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Lucille Ball's Very First Los Angeles Home Is for Sale
House Beautiful ^ | August 24, 2016 | Lauren Smith

Posted on 08/25/2016 11:40:22 AM PDT by EveningStar

Back in 1933, a 22-year-old Lucille Ball had just landed her first movie role in Roman Scandals and signed a contract with RKO. What's a soon-to-be movie star to do? Buy a house, of course. Which is why she snatched up this bungalow on the border of West Hollywood so she could be close to all the action.

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; History; Local News; Music/Entertainment; Society; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: california; historichomes; ilovelucy; losangeles; lucilleball; lucy; realestate; southerncalifornia; westhollywood
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1 posted on 08/25/2016 11:40:22 AM PDT by EveningStar
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2 posted on 08/25/2016 11:40:59 AM PDT by EveningStar
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To: EveningStar

I lived in a house in Fullerton....that looked very much like the house in the picture.


3 posted on 08/25/2016 11:43:27 AM PDT by Osage Orange (You hurt my family...you better watch your six.)
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To: EveningStar

They did a nice job with updates in that house. Not overly ostentatious.


4 posted on 08/25/2016 11:47:44 AM PDT by LongWayHome
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To: EveningStar

Amazing how little $1.75 million gets you in that neighborhood.


5 posted on 08/25/2016 11:47:57 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: EveningStar

Communism USA should buy it in honor of her politics, really!!!


6 posted on 08/25/2016 11:48:33 AM PDT by A CA Guy (God Bless America, God Bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: Borges; DollyCali; Perdogg

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7 posted on 08/25/2016 11:49:49 AM PDT by EveningStar
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To: A CA Guy

Luci was a commie? Say it ain’t so!


8 posted on 08/25/2016 11:53:10 AM PDT by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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To: EveningStar
At age 25. Jaw dropping beautiful.


9 posted on 08/25/2016 11:55:20 AM PDT by katana
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To: EveningStar

She was a member and they even had meetings in her house.

She claimed that she only joined to please her Grandfather. I have no idea if that was true or not.

I saw an old movie of her a while back. It was B&W and she was an absolute doll, much more attractive than when doing “I Love Lucy”.


10 posted on 08/25/2016 11:58:14 AM PDT by yarddog (Romans 8:38-39, For I am persuaded.)
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To: EveningStar
A quick look at IMDB shows Roman Scandals was her fourth film and she was uncredited in it and those previous. Her first credited role was her sixteenth movie, "Three Little Pigskins" with The Three Stooges.
11 posted on 08/25/2016 12:00:25 PM PDT by Dalberg-Acton
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To: A CA Guy

Stop. No she was not a communist

This sums up what I just skimmed at Google

And I know a lot about Lucy. That I had to skim Google for this shows that whatever is missing in Google, Lucy’s political or non politics did not spill over into her work. There is no subtle communism, antiamericanism, pro birth control message in her work.

So stop
“Ball was a card-carrying communist in the 30s, a Democrat in the 40s, and a Republican in the 50s. Her confrontation with anti-Communists in Congress in the 50s turned her off to politics for the remaining 37 years of her life.”


12 posted on 08/25/2016 12:00:59 PM PDT by stanne
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To: oh8eleven

She registered to vote in the 1930’s as a Communist but voted for Eisenhower in 1952. She did give testimony to the House Un-American Activities Committee (the committee ignorant brain dead Liberals believe a U.S. Senator named McCarthy had something to do with) and later J. Edgar Hoover said about her “The only thing red about Lucy is her hair, and even that is not legitimate.”


13 posted on 08/25/2016 12:02:35 PM PDT by katana
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To: EveningStar

I wonder what it went for back in 1933?


14 posted on 08/25/2016 12:04:59 PM PDT by TMA62 (Al Sharpton - The North Korea of race relations)
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To: katana

thx ... I had no clue.


15 posted on 08/25/2016 12:06:57 PM PDT by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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To: katana

There were a whole lot of registered Communists in 1930. It was twelve years after the Bolshevik Revolution, and it had not yet become apparent to everyone what a really horrible idea it was.

I have a colleague whose wife’s grandmother recently passed away at 97. Commie in the 30’s. He jokingly used to call her Little Red Grandma.


16 posted on 08/25/2016 12:07:02 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: katana

“At age 25. Jaw dropping beautiful.”

Abdo-lutely!


17 posted on 08/25/2016 12:10:35 PM PDT by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra (Don't touch that thing Don't let anybody touch that thing!I'm a Doctor and I won't touch that thing!)
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To: katana

https://www.google.com/search?q=lucille+ball+images&client=safari&rls=en&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwja8M60o93OAhUFy2MKHYRoDL4Q_AUICCgB&biw=941&bih=587


18 posted on 08/25/2016 12:12:50 PM PDT by morphing libertarian
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Great deal IMO. There are houses in N.O. that were formerly under 10+ ft of water and are in decaying,high-crime neighborhoods that are priced more than that for the ‘ambiance’ of living in a sinking cesspool Put in high end appliance, slap some paint on the outside and fools are actually buying up old dumps.


19 posted on 08/25/2016 12:13:41 PM PDT by ClearBlueSky (Whenever someone says it's not about Islam- it's about Islam. That death cult must be eradicated.)
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To: stanne
In the 1930s and well into the 1940s, some of the big movers and shakers in Hollywood were in love with Josef Stalin. If you wanted regular work, being a card-carrying Communist was a big help. This quasi-requirement didn't sit well with a lot of people in Hollywood, but most were afraid to voice it for fear of not getting work.

This is how Ronald Reagan was elected President of the Screen Actors Guild in 1947 even though, by then, he wasn't getting much work in Hollywood.

Several avowed Communists worked to take him down from the get-go. The first actor to step forward and support him in public (not just in a secret ballot election) was the legendary John Wayne. After that, more slowly came forward so that, by 1950, congress was actually holding hearing on the Communist intimidation in Hollywood which, much later, evolved into the McCarthy hearings.

The next time some liberal dirtbag denounces Joe McCarthy, just remind them what their thugs were doing in Hollywood long before McCarthy was elected to the U.S. Senate.

20 posted on 08/25/2016 12:20:27 PM PDT by Vigilanteman (ObaMao: Fake America, Fake Messiah, Fake Black man. How many fakes can you fit into one Zer0?)
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