Vintage Friday: We Love Ricky 1951

DESI ARNAZ We love Lucy, and we also love Ricky, a talented actor, singer, musician, and innovative television pioneer. Born March 2, 1917, of a wealthy Cuban family, Desi Arnaz and his clan fled to Miami, Florida after a revolution in Cuba that occurred in 1933. He went on to become the creative force and… Continue reading Vintage Friday: We Love Ricky 1951

Vintage Friday: Douglass Montgomery 1933

If you’ve seen the 1933 Little Women movie version with Katherine Hepburn as Jo, you have seen Douglass Montgomery as her beloved friend Laurie. He reminds me a little of Leslie Howard, Ashley in Gone With the Wind, but with a different style about him. Whereas Leslie Howard comes across as older and more worldly,… Continue reading Vintage Friday: Douglass Montgomery 1933