Posted on 03/02/2024 5:47:47 PM PST by Beowulf9
Edited on 03/02/2024 7:38:39 PM PST by Sidebar Moderator. [history]
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Meant to say today is Desi’s birthday. This is a marriage I wish had worked. There was real love there. I know some of the problems. I just wish there had not been those and I find it sad two people who did love each other did not stay together as husband and wife, completing the journey of life together.
One, she was a perfectionist. Everything had to be just right on the set. That’s a good thing.
And two, she was very gracious to her fans. There is a story of a college reporter who hesitantly knocked on Lucy’s front door one day, hoping to get a quote or two. Lucy invited the young woman in, and they had a long and pleasant talk over tea.
I also heard that Lucy was a terrible candy maker. But that just might be a rumor. 😄
Unlike most of America, I never found Lucy that funny. But I give her and Desi Sr credit as an amazing entrepreneur. The Desilu production company was truly ahead of its time. In a sense, Lucy and Desi were visionary geniuses to see the potential in shows like “Star Trek” and “Mission Impossible.” That sort of success doesn’t happen by accident.
Thanks for posting this. I clicked through all the photos and read the short vignette’s on each one. So many of the interior rooms remind me of the home I grew up in — the same upright piano, big console TV, huge picture frames, the kitchen. We bought our second house in the California Bay Area in 1983. We still have it - it’s a rancher built in 1952. Many of the details in Ball’s house from the early 50s look like the details we’ve ripped out and remodeled over the years.
I grew up with I Love Lucy so this was a trip down memory lane in many ways.
She also brought home made soup to the late George Putnam when he was sick
I am the same. I was not a big fan of the show, but growing up back then of course I have seen it, all of it probably. Her ‘crying’ drove me and my mother crazy, but the story of their lives and what they did impressed me.
I don’t think I ever laugh at any of her shows. They were all the same.
Thinking back to their TV persona, it was like Ozzie & Harriette. A wonderful and idyllic time. I was there. I know. That can't be taken away.
How far we have fallen!
Same here. I liked her movies better than the show.
Desi was the brains behind the success. Like you I didn’t care for Lucy but a few of the scenes on different shows still make me laugh.
Heh, I just recently watched “Yours, Mine, and Ours” and it really resonated with me coming from a big family with a naval officer as the father.
(Henry Fonda was the Warrant Officer, and Lucy was a nurse...both had eight kids, both had lost their spouse, and dated and eventually got married in the movie, so they had 16 kids!
I laughed...she can do physical humor as much as anyone, and in one scene with her fake eyelashes falling off on her first date with the officer, and she discards her slip on the floor of a crowded bar...I enjoyed it!
When I went to school many years ago, our teacher, trying to explain to us what happens when a Geiger counter gets “saturated” gets overwhelmed, and stops reporting that radiation is present, used Lucy and the candy factory as an educational tool!
It was brilliant. We all remembered a very important thing, but to this day, I can’t see a picture of Lucy in that candy factory episode without thinking of a Geiger counter!
American icon. Up from nothing to Hollywood mogul.
if you get a chance, watch her movie ‘the long long long trailer’ or something like that- really funny movie-
the “California” episodes of I Love Lucy are absolute classics...the best of the entire shows run...
Lucy had 8 kids, Henry Fonda had 10.
Then they had one together for a total of 19.
I’ve heard that Lucy and Henry had had an affair. And that they were both communists.
One of the services (Paramount?) has a documentary of her and Desi - we loved it...felt bad for Desi though...
Maybe she was technically OK at her job. She just needed to step up the pace a bit. 😄
When I lived in SoCal sometimes I’d pick up lunch at a little place near my office. The Hispanic “day workers” did the same. “I Love Lucy” was on the TV. The Hispanic guys spoke no English, but they laughed hysterically at the show.
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