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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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I lived in a house in Fullerton....that looked very much like the house in the picture.
They did a nice job with updates in that house. Not overly ostentatious.
Amazing how little $1.75 million gets you in that neighborhood.
Communism USA should buy it in honor of her politics, really!!!
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Luci was a commie? Say it ain’t so!
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”.
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.”
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.”
I wonder what it went for back in 1933?
thx ... I had no clue.
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.
“At age 25. Jaw dropping beautiful.”
Abdo-lutely!
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.
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.
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