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A Beautiful Legend was BOTD in 1911 in Jamestown, New York

August 6, 2021 By Joi

Desi Arnaz and Lucille Ball - Behind the Scenes of I Love Lucy

Desi Arnaz and Lucille Ball – Behind the Scenes of I Love Lucy

Lucille Desiree Ball was born on August 6, 1911 in Jamestown, New York. Little did anyone know then that this tiny baby would one day become both the face of television and one of the most beloved stars EVER.

Lucille Ball is one of those stars (and lifelong personal favorites) that, when I’m writing about her, I truly struggle to find words. Words are some of my closest friends and, yet, when talking about Lucille Ball, they all but abandon me.

I think one of the things is, in many ways, she seems almost like family. After all, she was in our living room for as long as I can remember and is, to this day, a very frequent guest in our den and kitchen. Heck she’s even shown up in the bathroom a time or two.

When you have favorite stars who have been with you all of your life, you realize that they’ve “seen you” through everything you’ve been through – good or bad.

  1. When I was in school, I had to miss a lot of days each school year due to my bronchial asthma. It was like clockwork, each October, I would get a terrible bout of bronchitis and end up in the hospital, followed by a week or more of recovering at home. Episodes of I Love Lucy were my constant companion and laughing at them gave me consistency my lungs robbed me of.
  2. When I got married, Lucy, Ricky, Ethel, and Fred came along on our honeymoon.
  3. When my husband and I moved out of state and I was homesick for my mom, dad, cat, dog, and hometown… Lucy came to my rescue again.
  4. When my daughters came into the picture, it was their time to grow up with a familiar hilarious redhead as a frequent houseguest!
  5. After losing my dad and, then, years later, my mom – episodes of I Love Lucy truly helped me hold it all together when it really didn’t seem possible.

Good times, bad times, great times, horrific times… she has been a constant. If that sounds normal to you.. then you, too, have a star (or possibly even an athlete) that means an awful lot to you.

She was extraordinary in every way and, truth be told, I don’t just love Lucy… I adore her.

Happy Heavenly birthday and thank you so much for all you’ve meant and MEAN to me!

Lucy from the Lucy and Superman Episode

Lucille Ball

Filed Under: BOTD, Desi Arnaz, Lucille Ball Tagged With: BOTD, Desi Arnaz, I Love Lucy, Lucille Ball

Backstage DRAMA Behind the World’s Best COMEDY…

January 17, 2020 By Joi

I Love Lucy Cast: Vivian Vance, William Frawley, Desi Arnaz, and Lucille Ball

Vivian Vance, William Frawley, Desi Arnaz, and Lucille Ball

One of the all-time most loved shows in the world had more than it’s share of backstage drama. Jess Oppenheimer, one of the writers of I Love Lucy gave a firsthand account of some of the drama behind my personal favorite television show of all time:

“Even though the entire world loved I Love Lucy, everyone on I Love Lucy didn’t love everyone else on I Love Lucy. Luckily…all the interpersonal problems didn’t show through the performances. Lucy and Desi were having a whole set of domestic problems, which ended in their divorce; Vivian couldn’t stomach Bill (William Frawley), mainly because she failed to understand how anyone could believe she was married to “that old man”; Bill reacted in typical fashion, referring to her figure as “a sack of doorknobs”; and Desi and I had a running series of spats, mostly ticked off when I picked up the trade papers and found he had taken credit for something I had done. But, luckily (again), it could not be seen on the screen, and there was no blowup which destroyed the team.”

I am, by nature, a Mary Poppins type blended with a great deal of Suzie  Sunshine…. with a touch (okay a lot) of Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. Can’t help it, I was made this way. With that being the case, I almost didn’t publish this quote because I was afraid it would cast a negative light on stars I love a great deal – worse, yet, stars that aren’t with us to stand up for themselves!

However, I decided to publish it because, quite frankly, I am in AWE of the television magic these four stars (and directors, as well as writers) pulled off under these circumstances. Think about it – would you be able to make all happy and funny with a spouse you were in the middle of divorcing??

Would you be able to keep smiling and find a way not to cry when your marriage was crumbling?

Would you be able to work day-in day-out with someone you couldn’t even tolerate?!

I don’t know about you, but I have to answer NO to all of the above. I’m not made of nearly strong enough stuff to overcome any of that emotional turmoil.

Yet, these four stars rose above all the noise, all the drama, and all of the emotions and turned in one flawless performance after another.

I also published the quote for another reason… I trust my readers to know that one person’s quote does not make his or her opinion or account the gospel. It makes it their opinion or their “side.” If Desi were here, today, he may well have a whole other version.

In the end, they were all humans (just ridiculously talented humans!) and where there are humans, there are problems. I still maintain that these four did a super-human job of maintaining their maturity and professionalism when so many (raising my hand) wouldn’t have been able to.

I, for one, am thankful for their strength every single day because this series means more to me than I can even say.

I Love Lucy Scene


Filed Under: Desi Arnaz, I Love Lucy, Lucille Ball, Picture of the Day, Vivian Vance, William Frawley Tagged With: Desi Arnaz, I Love Lucy, Lucille Ball, Vivian Vance, William Frawley

Lucille Ball Quotes About Desi Arnaz and Desi Arnaz Quotes About Lucille Ball

October 16, 2019 By Joi

Desi Arnaz and Lucille Ball

“He did make me happy, and I really want people to know that.”

Anyone who knows me knows I am completely, utterly, and unapologetically obsessed with Lucille Ball. She’s one of the stars I collect – as in I collect Lucille Ball books, dvds, magazines, dolls, t-shirts….  anything with her on it, in it, or associated with it! She is one of my favorite stars of ALL time and my day is instantly brighter if I have seen a Lucille Ball movie, television episode, or read from one of the many biographies I have about her.

Fortunately, most days include more than one of these bright spots.

There’s something to be said for identifying your sources of happiness and even more to be said for wallowing in them.  And so I wallow.

One of my favorite things about Lucille Ball was the depth of love she had for the people who mattered to her – her mom, children, Gary Morton, extended family, friends, and (of course) Desi Arnaz. While she and Desi’s marriage (1940-1961), unfortunately, didn’t last in the long run, their love for one another most  certainly did.

Below are some of my favorite quotes each had about the other. What a wonderful love story… better than anything I’ve ever seen in a movie, that’s for sure.

The reason is obvious – the two colorful people involved could never have been created by even the best screenwriter.

Lucille Ball Quotes About Desi Arnaz

(About meeting Desi Arnaz for the first time): “It wasn’t love at first sight. It took a full five minutes.”

“Desi was the great love of my life. I will miss him until the day I die.”

In many ways, marrying Desi was one of the boldest things I ever did. I had always gone with older men. I had also achieved some kind of stability in Hollywood, and Desi with his beautiful girls and good times seemed headed in another direction.

Life with Desi is crazy and exciting, but our love is deep and changeless.

Yet I sensed in Desi a great need. Beneath the dazzling charm was a homeless boy who had no one to care for him, worry about him, love him. And I wanted him and only him as the father of my children.

It’s so hard to believe he is gone. I’m the only one left now. I remember the very last time I spoke with him. It was November 30th, our anniversary and he was in Del Mar with Lucie. He was very weak. Lucie held the phone up to his ear, and we said I love you over and over again to each other. On December 2nd, 1986 I was in the car coming home from taping an episode of Password when I heard Desi died. I could not stop crying. I felt lost, and like my own life had come to some kind of end. Lucie arranged the funeral and Danny Thomas gave the eulogy. It was funny and touching, but so very hard for me to sit through. With Desi’s passing I lost my youth, my great success and the only man I ever wanted to be father of my children. Besides Dede, Fred & Cleo, he was the one person who had been in my life the longest and made the greatest impact. I didn’t want to even consider what my life would’ve been without him.

The best time of my marriage was when I was pregnant. That was the kind of marriage that I’ve always hoped for.

After the short ceremony, we ate our wedding breakfast in front of a bright fire in the club’s lounge. Outside a fresh mantel of snow hung on the pine trees. After all the indecision we’d been through, Desi and I were dazed with happiness. We kissed each other and the marriage certificate again and again. It still has my lipstick marks on it. I’m going to keep this forever and ever. I told Desi. Clutching it to my black wool covered bosom. This marriage had to work. I would do anything, sacrifice anything to make Desi happy.

We had it all, Desi and I, we had it all.

I hate failure. And that divorce was the number one failure in my eyes. It was the worst period of my life. Neither Desi nor I have been the same since physically or mentally.

Desi was singing. His dark eyes were shining, his face radiant, but his hands I noticed were shaking. In Greenwhich, we spent a harried two hours seeing a judge about waving the five day wedding period and getting the necessary health examination. Desi had planned to marry me at the office of Justice of the Peace John J. O’Brien. He had forgotten only one thing, a wedding ring. Desi’s business manager ran into Woolworth’s and bought me a brass one. Although, Desi later gave me a platinum ring, that little discolored brass ring rest among the diamonds and emeralds in my jewel case for years.
There would be no Lucy without Desi.

I had never met a Latin before. In fact, up to this time, I hadn’t had much fun. I’d gone out with lots of guys and it had been in the papers, that I was engaged to this one and that one, but now I think back on it, they all seem pretty ordinary. But this I can say for myself and this is the truth. I never wanted to marry anybody until I met Desi.

If you don’t believe he’s a great producer, I got two little Arnaz’s at home to prove it.

I knew there was nobody in the world for me but Desi. We may have our ups and downs just as many people have. I would rather quarrel and make up with him more than anyone else in the world.

He did make me happy, and I really want people to know that.

Desi Arnaz Quotes About Lucille Ball

I loved her very much and, in my own and perhaps peculiar way, I will always love her.

I Love Lucy was never just a title!

(After Lucille Ball was, outrageously, accused of being a Communist) The only thing red about her is her hair, and that isn’t even real.

She’s not someone I am likely to forget. I love her and will continue loving her till the day I die.

I fell in love with those big beautiful blue eyes when I met her. It was unnatural how I could fall in love so fast.

Lucy had a quality which was rare; you can count the women who have had it on the fingers of one hand. While doing the wild antics of a clown, disheveled, rain-soaked, disregarding how she looked even with mud all over her, could make you laugh, and yet at the same time make you want to go to bed with her.

One of the big reasons for the show’s success is Lucy. She is the greatest.

Lucy, she has no idea how happy she’s made me. She’s wonderful. I adore her with all of my heart. She’s given me everything I could ask for. No pun intended, I Love Lucy.

We had been married for nine years, but when I saw her coming down the aisle with her bouquet and wedding dress and hat, I got as much of a thrill as the first time, perhaps even more.

I love Lucy was never a title. I don’t care what her present husband thinks, I still love Lucy. Yes very much. She knows that I will do anything for her. All she has to do is ask.

Though we are not together anymore, I still love her. I always will. Lucy is my soulmate, my world. I can’t imagine my life without her. I Love Lucy was never just a title.

They were gorgeous. Her eyes very blue. One of the many things I absolutely love about her. She was mine and I was hers. The way it should have been.

She’s a wonderful mother to our daughter, Lucie Desiree. In spite of a busy schedule, she arranges to have three days a week with Lucie.

Twelve years ago, I was enjoying recognition in New York play “Too Many Girls” and RKO studios wanted to film it. They took me along with the deal and I went to Hollywood. Working as the star of that picture was the most beautiful, wonderful, bright, happy person I’d ever met in my life, Lucille Ball. And how you said it. It was love at first sight.

The first time I saw Lucy was in Hollywood studio lunchroom. Lovely, dazzling Lucille Ball was to be one of the stars of Too Many Girls. I was eager to meet her. Then she walked in. She had a black eye, frowzy hair and was wearing a too tight dress with a rip in it. She had been playing a dance hall floozy in a free for all fight scene. I groaned ‘oh no.’ That afternoon when she showed up on the set where I was working, I said ‘Oh yes.’ She had fixed her hair and make up and put on a sweater and skirt. She was a dream. I took one look and fell in love.

She (Lucille Ball) was a very shy girl. She hated when you stared at her. So I did.

The most important thing of all was that, we now had our daughter, our son, and two people couldn’t have been more in love and happier than we were.

I’m convinced that the reason that we survived the constant arguing, fighting and accusations for so many years, was because we had something extra special going for us. We were very much in love with each other, and we were able to be together, our sexual relationship was heavenly. Also, and perhaps even more important. We had a good sense of humor. We are able to laugh at ourselves and at our sometimes absurd and stupid arguments.

When we got married, nobody gave it more than two weeks. There were bets all over the country, with astronomical odds against us.


Filed Under: Desi Arnaz, Lucille Ball Tagged With: Desi Arnaz, Lucille Ball, Lucille Ball quotes, star quotes

Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz on What’s My Line (Oct. 2, 1955)

June 22, 2019 By Joi

Watching What’s My Line on YouTube has become an obsession of mine. They’re hilarious, entertaining, and I get a big kick out of seeing my favorite stars trying to be “tricky.” Some are more successful than others!

Given the fact that Lucille and Desi are two of my favorite stars of ALL time, the one below was destined to become a personal fave. Enjoy!

Filed Under: Classic Television Moments, Desi Arnaz, Lucille Ball Tagged With: Desi Arnaz, Lucille Ball, Videos, What's my Line

Lucy and Desi: Before I Love Lucy

August 23, 2017 By Joi

Lucille and Desi met in May of 1940 in a Hollywood studio commissary while having lunch. They were introduced to one another by a director, George Abbott, who was working with Desi.

Lucille was dressed up like a burlesque queen for a role in “Dance, Girl, Dance“- complete with a black eye courtesy of stage make-up.

“I didn’t like her at first. She looked awful. Very tough.” – Desi

Later in the day, they met again. Not only had she lost the black eye, Lucille had changed into a yellow skirt and cashmere sweater.

Desi turned to a studio employee and in his heavy Cuban accent said, “Wot a hunk o’ woman!”

Desi asked her out and they fell in love almost immediately.

The big wigs at the studio didn’t want them to marry, claiming that it would hurt their careers. Fortunately, love won out and on November 30, 1940 (just 6 months after meeting) they got married at 10:00 am by a Justice of the Peace in Greenwich, Connecticut.

“I threw away all my conservativeness and took the plunge because I loved him. It was the most daring thing I ever did. Hollywood gave our marriage six months. I gave it six weeks.” – Lucy

I Love Lucy

“I Love Lucy” was based on a popular radio program Lucille was in called “My Favorite Husband.” She played the role of the wife, with Richard Denning playing the “favorite husband.” Denning is better known for his role as the mayor in a 12 year stint on Hawaii 5 O.

CBS loved the radio show and wanted to develop it into a tv program, with Lucille and Richard as the married couple.

Lucille wanted Desi to be her on-air husband, but the network tried to convince her that audiences wouldn’t believe that she and Desi would make a logical married couple.

She, naturally, responded with, “What do you mean nobody’ll believe it?! We ARE married!”

However the network and the advertising agency weren’t buying it. They really didn’t even want to consider Desi in the role.

Lucille and Desi decided to “go out and test it” – see if people could accept them as husband and wife.

In April 1950, they formed Desilu Productions. All they needed was an act, so they put together a series of comedy routines involving a “movie star” who tries to join her bandleader husband’s act.

The act featured comedy dialogue by Lucy’s radio writers (and two of the future I Love Lucy writers), Madelyn Pugh and Bob Carrol, Jr. It opened on June 2, 1950 at the Chicago Paramount Theater and was a HUGE success.

Lucy would later say: “After the first show, Desi and I looked at each other in wild surprise, ‘Well, I guess we can work together after all. We’re on our way!’”


Filed Under: Desi Arnaz, Lucille Ball Tagged With: I Love Lucy, Lucille Ball, Lucy and Desi

I Love Lucy: The Lost Pilot (Complete Episode)

August 21, 2017 By Joi

Synopsis: Ricky tries to keep Lucy away from auditioning for a TV show, but when a clown becomes unavailable, Lucy takes his place!


Filed Under: Desi Arnaz, I Love Lucy, Lucille Ball, Vivian Vance Tagged With: I Love Lucy, I Love Lucy complete episode

Opening Night of I Love Lucy: Lucy Thinks Ricky is Trying to Murder Her

October 25, 2016 By Joi

The first “I Love Lucy” show was filmed on a Saturday evening, September 8, 1951. It was titled “Lucy Thinks Ricky Is Trying to Murder Her,” and is considered by most to be one of the funniest from the whole shebang.

“I was scared to death when we did our first show. After all, I had done only two movies and wasn’t accustomed to working with one camera, much less with four of them. Lucy sensed that I was scared and went out of her way to set me at ease. She got me laughing so hard before my entrance that I didn’t have time to remember that I was so frightened.” – Vivian Vance

“All I remember about that night was trying to protect my stomach. Lucie had just been born by Caesarean section and I was wearing a huge bandage over my stomach. I was more concerned with that than anything else. When the laughs started coming, I was very relieved. I remember sayin, ‘Whew! It’s working.'” – Lucille Ball


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