[PUGACHEV]

In the '60s, I took theater classes from a man who worked as a bit character on I Love Lucy. He told me she was not at all like her public persona. She was harshly obsessive about every aspect of production. You had to stand exactly on your mark and do your lines and steps precisely as she told you to do them.

[Ozguy1945]

You can see that in Burton’s and Taylor’s faces in my post ........

[Vermont Lt]

There is nothing wrong with that. Some directors have a vision, and they are in charge.

The part I find amusing is how Lucy was pretty much washed up…and about as immoral as a woman could be in Hollywood. If she were around today, with today’s media…the opinions around here would be very different.

She evokes memories of a less crazy (and younger) era for most of us. It’s more about how these memories in YOUR life make you feel. I suggest very, very few of us can begin to understand her as a human.

[alexander_busek]

In the '60s, I took theater classes from a man who worked as a bit character on I Love Lucy. He told me she was not at all like her public persona. She was harshly obsessive about every aspect of production. You had to stand exactly on your mark and do your lines and steps precisely as she told you to do them.

Are you sure that he was talking about Lucy during her "I Love Lucy" days - or about later, after the divorce from Desi, whereupon she took over the studio reins and had to frequently "lay down the law" in a male-dominated industry?

My understanding was that, as long as her marriage endured, she pretty much deferred to Desi / let him "wear the pants" / allowed him to play the harsh taskmaster when actors forgot their lines or showed up late.

Your bit-character / theatre class instructor friend may, rather, have been talking about the "Here's Lucy" or "The Lucy Show" era, when it is generally acknowledged that she was a strict disciplinarian.

Regards,

[ealgeone]

Some might call that a standard of excellence. Could be why her work holds up to this day.