Happy 101st Birthday, Lucille Ball!

Enjoy the collage I made.

It's Lucy Picture Spamming Day! Happiest birthday to you, Lucy! You'll always be loved!

“The sun never sets on Lucille Ball. All over this worried world tonight, nations of untold millions are watching reruns they also watched the first time around. Joy requires no translation. God wanted the world to laugh, and He invented you. Many are called, but you were chosen. All of the funny hats, the baggy pants, the moustaches and the wigs, and the pratfalls and the blacked-out-teeth – they didn’t fool us one minute. We saw through all the disguises, and what we found inside was more than we deserve”

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I just realized that I haven't been posting pictures from Instagram for ages!

Here are some of the favorites, happy grabbing!

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Young Lucy

Young Lucille Ball was already a beauty! She had her hair dyed blonde back then, and neither RKO nor MGM had found the right look for her.

It was years before that famous red hair and style was given to her, and of course, she stuck with it for more than a decade.

Why is Lucille known as Lucy?

Desi Arnaz was the most romantic man ever. No wonder Lucy fell this deeply for him.

Both Desi and Lucille were very jealous and possessive people. They had always competed with each other over who could top who.

It was a difficult marriage right from the start because of their contrasting schedules. Desi was an orchestra leader and nightclub dancer and he worked from night till morning; on the other hand, Lucille was a Hollywood actress who worked from 6am to 6pm.

Like Lucy once said in an interview, "you cannot have babies over the telephone. You just can't do that."

However, when their lives were so intertwined throughout 6 seasons of I Love Lucy, they were around each other too much that their temperamental personalities and fiery tempers came between them, not to mention the stress that they had to face.

The marriage was doomed either way. As we all know, you can't spend too little or too much time with anyone. There needs to be a balance between. It's just that people in the 20th century didn't know that, neither did they know how to handle such problems nor talked about them.

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Here's Lucille in a publicity shot for the movie The Big Street.

According to Desi Arnaz, The Big Street was the movie he had seen Lucille reluctant to take up. Lucile had never failed to take up any challenge in her career, and of course, she played the meanest bitch in The Big Street and honestly, I feel that this was her best acting! Do watch it if you can.

Here's young Lucy. She was still a strawberry blonde then.

Here's young Desi and Lucille working hard on their farm. This was the period when both were idle due to lack of assignments, and they had the rare chance to really do things together.

Here's young Lucille and Desi, barely a few hours after eloping. The optimism about the love and the marriage was so obvious here. Maybe the marriage went sour, but their love never ever did. If there was one thing wrong with the marriage, it was too much passion.

According to the Triangular Theory of Love, in a romantic relationship, 3 components are essential: passion, commitment and intimacy.

1. Desi and Lucille had passion.  No arguments about that.
2. Desi was emotionally committed. Lucille but never physically so, and that was one of the main problems. He remained emotionally committed to her till his dying breath though, so whatever is there to argue about the controversy between Cuban men's perception of love and sex and American women's perception of love and sex?
3. They always had intimacy. Even after the divorce, Desi and Lucy remained the best of friends. They spoke to each other almost nightly.

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Instagram!

Instagram Pictures!

Here are some of my favorite pictures of Desi Arnaz and Lucille Ball, and some of their fans have been requesting for these pictures, so there you go!

My personal favorite: Young Desi and Lucy, so obviously in love with each other and their adorable dogs.

 I suppose taking pictures during World War II was very important, because the wife would never know if her husband would ever return home. This picture is so poignant in a way, and endearing. It's also one of my personal favorites. The way Desi looks at Lucy... aw.

 Lucy looking fabulous in her 50s!

 Desilu Productions, with the president and vice president working with MGM to produce some awesome technicolor movies. Desi must have been so proud of Desilu Productions. For once, Desi's name came first, and Lucy didn't mind that at all. If you have noticed, I try my best to put Desi's name first when I discuss the both of them. No one gives him credit, and no one knows about it, but Desi Arnaz was really an intelligent man. He was great in business, scripts, everything!

 Another favorite picture of mine.

 

 More pictures to come, stay tuned! 

Instagram Pictures!

Cuban Pete, Sally Sweet! This is from the cover of a magazine. Do you know which magazine it is? The magazine also appeared as a prop. The Ricardos and Mertzes had a fight and Ricky and Lucy were about to move out of the house. Fred and Ethel come into their apartment to give them back their stuff, and if you notice hard enough, you'll notice the magazine on the coffee table!

Always elegant!

This is one of my favorite pictures of Desi Arnaz and Lucille Ball. So Old Hollywood, so romantic, so nightclub-ish...

This is a publicity picture for the movie Lured (wonderful movie, trust me, Lucy was PERFECT!), and has been requested by one of my @welovelucilleball followers on Instagram. Sorry for the long wait, here you go!

Desi Arnaz and Lucille Ball on the set of The Long, Long Trailer, eating watermelons during a break. If you're familiar in Liza Minnelli who appeared in Sex and the City 2 and sang Single Ladies, you'll be interested to know that her father, Vincente Minnelli was the director of the movie!

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This is from The Big Street, one of my favorite Lucille Ball movies. Come to think of it again, I like ALL her movies!

This is from LIFE Magazine. I love her lovely hairstyle, where she pulls back her fringe.

This is scanned from a book.

Lucy has always been good with animals. She had pet dogs, pet cards, pet birds and others!

Instagram Pictures!

Instagram Pictures!

I made this with the love letters Desi and Lucy wrote to each other during World War II. Those letters were so touching, and they were so in love.

Beautiful side view!

Dig that hairstyle! And she looks so youthful with no fringe! I have more photos of her many different poses!

What an adorable looking hat!

Here's Lucy, just before an I Love Lucy taping with Little Ricky in the hospital!

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Lucille Ball looks so classy here!

Why is Desi Arnaz pointing to Lucy's stomach? Hmmm...

Here's a rare picture of Lucy in her young modeling days, where she was still a dark blonde.

Beautiful, in 1940s:

Brunette Lucy in a bathing suit. Look at those legs!