Name that stove

[petek]

ready..

 

[jons1077]

hmm...

Is it a Westinghouse?

 

[tlee618]

Westinghouse would be my guess as well. Looks like that would have been a fun program, anyone know anything about it?

 

[maytagbear]

Beulah

was an early sitcom, running from 1950-53. Started on radio; she was a recurring character on "Fibber McGee and Molly."

She was played on television by:

Ethel Waters

Hattie McDaniel

Louise Beavers

Amanda Randolph.

I have only seen one episode, and it was a Louise Beavers episode.

More can be found at IMDB.

Lawrence/Maytagbear

 

[tlee618]

Thanks Lawrence for the information!! It would be fun to see some of those old shows.

 

[laundromat]

I am real sure,it's a Westinghouse.

 

[customline]

My Guess....

WESTINGHOUSE !!!!!

 

[whitekingd]

WELL,

You can be sure, - if it's WESTINGHOUSE! LOL

 

[laundromat]

WESTINGHOUSE

It looks like it's the same model they had on

Yea you know it,

"I LOVE LUCY"

 

[passatdoc]

It was the first tv show with a black actor or actress as the lead role, though the role was that of a household domestic servant.

I've only read about the Beulah show and have never seen an actual episode, because few copies exist. It was produced in the days of kinescopes, before videotapes, and they only way to preserve a live performance was to make a movie film of a tv monitor...hence the poor images (as you see on "Honeymooners" episodes). The first series that was FILMED (like a movie) rather than presented live was "I Love Lucy", which revolutionized television and created the rerun, since the end product was a motion picture-quality film that was superior to kinescope.

The reviews I've read portray the series as an early variant of the later "Hazel": the housekeeper is the only one who knows what's going on in her clueless, affluent employers' households. But given the times, they probably had to be very careful not to portray Beulah as being way smarter than her white employers. With Hazel and Shirley Booth, without racial lines to cross, it was easier to show Hazel outsmarting "Mr. and Mrs. B" on every episode.

The reason "Julia" with Dianne Carroll was such a big deal in the late 1960s is that for the first time the lead black character was a professional (a Navy nurse, in this case) and not a domestic servant.

 

[whirlcool]

Speaking of Diahann Carroll, she sang at a local church wedding here in Spring a few weeks ago. It made the local newspaper. We always liked her, especially on Dynasty. The first black rich bitch. I wondered if she still looks like Dominique Devereaux?

And speaking of I Love Lucy being the first on film, that is correct. And in addition, the studio didn't want to pay for the film, so Desi Arnaz paid for the film himself, and retained ownership. So in the end, he actually owned all those shows. That was how they made so much money off of the series. I think that 100 years from now people will still be laughing at Lucy!

There were so many shows in the 50's that would still be popular today if they had only been put on film, rather than Kinescope. I never even heard of Leave it to Beulah let alone ever seen an episode. It looks quite fun. I'll have to see if I can dig up an episode somewhere.

 

[maytagbear]

The title

is just "Beulah." Although rather funny, and considered harmless at the time, the show would be considered Highly Offencive if presented now exactly as it was then.

Another early sitcom which would face similar objections is "The Goldbergs," starring Gertrude Berg.

imdb is such a wonderful resource for television as well as film.

Lawrence/Maytagbear

 

[toggleswitch2]

oh so many were called Beulah Bottom in the bars and social haunts. I had no idea it was such a popular name!

;-)