that Polly left long ago. They step into her apartment to talk and David wonders aloud why he didn’t marry Polly - declaring his love for her. A mechanical duck suddenly waddles through in from the other room and David discovers Polly and the baby hiding. Before proposing to Polly, he sticks his head through the door and tells is father he IS the father of the baby after all.

POLLY: “You still think I’m the mother of that baby?” DAVID: “Why certainly.” POLLY: “Oh, David. Have I got a surprise for you!”

The End

Announcer Jimmy Wallington reminds viewers to tune in next week for “Thelma Jordan” starring Barbara Stanwyck and Wendell Corey with screen director Robert Siodmak.

“Bachelor Mother” was presented courtesy of RKO Radio Pictures, distributors of the Howard Hughes production Vendetta starring Faith Domergue and George Dolenz

Lucille Ball can be currently seen in Columbia’s The Fuller Brush Girl

Robert Cummings can soon be seen in the Columbia Picture The Barefoot Mailman

‘BACHELOR’ TRIVIA

The film version of Bachelor Mother (1939), is mentioned in two episodes of “The RKO Story: Tales From Hollywood” as a film Ginger Rogers at first refused to do - until she was taken off payroll for three weeks and finally relented. Although audiences loved it, Rogers continued to loathe the film calling it “a dog.” Coincidentally, Lucille Ball is also interviewed in the same two episodes.

The wind-up ducks in the 1939 film were played by Disney’s Donald Duck, who even gets screen credit, although on radio their identity remains vague .Clarence Nash, the original voice of Donald Duck, provided the quacking in the film, although there is no record of who provides it here.

The original film was set around Christmas and New Years, with several reference to the holidays and a huge New Year’s Eve party scene. Those were omitted from the radio broadcasts so as not to feel like holiday programming.

The Lucy character worked at a department store in “Lucy Bags a Bargain” (TLS S4;E17) on January 17, 1966. Although she worked in many departments, toys was not one of them!

She did, however, sublet the Unique Employment Agency to a toy wholesaler in a 1972 episode of “Here’s Lucy”. Although it was not a duck, Lucy seemed particularly amused by the wind-up dog and drumming bear, toys that also delighted Little Ricky on “I Love Lucy.”

Although not mechanical, Little Ricky previously played with Mr. Squawker, a rubber duck squeeze toy manufactured by Rempel Manufacturing of Akron, Ohio, that also turns up when “Lucy Tells the Truth” (ILL S3;E6). For more, take a look inside Lucy’s Toy Chest!

A snooty Elroy P. Clunk (Charles Nelson Reilly) dealt with returns and complaints at an unnamed department store in “Lucy the Crusader” (HL S3;E5) on October 12, 1970. Like the clerk at Merlin & Son, Clunk insists Lucy Carter’s broken stereo needs to be returned to the manufacturer. The script also jokes about the poor quality of products made in Japan.

Lucille Ball had done five films with the original Bachelor Mother Ginger Rogers, all of them before Rogers played Polly Parish for RKO. Ball and Rogers finally reunited on a 1971 episode of “Here’s Lucy” with Rogers playing herself.

An October 1976 episode of “Laverne and Shirley” is titled “Bachelor Mothers” and has the girls looking after a baby. Laverne and Shirley were often compared to Lucy and Ethel on “I Love Lucy.”

#Bachelor Mother #Lucille Ball #Robert Cummings #Screen Directors Playhouse #Radio #Jim Backus #Frank Nelson #Arthur Q. Bryan #Sidney Miller #Herb Vigran #Ginger Rogers #Toys #Donald Duck #David Niven

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LUCKY PARTNERS

September 25, 1944

“Lucky Partners” was a presentation of Lux Radio Theatre, broadcast on CBS Radio on September 25, 1944.

It is based on a 1940 RKO film of the same name directed by Lewis Milestone which in turn was based on the 1935 French film Good Luck. Lucky Partners the movie starred Ronald Colman and Ginger Rogers in their only film together. The radio script was adapted by John Van Druten from the screenplay by Allen Scott.

This is the second radio adaptation of the film. In April 1941 The Screen Guild Theater broadcast a 30 minute radio adaptation with Ginger Rogers reprising her film role. In this adaptation, the role is played by Rogers’ friend Lucille Ball.

Synopsis ~ A man and a woman go partners on a winning sweepstakes ticket. In return for partnering, the man insists they go on a platonic honeymoon, despite the woman’s engagement to another man. When things get more than platonic, the man’s past is exposed and everyone ends up in court.

Lux Radio Theatre (1935-55) was a radio anthology series that adapted Broadway plays during its first two seasons before it began adapting films (”Lux Presents Hollywood”). These hour-long radio programs were performed live before studio audiences in Los Angeles. The series became the most popular dramatic anthology series on radio, broadcast for more than 20 years and continued on television as the Lux Video Theatre through most of the 1950s. The primary sponsor of the show was Unilever through its Lux Soap brand.

CAST

Lucille Ball (Jean Newton) was born on August 6, 1911 in Jamestown, New York. She began her screen career in 1933 and was known in Hollywood as ‘Queen of the B’s’ due to her many appearances in ‘B’ movies. “My Favorite Husband” eventually led to the creation of “I Love Lucy,” a television situation comedy in which she co-starred with her real-life husband, Latin bandleader Desi Arnaz. The program was phenomenally successful, allowing the couple to purchase what was once RKO Studios, re-naming it Desilu. When the show ended in 1960 (in an hour-long format known as “The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour”) so did Lucy and Desi’s marriage. In 1962, hoping to keep Desilu financially solvent, Lucy returned to the sitcom format with “The Lucy Show,” which lasted six seasons. She followed that with a similar sitcom “Here’s Lucy” co-starring with her real-life children, Lucie and Desi Jr., as well as Gale Gordon, who had joined the cast of “The Lucy Show” during season two. Before her death in 1989, Lucy made one more attempt at a sitcom with “Life With Lucy,” also with Gordon.

Don Ameche (David Grant aka Paul Knight Somerset) began screen acting in 1935 and was immensely popular with audiences. He had a career resurgence in 1985 when he won an Oscar for Cocoon at age 77. Ameche was supposed to be featured in 1970′s “Lucy Competes With Carol Burnett” (HL S2;E24), but he withdrew and the script was rewritten for Dean Martin, who also withdrew. The role was eventually played by Robert Alda. Consequently, this radio production is the only time Don Ameche acts opposite Lucille Ball. In 1973′s “Lucy’s Tenant” (HL S6;E7) Mary Jane says she remembers seeing a movie starring Mary Astor, Jack Oakie, and Don Ameche but the three stars were never in the same film.

Arthur Q. Bryan appeared with Lucille Ball in Look Who’s Laughing (1941). He is best remembered as the original voice of Elmer Fudd in the Warner Brothers cartoons.He also was an accomplished radio actor appearing for ten seasons as Doc Gamble on “Fibber McGee and Molly.” In 1952′s “Ricky Loses His Voice” (ILL S2;E9) he played Mr. Chambers, new owner of the Tropicana, a former vaudevillian looking to return to the stage.

Verna Felton (Aunt Lucy) made her professional stage debut at the age of 10 as ‘Little Verna Felton,’ working extensively on stage. Felton was one of the most successful performers in radio, and soon went on to television. She played the persistent Mrs. Day on “The Jack Benny Show” (1955). She memorably played Lucy Ricardo’s maid, Mrs. Porter, as well as making one other appearance on “I Love Lucy.” She received two Emmy nominations for her role in the Desilu series “December Bride,” playing Hilda Crocker from 1955 to 1959 opposite Spring Byington, who, coincidentally, was in the original film of Lucky Partners playing the role she assays here, Aunt Lucy!

Carlton Kadell (Frederick ‘Freddy’ Victor Harper III) starred as “Sky King” for ABC radio. He also was heard in the “Tarzan” serials.

Leo Cleary was primarily known as a radio performer, but did two films in 1940 with Lucille Ball: You Can’t Fool Your Wife and Dance, Girl, Dance.

Norman Field began screen acting in 1945, just a few months after this radio program first aired. On radio, he was heard in hundreds of programs, including “Chandu the Magician,” “Mystery is My Hobby” and many installments of “Lux Radio Theatre.”

Noreen Gammill was a radio performer who voiced Catty the Elephant in Walt Disney’s Dumbo. She was later on screen as a background player in “The Andy Griffith Show,” filmed at Desilu Studios.

Leona LeDoux was a radio actor in the 1940s, specializing in children's voices for such shows as, "One Man's Family," "Blondie," and "Baby Snooks." Here, she is part of a live commercial for Lux.

Eddie Marr was born on Valentine’s Day 1900 in Jersey City, New Jersey. In 1938 he was seen with Lucille Ball in The Affairs of Annabel. Along with Lucille Ball, he was in the 1966 TV special “Bob Hope: 15 of My Leading Ladies" playing Joan Caulfield’s chauffeur. He was also with Lucy in “The Bob Hope Show: Bringing Back Vaudeville” in November 1970.

Charles Seel was a former vaudevillian and radio actor who acted in early silent films. Regularly on screen after 1937, he usually played small roles such as clerks, bartenders, and shopkeepers. From 1961 to 1974 Seel was a recurring character on TV’s “Gunsmoke”.

Harry Tyler did four films with Lucille Ball from 1937 to 1950. He appeared in more episodes of “Alfred Hitchcock Presents” than any other actor.

John M. Kennedy (announcer)

ACT ONE

The episode is introduced by producer Cecil B. DeMille, who asks the audience to help pick the play and stars for the show’s tenth anniversary by submitting a postcard. He tells a story about Adolph Menjou in London that acts as a message about Lux Soap.

Our story unfolds in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of New York City with the casual meeting of David, a care-free artist (Ameche) and a girl delivering books (Ball). He wishes her “good luck” and they go their separate ways. The girl, Jean, goes home to tell her Aunt Lucy (Verna Felton) that after a man wished her good luck - she was given an expensive dress that was headed for the trash after a marital squabble.

Jean spies David on the street and rushes out to offer him a business proposition. She asks him to meet her at Nick and Nick’s, a neighborhood bar and grill.

David gets a visit from Wendell, his lawyer and friend who begs him to come back to Chicago, despite his checkered past there.

At Nick and Nick’s Jean buys the last sweepstakes ticket. She is feeling lucky because of the dress and feels David may be her good luck charm. Jean is hoping to win enough money to marry her sweetheart, an insurance salesman named Freddy. David will go in on the ticket with Jean under the proviso that she let him pay for their honeymoon, which he calls “our honeymoon.”

Angry about the “our honeymoon” insult, Jean introduces David to hot-head Freddy, her future husband, who hauls David into the back alley, presumably to avenge his sweetheart’s honor. Instead, however, they return laughing instead of bruised. David has convinced Jean that they will honeymoon as brother and sister and offers that Freddy can tag along. Freddy holds on to the sweepstakes ticket for safekeeping. They have to figure out whether to wager it all on a horse or play it safe for a smaller cut of the winnings. David and Jean listen for the results of the race on the radio. They do not win. Freddy calls and it reveals that he sold her half of the ticket for $6,000 before the race! But he only sold her half, not David’s, who has lost it all. Jean gives David half anyway and David insists on the full terms of the agreement: to take her on a platonic honeymoon. Jean agrees to the ‘experiment’.

End of Act One.

A live commercial for Lux Soap consists of a letter from a consumer, Mrs. Willett, presented by Sally and Mrs. Kennedy.

ACT TWO

DeMille introduces the second act.

Jean and David are off on their ‘experimental honeymoon’ in a car David bought in her name. Jean wants to stop at a Western Union office to send a wire to Aunt Lucy and Freddy.

They arrive at a hotel in Niagara Falls, honeymoon capital of the world. Checking in as brother and sister, they go to their separate hotel rooms. They have breakfast together. David has sent Jean flowers. The hotel has taken it upon themselves to move them to adjoining rooms! An angry Freddy arrives to check up on his future wife. After finding no hint of misconduct, Freddy agrees to leave but is still not satisfied that everything is on the up-and-up. He checks in at a nearby hotel, asking for a 2am wake-up call.

In the evening, David calls Jean from his bedroom. He asks her to meet him in the hotel lobby and to wear her ‘lucky dress’. An older couple unknown to them asks them to join them on the terrace garden. They lead them to a bridge and the old man asks David to carry her over the bridge and to kiss her. The older couple performed the same ritual 50 years earlier and, thinking Jean and David are a romantic couple, want them to have the same happiness.

Rather than risk any further romance, Jean decides to go to bed. At 2am, Freddy loudly knocks on what he thinks is David’s door, but Jean answers it. They have swapped again so that Jean can have the room with the fireplace. Freddy uses a fire axe to get into David’s room, but he’s nowhere to be found. Freddy calls the front desk and is told David has checked out, but left a note for Jean.

Speeding away from Niagara Falls, a policeman pulls David over, who is driving the car he put in Jean’s name. They go off to find Jean to explain. End of Act Two.

Pause for station identification. During the break DeMille announces that the National Safety Council’s Colonel Stillwell (in New York) is presenting Lever Brothers and the show with an award. [Archival recordings do not present Stillwell’s remarks, just DeMille’s.]

ACT THREE

DeMille catches us up that Freddy, David, and Jean are facing a judge in a small town outside Niagara Falls. David reveals that he is really named Paul Knight Somerset. They are put in jail till the judge can make some sense of things.

Next morning, the case is tried. David’s true identity has the town abuzz. David’s lawyer and friend, Wendell is there to represent him, but is dismissed so that David / Paul can represent herself. Aunt Lucy testifies that David gave her an expensive dress and bought the ticket. The hotel clerk testifies that David wanted adjoining rooms for illicit purposes. Freddy testifies that David’s newfound celebrity has changed his view of David. Jean takes the stand and explains the ‘experiment’. She is cross-examined by David, addressing himself as “my client”. The judge asks some questions that make David look like a scandalous womanizer.

David cross-examines himself to clarify his true intentions and feelings for Jean. It turns out that some paintings he published in a book got him sued for libel and was put in jail on principal.

The judge convicts Freddy of being a dope and destroying a hotel door with a fire axe.

The judge acquits Jean for being naïve and too trusting.

The judge is not happy with David’s record and conduct in court. Jean objects to the judge’s comments. The spectators cheer Jean’s defense of David.

The judge makes Jean and David admit that they are in love and throws the case out of court.

David and Jean are driving back to New York. He proposes a new ‘experiment’ involving a gold ring and a local justice of the peace. They are not headed to New York City after all, but to Niagara Falls! End of Play.

CURTAIN CALL

A live commercial for lux involves a little girl and mother hanging laundry on the line.

DeMille returns to talk to Lucille Ball and Don Ameche.

Lucille reveals that Don Ameche is forming his own motion picture company and making the story of Doctor Wassell starring Gary Cooper and Laraine Day. This turns out to be a disguised promotion for the 1944 film The Story of Dr. Wassell, based on the life of real-life Navy Officer, Corydon M. Wassell, directed by DeMille himself.

DeMille announces next week’s show will star Walter Brennan, Jeanne Crain, and Charlotte Greenwood recreating their original screen roles in Home in Indiana, a film released in July 1944. The studio audibly audience gasps!

DEMILLE: “Goodnight to you, from Holly-wood!”

The announcer wraps up by asking consumers to save waste fats and greases to help fight the war. He reminds listeners to send in their postcards suggesting stories and stars for the tenth anniversary broadcast.

"Lucky Partners" was produced through cooperation with RKO, producers of Bride by Mistake.

Don Ameche is mentioned as appearing in Greenwich Village, a 20th Century Fox film.

Lucille Ball appeared courtesy of MGM, producers of the Technicolor picture Kismet. Interestingly, Lucille Ball is not promoted as being in the MGM film Meet The People, which had premiered in New York City two weeks earlier and was still in release as of this broadcast.

TRIVIA

The story opens in Greenwich Village, a bastion of bohemian artists and romantics that thrived in the 1940s. It was the setting for My Sister Eileen, a 1938 book that inspired a 1940 play and 1942 film. It also was the setting of Don Ameche’s 1944 film. The above pulp novel was published in 1943.

Acting as his own lawyer, David cross-examines himself in court, something Lucy Carmichael later did in a 1964 episode of “The Lucy Show.”

Honeymoons and Niagara Falls have gone together for nearly two centuries. In a 1964 episode of “The Lucy Show,” Lucy’s daughter wants her mother to think she’s eloping so she leaves out a travel brochure for Niagara Falls!

Sweepstakes were the pre-cursor to public lotteries. In the 1950s newspapers offered Lucky Buck contests, asking readers to compare serial numbers published in the newspaper with their own bills. This was the subject of “Bonus Bucks” (ILL S3;E21) in 1954, where like David and Jean, the Ricardos and Mertzes split the winnings - if they can just claim them in time!

In 1949, Lucille Ball desperately wanted to do Cecil B. DeMille’s The Greatest Show on Earth, but when she asked Columbia’s Harry Cohn to loan her out to MGM, he sadistically cast her in The Magic Carpet, thinking that it was such an awful script that Ball would refuse to do it, then he could suspend her, and refuse to loan her out. Instead, Lucille called his bluff and cheerfully accepted the film, knowing that it was a quickie that would be wrapped by the time The Greatest Show on Earth started filming. Fate intervened and Lucille got pregnant with her daughter Lucie and never got to make the film. It was her husband Desi Arnaz who went into business mode and told Lucy to “grab her $85,000 fee and run.” DeMille is quoted as saying,

“Congratulations Mr. Arnaz, You are the only man to ever fuck his wife, Cecil B. DeMille, Paramount Pictures, and Harry Cohn, all at the same time.”

#Lucky Partners #Lucille Ball #Don Ameche #Lux Radio Theatre #1944 #cecil b. Demille #Verna Felton #Greenwich Village #Niagara Falls #Arthur Q. Bryan #Carlton Kadell

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lvaartebella · 7 years ago

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Feature: Elmer Lucille Allen

On March 1, 2018, Louisville Art will present Elmer Lucille Allen with the Legacy Award, in memory of Julius Friedman. This is a reprint of an Artebella Feature from February 2017.

"I love the academic environment. I am a perpetual student." — Elmer Lucille Allen

When Kentucky Center for African American Heritage Center Director Aukram Burton describes Elmer Lucille Allen as, “one of our Elders,” he is not just acknowledging that the ceramic and fiber artist is an Octogenarian. The term carries weight in various cultures, but in parts of Africa it specifically denotes a connection to ancestors, the dead who remain vested with mystical power in the kin-group, and the elder’s authority stems from the idea that they are representatives of the ancestors to the contemporary community.

Elmer Lucille Allen is as approachable and convivial as anyone you would ever meet, but she is a “senior” (the far less satisfying American appellation) who has never truly retired. She earned the gold watch, so to speak, after 31 years as a chemist at Brown-Forman, where she was the first African American chemist to be hired (in 1966). In the twenty years since she retired, she has established herself as one of the most important artists in Louisville and an important influence on succeeding generations.

In person, Ms. Allen is an archetypal matriarch, speaking in the unadorned but nurturing language you would expect from any great-grandmother. She exhibits little outward evidence of the depth of her academic background, the years spent as a community activist, and the position she occupies in local history; she never wears her ‘status’ on her sleeve. She puts it this way: “I take it as an honor because what I do is part of who I am.”

“I became involved in the art scene in the early 1980s when Ken Clay, then head of Renaissance Development, held the first African American (AA) Arts Conference at the Galt House. After this conference, the Kentucky Coalition for Afro-American Arts, Inc. (KCAAA) was formed. I was the first and only president of this organization that lasted 10 years. When I decided that I did not want to continue as President, the treasury was donated to the Arts Council of Louisville. I was a charter member of the ACOL and a treasurer for four years.”

Ms. Allen states she has never felt a bias in the arts, but her history before she was an artist is another matter, and reflects the time. “Remember, I came up through a segregated system and did not have classes with a white person until I was a junior in college. I experienced racial difference when Nazareth College (now Spalding University) graduates in 1953 were looking for a place to host a graduation event. The event was eventually held at the Knights of Columbus Hall.”

“When I graduated I could not get a job as a chemist in Louisville. The only jobs available were teaching. My first job was as a clerk typist in Indianapolis, Indiana, at Fort Benjamin Harrison. There was bias on that job - one person from a city in Indiana had never been around a "colored" person, but you have to be who you are and stand up for what you believe. ‘Speak to a person even if the person does not acknowledge you.’”

Allen took her first pottery class at Seneca High School in the late 1970’s after her children were all grown and out of the house. She never gave empty nest syndrome a chance, following up with mold ceramics or pottery classes through JCPS and New Albany adult education. But this was still just the beginning: “Then I enrolled in a ceramics class at Metro Arts Center where I studied with Melvin Rowe. Also, while I was a student there I had the pleasure to meet Laura Ross, a national ceramic artist who encouraged me to take classes at the University of Louisville with internationally recognized ceramicist Tom Marsh.”

But studying ad hoc wasn’t enough, and, after retiring she decided to seek a masters in ceramics at U of L. It was while studying for her master’s that she was introduced to a second art media - fiber/textiles. “My thesis exhibition consisted of stenciled wall hangings and over 200 reduction fired porcelain sculptural boxes that were placed on boards on the floor, which meant you had to view the pieces while standing.”

Whatever racial or gender restrictions she encountered in her earlier life, Allen’s first years in the art world were mostly lacking in such difficulties. “I have not experienced any discrimination as a woman artist or as an artist of color. My work does not depict any culture - it speaks for itself. I create work that I enjoy making. I do not do commissions. I have been fortunate because I did not have to depend on selling art for a living. I retired in 1997 and have been volunteering in some capacity ever since.”

Yet she is not blind that many artists of color find it a challenge to reach wider audiences and secure their place at the larger community table, particularly in the visual arts world. “I think that one organization needs to take control. At the present every organization's president has their own agenda and is not looking out for other persons or organizations, and small organizations normally do not have a specific place, computer equipment, or expertise for such large undertaking.”

One of the values of being an Elder is that you have been a witness to the changes in the arts and cultural landscape that surrounds you. Allen can recount a time when there was much effort in the name of unity and inclusion. “Years ago, Louisville Visual Art had a large (non-digital) database of artists and arts organizations. The Kentucky Arts Council funded two directories of African American artists in the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Two conferences were held, one in Lexington, and one in Louisville. They conducted free workshops for the community at the Chestnut Street YMCA, West End branch of the YWCA, as well as other venues. Bale McKnight, who conducted drum making at the YMCA, created a drum that was in Chickasaw Park, which was the first public art project in the West End. KCAAA was the fiscal agent for Educations Arts and the dance group founded by Harlina Churn.” You see, Elders know the history.

So how does Louisville recapture that level of motivation again? What actions need to be taken today to build a functional community network? Allen feels, “Everyone is waiting for someone else to do the hard work,” but individuals who want to be leaders need to focus on developing their game in crucial ways; Elders also get to give advice:

Organizational and leadership skills are a must.

You have to show up and be willing to assume responsibilities.

You must not be afraid to fail. You learn from your mistakes.

You, as a leader, must be presentable and responsible for your actions at all times. Remember the golden rule - Do unto others as you want others to do to you.

You must be punctual.

Respect the time of others. Meetings should have an agenda and should not exceed two hours.

So how does this near-iconic status affect Elmer Lucille Allen’s work as an artist? Or does it? “My work is not impacted by my place in history,” states Allen. ”The work that I have done since 1981 speaks for itself. I have been the volunteer curator/director of Wayside Christian Mission's Wayside Expressions Gallery since 2005. My goal is to showcase artists, some of which have never exhibited. My second goal has been to have an African American artist or artists for February. I have done the scheduling, press releases, fliers, finding new artists, etc., from my home. I think my presence in the art world has afforded me the opportunity to be asked to serve as judge for the 2016 Fund for Arts, as a panelist for Metro arts grants, etc.”

“I think that over the years, the community sees who is where and what you are doing. Action speaks louder then words.”

Recognitions/Awards: Louisville Defender – Lifetime Community Service Recognition Award (2016) Outstanding Community Leader by Metro Council (2016) Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft’s First Art and Advocacy Award – Bourbon Bash (2015) Parkland Rising Up Project (2015) Community Spirit Award given by the University of Louisville College of Arts and Science and the Yearlings Club (2015) Spalding University Caritas Medal (2011) - the highest honor awarded to an alumnus

Written by Keith Waits. In addition to his work at the LVA, Keith is also the Managing Editor of a website, www.Arts-Louisville.com, which covers local visual arts, theatre, and music in Louisville.

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lvaartebella · 8 years ago

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Feature: Elmer Lucille Allen

"I love the academic environment. I am a perpetual student." — Elmer Lucille Allen

Elmer Lucille Allen is as approachable and convivial as anyone you would ever meet, but she is a “senior” (the far less satisfying American appellation) who has never truly retired. She earned the gold watch, so to speak, after 31 years as a chemist at Brown-Forman, where she was the first African American chemist to be hired but that was in 1966. In the twenty years since, she has established herself as one of the most important artists in Louisville and an important influence on succeeding generations.

Organizational and leadership skills are a must.

You have to show up and be willing to assume responsibilities.

You must not be afraid to fail. You learn from your mistakes.

You, as a leader, must be presentable and responsible for your actions at all times. Remember the golden rule - Do unto others as you want others to do to you.

You must be punctual.

Respect the time of others. Meetings should have an agenda and should not exceed two hours.

“I think that over the years, the community sees who is where and what you are doing. Action speaks louder then words.”

You can see Elmer Lucille Allen’s work as a part of the Louisville Visual Art exhibit Tessile Ora, at Metro Hall, now through May 26, 2017.

This Feature article was written by Keith Waits. In addition to his work at the LVA, Keith is also the Managing Editor of a website, www.Arts-Louisville.com, which covers local visual arts, theatre, and music in Louisville.

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