An Uncoventional Lady

Lucille Désirée Ball ♥ (August 6, 1911 - April 26, 1989)

“I’m a Leo. I was born on a Sunday, August 6, 1911. Unfortunately, everybody knows my birth date because I told the truth when I first came Hollywood.           I’m known among comediennes as a stunt girl who will do anything. Red Skelton flatters me by saying I have the courage of a tiger. I don’t think it’s a matter of bravery; it’s just doing what comes naturally. I do know that if an actress has the slightest aversion to pie in the face or pratfalls, the camera will pick it up instantly. The audience won’t laugh; they’ll suffer in sympathy. Perhaps my willingness to be knocked off a twenty-foot pedestal or shot down a steamship funnel goes back to my earliest, happiest days with father. I knew he was going to catch me; I wasn’t going to get hurt.”

Fifi accidentally knocks popcorn into Minnie Mouse’s cookie batter while chasing a fly in Mickey’s Surprise Party (1939)

Myrna Loy (August 2, 1905 – December 14, 1993)

“I will say one thing for the old days. We had individuality. I admire some of the people on the screen today, but most of them look like everybody else. As to those “monsters” I used to work with, well, I wish they were back. They really loved film, and I miss them.”

The Lion King (2019)

I Love Lucy comics, 35 issues of these popular comic books were published between 1954 to 1962.

Buster Keaton proposes to a young and unknown starlet named Jean Arthur in Seven Chances (1925)

Happy New Year from Nick Charles and this lady who he mistakes for his wife, Nora in After The Thin Man (1936)

Featuring: William Powell and Sue Moore

I Love Lucy: Ricky Loses his Voice (December 1, 1952)

Featuring: Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz

Buster Keaton in Hard Luck (1921)

Mickey and Minnie Mouse share a kiss in Ye Olden Days (1933)

A defeated George Banks does a lot of thinking as he walks the dark streets of London in Mary Poppins (1964)

Featuring: David Tomlinson

Jack Benny (February 14, 1894 - December 26, 1974)

“He would have to go to the studio about one o’ clock in the afternoon and Sunday mornings was our time together. Daddy would get into the car and turn the ignition key. Inevitably, nothing would happen. He would push and pull every button on the dashboard, twist all the knobs and pump the accelerator, but the motor still wouldn’t start. At length, he would sigh and say to me, ‘Honey, the car just won’t start until you give me a kiss.’ Then we would get in the car, he had a convertible, and we would drive to Malibu for breakfast. Daddy treated me like a person; he would tell me what the show was going to be about, who the guest star would be, ask me if I thought it was a funny idea. I felt like I was a part of it, he always made me feel very special.”

-Joan Benny on her father, Jack

Ebenezer Scrooge and the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present,and Future in A Christmas Carol (December 16, 1938)

Featuring: Reginald Owen, Ann Rutherford, Lionel Braham, and D’Arcy Corrigan

A Christmas Carol (1938)

Featuring: Reginald Owen and Clifford Severn

George Bailey receives a very special gift in It’s a Wonderful Life (1946)

Featuring: Jimmy Stewart, Donna Reed, and Karolyn Grimes

The Grinch finally realizes what Christmas is all about in Dr. Seuss’ How The Grinch Stole Christmas! (1966)

❝ Living, I’m worth nothing to her. Dead, I can buy her the tallest cathedrals, golden vineyards, and dancing in the streets. ❞