We still love Lucy
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- Опубліковано 27 лип 2024
- The sitcom "I Love Lucy," starring Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz, was a ratings powerhouse in the 1950s, and a perpetual hit in reruns ever since. To mark the series' 70th anniversary, correspondent Jim Axelrod looks back at the making of a TV classic. He talks with granddaughter Kate Luckinbill, head of creative direction at the production company Desilu; visits the Lucy-Desi Museum and the National Comedy Center, both in Ball's hometown of Jamestown, N.Y.; and sits down with Darin Strauss, author of "The Queen of Tuesday," a novel inspired by Ball.
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1984 - I vividly remember as if it just happened, driving on Santa Monica Boulevard in Los Angeles and making a stop at the Doheny intersection street light, border of Beverly Hills and West Hollywood. Before the light changed I look left and saw Lucy driving a navy blue Rolls Royce. I screamed, "I LOVE YOU LUCY", she looked directly at me and said, "I LOVE YOU TOO!" ..... One of those moments in life you will always remember. It was magic.
How lucky you were. I wish I that I had the opportunity to say the exact same thing to her,
That’s beautiful!
I'm like everybody else. I've seen every episode, and every time I see an episode again, I still fall over laughing. Their gift to the world, is truly, a gift that keeps on giving.
So very true. My mom and I traveled to Jamestown NY to attend the birthday festival weekend in 2006. We even stayed an extra day. Even the weather cooperated the whole weekend and extra day. At that time. RIC WYMAN was executive director. He was so very kind to myself and my elderly mom. It was a very special mother daughter weekend with very fond memories. I am so glad I came across the report by Jim. At the beginning I thought I would need to mention Jamestown. So happy Jim was able to travel there and share his experience. I live in upstate NY, about 30 minutes from the ⚾️ Hall of Fame. The area is beautiful, especially in autumn!!! I ❤ Lucy🙂
Lucy greenlighted "Star Trek", "Mission Impossible", "The Untouchables" and "The Twilight Zone"! She may have disliked running a studio, but she was an absolute genius at it while she did so. She and Desi were pioneers and true visionaries...yet another reason why they were so compatible, and so much in love.
And Desi created the camera angles that is still used in the 21st century.
Lucy did not green light The Untouchables. The Untouchables were first a part of the Desilu TV Playhouse. And then Desi Arnaz made it a weekly TV show. Plus it was Desi's secretary who brought the book, The Untouchables, to the attention of her boss.
@@doraholden848 According to many websites, Lucy "greenlighted" The Untouchables, Mission Impossible, Star Trek, and even the Twilight Zone, among other programs. I am only going by what I have read.
@@TheVerbalVolley a lot of people just repeat secondary sources that are already incorrect.
Find a primary source if you have a question about veracity.
Or perhaps you can even find a website that is well vetted.
All internet websites are not created equally.
But the important thing is we all love Lucy and Desi.
@@doraholden848 Hi, Dora! You are right about "The Untouchables". I just watched a Kennedy Center Honors tribute to Lucy, and Robert Stack himself said that it was Desi who pushed for the show. According to Stack, Desi cajoled him into the role of Elliot Ness and said to him, "We are going to make the best darn television show on television". But Lucy was a visionary as well, greenlighting quite a few shows that are now classics, and as you stated, we all love Lucy and Desi...and always will.
I still love lucy I'm going to be 66 and grew up watching the show. The Ricardo's and the Mertz's are like my family. No bad language, no deaths just laughs
I still Love Lucy and I'm 78. I considered the show The Fabulous Four. Never loved a show like that in my life - and continued to see Lucy's two next shows: The Lucy Show, which won two Emmys 1967 & 1968. Also since revisiting the I Love Lucy Show - looked into her movies before and after - loved about 20 of her movies. She was so good. I am glad that she did not become an A list actress - she would not have come to tv and we would have all lost out.
I can honestly say that Lucy and Desi saved my life when I was a teenager. They gave me much needed laughter when I didn’t believe there was anything good in the world. Now at 26 I’m still forever grateful for all that they did ❤️
That's a wonderful story.
I truly hope you are doing better. It also help me learn English. Happy holidays
@@gracielalozano1730 happy holidays to you as well!
Your story is moving - felt tears in my eyes, Good for you to seek what gave you freedom and laughter
I never get tired of watching, I Love Lucy. You know what’s gonna happen, but it’s still as funny, if not funnier, with each viewing. And, Vivian Vance (Ethel) was the perfect side kick for Lucy. Both these women had so much talent!
✌🏻✌🏻✌🏻
I grew up watching the reruns on Nick at Nite. I’d never seen a woman so funny and captivating on screen before. I Love Lucy is my favorite sitcom of all time. ❤️
Nick at nite? What years?
@@josecanales2978 mid nineties
@@talishagilbert9533 Me too.
me too!!
@@talishagilbert9533 same here! I watched a little bit of the reruns in the 80s w my grandmother but I never thought they were funny until I was older.
I was born in 1988, and I'm not embarrassed to say that "I Love Lucy" is my number one favorite TV show of all time. Lucy, Desi, Vivian and William were and forever be the best!
I was born 1987 and I agree. They did so much for TV and are the most iconic couple in TV history, yet half the people today probably don’t even know who they are. We need to help preserve their history and pass it on.
1988 born here and I agree!!
Lucy created a children's daycare center on the Paramount studio lot that used to be RKO when she and Desi took it over. It was for her staff who worked long hours. Her head writer was pregnant and was going to leave, but Lucy created the daycare to keep her and her staff connected with their kids. It's still in use today. I worked at Paramount and have friends who brought their kids to the daycare everyday. It was so sweet to hear children playing when you walked by Lucy Park.
That is amazing! She was ahead of her time.
A place to violate children with other cult members. Sick.
I can watch the first few seconds of an episode and know which one it is. I’ve loved Lucy my entire life.
Same!
STILL to this day , THE BEST Sitcom, EVER.. just EVER!!!
Ever.
Memories of “I Love Lucy” always warms my heart and brings a smile to my face.
Super Kudos to the Artist-her mural of LUCY is BRILLIANT!!!
👍🏻❤️
I love Lucy. I introduced my children to her and they love her too. If my daughters ever make me a grandma, I'll introduce them to her too. She died when my oldest was 1 year old. I cried. I felt like I'd lost a family member.
*That's some scary FANTASY WORLD you live in!*
@@gerrynightingale9045 Dumb... and sooo lacking in empathy. YOU must be a blast to live with.
@@el7jake *'Empathy' for what?*
That's nice. You can explain to your grandchildren that Hollywood is satanic and Lucy is code for lucifer
@@theepsteindiaries Your belief, not mine. Enjoy the rest of day.
Im 35 and i still enjoy I Love Lucy reruns my dad loved the show as well when he was young its timeless.
I was working Cedars when she passed away. It was a sad day and she was one of the greats. ❤👍🙏
A friend of mine told me that when she was hospitalized. Fans gathered outside with a sign saying, 'We love Lucy". I cry every time I think about it
@@dianadavis5002 The "Hard Rock Cafe", located across the street from Cedars Sinai Hospital (where Lucy was convalescing), hung two huge banners on the front of their building for all to see, one of which stated "We Love Lucy", and, when she passed another that said "God Bless Lucy". She was THAT BIG a star.
Watching I Love Lucy was a great escape from an abusive and traumatic childhood. While I'm 36, I've probably seen every episode and laughed during each one. Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz would have been proud that their legacy lasted long after their deaths and will probably last forever.
Desi insisting the episodes be filmed and not put out live and then owning the episodes was genius.
thus creating the groundwork for reruns.
@@1talldaddy And such reruns paid off well for actress Audrey Meadows, the "Alice" in *The Honeymooners* TV series. In a 1990s TV talk show, the TV host brought up the subject of rerun residuals with Meadows, where she (somewhat) embarrassingly admitted that she profited more from the residuals of The Honeymooners than Jackie Gleason did. In that same interview, she said what worked in her financial favor was having brothers that were attorneys at the time (the 1950s); where they suggested to her of financial conditions to be negotiated when drawing up her contract for the TV series.
Negotiating for rerun residuals was unheard of at that time, as TV was still relatively new; with TV networks annually cranking out new TV show products. (in the minds of 1950s TV executives) TV reruns? What for?
@@bloqk16 now that's pretty impressive,especially being a woman back those days.you know they thought she was crazy.
@cell pat yes! Lucy creating and running a studio was the most impressive thing about her IMO.
@@cellpat7392 Also, the billion dollar industry that continues to this day, "Mission Impossible", and the all-time classic series, "The Twilight Zone". Quite a resume.
"I Love Lucy" and she loves us, for continuing the admiration for her and the show itself, as well as with her spinoffs. Frawley, Vance, Arnaz Sr., and Ball, herself, are all missed dearly. There will be nothing or anybody to replace all of them.
I love Lucy. It was an incredible show. I watched reruns on a local television station back in the 1990s. It was the best show I have ever seen when I was a child.
That mural is amazing! I love it. 🤩
They were my TV parents - I cried when they died - I felt I had lost family members. I thought they were so cool, but in real life they were so much like my own mom and dad. Alcoholism and fighting. It is so nice to know they really loved each other in the end.
I just love Lucy. I always watched her when I was home sick from school and in the summer growing up. Now I have every episode. I’m in my 30s, wishing I was alive back when they were filming the show, because I certainly would have come to the live taping.❤️
THE greatest icons of all time, in my humble opinion.
I remember when I was five or six watching I Love Lucy and not really understanding it, but I heard the laughter and it was infectious. I teared up when the TV networks interrupted the morning programs to announce her passing. I would think that would be reserved for a head of state, not an actress. You really are wonderful and truly loved to have this happen and Lucille was all that.
We will always 💕 Lucy..........
I grew up in the late seventies and early eighties, but I have seen every episode of this show.
I love the mural she painted it is spot on, beautifully done 👏🏻❤️
Desi often said "Give Lucy 90 percent of the credit and divide the 10 percent among the rest of us".
I remember Desi saying, after he was asked - what made the show take off (or something like that), He said that Lucy was the most beloved star around the world - people just loved her.
My grandma adored “I Love Lucy” back then and learned how to speak English watching the show! ❤️
I remember my first memory of watching I Love Lucy… WTTG 5 before it was FOX… Then my mom purchased the Columbia House VHS tapes. I still watch it after 30+ years… ❤️
Yep it would air in the mornings on Wttg 5.
I remember being 5 years old in 1994 and the show would come on at 9pm on Nick @ Nite. My mom would let me stay up past my bedtime till 9:30 because she knew I loved the show. Even at almost 33 years old I still love it. I just adore Lucy, Ricky, Ethel and Fred.
I always called Lucy my TV babysitter growing up. I learned a lot from her. On l LOVE LUCY she was called "Miss Never-say-die" by "Fred". I learn survival from her while here in the Far East; her scheming tactics on THE LUCY SHOW intimate that nothing is impossible. She WAS television.
Love this 😀 ❤
I laughed out loud when you wrote: She was called "Miss Never - say - die"by Fred. I remember that and always laughed - so true.
2021 and still watching and laughing my axe off
NO OTHER SHOW PAST, PRESENT ,OR FUTURE , WILL TOP THIS ! EVER!!!
THIS IS AS GOOD AS IT GETS!!
THE ZENITH OF CLASSIC COMEDY
WE STILL AND WILL ALWAYS LOVE LUCY ❤️♥️❤️♥️❤️♥️❤️♥️❤️♥️
Still the best thing on TV after 70 years. Thank you Lucy and Desi
I Love Lucy first aired 2 weeks after I was born. I grew up with Lucy and is part of the fabric of my life. That her husband, Desi, was Cuban made absolutely no difference to me ...., I certainly would never have understood being Cuban as a "problem" and good for Lucy to ensure it wasn't, either !
I miss the innocent, slapstick humor and hilarious high jinks that is sooooo lacking today. Luckily, I can find her on UA-cam when I am desperate for a good laugh and watch her Vita Meta Vegamin girl routine.... or the Kramer's Candy Factory conveyor belt routine ...Still is "so tasty, too!" ✨🌞✨
My birthday is October 14, 1951. I watched her all my life. She was a fantastic entertainer. I also married a Cuban in 1969.’later married a Colombian. I had an aunt as beautiful as her. I loved her all my life.
I remember watching the reruns as a kid in the 80s. And still watch them sometimes now . Classic show
I adore this thanks for the treat
Lucille Ball is an Icon of humanity
I LOVE LUCY. I really do. Lucy and Desi's show will always be a big part of my life. I love how Lucy always got into trouble and Desi always said his trademark "Lucy, you got some 'splaining to do." line. I loved Lucy's show since I was a little girl until now. In fact, I even had my "Lucy" moments whenever I was around my bio-father. He's from Central America and I'm American born so I don't speak or understand Spanish. So whenever my father would get mad at me he would yell at me in Spanish and I would always give a weird "I don't understand you" look just like Lucy whenever Ricky got into a heated argument with her.
I've being a Lucy fan since a child in the 90's with 'Nick at Nite' I think it helped change my life, as I dream of being a 1950's house wife with schemes to get famous each week.....so far, I'm living that dream and quite happy!
Check out the clip of Lucy’s face as Robert Stack reads a letter from Desi to her at The Kennedy Center Honors. He was the love of her life.
On your suggestion, I just looked up that clip and watched. Made me cry. That Kennedy Center tribute was filmed 5 days after he died. From her expression, you can see how she deeply loved him.
@@521tess I agree. I think she found more peace in her marriage to Gary Morton, but Desi was indeed the love of her life.
I was born in 2001 and I have to say "I Love Lucy" is one of these shows that are so timeless like "Yes Minister."
We will always love Lucy ❤ and Ricky and Fred and Ethel. The best of the best. No one will ever top them
Some of my favorite episodes: When she crosses the border without her passport, when she's part of a fashion show with all the stars' wives, when she locks herself in the trunk. I mean there are just so many!!!
American treasure! ❣
Oh thank u for this!!! I've been watching I love lucy a lot since I got my roku TV to work again and got Pluto TV working !!!! Especially since I've have personal life horribly painful devastating family loss of my poor precious younger sister last year march 30. This show is good therapy!
I am sorry to hear about your loss of your younger sister. During this few years I lost so many friends, a niece and two nephews - Watching all the re-runs of I Love Lucy brings happiness to my heart.
Me & my Great Grandmother watched every day & laughed, good memories
She was and still is a the best physical comedic genius...she brought light to so many and made us laugh so hard!❤️ And Desi her match...
Also on Dec. 5th. Walt Disney would have been 120 yrs. old. The irony. Lucille Ball passed away April 26th. Carol Burnett's b-day is April 26th (San Antonio born) My birthday is also April 26th. Lucille & Carol had a bond. These were 2 of my favorite red headed comedians. The world truly needs laughter!
A lot of their comedy on this show is slap stick vaudeville comedy. Very physical and hilarious. And I will always cherish my time as a little girl watching this on TV with my mother who was roaring with laughter.
I had a co-worker back in 2005 who must have been one of the biggest Lucy fans around. One day I saw her in the parking lot outside the building and said "Okay...Vitameatavegamin or the candy factory?" First, she was stunned that I could even drop the reference; second, she said "You really have to ask?" (My personal favorite is the one where she met Harpo.)
It comes down to some pretty simple stuff - if it's funny, it will be timeless. I Love Lucy still makes us laugh 70 years later because the show was FUNNY. 90% of the sitcoms since, not just today but in those 70 years since, were not funny no matter how hard they tried. That's why you only remember a select few over the years.
Lucy is still and will remain relevant because she, Desi, William and Vivian created something magical. And, it’s just really funny.
Wow excellent painting ❤️❤️❤️❤️
what a poignant and beautiful tribute to these 2 icons and the many legacies they left us
I never tire of watching I Love Lucy episodes!
She was funny. Truly funny. Both she and Don Knotts. And that’s timeless. Desilu Studios produced the Andy Griffith Show btw.
Wow, that mural painted by that artist is amazing!
Watched Being The Ricardo's last night, it was amazing.
70 years later, this superb show plays, because it is timeless! I wish the journalist dressed for the interview though.
The best comedy show ever!! We love lucy ❤
Hilarious show! Fantastic actors! We will always love Lucy!
Ι remember we grew up with Lucy and other big shown than. Like Mr. Ed and much more.
My favorite episode is the one when gets a loving cup stuck on her head.
And to get it off she and Ethel had to ride the subway to Bleeker st they lose each other she ended up in Brooklyn.
I love this young artist and I love Lucy! ❤️
Debra Messing & Oscar Isaac have the best looks to portray them.
Looks are very different than acting chops…
Oscar Isaac is a top-notch actor.
@@breckrichardson390 Yes, but Javier Bardem, along with Nicole Kidman, are Academy Award winners.
Looks yet but not necessarily the same acting style
But not the raw talent to embody the actors
I loved when the author said the water tables dropped during commercials since everyone in America was going to the bathroom.
Lucille Ball, the woman, not the actress, reminds me of my grandmother.
I Love Lucy so much that I was born on her birthday, August 6th.
We will ALL always Love Lucy. It's ingrained in our American DNA.
"they died of saddest and trauma"....how sad and true...many people die that way.....haunting words
never gets old
The first mixed couple on the screen. They opened doors I guess. They looked so cute together. Too bad he cheated.
I was born in the '50s and never stopped watching "I Love Lucy" for at least the next twenty years no matter how many times I had seen each individual episode reruned. But I do remember when I was single digits that it first seemed odd the husband of the Very American White Lucy was a swarthy man with an accent south of the border. We did not see that any where else on television or in the Jewish Italian neighborhood we grew up in, and it struck us kids as different yes and a bit odd, but it took no time at all for us to accept it with no issues, without a shrug. Lucy & Ricky as a couple were fun and funny and got along better than most of our parents and nobody else in the show gave it notice neither. It took five minutes to accept it as normal and not care.
Also - from a grade school kid perspective - the fact that Lucy & Desi were married in real life, underscored "tolerant" perspective. And we all at 5, 6, 7, 8 got it that Lucy/Desi were movie stars in real life. I mean they would show up in early movies we'd see, for the love of mike. Clearly we knew they were professional actors playing in funny situations with neighbors unlike any on our block. We got it. This was television and it was comedy with outlandish situations and not the life what we were living. And not the only show like that on the air, e.g. "I Married Joan", "Life of Riley", "Love That Bob", et cetera. We never thought our mothers had to get permission to buy a hat. (My father once referenced to that.) Another world. We were hip.
The only thing that seemed totally plausible to us was that a Redhead and a Cuban can be married and it be fine.
Because she was funny and made mistakes we all make
Because she had ambitions beyond being a housewife. And she was funny! 😉
The show is so much better than any of the drek on TV now.
I enjoyed the new film with Nicole Kidman and Javier Bardem, but Lucille and Desi just had a special magic and both were even more attractive than Kidman and Javier.
♥️♥️♥️ I love Lucille Ball
Their granddaughter looks just like Desi.
Great vlog!!!
I Love Lucy is America's treasure
I love Lucy.
I love Lucy! 😁
YO AMO A LUCY...4EVER
She not only greenlighted Star Trek, but both made suggestions to Gene Roddenberry on how to improve it, and convinced NBC to allow a second pilot with her suggestions incorporated.
Living in a country where they never shown a single episode of her show.
But very aware of her cultural influence and grateful for The Twilight Show snd Star Trek 👏
LOVELY!!!
Why are there no Closed Captions on these CBS videos?????????????
I keep wondering about this too! It's so unusual, especially from such a big network. It's inconsiderate for a segment of their viewers who really need CC.
@@Bootstataboots Exactly my point!!! Thank you!!!!!!!
Que guapos y talentosos. Todos los personajes. Hicieron excelente equipo. Hoy en día sigo viendo episodios de este programa. 12/10/2021. Tanta creatividad.
I INTRODUCED LUCY TO A CLASS OF 4TH GRADERS MAYAN CICHE GUATEMALANS... FREE TIME WAS LUCY TIME ...LAUGHTER LANGUAGE
Reruns took off because tv was still new, so millions of people with new sets hadn't seen the show when the reruns started.
This is an 8 part podcast on Lucy:
ua-cam.com/video/_R2ssEbw_y4/v-deo.html
Lucy appealed to all ages and ethnic groups. The black mural artist shows that.
I remember the good ol’ days when the entire I Love Lucy series was on Amazon Prime. For free. All of them. Now they’re gone. All of them.
I love the episode where, while in Hollywood, she spent $500 on a dress and wasn't able to return it. So, because she knew Ricky would be mad, she purposely got a sunburn so he couldn't BEAT HER.
Wrong. She got the sunburn to have some "color" for a fashion show she was doing.
@@ralphewell8398 you've never seen the episode
I'm hoping at some point the full spectrum of Lucille Ball's will be presented. One of Lucy's problems that remains to this day is the success of 'Love Lucy'. Its been a wonderful thing, but its also been a bad thing in the sense that it has nearly completely overshadowed her great work on 'The Lucy Show' and 'Here's Lucy, from 1962''68 and '68-'74 respectively. These were great series also, and don't get the credit and respect they deserve. Truthfully this is disrespectful to Lucy and her crew of talented writers, directors producers and more. Mostly it's disrespectful to Lucy for "never having heard" of these shows, or "never seeing" them. For a so-called Lucy fan to say that means they really aren't.
The Beatles had/have (to this day) the very similar problem of only being accepted as The Beatles, collectively, and NOT for their solo work. Again, I would say for those that don't, they're not true fans either. From that standpoint, the Beatles were both a good and bad thing for them as well.
Also, I know of about 15 films that Lucille Ball made that I really really enjoyed. Some comedic and some film noir,
Lucy: Ohhh, Ricky!
Lucille and Desi left us too soon!
The Kidman Bardem Lucy looks as close to the real thing as Big Bird played by the Terminator.
And your point is?
@@almartino4635 An unrealistic adaptation of her life for the screen. Fairly obvious statement.
The movie was a cringe fest. Didn't do them justice at all.
Ethel is the 'I' of "I Love Lucy". And she won't be missing her appointment with her hairdresser.
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