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“I Love Lucy” premiered on October 15, 1951 on CBS. It aired on Monday nights at 9pm EST for 179 episodes. #OnThisDay ❤️
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(via Film Noir Photos: Bevy of Beauties: Edith Meiser, Eve Arden & Vivian Vance)
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한국에 ‘왈가닥 루시’ 라는 이름으로 70년대에 수입되었다는데 지금은 볼 길이 없어서 유튜브 클립만 보는 중임.
#my art#i love lucy#lucille ball#desi arnaz#vivian vance#lucy ricardo#ricky ricardo#william frawley#1950s#doodle#illustration
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#i love lucy#the seance#vintage television#50s tv#lucille ball#vivian vance#my cell phone gifs#black and white tv
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Vivian Vance
July 26, 1909 – August 17, 1979
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LUCY & THE SWANS
BALL, CAPOTE & PALEY
The new FX series "Feud: Capote vs. The Swans" depicts a world that Lucille Ball knew all too well - wealth, fame and celebrity. Although she does not inhabit the New York Society of Babe Paley, Slim Keith, Ann Woodward, C.Z. Guest, Gloria Guinness and others, she and her Desilu empire lie just outside of it - her influence on the era keenly felt.
Episode 1 of the teleplay ("Pilot") begins in 1958, and takes us to the executive boardroom of CBS in New York. There, Bill Paley (Treat Williams) holds forth, a photo of Lucy and Desi prominently hovering over his shoulder.
In this room, the Paley and the CBS brass made programming moves played out on a schedule board. The Monday 9pm time slot is occupied by "I Love Lucy", with a small photo of Lucy and Desi (the same one that hung on the wall) tucked into the title card - as if they needed reminding of who they were! The only slight faux pas is that "I Love Lucy" (as a half hour series) did not run in 1958. Its final episode aired in May 1957. It then became an hour-long celebrity-driven musical comedy hour under the banner of "The Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse." Paley and CBS probably wanted Lucy and Desi for a 7th season, but Desi had other plans. He wouldn't kill the Ricardos (metaphorically) but relegate them to specials, interspersed with Desilu productions of new drama and comedy. It is possible that the action of "Feud" in this scene lies somewhere in that murky period between Desi's plans, and Paley's wishes for a seventh season of the half-hour format.
In actuality, during 1958, the 9pm Monday time slot was occupied by "The Danny Thomas Show" (filmed at Desilu) and "The Ann Sothern Show" (produced by Desilu). Monday also featured the Desilu Western "The Texan," making the only half hour of CBS's Monday primetime NOT created by Lucy and Desi "Father Knows Best."
Episode 6 ("Hats, Gloves, and Effete Homosexuals") set in 1978 includes a luncheon conversation at La Cote that mentions Lucille Ball and Lucie Arnaz. Truman's new boyfriend Rick (Vito Schnabel) is a handyman who once fixed Ball's air conditioner in Palm Springs.
Truman has promised to bring Rick to see They're Playing our Song on Broadway starring Lucie Arnaz. Rick says that he met little Lucie while she was swimming laps.
BILL & BABE PALEY
The power and influence of William S. Paley cannot be underestimated. He literally built CBS (the Columbia Broadcasting System) from a small radio station to a multi-media conglomerate, serving as Chairman for much of its existence. He shepherded CBS from radio to television, and was responsible for giving the green light to Lucille Ball making the transition from "My Favorite Husband" to "I Love Lucy," bringing her real-life husband along for the ride. Without Paley and Lucy, CBS would not have gotten a foothold in an industry dominated by the National Broadcasting Corporation (NBC).
Paley's second wife was socialite Barbara Cushing Mortimer, who he married the year before he met Lucille Ball. Mortimer is best known as Babe Paley, and she was Truman Capote's favorite of the Swans. In "Lucy's Barbershop Quartet" (1963), the group needs to find a replacement singer for the group and Viv suggests the unseen character of Barbara Cushing, who is a soloist in their church choir. Although Lucy, Viv, Thelma, and Dorothy were definitely not swans (more like Danfield Ducks) the writers were tipping their hat to the big boss's wife.
A few years later, in "Lucy Meets Danny Kaye" (1964), Kaye telephones Bill Paley to see if he has any spare tickets for his show to give fan Lucy. The best he can do is tickets to "The Jackie Gleason Show." Paley does not appear, nor do we hear his voice.
In real life, Paley and Ball were both in the first group of inductees to the Television Academy Hall of Fame in 1984. Ball and Paley sat at the same table together at the ceremony.
In 1976, he joined those paying tribute to Lucy on "Lucy and CBS: The First 25 Years." Paley and his wife Babe had homes in Manhasset Long Island, and Squam New Hampshire, respectively known as Kiluna Farm South, and Kiluna Farm North, where they entertained a myriad of celebrities, Lucille Ball among them.
TRUMAN CAPOTE
On screen Lucille Ball had little to no interaction with writer Truman Capote. But in her personal life, Ball was guest at at least one of his lavish parties. Gary and Lucy's photo album included a photo of the Mortons at a December 13, 1975 party hosted by Capote, Allan Carr, and John O'Shea in Lincoln Heights, a wealthy neighborhood of Los Angeles. The 'mug shot' was part of a party game where guests were 'arrested' and forced to pay bail in order to get released. The money was usually donated to the host's favorite charity.
In July 1978, Capote joined Lucille Ball at Westbury Music Fair to see Lucie Arnaz perform in "Annie Get Your Gun".
Capote's one foray into acting was in Neil Simon's Murder By Death (1976), a camp comedy send-up of Agatha Christie-style murder mysteries where Capote played the eccentric host, Lionel Twain. The film featured a few stars with close connections to Lucille Ball.
Peter Sellars (Sidney Wang) starred in Will The Real Mr. Sellars...?, an oddball film from 1969 with a very brief cameo by Lucille Ball courtesy of hidden camera footage.
Elsa Lanchester (Jessica Marbles) famously guest-starred on "I Love Lucy" as a woman who may - or may not be - a hatchet murderess. In 1973, she appeared on "Here's Lucy" as kooky bank robber Mumsie Westcott.
Although screen writer Neil Simon never wrote for Lucille Ball, or even appeared on the same screen with her, they did share credits on two television shows. He was a staff writer on “The Garry Moore Show,” which Lucy appeared on in 1960. Simon and Ball were both featured on “Bob Hope’s World of Comedy” (1976), but were not onstage at the same time. It was Lucie Arnaz who worked closest with Simon. She starred on Broadway in They’re Playing Our Song (for which Simon wrote the libretto) in 1978. She then took over the role of Bela in Simon's Pulitzer Prize-winning Broadway play Lost in Yonkers in 1992.
MISC. SWANS
Vivian Vance doing an in-character commercial for Swan dish soap on "The Lucy Show." Swan was made by Lever Brothers, and was discontinued in 1974.
SWAN SONGS
LUCY: "Would you begrudge an expectant swan her song?"
RICKY: "You seem to forget that this particular swan has no talent." ~ Lucy's Show Biz Swan Song (1952)
LUCY: “It’s time for that swan to hit the come-back trail.”
FRED: “That swan’s got a little ham in it.” ~ The Indian Show (1953)
#Capote and the Swans#Truman Capote#Swans#Feud#Feud: Capote vs the swans#Bill Paley#William Paley#Babe Paley#Capote#Paley#CBS#TV#Lucille Ball#Desi Arnaz#I Love Lucy#1958#Murder By Death#Vivian Vance#Lucie Arnaz#Gary Morton#Danny Kaye#Treat Williams
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Eve Arden Vs. Dorothy Provine Vs. Vivian Vance
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Master Poll List of the Hot Vintage TV Ladies Bracket
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#i love lucy#merry christmas#believe in the magic of Christmas#Vivian Vance#Lucille Ball#Desi Arnaz#William Frawley#season 6 episode 11#December 24 1956
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“The Lucy Show” premiered on CBS on October 1, 1962 #OnThisDay
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A fine picture of Eve Arden and Vivian Vance.
Yes, this is the lady who played Ethel Mertz on I Love Lucy all those years.
Yay for the ladies. Yay.
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Vivian Vance and Lucille Ball.
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#I Love Lucy#1952#Lucille Ball#Vivian Vance#giant bread#Pioneer Women#sitcom episode#TV#vintage#1950s#comedy#loaf#Lucy Ricardo#Ethel Mertz
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The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour. 1957
Tallulah Bankhead was 55 years old, Lucy 46, Vivian 48.
Fun Tidbit: During rehearsals Lucy complimented Tallulah on her crocheted sweater. Ms Bankhead took it off her shoulders and tossed it at Lucy. ‘Take it’, she said. In spite of Lucy’s refusal, Ms Bankhead insisted, stating; I’ve dozens more’. Vivian Vance complimented her on her slacks, at which point, Desi Arnaz left the room, fearing Ms Bankhead wouldn’t stop her ‘strip-gifting’? Tallulah give the slacks, and stopped at that point.
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I Love Lucy: “Vacation From Marriage”
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