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Movie Club: Lucille Ball - Serious or Zany?
About this event
Our theme this time is 'Lucy Movies'. We can compare Lucy's talents from early in her career to later when she became so popular.
'Lured' (1947) gets good reviews. For 'Yours, Mine and Ours' - Lucy won a Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Comedy or Musical in 1975.
Synopsis - Lured:
Sandra Carpenter (Lucille Ball) is a London-based dancer who is distraught to learn that her friend has disappeared. Soon after the disappearance, she's approached by Harley Temple (Charles Coburn), a police investigator who believes her friend has been murdered by a serial killer who uses personal ads to find his victims. Temple hatches a plan to catch the killer using Sandra as bait, and Sandra agrees to help. But complications arise when Sandra becomes engaged to a nightclub owner.
Synopsis - Yours, Mine and Ours
Navy officer Frank Beardsley (Henry Fonda) is struggling to raise his 10 children in the wake of his wife's death. Frank soon begins dating Helen North (Lucille Ball), a widowed nurse with eight children of her own. After learning of their similar situations, the two are reluctant to pursue a relationship. But with the help of a mutual friend, Darrel Harrison (Van Johnson), the two eventually fall in love and had quite an audience for their wedding night.
Location
Ladies Locker Room
USA
Event Contacts(s)
Marilyn Bonebrake
Co-organizer
Jeanette L Schacht
Co-Coordinator
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