Posted on 04/26/2023 9:15:15 AM PDT by Ozguy1945
Lucille Ball co-created the situation comedy genre through starring in I Love Lucy. Later on, she approved the initial production of Star Trek. Desilu Productions also created Mission:Impossible, The Untouchables and Mannix.
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She really understood creativity. "The more things you do", she said, "the more things you can do."
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In World War Two, when freedom was on the line, she didn't mind being a glamorous babe to help keep up the spirits of the guys in uniform risking their lives fighting against tyranny. No third wave feminist crap to weaken our culture in that era ....... "Women's lib?" she asked, later on, to answer, "Oh, I'm afraid it doesn't interest me one bit. I've been so liberated it hurts."
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She was an intelligent, life long worker. Her first audition was at the age of 12 and in 1979, in her late sixties, she became an assistant professor at California State University.
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"The secret of staying young" she explained,"is to live honestly, eat slow and lie about your age."
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I Love Lucy!! She is and always will be my favorite!!
You can see that in Burton’s and Taylor’s faces in my post ........
A great American communist?
She started her early life being a commie, a hooker and hung around mob guys. She despised her co-stars and they despised her.
I heard about the first thing you mention, those others never but would not be surprised.
There is nothing wrong with that. Some directors have a vision, and they are in charge.
The part I find amusing is how Lucy was pretty much washed up…and about as immoral as a woman could be in Hollywood. If she were around today, with today’s media…the opinions around here would be very different.
She evokes memories of a less crazy (and younger) era for most of us. It’s more about how these memories in YOUR life make you feel. I suggest very, very few of us can begin to understand her as a human.
Situation comedy.
Are you sure that he was talking about Lucy during her "I Love Lucy" days - or about later, after the divorce from Desi, whereupon she took over the studio reins and had to frequently "lay down the law" in a male-dominated industry?
My understanding was that, as long as her marriage endured, she pretty much deferred to Desi / let him "wear the pants" / allowed him to play the harsh taskmaster when actors forgot their lines or showed up late.
Your bit-character / theatre class instructor friend may, rather, have been talking about the "Here's Lucy" or "The Lucy Show" era, when it is generally acknowledged that she was a strict disciplinarian.
Regards,
Desi famously remarked, "The only thing 'red' about Lucy is her hair - and that's fake!"
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She had been bestowed the sobriquet "Queen of the B's" (= B-movies). That's must have counted for something!
She was a competent actress during her "B-movie" days, rising noticeably above the average - but was able to display her comic genius when she came to television.
Regards,
A friend of mine, who passed several years ago was a piano player in piano bars. His father was a band leader in LA. He said they were in a restaurant/club one night when Lucy came in wearing a white dress. He said, with that red hair she was the most beautiful woman he’d ever seen. I really miss his piano playing - just had a list of songs on 3x5 cards. He could play anything.
She joined the CPUSA in 1936.
"The book details how while auditioning for roles in Times Square, she would partake in nude modeling and even turn the occasional trick (i.e. prostitution). "
https://doyouremember.com/148390/lucille-ball-scandalous-past-nude-photos-prostitution-hardship
Another source says "She was a nude model, a hooker and a gangster's moll...who started her career on the casting couch"
https://www.pressreader.com/usa/globe/20210614/281904481085987
OK, back then, times were tough for a lot of people, they did what they had to do. But, it is her past and can't be undone, just rewritten to gloss over the unsavory parts.
"Lucille Ball was a monster on set" Says it all about that aspect of her life.
https://factsverse.com/lucille-ball-was-a-monster-on-set-according-to-co-stars/
The story is she joined for a short time in the 30s as a favor to a friend. I saw here on Merv Griffin in the 70s on the same program as former governor Reagan in 1977. If she were a red, Reagan would not have shared the stage, and Republican Merv Griffin (who for all his problems at least never scared the horses) wouldn’t have had her on with him.
If it wasn’t for Lucy, the original Star Trek would have never been greenlighted and still have spin-offs in production today.
My late mom worked for Bullocks Wilshire and would model clothes for Lucille Ball she had nothing but good things to say about her she was funny and would always bum a cigarette from my mom they had a wonderful time together
She and George Putnam were friends so i wonder about that
Mannix and Mission Impossible as well, Desilu Productions.
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