Amazing that Lucy is still ‘the IT girl’ 50 something years later. I always got the feeling, Lucy could be just as cranky and fussy as Milton Berle when off stage. They were only human, and you have to balance out all that ‘hilarity’
in some manner. Jerry Lewis is the same way, one tough customer unless he is in total control.
My mom waited on her a few times at Bullocks Wilshire and said she was wonderful sweet gracious and fun