Tragic Details About The I Love Lucy Cast
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- I Love Lucy practically invented the modern sitcom. Sure, sitcoms had existed before on radio and TV, but I Love Lucy not only originated many of the sitcom plots that seem like clichés today, but it was also the first show to air in reruns.
But while any problems between Lucy and Ricky Ricardo and their friends Ethel and Fred Mertz could always be wrapped up in 30 minutes' time, it wasn’t always that easy in real life. From the difficult marriage of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz to the strained working relationship of Vivian Vance and William Frawley, let’s take a look at some tragic details about the I Love Lucy cast.
#ILoveLucy #Tragic #TV
Unfaithful playboy | 0:00
Conception struggles | 1:29
TB's first interracial marriage | 2:30
Brush with the blacklist | 3:34
Fred vs. Ethel | 4:47
Splitting up | 5:55
Stormy divorce | 6:57
The loss of Vivian Vance | 8:05
The death of Desi Arnaz | 9:13
So long, Lucy | 10:18
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What's your favorite episode of I Love Lucy?
These are my top three favorite I love Lucy episodes
1. Lucy does a commercial
2. Job Switching
3. Lucy is enceinte
"Never Do Business with Friends"
"Too many crooks"
I have two: Vitametavegamin and the Chocolate Factory. So happy that after all these years the show is still on the air. Isn't it amazing that you can see the same show a million times and still laugh like crazy.
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Lucy goes to the hospital!
The part about Lucy's final moment with Desi at the hospital.. and then at the funeral.... that really got me :'( I'm glad it didn't end with anger and regret... but in love and mutual respect, between these two.
so true too agreed with you.
I always thought they were always soul mates, they just couldn't live together.
@@HossBlacksilver you don’t constantly cheat on your soulmate.
@@mattr3250 that is true, in my culture and also my own morals, that is true also. I don’t know how Lucy lasted 20 years in that marriage, it was very toxic at times….
I know Lucy was hurt so very badly by Desi…. Over and over and over again, until she simply couldn’t take the hurt any more, she wanted to be totally alone after because it was so painful she said (of course it turned out differently) …..
When she submitted her papers for the divorce, the reason she listed was “it’s been a total nightmare” 💔😢
…….. BUT, we have to understand also that it was Desi’s culture. (Not making excuses for him as he was also a heavy drinker/alcoholic, I think drinking in excess was his main problem, infidelity a close second ) ….
But He literally came from a culture where it was normal for men of wealthy families to have a mistress (or many of them) …. This mistress often had many children with these wealthy men, they would have a “big house” for the wife and kids, called “Casa Grande” and the “Little house” was called “Casita”….. it was for the mistress and her kids…
If you are interested in all things Lucy and Desi…. Check out the podcast called “The Plot Thickens” by TCM…… it’s SO GOOD!! I thought I knew everything about Lucy and Desi but I’ve learned SO MUCH from this podcast!! (I sound like an infomercial, I don’t mean too hahaha 😂😂)
Anyways….I’ve listened to the entire series, start to finish ( several times) because I enjoyed it so much!! It talks all about their story from start to finish…. It talks a lot about the Cuban culture and how he came from extreme wealth (his mother was heir to the Bacardi Rum Company) …….before they were thrown out of Cuba…. He came to the USA with nothing but the shirt on his back, with his dad…
Also in his culture, wealthy boys as young as 15/16 were often taken to brothels to lose their virginity…. It was normal to them and typically it was the uncle that would take the boys (that’s what happened with Desi)…. So for the rest of his life… he went to brothels, as though it were normal….he would say to Lucy in fact “they’re just prostitutes Lucy, it means nothing”…..(makes me so sad for Lucy even writing that myself 😢💔)
I always get sad when I think of Desi and Lucy. They never truly got over each other (many of their friends have said this also) and several of their friends have said that Lucy never really was in Love with Gary, her second husband…. He made her laugh and gave her the security/stability that she craved …. But it wasn’t the level of love she ever had for Desi….
My own father was a terrible alcoholic…. And also an all around terrible person altogether and a horrible father…..
Desi wasn’t like that… he had his demons for sure….but when he was with his kids, he was really present with them, he played with them and cooked with them… etc… (even as adults) but at heart (as confirmed by many) he wasn’t a bad person. I think he was a victim of what he had been through as a young adult…and in a way…. A victim of his culture too….and of course a victim of his disease, Alcoholism. But I really feel deep inside, Desi was an amazingly talented person with a kind and generous heart. Very sad 💔💔💔😢
@@trina7274 Yes I was there...24 years and Broken..he broke my back and almost my neck, hid money and put my 2 Adult kids against me in courts...and NEVER told me to my face I'm sorry, I went to his father's funeral...a real MAN
...not Loser...
I thought Vivian Vance was so pretty
Me too!
They did the occasional "fat Ethel" joke on "I Love Lucy" and the hour long shows, but there wasn't that much of a difference between her weight and Lucy's.
@@leemyers9762 True Lucy was just a little taller than she was
On the show Lucy was often called "fat". Maybe it was the standard back then to be stick thin. Neither looked overweight.
I definitely agree especially in her younger pictures and movies Vivian was very beautiful
Still miss Lucille Ball. She was beautiful inside and out, and a total badass for being the first woman to run a studio
Bad ass knows no gender. A bad ass doesnt need role models.
Amen!! She was one of a kind. An incredible woman all around!
Desilu
Lucy was savage. Threw the magazine right at him and said "Oh hell, I could tell them worse than that!"
I laugh everytime I hear or read that story. Loved that she kept it real with her ups and downs.
Somehow another actor playing the husband could not have said "Lucy, you have some splaining to do!"
I honestly do love Lucy, Till this day I watch that show, and I’m 46, , and I’ve never gotten sick of it.
I have alot of respect for all 4 of them and even the other actors that guest starred. So much talent and inspirational people from that era. Their work will live forever. It's unfortunate that those events took place behind the cameras.
i agree❤️
During lockdown I have started to watch Lucy, it brings back such fond childhood.memories. What a beautiful, talented and hilariously funny lady. The episode where Lucy is going to the hospital os priceless and ageless. It’s a pity the females that Desi would take up with didn’t tell him to wise up and go home to his precious wife.
There's nothing else to say except I LOVE LUCY !!!!!!
I loved EVERY BODY IN THE CAST. I still watch all the Re-runs all the times. "And I'm just a pup still" hehe
"champagne for everyone" damn that's cold lol
That is taken out of context. There were kind words said following. Vance toasted and paid tribute to Frawley. They always edit out the good parts of what people say to create more sensationalism to their readers.
Negativity and shock sell.
When I moved into a "Seniors Only" building (you must be 62 or older to live here), ten years ago, we had a lively discussion in our Commons Room about "I Love Lucy," which we'd all seen "First Run," back in the day. Lucy stomping grapes with an Italian woman, getting drunk on a "Vitameatavegimin" commercial, and the chocolate factory are true comedy classics. BTW, here's an odd fact: big city water departments all over the country had trouble with a huge pressure drop while "I Love Lucy" was on-----because everybody had to wait until commercials to make a break for the bathroom! All those toilets flushing at once drove water departments _NUTS!_ (There were only three commercials on half-hour programs in those days: at the beginning, middle, and end and most shows had only one sponsor, Like Old Gold cigarettes on Lucy's show.) Stay safe, everyone.
Wow
I never believed Lucy wanted Vivian to be frumpy because she didn't want Vivian to be prettier than her. Lucy was not vain I think she was worried about Desi's habit of hitting on other women. Barbara Eden said she had to hide from him when she guest stared on I Love Lucy cause really trying to get with her.
The friendship between between Lucy and Vivian is gold
I'll forever love Lucy. I always love watching her show.
Everyone on that show was a icon of there time. They where also way before there time. There was no such thing as interracial cupules on TV back then and they would be the only one for a while to. Im 29 and even I know the impact they had.
It's NOT true that both Vance and Frawley refused to do the spin-off: Bill was for it, Viv flatly told Desi "No thank-you"
That is how I understand it.
I’ve read somewhere that Vivian felt like that a Mertz spin-off show wouldn’t be the same or wouldn’t work without the Ricardos.
Lucy is one of my all time favorites. Her in-depth bio is every interesting and sad but she always saw the bright side.
Hello Tatiana Hallam how are you doing?
10:23 She was last survivor of the 4 regulars. Of those who had recurring roles as adults, the last survivor was Doris Singleton. Keith Thibodeaux, who played little Ricky, was a child then and is still living.
6:35 The Mertzes' relocation to Connecticut was, like the Ricardos', in the last 1/2 season of the half hour episodes.
I actually used to live where Lucy was from . Jamestown NY. Not only is she buried there but they museums dedicated to her.
Wow. I loved the show so much when growing up and I thought they were perfect for each others. I had no idea about story behind. Sad story. I'm glad that Lucy and Vivian became good friends. Thanks 👍
Hello how are you doing?
@@michaelbruno4608 Hello. I'm doing good. And you ?
Paivi Project am fine and thanks for asking
Paivi Project....Do you have Google Hangout so we could have a better conversation and get to know more about each other’s over there??
@@michaelbruno4608 I do have a Google Hangout.
Why isn't "Arnaz" pronounced "Ar-NEZ" instead of the incorrect "AR-Nez" that the narrator perpetually says.
Very good thanks!
Those were the good old days. I just hope they'll be remembered in generations to come.
Wow!!! Best doc about this I've seen. Bravo !!! This was a loyal woman who never forgot her true love unconditionally!!! This is hard to believe, but this is how humans should act. We all have so much to learn from Lucy. RIP to one of the last true American icons, who lived to show empathy and humanity. Shes a better person than I am, God Bless you Lucy. RIP in sweet heaven. If anyone's there Lucy is. Must watch this Doc !!!! ❤
Vivian Vance and Lucille Ball were the first female friends on TV that really made you realize how important female friendship is to each other it’s good to know that they were really friends
Very good video ❤️
Lucy will always have a special place in my heart. I grew up watching her show and still love watching it to this day.
Incredible cast
I love the show until this day ❤
So many but the last season they went to New York to see a play. Well them st the theater was just too much. I loved them in the country.
I have watched every episode a million times and last week I found it on Hulu. I still laugh at certain episodes now
Iconic!
Cousin Ernie episodes. My father actually went to school with Tennessee Ernie Ford in Bristol, TN/VA!!
I read a story that during the I Love Lucy show first run... In NYC.... at the commercial breaks the water pressure would drop 25%.
she died 1 day after my 9th birthday... wild! i remember hearing about her death on the radio,
"If she was seated she would move over for him if he needed room". ????.
Ill listen to this anyway because i love lucy.
I'm not crying. You're crying.
Despite the misgivings about working without Vivian Vance, Lucy would do the short-lived "Life with Lucy" in 1986. Viv had died in 1979.
I usually don't watch movies over but l do llove Lucy.l laugh and laugh.😅❤
Ahhh watching things like this make me so sad. I loved them and loved the show. I love lucy sooo much. My sister and parents bought me the whole DVD set Christmas 2019. I watched every single DVD atleast 10x already lol but I get sad at how their lives split end of the show :(
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I loved this show. I can't remember if read right but William Frawley and Vivian Vance didn't like each other in real life. This show brings back memories in 1996 when watched as kid on Nick at Nite as loved myself some Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour. Lucy died few months before was born thought she had died sometime in the early 80s.
I like your vids, but could u PLEASE stop saying that the things you are reporting as TRAGIC
It is sad, though. Her husband was a cheating addict, they suffered several miscarriages, Fred was a grumpy alcoholic, Vivian didn't get along with him either and celebrated his death by saying, "champagne for everyone", and it goes on to discuss how each cast member met their death.
Damn Vivian was a savage lol
I already knew there was trouble in Ricky and Lucy's marriage you can look at the Lucy show and tell that, because even when they were doing a Lucy show and whenever there was a beautiful slender woman involved on the show Lucy would get so jealous because she knew she could not trust her own husband in real life, but whenever there was a fat woman or a old woman that played a part with Ricky Lucy did not care because she knew Ricky did not fall for those type of women so she was never jealous of them, but she wasn't going to trust him being around those beautiful women, even on the Lucy show, even though they tried to make it out of a comedy so people wouldn't catch on what was going on in their marriage in real life, but you can read between the lines that there was something going on because when there was a beautiful woman that played in Ricky's nightclub and whenever he danced with one of those ladies Lucy would always come to his show and try to spy on him, even though they try to make it seem like it was part of the show it was Lucy not trusting her own husband. What a terrible marriage she had
Desi may be Cuban but wouldn't he be considered white as a race. Call ban is ethnicity not race.
What’s the difference between ethnicity and race?
Race is associated with biology. Ethnicity is more cultural.
@@fobii I still don’t fully understand. How can someone come from Cuba, be Cuban there. but be white in America? If race is biology, what in his biology makes him white? Just his skin color?
They are not an interracial couple. They are both the same race, white. Cuban is not a race.
Cuban is a nationality, seeing that Cuba is a country.
They said Lucille was white and Desi was Cuban. They were both the same race.
i never felt so sad 🥺
sad Vivian and Bill never got along..
I saw the movie Lucy calls the president that was very good I saw it on Tubi TV
I love Lucy and the Honeymooners are my favorite from 50s they are only shows who didn't have children as leading characters.
8:46 Yes, Vivian Vance was a regular on The Lucy Show, but this reduced to once-a-year guest appearances after the 1964-1965 season.
The show I Love Lucy is the most hilarious show I have ever seen in my life Lucille Ball and Desi arnazmade this show and it was the most good show I ever seen in my life they never made a mistake by putting them together on TV Fred and a Nestle they were hilarious to live a really good all four were really good
I love how Fred wore suits all the time
I have read over the years that Lucy was one tough boss to work for. And I guess in the time that she achieved her success she had to be. She was a woman and one at the time was a male world I’ve entertainment. I will say that I’m glad that things ended the way they did with her and Desi. Too many people would’ve held grudges and nursed her feelings for decades. Many would have died still doing that. I’m glad that the two of them or at peace when he passed. She was truly a one-of-a-kind lady. She was a rare talent that you don’t see anymore in movies or television. The world is a much darker place after she passed. I still enjoy watching the reruns of I Love Lucy or here’s Lucy or the Lucille Ball show. I listen to the radio program that they reference in here. SIRIUSXM plays it on their radio classic Channel. We should check it out it is definitely worth a listen. Her son will go on to have a short-lived television series of his own. It was called automan.. It was not good LOL I don’t know what her daughter end up doing. But it’s clear that they did not fall and they’re famous parents footsteps.
I just noticed that I Love Lucy Was about lucy and her shenanigans
Lucy was hilarious. I wish there were more comediennes like her.
Came cross this video wanted watch it. I used watch I Love Lucy. I never knew Lucy and Desi got divorced
I have a vintage trailer built in 1957 named Lucy. Everything inside is from the 50’s
The studio and Federal Government couldn't touch Lucy. Lucy was and still is the biggest star we ever had. She blazed a trail. Carol Burnett, Mary Tyler Moore and everyone else down the line owe their careers to the road Lucy paved for them. The first woman to run a studio. Look at the film of the 1989 Academy Awards when Lucy came out with Bob Hope. Lucy received on of the biggest if not the biggest ovation ever at the Oscars.
When fred passed away and Ethel was in the restaurant and said " champagne for everyone "
Was it as a toast to him out of respect? Or yay champagne , let's have a party he died? I'm curious
They hated each other with a passion
Well it makes me sad she held a grudge even on the day he passed away. Like gee they made a great career/show .because they were together.
:(
And I was so proud that Fred stood sober for the whole team.
Professional and graceful until the end.
Hello Lissy how are you doing?
@@michaelbruno4608 creep
I wondered why she didn't leave before that if she was so unhappy?
Rip dezi arnes Lucille ball Vivian Vance and William froly
Lucy, you were the best!!😢❤
Oh no!
7O years young this year!
The actress in the beginning is not Ruta Lee.
0:35 The actress shown here is MARY JANE CROFT, not "Ruta Lee"!! I've actually never even HEARD of Ruta Lee. Doris Singleton, Mary Wickes, & Mary Jane Croft were on I Love Lucy. Who did Ruta Lee play? Lucy's mom? Mrs. Trimble?
The entire cast of that she has seen so much younger than they actually were looking back on it now I would’ve sworn that Lucy was 29 Topps not 40
10:30 Her age at death is listed as 77, because she died before birthday in 1989.
I must have missed the part about all the tragedy.
That is Mary Jane Croft not Ruta Lee.
My polish refugee mother watched the show while pregnant with my older sisters in 1953 and 54
Such a classy lady.
I realize she's not in 1989 may she rest in peace
The woman they show is not Ruta Lee
Some people never laugh. If you don't laugh at Lucy something is wrong with you😢
I was surprised to discover that Lucy wasn't funny in real life! Amazing comedic acting for someone not naturally a funny person.
Desi was still white
That thing that everybody says about it being in Vivian Vance’s contract that she had to weigh 20 pounds more than Lucy is not exactly true. It was a joke. Lucy wrote up a fake contract with ridiculous stipulations and gave it to Vivian. It was not a real contract.
That was not Ruta Lee.
It wasn't interracial...He was a White Hispanic.
Lucille Ball was not the first woman to own a studio. Mary Pickford was. Check it out.
Lucy’s grandfather was sued by parents of a boy who was shot by him or a child he was showing a gun to. Anyways he lost the home in the lawsuit and Lucy, her brother, mom and grandparents had to leave the house. I read this in her bio
Vivian was required to maintain her weight at 15 pounds above her desirable weight because Lucille had to be the unchallenged beauty of the show.
It's amazing they were TB's first Interracial married couple.
Intercultural not interracial
I love Lucy And Ricky Forever
Having lost my Mom and favorite uncle to their smoking habit I can no longer watch I love Lucy.
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I am sorry, but there is misinformation here. Both Vivian Vance and William Frawley didn't refuse the series "Fred And Ethel"...it was Vivian who refused saying, No amount of money is worth working with Mr. Frawley. She also felt that the show wouldn't work because most of her funny scenes were with Lucille Ball...
Pretty classless for Vivian to say champagne for everyone when William died. I don’t care how much I hate someone I couldn’t do that.
Intercultural not interracial.
I absolutely loved Lucille ball as a child i use to be able to remember all of the lines from the show my favorite episode was when she did the medicine commercial and she got drunk i also liked when Lucy and Ethel worked in the chocolate factory and had a hard time keeping up with the candy and trying to keep it from spilling everywhere another episode i liked was when she wanted to do a comedy act and so she hired a guy to help her with it I think he was like a clown so they did a skit where the held a pie in his hand and so lucy was given a word to be careful not to say and if she did say it she would get hit with it lol funny shit
Uh.....fyi, that was not Rita Lee.
Spellchecker will not spell Ruta
Desi Arnez was a white Cuban.It was an Intercultural marriage,not interracial!
Poor Lucy…it’s not easy being married to a Cheater!
It went on for 20 years.
There are too many obvious errors in this to believe any of it. Lucie was born just as the show was starting, etc.
Lucie actually was born when they first began working on the show. In fact, Lucille Ball was pretty far along in her pregnancy with Lucie when the pilot episode was filmed.
Desi was a cheater ! thanks
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