Lucille Ball after shooting the grape stomping scene for "The Italian Movie" episode of I Love Lucy,

[demmiblue]

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[cilla4progress]

1. Definitely a siren!

Beauty, brains, and comedic talent = lethal!!

[Rorey]

2. I Love(d) Lucy

I'm sure I've seen every episode of every version at least a dozen times.

[mercuryblues]

3. I've shown my son some youtube clips of ILL

Guess what.

He loves Lucy.

[2naSalit]

4. Smart, talented, beautiful. ...nt

[samnsara]

5. I (still) Love Lucy.. i watch it every morning at 330 am when i drag myself out of bed.

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...About the time of Lucy, there was a woman writer/radio actress named Peg Lynch. She was one of the first, if not the first, woman to write every script and star in her own radio show. She, with Alan Bunce, pay a married couple. The writing and delivery are genius. It's much better than Balls pre-Lucy radio show 'My Favorite Husband'.

Google them and try to listen to their radio show. You can catch a FEW tv episodes of The Ethel and Albert Show on You tube. The others are radio shows and are called Little Things in Life and The Couple Next Door. Same characters, different names and with the addition of Margaret Hamilton ( aka the wicked witch of the West!) The shows run from the late 40s into the early 60s..


Lucille Ball said Peg Lynch was one of her inspirations..






can you tell I'm bored?

[central scrutinizer]

17. The University of Oregon library has a collection of her papers

https://library.uoregon.edu/communications/peg-lynch

[jberryhill]

6. .

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7. Lucy in that shot reminds me of Sophia Loren too.

[leftieNanner]

8. That's not Lucy nt

[brush]

9. I know. That's Loren, right? The photo of the OP is Lucy.

[jberryhill]

10. The point was a comparison with Sophia Loren

...whom the poster correctly identified

[leftieNanner]

11. My misunderstanding of the post

Sorry.

[jberryhill]

12. It happens

[Sloumeau]

13. Now all we need is a picture of her after she

filmed the episode where she stuffed all of those chocolates in her mouth.

[UTUSN]

14. Wow, move over Marilyn!1

[Karadeniz]

15. Lucy looks like she wore herself out having fun!

[MurrayDelph]

16. In her memoir,

Barbara Eden compared the experiences of working with Ann Southern vs Lucille Ball.

Southern was jealous of having a younger ingenue on her show.

Lucy, despite the fact that Desi was a notorious hound-dog, helped Barbara glam up for her character because, she explained to Eden, she knew it would make the episode better.

Lucy was a pro.

[genxlib]

18. Will and Grace did a send up of this recently in one of their last episodes

It was really quite charming. The obvious reference was to Debra Messing following in the footsteps of Lucy but they also let Jack and Karen play along. In fact they let Karen do the grape stomping scene.

But this scene with Messing doing the alcoholic dietary supplement advertisement was the best.