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Film Date: 1933
Studio: Samuel Goldwyn/United Artists, Film Type: comedy/musical
Lucy's Character: Slave Girl
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Film Date: 1933
Studio: 20th Century/United Artists, Film Type: musical
Lucy's Character: Girl at the Beach
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Film Date: 1933
Studio: 20th Century, Film Type: comedy/drama
Lucy's Character: Bit Part
Special Notes: In real life, George Raft and Wallace Beery were not nearly so friendly as their characters: Raft persuaded director Raoul Walsh to hire a number of his underworld cronies as extras, which irritated Beery no end. When the two actors had a fight scene, Beery refused to hold back, and the staged fistfight quickly turned into a for-real battle royale.
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Film Date: 1933
Studio: Fox/United Artists, Film Type: drama
Lucy's Character: Bit Part
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Film Date: 1934
Studio: 20th Century/United Artiists, Film Type: comedy
Lucy's Character: Chorus Girl
Special Notes: Moulin Rouge was withdrawn from circulation in the early 1950s to avoid confusion with the more famous Toulouse Lautrec biopic of the same name. Look for Lucille Ball in the nightclub scenes.
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Film Date: 1934
Studio: Fox, Film Type: drama/musical
Lucy's Character: Bit Part
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Film Date: 1934
Studio: 20th Century/United Artists, Film Type: comedy
Lucy's Character: Lady-in-Waiting
Special Notes: Affairs of Cellini is based on Edwin Justus Mayer's popular stage play The Firebrand, which in turn was based on the life and times of Renaissance artist/political reactionary Benvenuto Cellini. Though hardly reliable as history, Affairs of Cellini scores on its comic content, including the hilarious performances of Frank Morgan as the cuckolded Duke and Fay Wray as the monumentally stupid artist's model.
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Film Date: 1934
Studio: Samuel Goldwyn/United Artists, Film Type: comedy/musical
Lucy's Character: Goldwyn Girl
Special Notes: Lucille Ball plays a blonde Goldwyn Girl in the harem sequence. According to Ethel Merman, the film's elaborate Technicolor ice-cream factory finale, in which Eddie allows dozens of tenement kids to gorge themselves on his tasty confections, posed censorship problems: while producer Sam Goldwyn was allowed to show the little boys with comically extended stomachs, he was not permitted to do so with the little girls, for fear that the audience might think the female moppets were pregnant!
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Film Date: 1934
Studio: Twentieth Century/United Artists, Film Type: mystery
Lucy's Character: Bit Part
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Film Date: 1934
Studio: Columbia, Film Type: comedy/drama
Lucy's Character: Blonde telephone operator
Special Notes: Lucille Ball plays a blonde telephone operator in her role as a bit-part.
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Film Date: 1934
Studio: Columbia, Film Type: comedy
Lucy's Character: Daisy Simms
Special Notes: Three Little Pigskins is one of the most enduringly popular comedy shorts of the 1930s, featuring The Three Stooges at their anarchic best. It's also famous for providing an early supporting role to Lucille Ball, who plays Daisy Simms, the gangster's girlfriend. Lucille Ball would always credit the Stooges with introducing her to "slapstick and physical comedy." According to Jack White, brother of Stooges producer Jules White, Lucille quickly left the studio because "Harry Cohn didn't want to bother with her. He didn't think she had any talent!"
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Film Date: 1934
Studio: Samuel Goldwyn/United Artists, Film Type: drama
Lucy's Character: Chorus Girl
Special Notes: Russian actress Anna Sten was brought to America as a protégé of producer Samuel Goldwyn, who sought to make Sten the "next Garbo." The resounding box office failure of Nana and Sten's next two vehicles led Goldwyn to drop her contract two years after bringing her to Hollywood, though she continued to work sporadically in films for another 25 years.
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Film Date: 1934
Studio: Columbia, Film Type: drama
Lucy's Character: Peggy
Special Notes: There are a few movie databases that list the incorrect Plot lines for this movie with the 1924 movie of the same name.
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Film Date: 1934
Studio: Columbia, Film Type: drama
Lucy's Character: Bit Part
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Film Date: 1934
Studio: Fox, Film Type: comedy
Lucy's Character: Bit Part
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Film Date: 1934
Studio: Columbia, Film Type: drama
Lucy's Character: Beauty Operator
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Film Date: 1935
Studio: Columbia, Film Type: comedy
Lucy's Character: Nurse
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Film Date: 1935
Studio: Columbia, Film Type: comedy/crime
Lucy's Character: Bit Part
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Film Date: 1935
Studio: RKO, Film Type: comedy/musical
Lucy's Character: Fashion Model
Special Notes: Keep an eye out for a blond Lucille Ball as a fashion model. Alice Duer Miller's novel "Gowns by Roberta" was adapted into the 1933 Broadway musical Roberta, with music by Jerome Kern and Otto Harbach. The 1935 filmization of Roberta was slightly adapted to accommodate the dancing talents of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, though their roles are secondary to the characters portrayed by Irene Dunne and Randolph Scott.
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Film Date: 1935
Studio: RKO, Film Type: comedy/musical
Lucy's Character: College Girl
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