C L A U D E Posted August 18, 2014 Report Share Posted August 18, 2014 Yes, but the dreck was finally put out of it's misery, AND OURS, the following year, LOL! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mister Hepburn Posted August 19, 2014 Author Report Share Posted August 19, 2014 Amazing book. My first ever read on Lucy and with that book and the Home Movies done around the same time my 14 year old self started down the rabbit hole 21 years ago. I haven't had much time with it, but just 4 chapters in and it's the most refreshing Lucy book I've ever read. No sugar and spice portrayals of these people! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C L A U D E Posted August 19, 2014 Report Share Posted August 19, 2014 I know, that's the one thing I hated about it, they are very harsh on Lucy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luvsbway Posted August 19, 2014 Report Share Posted August 19, 2014 Stuff Shostack had one of the authors (I forget which one) on his radio show and they talked a lot on what the original concept of the book was to be, how Lucie opened many doors for them and how the focus of the book shifted a bit. The interview is on his website for download and like all his Lucy interviews very worth the 99cents. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C L A U D E Posted August 20, 2014 Report Share Posted August 20, 2014 Yeah, I really like STUFF, LOL! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mister Hepburn Posted August 20, 2014 Author Report Share Posted August 20, 2014 So as I read Desilu, at the beginning of the House Un-American section, in regards to a document she signed: "I haven't signed it. I don't know where it came from, or what. And my name is misspelled." I've never heard this before, anyone have further information? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luvsbway Posted August 20, 2014 Report Share Posted August 20, 2014 Her name is misspelled and most of the handwriting does not look like her's. The sig looks close though. There are pics of it out there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mister Hepburn Posted August 20, 2014 Author Report Share Posted August 20, 2014 Her name is misspelled and most of the handwriting does not look like her's. The sig looks close though. There are pics of it out there. I'm going to have to hunt for it (unless some kind soul here has a quick link). Why have I never read this book before?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luvsbway Posted August 21, 2014 Report Share Posted August 21, 2014 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C L A U D E Posted August 21, 2014 Report Share Posted August 21, 2014 Dunno Mister Hepburn but at least you have it now, one of the best Lucy books ever. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neil Posted August 26, 2014 Report Share Posted August 26, 2014 I'm reading the book about Carole Lombard and her plane crash. Am only 43% through (according to my kindle) and the only reference to Lucy so far is the fact that the Gables and the Arnazes lived in the same valley. The chapters flip back and forth from chronicling Carole's career to the search party scaling the mountain hoping to find survivors. (Somehow I keep hoping they do...) I did not know Carole had been married to William Powell!, brief that it was. The book details Carole's post-Powell, pre-Gable fling with Russ Columbo which reminds me of a story Lucy told on a talk show. (No, Lucy wasn't a COMIC per se, but she told a story in an entertaining way. I always hate it when people insist Lucy was not a funny woman.) I paraphrase from memory: "Carole once told me--and this was while she was married to Clark--, "you know, the big love of my life was Russ Columbo". And I said "Who's Russ Columbo?". Carole: "WHO'S Russ Columbo???" (and Lucy made a face indicating Carole scoffed at her for not knowing). Flash forward: Gary and I are sitting up in bed and flipping through the channels. I yelled "Stop! that's me!!. In an old movie from my days as an extra, I'm on the beach with another girl and we're talking to Russ Columbo. I had no memory of him." Russ died in a freak gunshot accident in 1934 and was only 26. What movie do you think Lucy was referring to? If she did a movie with Columbo, was there a beach scene? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HarryCarter Posted August 26, 2014 Report Share Posted August 26, 2014 That's a great story. The movie is Broadway Thru a Keyhole and she is indeed on a beach with Russ Columbo. Lucy wrote in Love, Lucy that she never knew she was in the movie until she had recently seen it on television. She didn't tell the whole story. The film was always in her list of credits. Russ Columbo had lived on Roxbury Drive in the house later owned by Rosemary Clooney. Clooney said Columbo was shot in the house and haunted it. However, Columbo was actually shot at a friend's home and was no longer even living in the Roxbury Drive house when he died. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C L A U D E Posted August 26, 2014 Report Share Posted August 26, 2014 As soon as I read Russ Columbo, I thought mafia hood. So he was an actor and not a mafia kingpin? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leenorman Posted August 26, 2014 Report Share Posted August 26, 2014 I'm reading the book about Carole Lombard and her plane crash. Am only 43% through (according to my kindle) and the only reference to Lucy so far is the fact that the Gables and the Arnazes lived in the same valley. The chapters flip back and forth from chronicling Carole's career to the search party scaling the mountain hoping to find survivors. (Somehow I keep hoping they do...) I did not know Carole had been married to William Powell!, brief that it was. The book details Carole's post-Powell, pre-Gable fling with Russ Columbo which reminds me of a story Lucy told on a talk show. (No, Lucy wasn't a COMIC per se, but she told a story in an entertaining way. I always hate it when people insist Lucy was not a funny woman.) I paraphrased from memory: "Carole once told me--and this was while she was married to Clark--, "you know, the big love of my life was Russ Columbo". And I said "Who's Russ Columbo?". Carole: "WHO'S Russ Columbo???" (and Lucy made a face indicating Carole scoffed at her for not knowing). Flash forward: Gary and I are sitting up in bed and flipping through the channels. I yelled "Stop! that's me!!. In an old movie from my days as an extra, I'm on the beach with another girl and we're talking to Russ Columbo. I had no memory of him." Russ died in a freak gunshot accident in 1934 and was only 26. What movie do you think Lucy was referring to? If she did a movie with Columbo, was there a beach scene? Just Researched: Broadway Thru A Keyhole, 1933 - co-stas: Ann Sothern and others [they were friends 50+ years, then...] plus (just naming some of her 'veteran regulars') : Hobart Cavanaugh, Charles Lane, Dennis O'Keefe, as well as Walter Winchell, as himself, newscaster; and writer of story (IMDb and Wiki assistance) - Lucille is llisted, uncredited, as chorine and/or girl on the beach! Loving you, JK Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rickee Posted August 26, 2014 Report Share Posted August 26, 2014 That's a great story. The movie is Broadway Thru a Keyhole and she is indeed on a beach with Russ Columbo. Lucy wrote in Love, Lucy that she never knew she was in the movie until she had recently seen it on television. She didn't tell the whole story. The film was always in her list of credits. Russ Columbo had lived on Roxbury Drive in the house later owned by Rosemary Clooney. Clooney said Columbo was shot in the house and haunted it. However, Columbo was actually shot at a friend's home and was no longer even living in the Roxbury Drive house when he died. Yep, have the film and if memory serves, she and Ann Sothern are walking on the beach with Columbo. Brief, but there she is. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HarryCarter Posted August 27, 2014 Report Share Posted August 27, 2014 Here are some shots of Lucy in Broadway Thru a Keyhole. (left to right) Constance Cummings, Russ Columbo, Lucille, John Kelly, Ann Sothern Lucy, John Kelly, and Ann: Lucy has one line ("Well, you certainly were the life of the party, Louie, while it lasted.") Ann doesn't have any. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luvsbway Posted August 27, 2014 Report Share Posted August 27, 2014 Thanks. Never caught this movie. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C L A U D E Posted August 27, 2014 Report Share Posted August 27, 2014 Even if I had over the decades, dun't remember it at all. And she looks so different there too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leenorman Posted August 27, 2014 Report Share Posted August 27, 2014 Thanks for sharing these amazing shots from 1933! Wow! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C L A U D E Posted August 27, 2014 Report Share Posted August 27, 2014 She looked so different there, just starting out in the business with a bit part and that young ingenue LOOK. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C L A U D E Posted August 31, 2014 Report Share Posted August 31, 2014 Now THIS one I don't even believe myself. I'm looking at books and come across this one book about anything PUNK, I think it was called PUNK is everything, I went through the pages as it had a naked man on the cover. To my shock and amazement, there is a full page of LUCY in there, the LIFE photos of her eyes on top and her mouth and teeth at the bottom and superimposed over those two beautiful shots of Lucy are some words about PUNK, a bit of text over Lucy's photos, man, is this woman everywhere or what? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C L A U D E Posted September 2, 2014 Report Share Posted September 2, 2014 One bio of CBS founder and chairman Bill Pailey says that he and his socialite wife Babe took Lucy to see My Fair Lady, as they socilaized seeing as she was their biggest star at CBS. Another says that Lucy was invited to stay at their country retreat in New Hampshire as Bill and Babe had to build that there as they were not allowed into certain country clubs around New York city as HE was Jewish. I was always curious to find out if Lucy had been invited to Truman Capote's famous party of the century as it was held in '66 when Lucy was at the height of her popularity. At least I KNOW she made it to the western version, Sammy Davis' party of the century in L A where she DID attend being a good friend of Sammy's and Altovise's. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Annaleigh Posted September 5, 2014 Report Share Posted September 5, 2014 I need some inspiration I should definitely reread Love, Lucy or Desilu for the millionth time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luvsbway Posted September 5, 2014 Report Share Posted September 5, 2014 Sounds wonderful. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mister Hepburn Posted September 10, 2014 Author Report Share Posted September 10, 2014 Finally making my way back into Desilu after being a tad too busy lately... At the end of the divorce trial it mentions a "Desi Arnaz Indian Wells Hotel." First mention in this book so I'm a little confounded... Anyone have more info on the place? A quick Google search tells me it's still up and running. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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