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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsLucille Ball after shooting the grape stomping scene for "The Italian Movie" episode of I Love Lucy,
cilla4progress
(24,736 posts)Beauty, brains, and comedic talent = lethal!!
Rorey
(8,445 posts)I'm sure I've seen every episode of every version at least a dozen times.
mercuryblues
(14,532 posts)Guess what.
He loves Lucy.
2naSalit
(86,647 posts)samnsara
(17,622 posts)Last edited Sat Apr 25, 2020, 01:21 PM - Edit history (1)
...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
(11,652 posts)jberryhill
(62,444 posts)brush
(53,791 posts)leftieNanner
(15,124 posts)brush
(53,791 posts)jberryhill
(62,444 posts)...whom the poster correctly identified
leftieNanner
(15,124 posts)Sorry.
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)Sloumeau
(2,657 posts)filmed the episode where she stuffed all of those chocolates in her mouth.
UTUSN
(70,711 posts)Karadeniz
(22,537 posts)MurrayDelph
(5,299 posts)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
(5,528 posts)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.