MacShadowsBall's "Lucy" Thread

[MacShadowsBall]

So as some of you know, I'm a big I Love Lucy and in general a Lucille Ball fan. She was an excellent comedienne and often referred to as the Queen of Comedy. She along with her husband, bandleader-turned-producer Desi Arnaz created the groundbreaking I Love Lucy television series in 1951, which laid down the basic foundation for what the television sitcom would be for decades to come.

Much like Fleetwood Mac and the Rumours album, Lucille Ball is known for much more that just the I Love Lucy show. She starred in several movies before and after her "Lucy" fame, along with 2 more TV sitcoms until 1974!

So I thought each week or so I would share some of my favorite Lucille Ball works of art!

2nd Season of I Love Lucy - "Lucy Goes to the Hospital" ; January 19th, 1953
The baby is due any minute and to help calm Ricky's nerves, everyone smoothly rehearses the moment when Lucy will have to go to the hospital.


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[jannieC]

When I was 10 years old, I had major spinal surgery that kept me in the hospital for over a month. I remember watching I Love Lucy reruns every evening at 5pm. She was awesome!

[MacShadowsBall]

Yeah I was around 9-10 years old when I first discovered I Love Lucy. I remember watching it with my grandfather every night at 8pm on the old Nick@Nite.

[BTFLCHLD]

This is one of my favorite movies...have you seen The Big Street?

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[MacShadowsBall]

This is one of my favorite movies...have you seen The Big Street?

No, but it looks like a good movie. I didn't know that she and Henry Fonda starred in two movies!

[BTFLCHLD]

No, but it looks like a good movie. I didn't know that she and Henry Fonda starred in two movies!

sweetest movie ever. hope you can see sometime.

[mezzoforte]

Yeah I was around 9-10 years old when I first discovered I Love Lucy. I remember watching it with my grandfather every night at 8pm on the old Nick@Nite.

I did the same thing with my Mom. We watched the Brady Bunch and I Love Lucy on every night after my younger siblings went to sleep. This seemed very grown-up to me--a grand privilege for having reached the mature age of 9.

This would have been the late 90's, and from what I understand, Nick@Nite has since shifted to shows from the 90's/00's. Needlessly, I think: the comedy of I Love Lucy has help up astoundingly well.

[MacShadowsBall]

This would have been the late 90's, and from what I understand, Nick@Nite has since shifted to shows from the 90's/00's. Needlessly, I think: the comedy of I Love Lucy has help up astoundingly well.

Yeah Nick@Nite now is all shows from the 90' and 200o's. Most of the older shows on Nick@Nite in the 90's got mirgrated over to TVLand, but many now have since disappeared. :(

[MacShadowsBall]

February 9th, 1959 episode of the Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour.

Lucy and the gang are up in Alaska, one day before their hotel rooms are ready and so they are all sharing a room!

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[markolas]

I need to sit down one of these days and watch some episodes of I Love Lucy, The Lucy Show, and Here's Lucy. The first two are the only ones I've really seen much of. Lucy was a great comic actress, but the older she got, the less funny I found her slapstick humor to be. I've seen an episode or two of her last show, Life with Lucy, from the mid-'80s...to paraphrase a review I read, a 75-year old woman falling off a ladder just isn't funny. And she was terribly miscast in Mame. But in her prime, she was great.

[MacShadowsBall]

Lucy was a great comic actress, but the older she got, the less funny I found her slapstick humor to be.

Even for me for some reason, I Love Lucy is funnier that her later shows, The Lucy Show and Here's Lucy. After Vivian Vance left mid-way through The Lucy Show, it was basically just Lucy by herself. True Gale Gordon was there with his brand of comedy/laughter, but Lucy needed another "Ethel".

[caroline79]

I did the same thing with my Mom. We watched the Brady Bunch and I Love Lucy on every night after my younger siblings went to sleep. This seemed very grown-up to me--a grand privilege for having reached the mature age of 9.

This would have been the late 90's, and from what I understand, Nick@Nite has since shifted to shows from the 90's/00's. Needlessly, I think: the comedy of I Love Lucy has help up astoundingly well.

Ahhhh the good old days! I loved Nick@Nite. Now...not so much. I like George Lopez and The Nanny, and that's about it.

I remember watching I Love Lucy and The Brady Bunch with my family t00. I still love Lucy but the Brady Bunch has lost its charm.

[MacShadowsBall]

Lucille Ball on The Flip Wilson Show, Sept 1971.


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[MacShadowsBall]

Here's Lucy - "Lucy Meets the Burtons" September 14th, 1970

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[MacShadowsBall]

Thought I'd let everybody know that the hallmark channel is having a weekend I Love Lucy marathon in honor of Lucille Ball's 100th birthday. :woohoo:

[Macfanforever]

Happy birthday Lucille.I had a feeling one of the cable channels were going to have a marathon this weekend.

[MacShadowsBall]

Also Turner Classic Movies (TCM) is showing Lucille Ball movies tonight.

[MacShadowsBall]

Google's homepage has a real cool I Love Lucy interactive logo.

[MacShadowsBall]

I Love Lucy marathon continues tonight and through out the early morning on the Hallmark channel.

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20 Lucille Ball Quotes on Her 100th Birthday
Posted by Sheri Reed on August 6, 2011 at 7:04 AM

To watch Lucille Ball perform was to love her -- her big gorgeous eyes and her hysterical over-the-top comedic antics. And today commemorates her 100th birthday!

And why else do we love her? Well, Ball was a bit of a rebel spirit and a pioneer in her day, eloping with Cuban-born Desi Arnaz in 1940, becoming the first woman to run a major Hollywood studio (Desilu), being one of the first actresses allowed to show her pregnancy on TV, having her first child at almost 40 years old, and later going through a very public Hollywood divorce from Arnaz. She was even registered as a Communist!

Oh, how I love a woman who follows her own heart -- even if it leads her to the less popular of places.

So let's celebrate Lucille Ball today by looking at 20 wonderful quotes and life lessons from the wise and much-loved comedienne.

20 Lucille Ball Quotes on Her 100th Birthday

1. I'm not funny. What I am is brave.
2. I don't do T & A very well because I haven't got much of either.
3. Ability is of little account without opportunity.
4. I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can.
5. I'd rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done.
6. (On meeting Desi Arnaz for the first time): It wasn't love at first sight. It took a full five minutes.
7. How I Love Lucy was born? We decided that instead of divorce lawyers profiting from our mistakes, we'd profit from them.
8. I have an everyday religion that works for me. Love yourself first, and everything else falls into line.
9. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.
10. It's a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy.
11. Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
12. Women's lib?... Oh, I'm afraid it doesn't interest me one bit. I've been so liberated it hurts.
13. The best time is when you're working and you're happy.
14. Desi was the great love of my life. I will miss him until the day I die. But I don`t regret divorcing him.
15. In life, all good things come hard, but wisdom is the hardest to come by.
16. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself.
17. You see much more of your children once they leave home.
18. The secret to staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.
19. Life's a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death!
20. I'm happy that I have brought laughter because I have been shown by many the value of it in so many lives, in so many ways.

[diane_k]

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One of my all time favorites. There are so many great lines in this episode. Fred and Ethel as "the help" made me howl, even when I watched as a kid. Enjoy!

[MacShadowsBall]

That's my favorite Lucy-Desi Comedy hour episode and in my top ten "Lucy" episodes in general.

[MacShadowsBall]

Lucille Ball explains on the old Dick Cavett Show about the "grape-stomping" sequence in the I Love Lucy episode "Lucy's Italian Movie". :D

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[BTFLCHLD]

wow the entire film is on youtube! enjoy!

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[Travisevian]

Yeah I was around 9-10 years old when I first discovered I Love Lucy. I remember watching it with my grandfather every night at 8pm on the old Nick@Nite.

I enjoyed Nick@ Nite at that age, too.

Here's Lucy - "Lucy Meets the Burtons" September 14th, 1970

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One of my favourite Here's Lucy episodes not only because I really like Here's Lucy but because of Elizabeth Taylor. She had a wonderful sense of humour.

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One of my all time favorites. There are so many great lines in this episode. Fred and Ethel as "the help" made me howl, even when I watched as a kid. Enjoy!

It is one of my favourites as well, dahling. When Ethel imitates the buzzer, I guffaw every single time.

[MacShadowsBall]

One of my favorite episodes from the first season of The Lucy Show.

"Lucy is a Kangaroo for a Day" November 12, 1962 ~ Lucy gets a temp job as a secretary to earn some extra money to buy her son a bicycle for his birthday.

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[MacShadowsBall]

I Love Lucy - "Job Switching" Sept 15th, 1952

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[MacShadowsBall]

"Lucy Conducts the Symphony" from The Lucy Show December 30th, 1963

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[MacShadowsBall]

Lucy has about a dozen eggs hidden in her blouse, just as Ricky wants to rehearse the tango dance for the PTA!

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[Macfanforever]

Anybody remember Automan. An 1983 short lived tv series with Desi Arnaz, Jr playing a computer wizard.To bad it did not last.

Download and watch all 13 shows from TVfreeload.org

http://forum.tvfreeload.org/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=21889

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Or on youtube

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=automan&aq=0

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[MacShadowsBall]

On Saturday, the Hallmark channel is doing a marathan of Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour. These are the hour long "Lucy" episodes that originally ran from 1957-1960 after I Love Lucy ended. The Hallmark channel shows the syndicated versions as 30 minutes episodes called We Love Lucy.

So if you get the hallmark channel, sit back Saturday and enjoy some "Lucy". They show the episodes twice, so they will literally be on from 10am eastern to about midnight. :cool:

[MacShadowsBall]

Lucy marathon is on right now on Hallmark channel through the night!

[MacShadowsBall]

I Love Lucy is back on TV Land. Also today and tonight a "Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour" marathon is on Hallmark.

TV land and Hallmark both now have broadcast rights to I Love Lucy!! :cool: