The Very Best of Eve Arden and Kaye Ballard!
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- I loved Eve Arden and Kaye Ballard in the very funny TV sitcom The Mothers-in-Law in the late 60s. I think my verbal introduction before all the great and funny snippets from the show pretty much sums it up!
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Hey All! Though only 1-2 of you asked me to do a Part Two of the Best of Eve and Kaye I am getting ready to do another one within the next few weeks. Get ready! The clip, that I could not fit in back in April, is only about 7 minutes.
Post full episodes!
Would you say that Eve Arden and Kaye Ballard were playing fictionalized versions of themselves?Their characters have the same first names as theirs but not the same last names. It seems that their characters were written to fit their real life personalities.
@@emanuellawton7942 I don't know, because originally they wanted Ann Sothern to play the Kaye Buell role, but they felt she was too similar to Eve, so they went with Kaye Ballard. They actually used the real first names of all of the actors, except for Deborah Walley who played Suzie. Then, of course, when Richard Deacon replaced Roger C. Carmel, he also did not have the same first name.
@briankistler8349 @briankistler8349 I have fond memories of this show and I remember watching the premiere episode on NBC back in 1967. Me and my brothers and sisters were in Oceanside, Ca. and we were there on vacation staying at a family friend's house. I remember it airing on Sunday nights.The comedic antics of Eve Arden and Kaye Ballard reminded me Lucille Ball and Vivian Vance on "I Love Lucy " which was no surprise since the show was produced by Desi Arnaz and Desilu Productions. I guess Desi Arnaz still had a professional relationship with Lucille Ball after their divorce because she got control and ownership of Desilu Productions back in 1962 when she bought his shares of the production company. This show and another sitcom show called "The Ghost and Mrs. Muir"( which premiered on NBC a year after "The Mothers-in-Laws" premiered)were two of my favorite NBC shows to watch on the weekends along with "Disney's The Wonderful World of Color".
I don't know how many of you will see this comment, but I am Facebook friends with Eve Arden's son, and he recognized his mother yesterday stating that he just could not believe that yesterday was 32 years ago since his mother had passed away!
im a big eve arden fan
I LOVED THAT SHOW.
Loved it! I remember watching The Mothers-in-Law on our brand new RCA console color TV with my parents. The sets and costumes were so colorful and we laughed so much. Thank you for posting.
I loved it too! I think season 1 was better than season 2, and I am not just saying that because they got a new Roger Buell. There was more to it than that. I notice in the clip with the meatballs exactly what you are talking about with the color. I don't think it was a coincidence that you had that bright reddish punch, and Eve Arden wearing a fluorescent green dress with a bright orange hat. I think they were experimenting with color. Prime time shows all switched to color in 1966, and this show premiered in 1967.
@@briankistler8349 Desi Arnaz, whom Kaye Ballard called "the most tasteful man in show business" made a poor decision in replacing Roger C. Carmel with the man who was as far away as one could get from Roger C. Carmel. Desi had Richard Deacon under contract for a TV series with Carol Channing. It didn't sell, so Desi decided to use Deacon for "The Mothers-In-Law," strangely believing the audience wouldn't notice or care that Deacon and Carmel were different in demeanor, appearance, and age. No chemistry with Kaye or any other cast member. Deacon was terrific in other series, however, like "The Dick Van Dyke Show," and "Leave it To Beaver."
I loved this show as a kid, loved Eve Arden from the old movies.
You're probably including Mildred Pierce. I even liked her stage name a lot. Arden reminded me of two things, which both gave me a warm and fuzzy feeling. It almost sounds like "ardent" like burning: "ardent love affair" and it also rhymes with "garden" and Eve being the first woman on earth, garden and Eve harken me back to the Garden of Eden in Genesis. You probably know that her real name was Eunice Quedens.
Brian, I met Kay at a little Italian bakery in Palm Springs, where we both lived. The thrill of my life!!
How wonderful! I was just glad to be in the same room as her, when she was in her mid to late 80s, when she did a performance in my home town.
Kay Ballard, (Catherine Gloria Balotta) could sing. Man, could she sing!
I thought that a lot. And she sang a lot in the show. She really did a good job in the episode My Son the Actor.
THanks for posting. I was about seven when this series aired and remember loving it as a kid. I always like Eve's great timing and line delivery. As I got older I started seeing the many movies she had been in long before the series, where she had the same great timing. Anyone who hasn't seen Stage Door should check it out...she only had a small role as one of the many aspiring actresses in New York staying at the same boarding house, but even then she had that great voice and line delivery. The amazing cast includes Ginger Rogers, Katherine Hepburn, Lucille Ball (also in a small role!) and Ann Miller.
I have seen it. I wish I could find her first movie that came out in 1929. Haven't been able to find it. You and I are close to the same age. I turned 8 years old in October 1967. I did not know who Eve Arden was before the series, but I really liked her. I did not know who Kaye Ballard was either, and she played off Eve well.
I never knew this TV show existed. Thank you so much for introducing it to me!!!
Well I certainly hope you get to see it! You can buy all 56 episodes. By the way you would probably enjoy another video I did about a piano in the rain. In my other video I spend a bit of time setting up the scene before I play the video
@@briankistler8349 I was give the DVD collection as a birthday present, I dunno... it seems 20 years ago. I had mentioned that I saw this series when it was new and I was a young teen, and enjoyed it, especially the first year, before Roger quit. But truth be told, very few episodes are good. But the good ones are gold-platinum joy.
Great fun, loved this show with the two funniest women on TV. Thank you for the share, Brian.
You're welcome. :)
As a young 11 year-old in 1967, I absolutely loved this show - most especially Kaye Ballard and her "Italian curses." I can clearly recall my late Dad saying that the show was "stupid" and "wouldn't last." My Step-mom agreed. Well, there I was the odd one out - but I digress... Anyway, thank you for posting this and bringing back fun memories. I have not yet watched the entire video, but a "special guest appearance" by the wonderful Jimmy Durante stands out in my mind - I believe this was in early 1969.
Yes you're right! I enjoyed that Jimmy Durante episode too
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I should really do Kaye Ballard justice, since I wrote a note mentioning how long Eve Arden has been gone. Kaye Ballard outlived Eve Arden by nearly 30 years, but remember she was 17 years younger than Eve. Kaye died in January 2019, and nine months later, in October of that same year, her TV son, Jerry Fogel died and with his death, he was the very last cast member of the show to pass away. So it is not quite 3 years, at this writing, that they are all gone.
You should 'pin' this comment.
@@KelikakuCoutin I'm not so savvy technologically. How do I do that? Is it easy?
I had no idea Jerry Vogel had passed. I can't believe they're all gone. I thought I saw something Mr. Vogel wrote online that these were his happiest two years of his life. I think he appreciated fans rememering the show and still loving it.
@@briankistler8349 This video has the directions; under 2 minutes. Keep up the good work.
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@@donschmidt1373 Yes I read what he wrote too on IMDB
This show was great ! Please post more ,thank youm
Thanks for your kind words. Even the very first episode has some really funny stuff.
@@briankistler8349 yes all of them , hope you add more
kaye Ballard was so gorgeous Woman! I miss her
@user-nx4uu4gn2j Yes, she did not even die that long ago. The last surviving cast member died just a few months after she did.
Our dear sweet, witty Eve Arden would have been 114 years old today on this April 30th. She's been gone from this world not quite 32 years now.
Whether we liked it or not we watched it was what my mom and dad watched we had one TV in the front room and we had little discussion or what we could watch
I remember one time all 5 of us in my family huddled together and watched All in the Family. But not because we had no choice. Every single one of us was motivated to watch that show and enjoyed it.
Eve was 17 years Kaye's senior!
I know. They always seemed like they were close in age. :)
@@briankistler8349 Absolutely true.
Laverne and Shirley before Laverne and Shirley!
You might say that. Although Laverne and Shirley being single women and roommates a little bit different. :)
I also watch Our Miss Brooks .. and listen to the radio show if it. Great shows .😊
You have to hand it to Ozzie Nelson. He wrote the awful song "North Dakota Moon" when he was young and foolish but he had the grace and dignity to make fun of it (and himself) as an older man.
Gee, I kind of like the song actually. :)
Hilarious
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As good as Lucy and Viv. Love the colors. Christine Ebersole and Megan Mullally could play these parts.
Who was the hunky Carter?
Roger Ewing. It looks like he's still alive and he just turned 80 this year. I think he was 25 when this episode aired. It said he was most famous for appearing in 36 episodes of the very popular TV show from that era, Gunsmoke. I also read that within 5 years of this episode, he called it quits with acting and threw himself into his real passion: Photography.
You forgot the one with Don Rickles as a guest.
I've seen them all and I remember that one. I chose the ones which I thought either had the most laughs or sentimentality for me. The one with them singing North Dakota Moon wasn't really so much funny as it was sentimental for me. The one with the horse at the opera wasn't so much funny as it was over the top and interesting all the misadventures that Kaye and Eve had. The others I picked, I picked for the laughs. In season 2, I really did not like that they slapped a blond wig on Eve Arden, so that had something to do with why I did not pick the Don Rickles episode. I thought she looked better as a red head, a strawberry blond, or an auburn haired woman in season 1. They put lots of wigs on her throughout the show.
Hi All. I finally did a sequel to this video about Eve and Kaye. I really hope you enjoy this one too. 🙂 Here is the link ua-cam.com/video/m7G7pmju5Dc/v-deo.html
What's in those meatballs?
Garlic for sure from what I saw in the episode. Too much garlic too!
what a waste of tallent
Eve Arden will remain eternally young from her portrayal of a spinster schoolteacher in "Our Miss Brooks."
I sure thought she seemed young here. She was between 59-61 during the series but at one point her TV husband asked her about having another baby and she said no. She also asked her TV husband: "Do you remember 1929?" and he said "Barely, I was 6 years old!!" So I think she was supposed to be younger than she was; close to Kaye's age.
@@briankistler8349 She looked a little more matronly when she appeared as Sally Field's aunt in the one episode of "Girl With Something Extra." She still looked terrific in whatever she did.
@@judd442009 Yes. I could not believe that she played Bea Arthur's aunt in Maude.
i love our miss brooks and the eve arden show. i love her in one touch of venus as the sophisticated secretary but still funny.
I loved these two. These skits remind me of Lucy and Ethel.
I agree! It was cool that they were very different people and with a different relationship, but still had similar dynamics to Lucy and Ethel. Some of the scripts were written by the same writers on I Love Lucy------among them Madelyn Pugh Davis.
Well thats no surprise. It was produced by Desi Arnaz at Desilu.
Way better than them
Don’t forget a pre Lavern and Shirley!
I LOVED that show when I was a kid during it's first run back in the '60s!!! This brings back a lot of very fond memories of those great times!
I'm glad you feel the way I do! 😊
@@briankistler8349 I still remember that Valkerie scene (I remember an argument between the ladies about whether it was "hoyota ho!" or "Toyota ho!"! It was a fun show, with a terrific cast: Richard Deacon and Roger C. Carmel were wonderful compliments to Ballard and Arden.
@@melenatorr Yes definitely a fun show and a good cast
I feel the same way. I watched it every week as a little kid. What incredible talent.
This is one of the very earliest tv shows from the late 60’s that I remember watching and loving!!
Just like Bea Arthur was the cog in the wheel on the Golden Girls, I think Eve Arden was the cog in the wheel on this show. I heard they actually considered Eve as one of the actresses on the Golden Girls, but by that time she was 77 years old (and I think she had also lost her husband of 30+ years fairly recently).
Anyone who loves I LOVE LUCY would love this show, it was produced by Desi Arnaz and in fact Desi guest stars occasionally as a Spanish bullfighter Rafael Del Gado, and Desi Jr. has appeared in this show as well, right before he started on his mother's HERE'S LUCY series in 1968. Even Mary Jane Croft makes an appearance in the very last episode of this series, which is shown in this collection as the last episode. Rob Reiner pre-All In The Family in 1967 is here too.
I agree! I saw the parallel between Lucy and Ethel and Eve and Kaye. :) Madelyn Pugh or Madelyn Pugh Davis----one of the original writers for I Love Lucy, also wrote some of the scripts.
Loved Eve Arden..her comical character stole many scenes in so many movies..im 63 now but always loved old movies..especially with Eve Arden..
I agree and she also always had a very warm aura and some charm about her. I'm glad I'm old enough to remember the shows from this series when they were shown for the very first time.
I have seen her in several movies too. Of course I really liked her in Mildred Pierce and also in a much lessor known film that she did with Jane Wyman around 1949 called Lady Takes a Sailor. I also liked some of her TV movies or TV productions that she starred in. Like "A Very Missing Person". I think that came out around 1972 as the movie of the week TV series. It was nice to see her in the starring role of a few movies, since she was usually a supporting actress.
I loved this show. I would watch it all the time. Even the reruns.
I like the episode with the piano in the rain too that goes into the swimming pool! I'm with you; too bad it's rarely on TV now (except for maybe on some cable stations).
Ok was 9 years old and remember this show. It was so funny.
Yeah, I really enjoyed it. I think both Kaye and Eve appeared on Laugh-In as guests during their show's run.
I loved this show and I loved each of them. I have looked for reruns of 'The Mothers-in-Law today but can't find them. Perhaps we can 'find' some more here?! 😉
I bought the DVD which has 8 discs------and the entire series.
@@briankistler8349 where?
@@joltjolt5060 You can get it a lot of places. I got it through Amazon. Ebay also has it.
I adore this show! Honestly one of the best of that era.
Yes and I loved the two ladies together. :)
@@briankistler8349 Well, beauty's in the eye of the beholder. I LOVE Eve Arden, but she and Ballard screech/screamed and mugged their way through this series, inexplicably so. Or actually, explicably. I just googled it, and sure enough it was a Desilu production, so no doubt there was some arm-twisting by Arnaz and possibly Ball to shout their lines as Lucy herself did more and more of in the late 1960's.
@@DDumbrille Madelyn Pugh Davis, one of the writers for I Love Lucy, wrote some of the scripts for this series too.
Oh, the immense talent in even the pinky toes of these two women… They have no rival!! Original, quirky, sophisticated and hilarious. Their chemistry was absolutely Dreamy!!
Thanks! I loved it! Even in season 2 when the scripts weren't quite as good, there were still some terrific episodes. :)
Yes they do! Lucille Ball is the best.Ever !
@@morena162 That's another story in itself: Kaye Ballard, Desi Arnaz and Lucille Ball watching the pilot for The Mothers in Law together.
Eve Arden reminds me of Lucille Ball.
Maybe that's why in season 2, they got away from the red wigs that Eve had been wearing.
I was working as a hotel bellman in Clearwater Fla around in 1986. Kaye Ballard was staying there, and needed a ride to a nearby beauty parlor. The task fell to me, so I got to drive her there in my most humble of cars, a 71 VW . She was very nice lady, down to earth, non-judgmental, we discussed her work with Eve Arden. I love meeting celebrities, but who doesn't?
I'd be curious what she had to say about Eve. I saw her in Austin, TX when she was in her mid 80s doing a live show at one of our historic theaters, but the show pretty much was divided three ways between her and her two friends who were part of the show. I had never been in her presence before.
@@briankistler8349 I wish I could remember something specific Kaye said, Brian....... but alas, I cannot. Sorry, pal. ÷(
Kay always seemed to be wearing a wig in this show.
@@Mister_Listener I would say that both Kaye and Eve wore wigs the entire series.
@@Mister_Listener As I said, I drove Kaye to the hair salon.
I didn't just drive her hair to the salon.
My family and i watched it,i was little but we all thought it was hilarious! Shouldve gone much longer!
According to Eve Arden in her book The Three Phases of Eve, they all thought that they were coming back for a third season. And then it was like the rug was pulled out from underneath them. They suddenly got the surprising news that the show was cancelled.
I use to watch this when I was a kid. TV was the best back then.
Yes it makes me nostalgic too.
Said it before, gonna say it again.. the absolute BEST of the BEST!!! Thank you for posting this gem, these ladies were BEYOND talented in every way!
Thank you! And together they were a wonderful team.
The reruns of this show during the year 1977 made my bleak childhood existence much more pleasant!!!!!!!!
I even put together a play kind of like Mamma Mia built around the songs of Abba, except I called mine The Grandmothers-in-Law, showing their lives years later, and I built it around a few songs from The Doors. Naturally me being only a novice, no one was interested.
@@briankistler8349 BRAVO to you!!!!
@@briankistler8349 I'd love it!
Am I the only one to notice how this could have influenced Laverne and Shirley (couldn't you image Laverne "dancing" with the passed out security guard and Shirley yelling at her to come on??)??
Someone else did mention Laverne and Shirley but they did not mention that episode. You may be right. The question is if Madelyn Pugh Davis-----who wrote scripts for both The Mothers in Law and I Love Lucy, also wrote for Laverne and Shirley.
Hilarious as I remember when these originally aired.
I sure agree! I think eventually they spun away from them always being meddling mothers in law and moved into just general drama
Lucy and Ethel, Kaye and Eve, Laverne ad Shirley, they have all done the same bit!
Some of the story lines are peculiar to mothers in law who are neighbors though I think. After a while they ran out of stories where the two were always meddling in their children's lives, so some of the plots got to be more general plots.
I remember watching Eve Arden in our Miss Brooks & Kay Ballard playing one of the wicked stepsister in Cinderella. I loved this show. They did remind of Lucy & Ethel and being Italian, it was nice seeing an zitalian on TV proud of their heritage & not in the mob.
Very interesting show, it was. It was many years before I saw Our Miss Brooks in re-runs. It was before my time, however, lots of shows are shown in re-runs from years ago, but it took a long time before my local TV stations started running her previous series.
Ooooooohhh reallyyyyyyy?. I loved that show. Those two were a real hoot! Kay always reminded of my Mother. She was full Italin. Sylvia Viscarti. This show should have lasted longer than two seasons.
It's a crying shame it didn't. :(
who played Carter Case?
Someone else was curious about that too. Roger Ewing played him. He's still alive but pretty old now. He got out of acting not super long after this show and decided to do something else
I remember watching this show and related very well with Kaye Ballards character.
Yes, I have seen at least one UA-cam video that seemed to like Kaye the best. I liked Eve Arden the best, although the show would never have been successful with just the Eve character alone, I don't think.
@@briankistler8349 - I didn't mean to come across as liking her better because I was aware of Eve Arden outside of TV it was the different in-law with the responses she gave. Overall it was very entertaining considering the out-laws many Mothers were in real life.
@@talos2373 Thanks. I agree.
Being Italian, we did! 😁
I love Kaye Ballard but it is a strange kind of admiration. Her singing voice was brash and loud but she was a great singer and i love to hear her sing even though it is a bit obnoxious at times. Her sense of humor seemed odd and cloying, but she was a great comic. The sumtotal was so unique and quirky…what was bad is what made her good, i think. Thats rare.
I think since it was comedy they deliberately wanted her to sing over the top to make it funnier. Kaye was the original singer of Fly Me to the Moon (In Other Words) even so she was not the one to make it famous. See if you can find a recording of Kaye doing that song, where her style is different.
As I recall, the ratings were excellent, but there was some kind of problem with Desi Arenaz had some difficulties that ended the show.
It was VERY funny show. As I recall it was on Sunday evening.
It was on Sunday evenings. Kaye Ballard talked about the show being in the top 10 or top 20, but I read elsewhere that it was not doing that well and that it was not even in the top 40 in season 2. NBC actually wanted to cancel the show after season 1, but then another network offered to pick it up for season 2. When NBC saw that they reluctantly agreed to a 2nd season, however, one of the conditions was no raise for the cast in season 2, which was normally traditional. I heard Kaye Ballard say in yet another interview, that they wanted to make way for Bill Cosby's first of two TV series, and so cancelling the show was an excuse to do that.
One of my favorite comedies of all time. My parents loved it as well. Makes me feel very nostalgic. The whole series is on Tubi.
I didn't know that. Thanks for sharing
Eve Arden was so good in Mildred Pierce!
Yes. I think she was around 36 then, I read that filming started in December 1944. I also like a movie she did with Jane Wyman in 1949, Lady Takes a Sailor. She was a supporting character in that one, but she did a great job.
@@briankistler8349 👍😀
I'm old but I never saw this. It's fabulous!
Thank you!
I enjoyed this, lovely introduction too. Thank you for sharing!
Thank you! I'm glad you admire this team of great actresses as I do. :)
The horse opera scene is hilarious.
So glad you like that one! Eve had a black and white picture of that in her autobiography and she mentioned how terrified Kaye Ballard looked in that photo.
It's easy to see that Desi Arnaz produced this show. I'm pretty sure it was his last one. We just don't have physical comedy like that any more.
Is that Mel Cooley?
I'm not sure if Desi did any others. Where is Mel Cooley in the video?
@@briankistler8349 There's Mel ever so briefly in the audience @ 19.04!
@@imeanithonest5704 Oh yeah. I knew that Richard Deacon played Kaye's husband in Season 2. I forgot that he appeared in this video at all.
@@imeanithonest5704 Yes, I replied to your first comment after I watched it myself. :)
I always loved Eve Arden's distinctive voice. Kaye Ballard introduced the beautiful song Lazy Afternoon.
Me too! And as for Kaye, I heard she had a really good part in the classic play, The Golden Apple.
It was one of my favorites when I was growing up
LOVE LOVE LOVE Kaye Ballard and Eve Arden has been in my heart forever. These shows, however, were all too typical of the era: basically unfunny.
That's a matter of opinion, however, I will admit after watching the episodes several times, there is some truth to what you say. However, I think we also need to remember that it was a different time and what was considered funny in comedy back then is not necessarily funny today.
I always liked Eve Arden’s voice
Me too
Ozzie Nelson as the bandleader/vocalist?
I recall that show. Is it available on dvd?
Yes. I think you can find it a lot of places. Here is Ebay. It is also on Amazon: www.ebay.com/itm/265363768714?chn=ps&norover=1&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-117182-37290-0&mkcid=2&mkscid=101&itemid=265363768714&targetid=1263104805286&device=c&mktype=&googleloc=9028321&poi=&campaignid=14859008593&mkgroupid=130497710760&rlsatarget=pla-1263104805286&abcId=9300678&merchantid=118834420&gclid=CjwKCAiAmuKbBhA2EiwAxQnt77ldzIV_k7kMt4oFL9SXtcSCsgrTJZCeDPi2BGP8K56HmXQhwPi0SxoC9KIQAvD_BwE
I remember this show - it was hilarious!
Thanks for putting this together❤
You're welcome for sure!
I watched the original run as a 12, 13, & 14 year old. I'm not sure if at that point I had seen I Love Lucy. If you were my age at that time, you got to experience some of these careers backwards, in a sense. For example, Jack Benny was all over TV in those days, doing specials and guest appearances. I saw many of these, but then got to see some of the reruns of the weekly series, then thanks to UA-cam etc I have seen the kinescopes of his first TV show in 1950, and have heard many of the radio shows, all the way back to the mid-1930s. Same with George Burns (and Gracie) - I had no idea there was a Gracie until I was familiar with George. I don't think I had any idea who Ozzie Nelson was when I saw this episode - I've since seen some of the Ozzie & Harriet shows, and heard some of the great recordings he did with Harriet Hilliard back in the 30s. These were far from the coolest people on TV at that time - Laugh In and the Smothers Brothers, even the Tonight Show, had them beat. But for old showbiz fans, these are great fun to watch.
I was between 7 to 9 years old during the show's original run.
@@briankistler8349 Eve Arden had a great comic voice and great comic timing. Really a gift. Our Miss Brooks worked both on radio and TV. Like Lucy, she worked plenty of comic movie roles in both A and B films. OMB had less 'edge' than Lucy, so it gets less play, so Arden gets remembered mainly for the small role she had in Grease. A shame.
@@dmiller1000 I did think Connie Brooks was a little bit more sarcastic than Lucy. :) I read that when Eve was first getting started, there were times when a script was being fleshed out, and none of Eve's female co-stars wanted to take the more feisty, smart-allecky lines, but Eve was totally up for it. So I think that had a lot to do with how she ended up going in the direction she did.
@@briankistler8349 Agreed. Sometimes fate is on your side. But she was able to expertly pull it off, as well as the great timing. Some of this can be learned, but some is just in you.
Jerry’s Uncle Leo..was the security guard
I'll have to look that up on IMDB
This is the same setting as the short lived Paul Lynde show
Really?
Precursor to Laverne & Shirley 📺
Yes. Other people have said that. Or you could say successor of Lucy and Ethel. They had the same writer, on this show, as on I Love Lucy. At least one of their writers, anyway.
What ruined that show was Roger C. Carmel’s exit after the first season. Richard Deacon was a poor substitute.
As you probably know, he quit because there was no raise given to the actors in season 2. I would agree that this contributed to the end of the show at least to a degree. I also think they made a mistake putting Eve in blond wigs in season 2. I think she looked better in wigs with a reddish tint. I think maybe they were trying to avoid comparisons to Lucille Ball. I felt that the blond wigs in season 2 made her look older.
I've always been attracted to Eve Arden and I loved Kaye Ballards eyes especially In the Mothers In Law episode with the Seeds. Her eyes actually sparkle like diamonds.
I wish to thank you for agreeing with me.
Omg this is my mom and her sister
Who? Which ones?
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Yes! 😆
“Where does the pollen go?”
Are we talking about pollen like the kind that bees work with on flower blossoms?
Would you say that Eve Arden and Kaye Ballard were playing fictionalized versions of themselves?Their characters have the same first names as theirs but not the same last names. It seems that their characters were written to fit their real life personalities.
My dad went to school with Kay Ballard. She was from the west side of Cleveland
I read her biography, so I know that is true! That she is from Cleveland.
@@briankistler8349 I have my fathers High School Yearbook. She is in it. They lived in the same neighborhood.
@@KS-kr4ok Wow!
When they sand that Wedding Song😂😂😂😂"Because you come to me"😂😂😂😂😂I was DONE!
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Especially the episode with the piano in the rain that ends up in the swimming pool, when they start singing that song out of the blue.😅
@@briankistler8349 IKR!!!😂😂😂😂😂😂
@@vistulacooper6802 😁
Have been a fan of Eve Arden since she starred in Our Miss Brookes in the 50s
I know she did it in radio too----Miss Brooks-----starting around 1948.
@@briankistler8349 can't remember when I first saw Kate Ballard.
@@Mopar-Pioneer She'd done a lot of things before The Mothers in Law, but I am guessing most people did not know who she was and she became a household name with that show. Just like Herbert Rudley who played Eve's husband in the show..........I doubt many people knew who he was.
@@briankistler8349 true, I don't remember him. But, there are a heck of a lot of character actors in hollywood who as soon as we see them we go " I know him " but can't put a name to them !
@@Mopar-Pioneer I'm thinking Roger C. Carmel who played Kaye's husband might have been a little more visible. I saw him in an Alfred Hitchcock TV episode which was filmed a few years before this show.
Reminds me of Laverne & Shirley
nobody is this funny now NO ONE!
They were hilarious, I remember the reruns in the 70s, and that stupid rose song 50 years later!
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Was Kaye Ballard Jo Anne Worley's sister?! Uncanny!
No. I think, with all I have read about the two of them, I would have seen that by now. 🙂
@@briankistler8349 Well I meant the numerous resemblances (looks, body language, slapstick style, singing, facial expressions), though I also checked and realize they're not actually related.
@@ddruxman3579 😁🙂
Another Lucy Show. Complete ripoff.
Well everyone is entitled to his/her opinion, of course. :) I sure don't expect everybody to like the show.
@@briankistler8349 I, on the other hand, LOVE the show!!
@@Nunofurdambiznez I love it too! Kaye Ballard and Jerry Fogel were the last two actors to die and I think they both died in 2019.
It mirrors Lucy and Ethel, but it's still funny and entertaining. Loved Eve in Mildred Pierce.
One of my favorite shows !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It helped that every so often they did some catchy music. :)
Another fabulous Desi Arnaz production. Wonderful show.
I'm really glad you enjoyed that series. :)
Oh REALLLLLLLLY !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Timeless !!
You see the warmth of the two women as well as the hilarity.