Here's Lucy - Lucy Meets the Burtons - Episode aired 14 September 1970 - Clip
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- A clip from an episode of Here's Lucy (1968 - 1974) aired September 14, 1970 that featured the guests Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor. The skit revolved around their fame and especially the Elizabeth Taylor Diamond, formerly the Krupp Diamond. This clip is of Lucy and Richard where Richard plays the role of a plumber in disguise. He speaks some harsh Welsh, and recites a passage from Shakespeare's Richard II, Act 3, Scene 2.
The voice from the valleys that travelled around the world leaving us intoxicated 🌹
I am impressed Mr. Burton did this scene with Lucy, he showed a different side, I love it. I love his speaking Welsh too, ... “bite your tongue... it losses a little in translation”!
I wonder if he could pronounce the name of that town in Wales--you know--the one that begins with Llainfair----.
@@Juliaflo ... sansiliogogogoch
Lucy's pause at the end of the recital was worthy of Jack Benny and then...."You should stick to plumbing". Priceless.
"I'M A WELSHMAN!" R.I.P. Mr. Burton. The fact that they both kept from cracking up with laughter shows what great actors they were.
D Tittle1964 that reminded me so much of my grandfather😄 The man would just GO when asked if he was English (very proud Welshman!)
My maternal ancestry is Irish,Scots-Irish,Welsh & Cherokee while my paternal ancestry is Welsh and Irish. I'm a very proud individual when it comes to my lineage.
0:34 I wouldn't wanna mess with him hahahaha
@@DTittle The fuck is “Scots-Irish”? You’re either Scottish or Irish
I like that the audience knows better than to say that to Burton. It's because of this clip actually that when I hear a UK accent I can't place I'll say "English or Welsh?" and with it a surprised look. They seem to appreciate the distinction.
Absolutely brilliant clip! LB's sarcastic looks and RB's voice and shakespearian depth. And the humour is GREAT! :)
I saw this as a 11 year old.It knocked me out!,They were both FANTASTIC!
I only clicked on this video once I saw Lucy. She was such a gorgeous dame during her hey days. A real genuine doll
Lucille Ball was an absolutely gorgeous woman. And oh my, Richard Burton, be still my heart.
Great actor sadly missed
Richard Burton was touched by the hand of God.
or at least the voice .... it owes a great deal to an unsung female vocal teacher in his early years
@@phillipecook3227 And to whisky
@@phillipecook3227 it was a male and his name was burton hence he changed his named from jenkins to burton
@@edwinrichards6431 Thanks. Senility is probably getting the better of me. I don't know if you ever read Sydney Poitier's autobiography but he tells that in his early years while working as a dish washer an old Jewish waiter took time during shifts to patiently teach him to read, pronounce and understand the content and words of newspaper articles. Poitier said " a little of him is in everything I do". I'd always thought Burton's elocution teacher was a woman.
I saw Mr.Burton and Elizabeth Taylor years ago on Broadway in "Private Lives". His voice was made for the stage-the movies never did it justice.
He should have done more comedy. Brilliant.
I've read sad things about the week that Lucy and the Burtons were together - but in this scene, the two of them are terrific together.
Richard tried to be a big shit and Lucy put him in his place. It was her show, and he tried to take over.
Apparently she was instructing him on how to act. In fact, she needed lessons on how to be funny.
@@lindajohnston2032 Oh bless you...someone with the cojones to say it. Burton was squandered in this.
I'd say that was a great bit from _Richard II_ by a master thespian, but Burton could read the lyrics to My Humps and make it sound like genius.
Just a couple of icons!
Right? When we lionize we dehumanize.
In 1986 I was sat in Neath Cricket Club one evening with a fellow teammate and his father. My friends father said, “see that man playing cards at that table”, I said “the grey haired man facing us”, he said, “yes that man”, “you’ll never guess who he is”, “he’s Richard Burton’s brother”. It was incredible for me to see this man quietly playing cards, in yet he was the brother of a superstar and legend in Richard Burton. Guess you had to be there, however, at the time it was something to me at least.
Isn't Neath Ray Milland's birthplace?
Just watched.an old Burton movie, My Cousin Rachel, also starring Olivia de Havilland. Very good.
Great clip! It must have been hard for Lucy to keep a straight face in this scene.
Who but Lucy could get Burton to play the fool? RIP the great Lucille Ball, the smartest woman ever associated with Hollywood. She went from glamor girl to comedienne to producer to owner of the most productive TV studio ever but never got uppity about it whatsoever. A wonderful, humble but hard American woman. A grinder, a hustler, a creator to be remembered and celebrated.
The Richard Burton Diaries : ...Thursday 14th, Beverly Hills Hotel
Those who had told us that Lucille Ball was ‘very wearing’ were not exaggerating. She is a monster of staggering charmlessness and monumental lack of humour. She is not ‘wearing’ to us because I suppose we refuse to be worn. I am coldly sarcastic with her to the point of outright contempt but she hears only what she wants to hear.
She is a tired old woman and lives entirely on that weekly show which she has been doing and successfully doing for 19 years. Nineteen solid years of double-takes and pratfalls and desperate up-staging and cutting out other people's laughs if she can, nervously watching the ‘ratings’ as she does so. A machine of enormous energy, which driven by a stupid driver who has forgotten that a machine runs on oil as well as gasoline and who has neglected the former, is creaking badly towards a final convulsive seize-up.
I loathed her the first day. I loathed her the second day and the third. I loathe her today but now I also pity her. After tonight I shall make a point of never seeing her again.
The hitherto impeccably professional Joan Crawford was so inhibited by this behemoth of selfishness that she got herself stupendously crocked for the actual show and virtually had to be helped to her feet and managed, not without some satisfaction I dare say, to bugger up the whole show.
I said very loudly after yawning prodigiously and being asked by the director, a nice but not overly brilliant man called Jerry Paris, whether I was tired or bored or what, that I was not particularly any of those things but was puzzled as to why anybody who didn't have to for financial reasons et al. would submit themselves to this mindless routine week after week for 19 years. Miss Ball and her apology of a husband who was sitting beside me said nothing at all. The husband is a man called Gary Morton, who laughs at all her ‘takes’ etc. however often she does them and whether well or not.
The Richard Burton Diaries is so excellent. Read it twice and the bits about his doing this TV show with Lucy is why I posted this video clip.
Richard Burton should have continued to be a theatrical actor, his talent was wasted on shows like this, he was as good as Laurence Olivier, and Peter 'O' Toole and should have been more selective in the roles he played.
@@SRSM198 Agree-ish. Olivier shilled for Kodak cameras and O’Toole was not above appearing in Supergirl. Even geniuses have to eat.
@@SRSM198 Well this was just a cameo that I seriously doubt he did for the money. I think he was the highest paid actor in Hollywood for a number of years. I think he was still doing plenty of stage work in the 70's as well. He went back to it and still getting very good reviews.
@@SRSM198 Wasn't it his boozing that kept him from getting good roles?
Wow. Just wow, wow, wow.
Richard Harris recited some of this speech as part of the eulogy for Burton
Richard Burton's secret passion: plumbing.
@lucy bond and a frustrated one ...
He was destined to be a coal miner like his father but got out.
I thought Richard Burton was the sexiest man I ever laid my eyes on. Fav. actor...That voice, his eyes and his chest. I used to be a young chick but now an aging broad! Richard is still it. Miss his talent.
From Richard II
,,,,,,, Legends !!!!!!
good thing he is a better actor than plumber
Burton recounted how his father couldn't understand how and why actors got paid so much money. Look for Burton on Cavett here on UA-cam. Richard was a fantastic story teller.
From what I've read of him in biographies he hated the entire experience of working with Lucy. I can understand why. What a squandering of talent.
What I always wanted to know was how the same woman, a bank secretary, met up with all these famous people in that little one horse town. :D
@@nassauguy48 ,,,,, that's Hollywood for ya !
Yeah, Lucy was too good for him.
@@nassauguy48 Los Angeles is a "little one horse town"?
Yup. And yup.
Superb.
I ADORE READING ...
Love his voice I would listen to him forever . I always thought he and Elizabeth were a good match
I'm a Welshman & you better stick to plumbing. Great stuff.
Love it
Charisma oozes from every pore! Burton's not bad either!😉
Burton was probably completely wasted during his performance, like he usually was at the time.
Can anyone translate what he says to her? I'm learning Welsh but can only catch the words he says at the beginning and the end of the sentence.
reply from welsh friend. He's speaking Welsh and he begins by saying ' always the same thing, by hell. the rest is too quick, mispronounced or made up, or a combination of all three.
@@alan5863 I slowed the speed of speech down and had another crack at it. I heard "yr un beth yw hydd mynui fynuion duchnia hi'r pen wyn welis' (my own spelling on the words i don't know how to spell in Welsh), which google translated as 'it is the same as up to black ducks with a white head', which kind of makes sense in response to what she said when questioning the difference between and English and a Welsh man.
@@yvabourke296 i shall ask my welsh friends what they think.
@@yvabourke296 I'd imagine it might be less than complimentary but we shall see. ha
According to my translation, it means; Lucy you are lovely.
Bravo!
Upload the segment where Lucy tries the ring on and we see it on her hand :D
That ring was the size of a small doorknob on anyone’s hand!!
" You're English arn't you?" Uh, oh ...
Nobody likes the English except me lol. He was such an amazing Shakespearian actor RIP Mr Richard Burton...
Richard Burton was not English though was he
Damn, I was 9 days old…
He stole the Show there. Apparently Burton couldn't stand Ball and never wanted to see her again.
Yeah he tried to be the big shit and Ball put him in his place.
Alcohol ruined this man and his talent.
Alcohol WAS his talent.
Which play is that quote from?
Richard II
@@jeanne8507 Yes, Richard II, an unfortunate child who came too young to the throne. Doomed when his only good uncle, John of Gaunt, died, and when his devoted young wife died.
@@basilmarasco1975 Those issues didn't help but the fact that Richard II believed in absolute monarchy and his own erratic behaviour led to his deposition and abdication. No excuse for starving him to death in Pontefract Castle though.
@@ds1868 It's usually the Stuarts who are mentioned as having believed in the absolute right of kings.
Sorry, I meant "the *divine* right of kings."
A master meets a 'hairdo' comedian, also very funny, two types that usually don't gel!
16 people watch Spongebob.
0:34
He couldn't stand her.
Boy he’s a short little man isn’t he.
Great things come in small packages.
As he himself said, Welsh coal miners bred themselves to be small. Tall ones died early. His father was even shorter.
What a Loss.
i think it needs a washer, what ever that is...the dummying of america...
Why in gods name did burton lower himself to do I love Lucy was crap the best Welsh actor ever bloody good actor all that talent wasted
@Tony Doherty Because he was an intelligent man, and wasn't full of himself. He had a humoristic streak, and wasn't shy of showing it. A versatile talent uninterested in self importance. That's why.
The Lucy show was huge. It's like Andre Previn appearing on Morcambe and Wise
A number of dramatic movie stars found it a welcome respite to occasionally go outside the box by appearing in a television show, especially a sitcom. I suppose they also wanted to show their "humble" side. On the other hand, Richard Burton's career was entering into its declining stage. His role in "Exorcist 2: The Heretic" (the sequel to the blockbuster movie) was forgettable, as was the entire movie.
Whatever the Welsh for money is.
More the other way around. She lowered herself and let a has been drunk appear on her show
NO welshman ever had class and breeding !!
Except British Prime Minister David Lloyd George. Also, Llewellyn ab Gruffyd.
@edward andrews You also forget Sir Anthony Hopkins. Richard Burton and Anthony Hopkins were from the same town, Port Talbot in South Wales.
Don't forget all the kings of England who wasn't actually English like all of them. no pure blood in England just a mix of German French Viking crap
O yes the Welsh tought the Irish Scottish and English how to read because you were all a bit thick a s as for breading we told you English 1000 years ago stop shagging pigs it won't end well
How about Ray Milland?
He's tiny, Lucile Ball was only 5'' 1'' Burton must be only 5' 2''
Doing my homework I see that Lucille Ball was 5' 6" and Burton 5' 8". If you have other information, please provide a link.
@@RussMcClay you'll never get anything accurate on google, i know because i met both actors.
@@mickydee7502 Sure you did.
@@RussMcClay i think Lucy ball Was 5" 10 she Was tall sorry my english i am not American
I'm not a big Shakespeare person....but I'd sit and listen to him all nite....he's DAMN GREAT w it✌️🖖😍😎
He was great in the exorcist 2....✌️🖖