I Love Lucy: Breaking the Lease

In this episode, you see a rare moment where both Desi Arnaz and Lucille Ball laughing at Vivian Vance's and William Frawley's get ups.

They commented on how they almost ruined the scene after the filming. Desi couldn't control himself and Lucille had to bite the inside of the cheeks. The cast of I Love Lucy had always tried to spring surprises to keep reactions real. It was the first time Desi and Lucy saw Bill and Viv in these costumes!

I Love Lucy:Lucy is Enceinte

I love every single bit of this episode, and my all-time favorite scene was when Lucy Ricardo broke the news to Ricky Ricardo in his Tropicana Nightclub.

When Desi Arnaz got emotional, messed up the lyrics for Rockabye baby and started crying, and when Lucille Ball started crying too, I cried too. After waiting for 10 years, they finally got what they wanted: two beautiful children and the opportunity to star in a show.

We're Having a Baby, My Baby and Me is the sweetest song, ever.

Desi and Lucy: Color Picture

I got a request not to have this particular picture watermarked, so here goes:

Vivian Vance

According to Vivian Vance in an interview, she actually felt that 3 out of the 4 cast members of I Love Lucy were miscast. Vivian Vance had always played the other woman in Broadway shows, William Frawley was a vaudevillian, Desi Arnaz was an orchestra leader.

However, that was what made the situational comedy so fantastic. The three of them were the few people who could handle Miss Ball. Bill had never tried to please anyone and in fact he had been known to be extremely ornery at times; Desi had a special knack of treating his wife, and he would give her tasks that others would never dare to, and Lucy had trusted his judgment wholeheartedly. And Viv, I love her! Viv had always been a forthright person who spoke her mind, and with a sardonic sense of humor at that. She had been known to be just as blunt to Lucy as Lucy did with her.

Viv's husband had always abused her emotionally and physically. Once, he taunted her with gossips about Lucy and Viv being lesbians, and she had been so emotionally affected that she almost experienced a breakdown. However, strong as she was, and with the mental support, when Vivian Vance accepted her Emmy award, she said in her thanks "I would like to thank Miss Lucille Ball, the greatest straight woman in the world!" and that clarified things. Imagine addressing this sensitive issue back in the 1950s, on television!Viv could actually represent the modern woman!

I suppose these tough people really made Lucy respect them. She respected people who had spunk and not cower in fear when they had to work with her.

"I'm going to learn to love that bitch!" -Vivian Vance.

Of course, Vivian and Lucille had clashes, but they adored each other like sisters. I mean, think about it: people who don't have clashes with others are great hypocrites. The more you love another individual, the more occasions there will be where you just have to fight with him or her.

Instagram Pictures

Greetings! Here are more pictures of Lucille Ball (and Desi Arnaz) that I used Instagram to edit. As if she isn't stunning enough, Instagram has made her even more gorgeous!

More would be available really soon!

Instagram

I know that you guys cannot click copy and paste and save pictures from Instagram, and I wanna share pictures of Lucille Ball (and Desi Arnaz) with you guys, especially when Instagram edits such beautiful pictures.

So,  I'll try to upload the pictures onto this blog whenever I can.


Enjoy!

Instagram users: 
Please do me a favor and become a follower of @WELOVELUCILLEBALL. It's not for my sake but I want more people to know how awesome Lucy (and Desi) was. You and I know that she certainly could act just as well (or even better than) many of the revered actresses from Old Hollywood. She was her best at every film; she even delivered an acid line fabulously!

Some of the pictures are really rare, and here is one example of what I call a rare photo:

I love this photo to bits! Desi looked so suave in his army uniform and I love Lucy's loose curls here. Most important, it seems like Desi wanted Lucy to look at nowhere else but at him!

Remember, it's @welovelucilleball!

30 Days of Lucille Ball-- Day 8

8.  A picture of Lucille Ball and her first husband (Desi Arnaz)

That's easy, I've collected hundreds of their pictures.

I chose this picture because it's taken in the late 1950s (note Lucy's short hair), the evidence that even though they were living in separate bedrooms and were not speaking, Lucy still did wifely things like trimming Desi's nails. This kind of intimacy only shows that though they could not stay married any longer, their love was just as deep, if not deeper.

I'm glad they had solved their differences after their divorce. It must have been that time where Lucy was injured and Desi flew to her to take care of her.

What a couple!

Destined

Look at those kids dressing up in costumes and fooling around at home. It's destined that these two wonderful people would costar in a show one day. They just didn't know when.

I'm so glad that Americans in the 1940s and 1950s accepted them as a couple. Otherwise, there wouldn't be I Love Lucy, there wouldn't be laughter that cheer people up, even till today!