she stayed beautiful well into her later 60s and 70s.. however, once she reached 80 she let herself go, and told the world they could go to Hell (saw her on Johnny Carson saying it) !
evidently you didn't read the following..."once she reached 80 she let herself go, and told the world they could go to Hell (saw her on Johnny Carson saying it) !"
As a kid, I was in a restaurant in Palm Springs when Ginger Rogers walked in. I had no idea who she was, but the whole place gave her a standing ovation.
@Dixie Paste You need a bit of common sense; applause is the universal signal of appreciation for entertainers, not for war heroes or brain surgeon or scientists or Pope's sermons or great lays. No one thinks entertainers are more important than Nobel Prize winners or brain surgeons or great war heroes, this is just the long-established way of displaying appreciation for that particular portion of society. Get a grip.
mariano barbieri Really ! Was that all you could see ? That she is 60 yrs old here & can still move like that meant nothing ,,, U only saw ‘fat ‘ God that’s so sad !
Everyone is focusing on Ginger and Lucy here because they were superstars, but watch Lucie Arnaz in this clip. Watch how she kicks up her heals, so much energy. I realize she was 40 years younger than the other two, but still she pulls off some spectacular dancing.
Imagine being part of the studio audience and seeing a live performance of Ginger Rogers dancing the Charleston AND accompanied by Lucille and Lucy. Wow! Not only that but Lucille and Lucy could say, "I danced with Ginger Rogers". All three ladies gave a wonderful performance.
*Lucie. In the 1936 Astaire and Rogers film Follow the Fleet (costarring singer Harriet Hilliard before she married Ozzie Nelson; and in glimpses newbie Betty Grable), Lucille Ball cameoed in a long dance clip to the song "Let's Face the Music and Dance." At start of the scene, Fred is at a gambling table in a yacht surrounded by eveninggowned lovelies, Lucille to his immediate left. They all smile and approve as he wins, but the moment his luck downturns, they raise their elegant noses in the air and desert him. In the next scene he's on deck of the yacht, where a ballgowned Ginger strolls to the ship side and steps up a parapet, about to jump off in despair. Fred rushes to her side, seizes her hand and pulls her to the dance floor, where he engages her in a slow mutually consolatory dance to uplift her mood. Meanwhile the trio of earlier seen young lady "swans" glides by (Lucy in the middle, the tallest) and continue their snub of him. Fred and Ginger segue into a great dance sequence. But in other late '30s and early '40s films, Lucy was featured as a dancer, as in a beautiful and funny stage sequence 1940 of her "Doin' the Jitterbug Jive," at start of which she tosses off her mink coat. I read somewhere that Lucy and Ginger were third or so cousins.
That could only happen in the imagination, because there was no audience for the filming of this episode. Argue with me til the cows come home--there was not.
@@TVonthePorch you're correct. There was an imminent writer's strike coming, and so they had to film and choreograph very quickly without the use of a studio audience. It was one of the few Lucy shows ever not to film in front of a live audience. You could have provided that information instead of just being a bit of a dick.
FYI, Ginger won a Charleston competition when she was a teenager, that's why she nailed it in this episode. What an amazing lady, she's one of a kind and we were lucky to see her in all her movies and TV specials. Thanks for posting this gem.
The reference by Ginger Rogers about Katharine Hepburn in this clip was because she and Lucy starred with her in "Stage Door" in 1935 along with other up and coming stars Ann Miller and Eve Arden.
I was thinking the same thing. The steps Ginger did at the beginning of the number were especially impressive. And those high kicks? She hadn’t lost a beat!
I probably saw this episode when I was a kid (15 at the time), but didn't realize how good it was. Like so many others have said, they don't make shows like this anymore. Bravo to both of these classy ladies for doing The Charleston at age 60, and making it look so effortless.
Ginger and Lucille were very good friends. Lucille was part of Ginger's mother Lela Rogers' Hollywood Playhouse for aspiring actors/actreses on the RKO set. Lela treated Lucille like a daughter and fought to get her young actors and actresses decent parts in films of the day. Ginger and Lucille were both strong business women as well as amazing talents. So enjoyed this clip. Thanks for upload.
Lj Bottjer When Lucy appeared on the Phil Donahue Show she said when asked if she and Ginger were related; ' I don't know where that rumour started maybe because we were so close like sisters...I don't know'.
Lucy and Ginger thought they were related because Ginger had a Ball in her ancestry. But I don't think anyone ever came up with an actual connection. If they were related at all, it was very, very distant.
Amazing.. of course Ginger and Lucy were off the charts.. but Lucie knocked it out of the park. What a great scene. (I miss real TV.. and stars with class, who were actually entertainers.)
@@hellokitty777able Yeah, without the wig and chicken fat rubbed on the camera lens, LB looked quite different. By this time smoking had ravaged her face and her voice had noticeably deteriorated; there was a reason why she had a rule that photographers were not allowed to take close-ups.
The most beautiful part of Ginger’s Charleston here is at the very beginning. She begins slowly and pulls her audience in with some very slight hand movements and an infectious eye twinkling at 0.33-0.34. Then she ups her game showing us her amazing dancing. I’ve watched this clip several times just to see those beginning hand movements and eye twinkling. A truly gifted professional who has never been topped.
To think that Ginger and Lucy were both 60 years old here and knocked it out of the ballpark! And Lucie did an amazing job, too. Also amazing to think that Lucy got her start as a background extra on Ginger's movies! She had a bit part as a fashion show model in "Roberta" in 1935, then a first speaking part (one line) on "Top Hat" also in 1935, and then a small part as one of Ginger's friends on "Follow the Fleet", made at the end of 1935 and premiered in early spring of 1936, thanks to Ginger and Ginger's mom, Lela, who was Lucy's acting teacher at RKO. The ladies were friends all their lives. Awesome! Two amazing women.
You talk like 60 is old. It's not. It's young! I thought 60 was old when I was 7. I was talking about my grandparents to my mother. She said "Oh no. 60 is young ". Boy was she right.
The joke at the end, "Please, please, become a Katharine Hepburn fan," is there because Hepburn did not get along much with Ginger, and I am taking Ginger's side in this instance. As acknowledged by most movie historians, Hepburn was overbearing.
What amazes me is how she could do all her dances in such high heels, especially the charlston! Look at her high heels, compared to Lucy's flat shoes. It's amazing! And at 60!
rubberduckie8922 I don’t know who originally said it, but there is a very famous quote that; “Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did, but backwards and in high heels.”
@@lindashelley3635 .....it might have been Ginger herself---or a well known feminist along the lines of Gloria Steinem, Betty Friedan or Bella Abzug, probably during an interview regarding women whose skills and abilities can match or even surpass a man's in very many instances.
Ginger Rogers. Wow! What else can I say that hasn't already been said here except that without TH-cam these classics TV shows would be relegated to the dustbin of history! But they live on to our great enjoyment!
This is a minute of show business pure joy. Thank goodness for film and video. Lucy and Ginger live forever - and how lucky we are that Luci Arnaz is still alive with plenty of high kicks left in her!
What a classic and memorable scene and such a catchy song to dance to, even the audience was enjoying the 1920s era dance number and what a great trio to do it too with Lucille Ball, Ginger Rogers, and Lucie Arnaz. From what I read, Ginger Rogers and Lucille Ball had a decades-long friendship that began back when Ginger's mother helped both of the two women achieve their full potential in their acting careers. Very talented and professional women. So awesome to see them both in their sixties and still having the spunk they had in their younger years especially Ginger who was perhaps one of the most talented dancers Hollywood every knew.
Shows like this made you realize just how bad TV was back in the era of the three major networks. Shameless stunt casting, bottom feeder scripts that were bought on the open market for $100 and recycled over and over, hokey premises, stilted dialogue, etc. I suppose shows like this provided an escape from the turmoil engulfing the real world , but still, they didn't have to be so cringey.
There is still wonderful entertainment on TV. It is highly professional and only the best make it. I don’t think you understand that taste changes and the arts evolve. This video is an example of the best of it’s time, but other TV from the same period has not aged well. The same applies today. What is stylish today might look pretty bad in the next generation.
@@jasonford9705 Here's Lucy was not the best of anything, and it should have been cancelled in 1971 as part of Bill Paley's rural purge. Actually, it should never have been put on the air in the first place. It was an example of TV on auto-pilot where Lucille Ball simply rested on her laurels and did nothing to try and improve or get out of her artistic comfort zone. By this time many top industry critics had referred to her as a cloying harpy of an annoyance who refused to go away.
@@ericnelson9100 I was not referring to the Here’s Lucy series - only this specific video. But since you brought it up, Here’s Lucy was always in the top 10 until 1973 and in 1974, Ball called it quits. Quality or not, in the TV world, ratings are everything. Certainly at this point, Ball’s slapstick style was falling out of favor. This does not diminish her performances but reflects changing taste. And certainly her age made it more difficult to exist in an ageist system. New generations did not relate well to her.
@@jonthomas8569 You should hear Desi Jr on the drums. He played them a couple of times in the first season of Here's Lucy & in one of the episodes with Wayne Newton singing (he was 25/26 at the time).
I'm 73, so I lived through the early TV era. I never really clicked with much of the humor back then. (My favorite humorists/comedian of that era was Ernie Kovacs.) I recognized Lucy's talent as an actress, too, but never warmed to her serious roles. As I recall, her politics didn't jibe with mine, either. For years, I didn't have a lot of respect for her, just because she wasn't my cup of tea. (I never much cared for Burt Lancaster, Jimmy Cagney, and some others, either.) But I came to respect her to infinite depths when I learned that she had bet almost her entire fortune on "Star Trek" (the original series). She lost control of DesiLu productions because she insisted on continue back of that show, which obviously made 100s of $Millions for its later owners. She stuck by her people and didn't give up on them or what she believed in. That takes real courage and genuine caring. Here's to Lucy!!!
Ginger kept her looks and kept working. She did films, she did Broadway, she did T.V. She was one tough dame with one tough mother. She also was a genius. Fred and Ginger remained lifetime friends. Lucie always impressed me on these shows. She should have won a Tony for "Promises, Promises" and didn't even get a nomination.
Am 74. Saw Luci Arnaz on Broadway in “They’re Playing our Song” in late 1970’s. My late husband & I saw her here in San Francisco 8 years ago doing solo show. Great dancer, entertainer and cabaret singer. Wonderful show in an intimate room. Loved her show.
Ol' girl had some bony sticks. She probably made Ginger wear that long skirt because her dancer's legs next to Lucy, and her daughter's would have made them look truly ridiculous.
Lucille Ball did have a brief scene in "Top Hat" (Astaire & Rogers) as the shop assistant girl at the flower shop. I think it was her first role in the movies.
Yup, me too!! I just had to track down the original clip and song: The Charleston. Most things can be found on the Internet if you just look for them. This took me less than 15 seconds. 😊
Lucie Arnaz and Desi Jr. were lucky they got to work with such greats as Ginger Rogers before they died. Lucy knew them all! Of course she started in the business with her in 1933?
I’ve never seen Ginger Rogers in her older years. She’s beautiful!
she stayed beautiful well into her later 60s and 70s.. however, once she reached 80 she let herself go, and told the world they could go to Hell (saw her on Johnny Carson saying it) !
@@Nunofurdambiznez is not like you let yourself go at age 80... life happens jhbgdhfjgbdfhjgb
evidently you didn't read the following..."once she reached 80 she let herself go, and told the world they could go to Hell (saw her on Johnny Carson saying it) !"
You didn’t watch Love Boat. That’s how I knew her as a 70s kid.
As a kid, I was in a restaurant in Palm Springs when Ginger Rogers walked in. I had no idea who she was, but the whole place gave her a standing ovation.
Wow! I’m a huge fan of hers what an awesome thing to have witnessed
That would have been so cool 🌵💗
Wow!
@Dixie Paste No, she just entertain multi-millions of people for many years. What have you done for us lately?
@Dixie Paste You need a bit of common sense; applause is the universal signal of appreciation for entertainers, not for war heroes or brain surgeon or scientists or Pope's sermons or great lays. No one thinks entertainers are more important than Nobel Prize winners or brain surgeons or great war heroes, this is just the long-established way of displaying appreciation for that particular portion of society. Get a grip.
I was a flight attendant back in the 1980’s and top of the list of lovely stars on planes was (along with Dolly Parton)was Ginger Roger’s. Class act!
When asked, on a show hosted by Burt Reynolds, what she missed, Ginger said right away "Lucy."
Wow, just wow. Ginger never lost any of her style. What a mover.
mark1968 And in High Heels haha thats amazing !
Absolutely. Ginger was amazing. -)
mariano barbieri Really ! Was that all you could see ? That she is 60 yrs old here & can still move like that meant nothing ,,, U only saw ‘fat ‘ God that’s so sad !
amen
@mariano barbieri That's fat? 😏
Everyone is focusing on Ginger and Lucy here because they were superstars, but watch Lucie Arnaz in this clip. Watch how she kicks up her heals, so much energy. I realize she was 40 years younger than the other two, but still she pulls off some spectacular dancing.
you are right, and being Lucille's daughter she is bound to be full of talent
She was mimicking early Ginger Rogers’ moves.
And those loooooong legs !! All 3 were fab ..
Meh... Never found her to be anything but average... 😴
Luci Arnez was young stuff, thats why she danced better !!!
Imagine being part of the studio audience and seeing a live performance of Ginger Rogers dancing the Charleston AND accompanied by Lucille and Lucy. Wow! Not only that but Lucille and Lucy could say, "I danced with Ginger Rogers". All three ladies gave a wonderful performance.
*Lucie. In the 1936 Astaire and Rogers film Follow the Fleet (costarring singer Harriet Hilliard before she married Ozzie Nelson; and in glimpses newbie Betty Grable), Lucille Ball cameoed in a long dance clip to the song "Let's Face the Music and Dance." At start of the scene, Fred is at a gambling table in a yacht surrounded by eveninggowned lovelies, Lucille to his immediate left. They all smile and approve as he wins, but the moment his luck downturns, they raise their elegant noses in the air and desert him.
In the next scene he's on deck of the yacht, where a ballgowned Ginger strolls to the ship side and steps up a parapet, about to jump off in despair. Fred rushes to her side, seizes her hand and pulls her to the dance floor, where he engages her in a slow mutually consolatory dance to uplift her mood. Meanwhile the trio of earlier seen young lady "swans" glides by (Lucy in the middle, the tallest) and continue their snub of him.
Fred and Ginger segue into a great dance sequence.
But in other late '30s and early '40s films, Lucy was featured as a dancer, as in a beautiful and funny stage sequence 1940 of her "Doin' the Jitterbug Jive," at start of which she tosses off her mink coat.
I read somewhere that Lucy and Ginger were third or so cousins.
That could only happen in the imagination, because there was no audience for the filming of this episode. Argue with me til the cows come home--there was not.
@@TVonthePorch you're correct. There was an imminent writer's strike coming, and so they had to film and choreograph very quickly without the use of a studio audience. It was one of the few Lucy shows ever not to film in front of a live audience. You could have provided that information instead of just being a bit of a dick.
@@TVonthePorch Why not just give an interesting piece of trivia!
There was a writer's strike. No audience
FYI, Ginger won a Charleston competition when she was a teenager, that's why she nailed it in this episode. What an amazing lady, she's one of a kind and we were lucky to see her in all her movies and TV specials. Thanks for posting this gem.
The reference by Ginger Rogers about Katharine Hepburn in this clip was because she and Lucy starred with her in "Stage Door" in 1935 along with other up and coming stars Ann Miller and Eve Arden.
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floorrunner It's "Katherine," not "Katharine."
Dario Witer I spelled it correctly. She spelled it with an A not an E. please look it up.
floorrunner Yup, you're right! Just went on Wikipedia and saw the spelling of her name. Thanks for the correction! 👍 😃
Dario Witer Not a problem at all. I just happen to be a big Katharine Hepburn fan that's how I knew.
Ginger Rogers was 60 years old when she danced with Lucy and Lucie in this episode. Ginger's footwork was still amazing in 1971.
I turned 60 in November 2023, and I couldn't do one minute of that dance routine 😮
Lucy had quite a background in dance herself.
I was thinking the same thing. The steps Ginger did at the beginning of the number were especially impressive. And those high kicks? She hadn’t lost a beat!
So who else is here after wachting them dancing on "Singe Ladies"?
Never in my life expected to see Here's Lucy in a meme.
@@bleepiestofbloops i know. Here's Lucy was not as respected of a TV show as The Lucy Show much less I Love Lucy. But, it was still Lucy.
Me. lol
Genius match up
Guilty as charged
I probably saw this episode when I was a kid (15 at the time), but didn't realize how good it was. Like so many others have said, they don't make shows like this anymore. Bravo to both of these classy ladies for doing The Charleston at age 60, and making it look so effortless.
Ginger and Lucille were very good friends. Lucille was part of Ginger's mother Lela Rogers' Hollywood Playhouse for aspiring actors/actreses on the RKO set. Lela
treated Lucille like a daughter and fought to get her young actors and actresses decent parts in films of the day. Ginger and Lucille were both strong business women as well as amazing talents. So enjoyed this clip. Thanks for upload.
More than that, they two ladies were cousins. Not first, but 2nd or third.
Lj Bottjer When Lucy appeared on the Phil Donahue Show she said when asked if she and Ginger were related; ' I don't know where that rumour started maybe because we were so close like sisters...I don't know'.
Ginger was cousin by marriage to Rita Hayworth
Lucy and Ginger thought they were related because Ginger had a Ball in her ancestry. But I don't think anyone ever came up with an actual connection. If they were related at all, it was very, very distant.
They were also in Roberta and Top Hat together!
The quality of Ginger Roger's dancing here is excellent- wow
Amazing.. of course Ginger and Lucy were off the charts.. but Lucie knocked it out of the park. What a great scene. (I miss real TV.. and stars with class, who were actually entertainers.)
OMG Ginger is SIXTY years old here and look at those moves, in high heels even! Holy Pope-see!
filmidioten people don't realize that not only did she keep up with Fred Astaire she did it backwards and in heels.
Those really aren't high heels.
I thought so!
Yeah? You try dancing in them, see how high they are lol
@@michaelsternberg7320that is such an old meme… come up with something original
Hey, that is the best thing I have seen all day. !
I know. It made me smile!
I mean what level of TV entertainment. My God!
Exhilarating, inspiring and true. Just wonderful.
I loved Lucille Ball and Ginger Rogers. Two very talented and classy ladies.
They were best friends in real life.
😍🌸🌼🌷🌺💚
And both were 1911 babies
Then you must watch the movie Stage Door.
Lucy’s legs at age 60 were the envy of women half her age. Ginger was also still amazing at age 60. Two superstars. RIP legends.
Hello Juliette, How are you doing?
@@Kelly-nm4kw
Good. How are you?
@@julietteyork3721 I’m well thanks for asking Juliette. Nice to hear from you where are you from?
They should have put Lucy in heels.
@@ralphewell8398 She would have towered over Ginger then .
She was a genius! Long Live Lucy Forever!!!! Thanks for sharing
Even in her later years and not in top shape she danced like a dream. She moved so lightly it looked effortless. Hats off to Ginger!
I feel Ginger was more beautiful as she aged. Not an easy feat. Lucille was always beautiful.
@@hellokitty777able So true!
Once a dancer, always a dancer. Dancers never seem to lose their agility and spryness.
@@hellokitty777able Yeah, without the wig and chicken fat rubbed on the camera lens, LB looked quite different. By this time smoking had ravaged her face and her voice had noticeably deteriorated; there was a reason why she had a rule that photographers were not allowed to take close-ups.
Ginger Rogers. Simply class.
what a great moment in TV history, I love this, thank you for sharing, this vid is perfect with my morning coffee, Cheers from V.A.
Ginger Rogers... simply the BEST ❤️
Wow! I hope to be half as fit and stylish as Ginger at that age. She's goals
Ginger Rogers could dance!!!!!
Hello Tina, How are you doing?
They just slayed this routine.
That's Lucie Arnaz Lucy's daughter playing Kim Carter.
Wow - can they dance! Absolutely amazing.
Lucy always makes me smile.
When Tv was classy and showcased some real talent
🌸🌼🌷🌺🧡💚
Amen
Such beautiful innocent times not like today.
I knew Lucy kept her good looks, but having never seen a picture of Ginger Roger's, I have to say, she was a knockout.
Notice..Ginger's the only one doing this in HEELS!
She’s also the only one that doesn’t look like she’s winging it.
@@robstockton2463 She's also the only one who can actually dance!
Lucy had some incredible legs for sixty years old. Or twenty-five.
The most beautiful part of Ginger’s Charleston here is at the very beginning. She begins slowly and pulls her audience in with some very slight hand movements and an infectious eye twinkling at 0.33-0.34. Then she ups her game showing us her amazing dancing. I’ve watched this clip several times just to see those beginning hand movements and eye twinkling. A truly gifted professional who has never been topped.
The way she could twist her feet so effortlessly was great.
Ginger Rogers really was a stunner, wasn't she?
Both she and Lucy were - they were both pin-up girls in the 1940s.
To think that Ginger and Lucy were both 60 years old here and knocked it out of the ballpark! And Lucie did an amazing job, too. Also amazing to think that Lucy got her start as a background extra on Ginger's movies! She had a bit part as a fashion show model in "Roberta" in 1935, then a first speaking part (one line) on "Top Hat" also in 1935, and then a small part as one of Ginger's friends on "Follow the Fleet", made at the end of 1935 and premiered in early spring of 1936, thanks to Ginger and Ginger's mom, Lela, who was Lucy's acting teacher at RKO. The ladies were friends all their lives. Awesome! Two amazing women.
Thank you so much for sharing this information.
Yes, thank you for the background info on this! That's incredible!
AWE SOME !!!!!!!!!!!! 🌟🌟🌟
You talk like 60 is old. It's not. It's young! I thought 60 was old when I was 7. I was talking about my grandparents to my mother. She said "Oh no. 60 is young ". Boy was she right.
Wait, they were only 60 in this? They looked a lot older.
Ginger & lucy were born in the same year. Lucy is so skinny. A fun video. Lucy has so much energy.
Hello Susan, How are you doing?
When TV was really classy and was full of genuine talent
This was so cute. A tribute indeed to two of the greatest stars.
TV was definitely more fun back then. It's mostly vulgar or depressing now.
you sure got THAT right!
I agree
I third that ;)
Yeah, but at least it’s entertaining. I almost fell asleep watching 3 old ladies dance!
@@Jecoopster probably because you grew up watching all the fast paced over edited garbage from the 80s on up
I love Lucy and Ginger in "Stage Door" (with Eve Arden and Katharine Hepburn)...it's great!
Ginger's voice hardly changed. omg
Ohhhhh that was sooooooooo sweet to watch!!! What a wonderful video!!!
The joke at the end, "Please, please, become a Katharine Hepburn fan," is there because Hepburn did not get along much with Ginger, and I am taking Ginger's side in this instance. As acknowledged by most movie historians, Hepburn was overbearing.
The best part starts at 0:00, and ends at 2:07!
That was an amazing little segment of how great entertainment used to be.
This is so cute and pure 🙂❤ watching this brings a smile to my face every time
What amazes me is how she could do all her dances in such high heels, especially the charlston! Look at her high heels, compared to Lucy's flat shoes. It's amazing! And at 60!
rubberduckie8922 I don’t know who originally said it, but there is a very famous quote that; “Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did, but backwards and in high heels.”
@@lindashelley3635 .....it might have been Ginger herself---or a well known feminist along the lines of Gloria Steinem, Betty Friedan or Bella Abzug, probably during an interview regarding women whose skills and abilities can match or even surpass a man's in very many instances.
BECAUSE she was a dancer. Lucy and daughter weren't. But they were RIGHT THERE, too!!
Ball and Rogers are the same age, 1 month apart I just learned.
Lucille and Lucie are amazing but Ginger is on another league.
Actually I felt Lucy was the best of the three
She is also the girl in the flower shop in Top Hat.
Ginger Rogers. Wow! What else can I say that hasn't already been said here except that without TH-cam these classics TV shows would be relegated to the dustbin of history! But they live on to our great enjoyment!
I am amazed! Lucy really is a great dancer! I wish we still had shows of the caliber.
This is a minute of show business pure joy. Thank goodness for film and video. Lucy and Ginger live forever - and how lucky we are that Luci Arnaz is still alive with plenty of high kicks left in her!
You should’ve seen her when she appeared on the Jack Benny program.
Ginger was a teenager in the '20s, just like Lucy, when she did this dance, which explains why she still did this well in 1971! 👍👍👍👍👍 😀😀😀😀😀
TOTALLY
*I'm GLAD that you gave the Date at 1971; as IT was NOT GIVEN*
They don't make 'em like this anymore...
Can you imagine 60 year olds in 40 years trying to twerk? Classless EW 🤢
Two Great Talents!!!!
WOW!!! This was entertainment. Where has it gone?
Wow, she is so fabulous. You will be forever missed, Ms. Rogers!
What a classic and memorable scene and such a catchy song to dance to, even the audience was enjoying the 1920s era dance number and what a great trio to do it too with Lucille Ball, Ginger Rogers, and Lucie Arnaz. From what I read, Ginger Rogers and Lucille Ball had a decades-long friendship that began back when Ginger's mother helped both of the two women achieve their full potential in their acting careers. Very talented and professional women. So awesome to see them both in their sixties and still having the spunk they had in their younger years especially Ginger who was perhaps one of the most talented dancers Hollywood every knew.
My god, she was 60 at the time of this taping, and she still moved like a dream.
Ah, those wonderful golden days when you saw true entertainment on TV. Sigh. Long gone.
Shows like this made you realize just how bad TV was back in the era of the three major networks. Shameless stunt casting, bottom feeder scripts that were bought on the open market for $100 and recycled over and over, hokey premises, stilted dialogue, etc. I suppose shows like this provided an escape from the turmoil engulfing the real world , but still, they didn't have to be so cringey.
There is still wonderful entertainment on TV. It is highly professional and only the best make it. I don’t think you understand that taste changes and the arts evolve. This video is an example of the best of it’s time, but other TV from the same period has not aged well. The same applies today. What is stylish today might look pretty bad in the next generation.
@@jasonford9705 Here's Lucy was not the best of anything, and it should have been cancelled in 1971 as part of Bill Paley's rural purge. Actually, it should never have been put on the air in the first place. It was an example of TV on auto-pilot where Lucille Ball simply rested on her laurels and did nothing to try and improve or get out of her artistic comfort zone. By this time many top industry critics had referred to her as a cloying harpy of an annoyance who refused to go away.
@@ericnelson9100 I was not referring to the Here’s Lucy series - only this specific video. But since you brought it up, Here’s Lucy was always in the top 10 until 1973 and in 1974, Ball called it quits. Quality or not, in the TV world, ratings are everything. Certainly at this point, Ball’s slapstick style was falling out of favor. This does not diminish her performances but reflects changing taste. And certainly her age made it more difficult to exist in an ageist system. New generations did not relate well to her.
Ginger Rogers, pure dancing talent.
ginger n lucy my two fave actresses goodness wat a thrill !
Stars with class.
Omg, 2 legends
Lucie had talent too, but when your mom is Lucille, you are bound to be full of talent.
Don't forget that her father Desi Arnaz had a lot of musical background himself. Both parents were very, very talented people.
@@reno1uest yes! Lucie's musical talents certainly came from her father. She's a wonderful singer, and has an incredibly quick wit.
@@jonthomas8569 You should hear Desi Jr on the drums. He played them a couple of times in the first season of Here's Lucy & in one of the episodes with Wayne Newton singing (he was 25/26 at the time).
🌹 Bette did it ALL very well ❤️ One of our Greatest Entertainers ⭐
I'm 73, so I lived through the early TV era. I never really clicked with much of the humor back then. (My favorite humorists/comedian of that era was Ernie Kovacs.) I recognized Lucy's talent as an actress, too, but never warmed to her serious roles. As I recall, her politics didn't jibe with mine, either. For years, I didn't have a lot of respect for her, just because she wasn't my cup of tea. (I never much cared for Burt Lancaster, Jimmy Cagney, and some others, either.)
But I came to respect her to infinite depths when I learned that she had bet almost her entire fortune on "Star Trek" (the original series). She lost control of DesiLu productions because she insisted on continue back of that show, which obviously made 100s of $Millions for its later owners. She stuck by her people and didn't give up on them or what she believed in. That takes real courage and genuine caring.
Here's to Lucy!!!
Happy birthday Ginger xxx
Showbiz is so different... image my Grandmas in that age? dancing like that? wearing shorts like that? Haaahaaaa
how wonderful! Bravo Ginger!
Sitting here on 31 May 2020 feeling sad for the world. Then this pops up on my recommended. Thank you youtube, cheered me up x
Same for Sept 2024
WOW! I never knew that. Good info. Kate is okay, but she always had the reputation for being difficult and affected.
Ginger kept her looks and kept working. She did films, she did Broadway, she did T.V. She was one tough dame with one tough mother. She also was a genius. Fred and Ginger remained lifetime friends. Lucie always impressed me on these shows. She should have won a Tony for "Promises, Promises" and didn't even get a nomination.
Now I know where Donald and Daisy got all their moves
To watch Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire dance is amazing.
Am 74. Saw Luci Arnaz on Broadway in “They’re Playing our Song” in late 1970’s. My late husband & I saw her here in San Francisco 8 years ago doing solo show. Great dancer, entertainer and cabaret singer. Wonderful show in an intimate room. Loved her show.
Lucy blessed us for so many years. I miss her so much.
Hello Mona, How are you doing?
Dos genias vivientes soy fan de Ginger una de las mejores actrices de todos los tiempos
Lucy had GREAT legs
Both of course!
Even in her last appearance..,at the 1989 Oscars. Fabulous legs!
Ol' girl had some bony sticks. She probably made Ginger wear that long skirt because her dancer's legs next to Lucy, and her daughter's would have made them look truly ridiculous.
She did all her life! :)
bird stork legs. yea not fat but eeewwhh
Can’t like it enough!
That was fantastic. Ginger Rogers is awesome. I love her.
REAL TALENT
..Ginger still looks great here, just has such class; no doubt she was one of the very best..just wonderin' how old she is here.....??
She and Lucy were in their 60's here.
9 people have know clue. This is an amazing clip In have never seen it before
MBVlove31 12...in the minority. This is an excellent clip.
now it's 13, they just don't know good television, I loved ginger rogers
*no*
wow lucy and ginger go waaaaaay back to RKO 1930s; we're talking longtime friends!!!
Fabulous ❤️ ❤️ ❤️
I was born in the wrong damn decade.
But to be honest, I liked all of them. I just wish I had the purple-dressed girl's legs!
Kira "The purple-dressed girl" is Lucy's daughter, Lucie Arnaz.
I was born in 83...I miss the 90's as you would find this on reruns on Nick at Nite
Loved this😊❤
Lucy and Ginger had been great friends going back to the 1930s!
Awesome!
Wow! I'm most impressed with Lucie, I thought she was just going to hold Ginger's purse! And she hung right in there with her Mom and Ginger!
Lucy and Ginger both stared in a 1939 movie "Stage Door".
Lucille Ball did have a brief scene in "Top Hat" (Astaire & Rogers) as the shop assistant girl at the flower shop. I think it was her first role in the movies.
Steven Torrey she was in Roberta with Ginger Rogers, Fred Astaire, and Irene Dunne prior to Top Hat.
@@vkaygee She was in Roman Scandals with Eddie Cantor before either of those movies.
And Lucille Ball was in Follow the Fleet (1936) w/ Rogers & Astaire
Here because of the TikTok of them doing this to Single Ladies
Yup, me too!! I just had to track down the original clip and song: The Charleston.
Most things can be found on the Internet if you just look for them. This took me less than 15 seconds. 😊
You know what they didn't do, that I expected them to do? Be huffing and puffing at the end. Amazing! All three ladies hit it out of the park.
Quem é rainha..........Maravilhoso!
Lucie Arnaz and Desi Jr. were lucky they got to work with such greats as Ginger Rogers before they died. Lucy knew them all! Of course she started in the business with her in 1933?