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packman

(16,296 posts) Mon Aug 6, 2018, 11:21 AM Aug 2018

For Lucille Ball's fans - Lucy thru the years

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Photos from Lucy's early modeling days, thru the TV and Movie years, and in the late years - A lady to the end

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/lucille-ball-style_us_5b648fa4e4b0fd5c73d94456

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For Lucille Ball's fans - Lucy thru the years (Original Post) packman Aug 2018 OP

A 'tidbit' on the side. yallerdawg Aug 2018 #1

I recall the day her divorce from Desi was announced Zorro Aug 2018 #2

yallerdawg

(16,104 posts)

1. A 'tidbit' on the side.

Reply to packman (Original post)

Mon Aug 6, 2018, 11:34 AM

Aug 2018

Desilu Productions started the 'Star Trek' franchise.

"If it were not for Lucy, there would be no 'Star Trek' today."

Ball soon after sold Desilu to Paramount for $17 million. A couple of weeks following the sale, Holly got a phone call from a frantic Charles Bluhdorn, then board chairman of Paramount's parent company, Gulf + Western. Bluhdorn had been examining the prohibitive cost figures on "Star Trek" and "Mission: Impossible."

"What did you sell me?" Bluhdorn said in a state of panic. "I'm going to the poorhouse!"

http://articles.latimes.com/1996-09-15/entertainment/ca-44038_1_star-trek-creator-trek-tidbits-desilu-studios

The rest is history, as they say.

Zorro

(15,745 posts)

2. I recall the day her divorce from Desi was announced

Reply to packman (Original post)

Mon Aug 6, 2018, 04:50 PM

Aug 2018

It was pretty confounding, since I had equated their onscreen marriage was just a reflection of their real-life marriage.

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