Guglielmo, Amy
Summary: "Lucy was not a proper little girl. She was sassy. She was bold. She was funny. She was a rule-breaking, chance-taking, comedy pioneer. Can't act? Can't sing? Can't dance? Lucy proves them all wrong - and then has the last laugh when she finally lets her inner funny girl shine. In 1951, the hit show I Love Lucy took television by storm, and has made millions laugh ever since. Lucy! is the true...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Books for Young Readers 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 BALContents: Disc 1. Lucy and George Burns ; Lucy and the submarine ; Lucy and the Bean Queen ; Lucy and Paul Winchell ; Lucy and the ring-a-ding ring ; Lucy flies to London; Lucy gets a roommate; Lucy and Carol in Palm Springs ; Lucy gets caught up in the draft; Lucy and John Wayne Disc 2. Lucy and Pat Collins ; Lucy and the monkey; Lucy and the efficiency expert ; Lucy's substitute secretary; Viv visits...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Allegro Corp. 2008
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV LUCGutman, Dan
Summary: "From the best-selling author of My Weird School: a new entry in the cheerful and engaging biography series centered on high-interest historic figures. Did you know that Lucille Ball could pick up radio signals through her teeth? Or that her career was almost destroyed because she was a registered Communist? Bet you didn't know that, as a studio executive, she green-lit both Star Trek and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Norton Young Readers, an imprint of W. W. Norton & Company 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 BALRoyal, Sarah
Summary: An intimate and deeply original exploration of the life and work of the television pioneer, the First Lady of Comedy, Lucille Bal--A.K.A. Lucy. With stories illuminating the many different facets of the woman, [this book] details how Ball transformed the face of comedy and the entertainment industry. -- adapted from back cover
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Publisher / Publication Date: Running Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BALL, LUCILLE ROYSummary: A Navy sailor tries to rekindle a romance with the woman he loves while on shore leave in San Francisco.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2005
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The redhead is up to some of her most hilarious shenanigans. Back home in New York, Ricky buys the nightclub, and renames it Club Babalu. The Ricardos and Mertzs take trips to Florida and Cuba, and then decide to move to rural Connecticut. We also meet Little Ricky, now a 5-year old drumming sensation, and a new set of Connecticut neighbors for the Ricardos. Includes all 27 episodes of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV I 6Summary: Morning glory: A small-town community-theatre actress comes to New York dreaming of theatrical stardom. She amuses a producer and a playwright with her naiviete. Partly out of sympathy, the playwright arranges for her to understudy a troublesome theatrical star. When the star walks out on opening night, the young actress goes on to triumphant success. She is warned not to let it go to her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2007
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA KATMeltzer, Brad.
Summary: A first-person presentation of the life and career of comedian and studio head Lucille Ball.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 BALCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J Bio I Am BallSummary: Includes all 26 episodes of the year that saw the Ricardo's and Mertze's traveling in Europe due to Ricky's band getting a tour and Fred acting as the band's manager. Lucy and Ethel raise the money they need to travel along with a charity scam.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV I 5Summary: Cuban-born bandleader Ricky Ricardo and his wife, Lucy, live in a Brownstone apartment building on East 68th Street in New York City. The beautiful, but daffy Lucy has the nasty habit of getting into jams, scrapes, and predicaments of all kinds. Their best friends and landlords, Fred and Ethel Mertz, frequently find themselves in the middle of Lucy's outlandish escapades.
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Publisher / Publication Date: CBS / Paramount Network Television 2012
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV Series I 2012Sanders, Coyne Steven.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Morrow 1993
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 SANSummary: Join Dean Martin and his guests - Ann-Margaret, Jack Benny, Goldie Hawn, Ella Fitzgerald, Bob Newhart, Jimmy Stewart, Dom De Luise, Victor Borge, Orson Welles, Frank Sinatra and more in the wild and crazy antics of his world famous variety show.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Guthy-Renker Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV BESSummary: "America's mermaid" Esther Williams stars as a teacher at a women's college, a woman accused of being a marriage-breaker, a star shooting a film in the tropics, a woman in love with the captain of the South American polo team, and a woman who swims the English Channel and meets a handsome Frenchman.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer 2007
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY ESTSummary: The Ricardos and the Mertzes head out to Hollywood to launch Ricky's movie career. Includes all 30 episodes, loaded with special footage and lost scenes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV I 4Summary: Here's how it all began-the classic episodes that started America's long-running love affair with everyone's favorite madcap redhead, Lucille Ball. Plus the rarely seen pilot episode that sold the I Love Lucy series. By the end of its initial season, I Love Lucy was TV's first bona fide smash-hit-the very first program seen in more than 10 million homes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: CBS DVD 2012
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV IContents: Babalu music -- I love Lucy theme (vocal) -- El cumbanchero -- Cuban Pete -- Babalu -- We're having a baby (my baby and me) -- There's a brand new baby at our house -- We'll build a bungalow -- Straw hat song -- By the waters of the Minnetonka -- California, here I come -- Nobody loves the ump -- Jingle bells -- The lady in red -- I'm on my way to Cuba -- Guadalajara -- Down Argentine way -- In...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia Records 1991
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD SHOW MUSIC BABSummary: Cuban-born bandleader Ricky Ricardo and his wife, Lucy, live in a Brownstone apartment building on East 68th Street in New York City. The beautiful, but daffy Lucy has the nasty habit of getting into jams, scrapes, and predicaments of all kinds. Their best friends and landlords, Fred and Ethel Mertz, frequently find themselves in the middle of Lucy's outlandish escapades. Now in the third...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Pictures 2012
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ICopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV I 3Summary: Following its wildly successful six-season run, "I love Lucy" expanded to a one-hour format as "The Lucille Ball-Desi Arnaz show" (later released as "The Lucy-Desi comedy hour"). These hilarious specials debuted with the 75-minute-long "Lucy takes a cruise to Havana" in which Lucy McGillicuddy--vacationing with her best friend Susie MacNamara--meets Ricky Ricardo for the first time. In a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV I 789Summary: Disc 1. The Lucy show. Lucy and Viv put in a shower -- Lucy's barbershop quartet -- Lucy with George Burns -- Lucy and the submarine -- Lucy, the bean queen -- Lucy and Paul Winchell -- Lucy and the ring-a-ding ring -- Lucy flies to London -- Lucy gets a roommate -- Lucy and Carol in Palm Springs.; Disc 2. The Lucy show. Lucy gets caught up in the draft -- Lucy and John Wayne -- Lucy and Pat...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mill Creek Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV BESSummary: Two classic Marx Brothers movies. Room Service: Groucho Marx plays a producer with no money who's stalling to avoid eviction from his hotel room. At the circus: When a loan shark man, a strongman and a midget set out to steal "Wilson's Wonder Circus" from the owner, two circus attendants (Chico and Harpo) enlist the help of a lawyer named Attorney Loophole (Groucho).
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2004
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY ROOSummary: The film depicts the fears, setbacks and daily struggles of aspiring young performers, and, for the very few, stardom and success.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment Co. 2005