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APPLE BLOSSOM LUCY

April 30, 1964

If it were not for the scourge of Corona Virus, this week would have been the start of the annual Shenandoah Apple Blossom Festival and Parade in Winchester, Virginia. The event began in 1929 and was only previously cancelled during World War II. The event features an Apple Blossom Queen (aka Queen Shenandoah), a parade with a Grand Marshal, and celebrity appearances.

In 1964, TV legend Lucille Ball, served as the Festival’s Grand Marshal. The Queen of Comedy was joined by another famous Lucy - Luci Baines Johnson, who was Queen Shenandoah.

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Luci Baines Johnson (born July 2, 1947) is the younger daughter of U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson and his wife, Lady Lady Bird Johnson. Her father was president from November 22, 1963 (President Kennedy’s assassination) to January 20, 1969. Her first name was originally spelled "Lucy" just like Lucille Ball’s nickname, but in her teens she changed the spelling. As her parents both had the initials LBJ, they named their two daughters so that they would have these initials as well.

A brochure for the 1964 event shows both Luci and Lucille on the cover.

A more generic tourist guide was also available for visitors.

A program book was available for fifty cents.

Naturally, the ‘two Lucy’ event gathered a good deal of press, as with this brief column in Variety.

The Post Office even commemorated the Festival with special envelopes and postmarks. The top left envelope is from the 1964 event and shows the Johnson family home.

If Lucille Ball needed to be convinced to be Grand Marshal, she just had to ask some of her famous friends, who also went to Winchester at Festival Time.

1949 & 1975 - Bob Hope

1953 - Howard Keel

1953 - Arthur Godfrey

1954 - Ed Sullivan

1957 - Johnny Roventini (Philip Morris Bellboy) also present in 1964 with Lucille Ball

1958 - Audrey Meadows

1968 - Eddie Bracken (Too Many Girls)

1969 - Ed McMahon

1973 - Mike Douglas

Three days before Lucy’s appearances at the Apple Festival, “Lucy Enters A Baking Contest” (TLS S2;E28) was aired for the first time. The episode depicts Lucy making pies, although they were cream pies, not apple!

For the 75th Anniversary Festival in 2002, Lucy’s granddaughter, Katharine Desiree Luckinbill, served as Queen Shenandoah. Lucille Ball’s daughter, Lucie Arnaz and Lucie’s husband Larry Luckinbill, accompanied their daughter Katharine to the event and also rode in the parade.

AN APPLE A DAY...

Although audiences never knew it, apple sauce was the main ingredient in the pies dumped on William Holden in “Hollywood at Last!” (ILL S4;E16) and apple pectin was the secret ingredient in Vitameatavegamin in “Lucy Does a TV Commercial” (ILL S1;E30).

“Lucy’s Notebook” - a publication from the mid-1950s - includes a recipe for Apple Pie de Luxe!

She was also known for her Sweet Apple John - recipe above!

Speaking of Apple John, in “Lucy Goes to Art Class” (TLS S2;E15), Viv bakes an apple pie for John, a handsome new bachelor she met at art class.

In the same episode, Lucy ‘meets cute’ with John when the contents of her purse spill out on the floor and he helps pick them up - including an apple!

In “Lucy Buys a Boat” (TLS S1;E30), Lucy snacks on an apple while Viv is out cold from too many sea sickness pills!

In “Lucy Learns To Drive” (ILL S4;E12) Lucy tries to coax a catatonic Fred out of his daze by tempting him with a piece of her apple pie!

In “Lucy and Chuck Connors Have a Surprise Slumber Party” (HL S6;E13) Connors decides to spend the night in the Carter house. His director (Ryan MacDonald) informs him there’s plenty of apple pie in the fridge!

Lucy Ricardo owned an apple cookie jar! Lucy’s Hull Apple Cookie Jar, was often seen in the Ricardo kitchen. Hull Pottery was quite popular in the 1950’s.

In early episodes of “I Love Lucy” apples (and other fruits) were readily available in the Ricardo living room!

Int “The Kleptomaniac” (ILL S1;E27) while Lucy is stealing Fred’s cuckoo clock for her club bazaar, she grabs an apple from the sideboard as a snack!

A ravenous Lucy takes a bite out of juicy looking apple - only to discover that it is made of wax - in "Lucy’s Schedule” (ILL S1;E33).

In “Lucy Helps the Countess” (TLS S4;E8), Lucy Carmichael, the Countess, and Mr. Mooney, accidentally get locked in a vacant high rise apartment for the weekend! The only food they have is one solitary apple!

In “Dirty Gertie” (HL S5;E10), Lucy Carter goes downtown to bring a basket of surplus apples to her hairdresser, and is mistaken for an impoverished “Apple Annie” by some local mobsters.

In “Lucy in London” (1966), after Anthony Newley’s medley, there is a quick shot of Lucy as an Eliza Doolittle-type figure in the balcony of a theatre munching an apple! Technically, London theatres were known for their orange sellers, but why quibble?

In “Lucy Becomes a Reporter” (TLS S1;E17), Viv’s old flame Argyle (John Vivyan) says she was known in high school was as ‘Truckie’ because of her dance moves while doing “The Big Apple.” In “Love Among the Two By Fours” (LWL S1;E3). Lucy Barker and her old flame Ben (Peter Graves) say they first met doing the same dance!

Apples are 18 cents a pound in 1970′s “Lucy Loses Her Cool” (HL S3;E13).

In a silent movie sketch in “Lucy and Mickey Rooney” (TLS S4;E18) The Kid (Rooney) swipes an apple from a fruit stall, but The Tramp (Lucy) stops him.

He was only emulating the Keystone Cop!

At the start of “Lucy the Gun Moll” (TLS S4;E25), Lucy Carmichael wants Mr. Mooney to install an apple vending machine for the employees at the bank. Although vending machines offering fresh fruit are rare in today’s world, the Fruit-O-Matic Company started to manufacture such machines around 1950.

In “World’s Greatest Grandma” (LWL; unaired) Lucy Barker considers singing “Don’t Sit Under the Apple Tree (With Anyone Else But Me)” for a talent show - except (as usual) she can’t sing!

In “Lucy and the Andrews Sisters” (HL S2;E6), Lucy Carter and daughter Kim join Patty Andrews in a medley that contains the song. It was originally sung by the Andrews Sisters in the 1942 film Private Buckaroo.

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papermoonloveslucy · 7 years

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Lucy Buys a Boat

S1;E30 ~ April 29, 1963

Synopsis

Lucy talks Viv into buying a boat that's barely seaworthy. When they finally get it on the lake, it slips away from its moorings, trapping a seasick Viv and a bossy Lucy without a sail. Then the leaks start springing up!

Regular Cast

Lucille Ball (Lucy Carmichael), Vivian Vance (Vivian Bagley), Jimmy Garrett (Jerry Carmichael), Ralph Hart (Sherman Bagley), Candy Moore (Chris Carmichael)

This was the last episode of season one. It was also the last episode filmed in black and white. It is, however, not the last episode aired in black and white as CBS declined to air season two in color.

This is the only episode this season to only feature the main cast.

This was intended to be the last episode of “The Lucy Show.” Lucy only came back to TV because Desilu couldn't sell their other shows without a hit. This series was used to leverage the sales of other Desilu programs. Lucille Ball was also concerned that one season of shows would not sell well in markets that showed daily repeats (“stripping”) as the program would only be worth one month of daily viewings if shown every weekday. “I Love Lucy” would last a station nine months of daily stripping.

The episode was filmed on March 28, 1963.

The original airing included commercials for Lux soap, Pepsodent toothpaste, Wisk laundry detergent, and Jell-O gelatin. There was also voice over promo for “Password” (Lucille Ball’s favorite game show) which aired at 10pm Mondays. That evening, the guest was Arthur Godfrey. Coincidentally, during the early 1950s, “I Love Lucy” was promoted by “The Arthur Godfrey Show,” which aired in the time slot just before it.

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Lucy and Viv normally take a cottage by the lake during the summer. Lucy says when she was a little girl she practically “lived on boats.” Lucy may be referring to Chautauqua Lake, which is adjacent to Jamestown, New York, Lucy Carmichael's hometown.

Lucy says she bought it with the hull in the water so she didn't notice the shape the boat was in. She adds that she didn't have Lloyd Bridges with her. Lloyd Bridges was the star of “Sea Hunt” (1958-1961), a TV series about a scuba diver which featured extensive underwater filming. Bridges played a doctor on the season five opener of “Here’s Lucy” in 1972. He was previously mentioned in “Lucy and Viv Put in a Shower” (S1;E18).

Posing at the prow, Lucy insists she bought the boat from its original owner, Viv sarcastically says “I wonder if he was standing where you are when he discovered America?” Viv is, of course, referring to Christopher Columbus (1451-1506), whose three ships are said to have been the first to travel to the ‘New World’ (aka the Americas) in 1492. Columbus's legacy continues to be debated. He was widely venerated in the centuries after his death, but public perceptions have changed as recent scholars have given greater attention to negative aspects of his life, such as his enslavement of the indigenous population and his brutal subjugation of the Taíno people, as well as allegations of tyranny towards Spanish colonists. Lucy Carter talked extensively about Columbus in “Lucy Competes with Carol Burnett” (HL S2;E24, above) during the Secretary Beautiful Pageant.

Viv refers to a bossy Lucy as Captain Bligh. William Bligh was a real-life British Admiral who was in charge of the HMS Bounty when a mutiny set him adrift in 1789. His story was related in many films, including one in 1962.

Viv references the fact that she was once a WAVE, a navy organization of women during World War II. This was first established in “Lucy Becomes an Astronaut” (S1;E6).

Lucy gets a telephone call from a Mr. Hussey at the marina. This may be a reference to actress Ruth Hussey, who did the film The Facts of Life (above) with Lucille Ball in 1960. Along with Ethel Merman, Hussey starred in a pilot aired as part of “Vacation Playhouse”, the summer 1963 replacement for “The Lucy Show.”

Lucy says that Viv has brought enough seasickness pills for the Queen Mary.

Lucy is referring to the RMS Queen Mary, an ocean liner launched in 1934 for the Cunard Line. The ship was officially retired from service in 1967 and is now permanently berthed in Long Beach, California, serving as a tourist attraction, museum, and hotel.

When Viv dons her life jacket while still docked Lucy calls her “chicken of the sea.”

Chicken of the Sea is a provider of packaged seafood, primarily canned tuna. Their television commercials were ubiquitous throughout the 1960s. In 1963, the year this episode aired, the company was sold to Ralston Purina.

While preparing her dinner on board, Lucy sings a bit of “Sailing, Sailing (Over the Bounding Main)” a folk song first composed in 1880 by James Swift (aka Godfrey Marks). The music (sans lyrics) was extensively used as underscoring during “Bon Voyage” (ILL S5;E13) in 1956 when Lucy misses the SS Constitution headed for Europe.

Once again, faced with the boat's tiny bunks Viv gets claustrophobic. This was established in “Lucy Becomes an Astronaut” (S1;E6). In real life, it was Lucille Ball who suffered from the condition.

Nautical Vocabulary!

VIV: “I’m afraid I’m just a landlubber at heart.”

Landlubber ~ Lubber is an old word (dating from the 14th century) meaning a clumsy or stupid person. The term landlubber refers to an unseasoned sailor.

VIV: “I’ll bet this is the first time anybody’s been shanghaied on a lake.”

Shanghaied ~ force someone to join a ship lacking a full crew by coercion or other underhanded means.

JERRY (to LUCY): “You’d better give us a rest, or you are going to have your first mutiny.”

Mutiny ~ an open rebellion against the proper authorities, especially by soldiers or sailors against their officers. The most famous in popular culture was in Mutiny on the Bounty, so Jerry is continuing the analogy of Lucy to Captain Bligh.

VIV (to LUCY): “Oh, go shiver yer timbers.”

"Shiver Me Timbers" ~ is an exclamation usually attributed to the speech of pirates in works of fiction. The word ‘shiver’ means “to break into small fragments or splinters” while the ‘timbers’ refer to the wooden support frames of old sailing ships. So the saying was most likely alluding to the shock of a large wave or cannonball causing the hull to shudder or split asunder.

LUCY (into telephone): “We’ve been working on her for days and she’s really yar!”

Yar ~ When a boat is trim, responsive, and in all ways lively in handling. In The Philadelphia Story (1940), Kate Hepburn’s character famously says about a boat “My, she was yar!”

Fast Forward!

A scene from this episode was included in “Lucy and Viv Reminisce” (S6;E16), the series’ only clips episode.

In “Lucy in London” (1966) Lucy Carmichael’s leaky raft sinks her and her Captain (Anthony Newley) right in the middle of the River Thames. Instead of being filmed on a soundstage, the special was done on location in the icy waters of the Thames in London.

In “Lucy Runs The Rapids” (HL S2;E4), Lucy Carter’s sleeping bag gets dragged out into the middle of the Colorado River and slowly sinks under the weight of the water! Again, this was filmed on location, not in a studio.

Callbacks!

A leaky raft also sank Lucy and Desi in the feature film Forever Darling (1956).

A leaky boat was part of the comic finale of “Lucy's Summer Vacation,” a 1959 episode of “The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour” about a visit to fictional Lake Wotchasokapoo, Vermont.

The Ricardos and the Mertzes were also seen on a boat in distress in “Desert Island” (ILL S6;E8) where the group goes motor boating off the coast of Florida but runs out of gas.

The set for the boat was constructed on a gimbal - an elevated platform that could be manipulated for back and forth motion. The same construction was used to shake the set of One Oak Cabins in “First Stop” (ILL S4;E14) to replicate the shaking of the building as the train passes by.

Lucy says “I don't know what's wrong with those bunks. We tried them at home and they're just fine.” This may be callback to “Lucy and Her Electric Mattress” (S1:E12) where Lucy and Viv slept in Sherman and Jerry's bunk beds.

Viv also had trouble with the bunks when they were quarantined in a space capsule simulator in “Lucy Becomes an Astronaut” (S1;E6).

Lucy trying to fix dinner in a moving galley is reminiscent of a similar sequence in the 1953 film The Long, Long Trailer.

In this episode, Viv takes too many sea sickness pills and gets drowsy. On the “Staten Island Ferry” (ILL S5;E12) it was Lucy who took too many pills - resulting in her almost missing out on getting her passport! To assure this won’t happen on her transatlantic crossing, during “Bon Voyage” (ILL S5;E13) Lucy’s mother gives her a jumbo sized bottle of sea sickness pills!

This is yet another episode where Vivian Vance eats a banana! Ethel Mertz also ate one during “Bon Voyage” (ILL S5;E13), snacking on the contents of Lucy’s fruit basket!

Blooper Alerts!

Timing is Every...{crash}...Thing! When Lucy and Viv run the boat mast into a window in the French doors, there's obviously no glass in the window. The glass shattering sound is a bit delayed.

Ripples v Waves! Lucy says they are adrift on an inland lake, but unless there's a violent storm the severe pitching of the boat would be unusual for lake waters. If you look closely, you can see that Lucy’s plate of meatballs is actually on tiny casters. Naturally, meatballs were chosen because they are round and would roll! One of the meatballs does fall on the floor (see above photo) but Lucille Ball either doesn’t notice or decided it was not worth trying to rescue, let alone stop shooting.

Hats Off to Lucy! During the stunt with the sliding deck chair, Lucy's hat falls off.

“Lucy Buys a Boat” rates 5 Paper Hearts out of 5

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