I am 65, from Bangalore, India. Our TV channel used to telecast Lucy Show back in the eighties. Television was new in India, and we had just one channel. But some iconic shows were brought home by this one government run channel. My mother used to love Lucy and she would finish all her chores in time to be able to watch The Lucy Show. She never spoke English. But she understood Lucy so well and throughly enjoyed it without any of us having to explain anything. Miss my mom and her favourite shows. Thank you for posting this.
I don't think she's so much underrated as people don't know about her anymore. She was a highly successful actress with a lucrative career , but time marches on... What I can't understand is how someone fundamentally unentertaining (Kardashians) can be so famous? Surely humanity can't have changed so fundamentally in such a short time? Even 50 years ago, people appreciated talented performers exclusively. Still do to a point, but now many are entertained watching wealthy, spoilt, surgically augmented, beautiful women self obsess - & other pointless, shallow, uninspiring content. Wtf is going on? Edit: sorry for puking on you, it just crossed my brain.
I went to Lucille Ball's memorial mass at a Catholic Church in Beverly Hills, California, in 1989. Lucie Arnaz came in with Carol Burnett. They were in the pew right in front of me. Mary Wickes, the ballet instructor, was in the pew just across from me. I could tell she was a devout Catholic as she was saying the rosary. The priest said that a "parishioner" of the church and lifelong friend of Lucille Ball arranged the mass. I have no doubt that that parishioner and lifelong friend of Lucille Ball was Mary Wickes!
Catholicism is idolatory and ritual. No religions enter heaven as they are man made. People must repent of sin from the heart, commit to Jesus ONLY and His Word, and be walking the narrow road with Him daily in order to enter heaven as He tells. (They must be born again of the Spirit).
Fun fact: the ballet instructor, played by Mary Wickes, also was Sister Mary Lazarus in “Sister Act” and voiced Laverne, the gargoyle, in “The Hunchback of Notre Dame.”
Those of us of a certain age remember her as Miss Cathcart on “Dennis the Menace.” I once read that the last time Lucille Ball visited Vivian Vance when Vance was dying of cancer, Ball didn’t want to go alone, so Mary Wickes accompanied her.
Fun fact. She has hundreds of credits to her name, over 4 decades at least, & is a renowned master character actor. Not just 'in' a couple things the youngsters might know, to get some internet points. 🙄
@@hensonlaura I’ve seen her in other things, but those two roles stuck out to me the most. No, I am not trying to “get internet points,” whatever those are.
What a debt so many of us owe Lucy, for the many hours of forgetful lighthearted-ness she gave us. She was never afraid to play the fool or look ridiculous. A brave, brilliant artist.
@@kiddozoo Yes! Star Trek! Remember the episode when Lucy and Ethel dressed like Martians? One of these days I'm going to a Star Trek convention dressed like Lucy in a Martian costume! Maybe I can get my daughter in law to join me! 😂
@@lorihansen8674 Interesting! knew she was in the chorus line, but not that. She had solid status as an ingenue and a starlett; for a long time those were her roles. She really was breathtakingly beautifulin her twenties, but comedy was her genius.
@@hensonlaura And her physical comedy was a big part of that, and I think much underrated. There was an episode in "I Love Lucy" in which she disguised herself as an upholstered chair -- which meant she had to maintain a squatting position for several minutes, and maybe even move a bit that way. It was then that I realized her talent.
I love the guys in the back with their shirt tied like that. OMG too funny. I grew up in a small town and we had only 2 or 3 channels and we had no cable, lol. I remember watching, I love Lucy when I had a chance. We had a family business so we would work a lot during the day. It would be on late at night when I would watch it sometimes.
I didn’t know about that but I got a hunch she was actually a dancer or knew one or two things about it by looking at her posture. Her legs had betrayed her is all I can tell.
In the 90's I was standing in line at my tv rental shop & the tv's had Lucy on with the sound down, I was laughing my head off despite no sound, the man behind the counter asked if he should turn up the volume, I said No thanks, she is funny even with the sound down. She was genius.
Lucy was incredible, so perfectly funny. It must be comforting to know that when you are being silly, daft, cleverly athletic, and completely hilarious, that you look amazingly beautiful! I bet she was completely beautiful underneath all the makeup. How very lucky we are that can still watch this.
If i recall correctly, Lucille Ball started out as a dancer. AS is evident in this and several other episodes of I Love Lucy. I recall seeing her in several specials in which she did waltzes and some other dances. Very gracefully too. then she would suddenly break into a comedic version of the dance. THATS TALENT!
Que lindo volver a verla. Ha Sido una de mis series favoritas. Ídola total!!!. Y me ha hecho volver a reír como cuando era niña. Gracias por tan hermoso recuerdo.
So so funny, could not watch her as a child, in UK only two channels to choose. These videos of Lucille make me laugh so much, thank goodness the world has moved on from only two channels in UK, not forgetting good old YOU TUBE.
Своему сыну подростку даю для просмотра старые ДОБРЫЕ, ЮМОРНЫЕ, НАИВНЫЕ ФИЛЬМЫ ! Артисты того времени такие красивые, талантливые, индивидуальны. Отдыхает ДУША ОТ ПРОСМОТРОВ ЭТИХ ФИЛЬМОВ!
Another fact about Mary Wickes, the instructor here: she almost played Mary Poppins. That was when Poppins was not re-fashioned into the adorable nanny that Disney morphed her into. If you read the book, Mary Poppins is not sweet and is kinda scary. I saw Wickes’ photos from her test screening.
Such amazing comedic timing and body control. She was a genius.
When she joyfully breaks into the Charleston dance! 😊
Lucy was actually a wonderful dancer and very athletic!
Это видно сразу
Yes, you can tell that - her hilarious "mistakes" actually require a lot of flexibility and strength!
I am 65, from Bangalore, India. Our TV channel used to telecast Lucy Show back in the eighties. Television was new in India, and we had just one channel. But some iconic shows were brought home by this one government run channel.
My mother used to love Lucy and she would finish all her chores in time to be able to watch The Lucy Show. She never spoke English. But she understood Lucy so well and throughly enjoyed it without any of us having to explain anything. Miss my mom and her favourite shows.
Thank you for posting this.
❤thanks for sharing your heartwarming, sweet story! 🤗🥰
Knowing English was unnecessary to understand what the episodes were about. The facial expressions were enough.
A lovely memory, made me smile 😊
Gosh… we didn’t get TV until the mid 70’s because we were on the Aleutian Island’s in Alaska. She came with the TV in Pennsylvania in 1978
That was very sweet.
Lol she was so freaking funny ! I'm 62 and still love watching her humor! My Favorite show ever!! She is so missed!!
I’m 62.. I tried the “shoulders back, stomach in” thing when I was 15… tried it today and nearly ruptured a disc!😂
Wie ist ihr Name Lusy ......?
Mary Wickes the teacher. A totally underrated actress and comedienne. Love to see her. Lucy is classic.
I don't think she's so much underrated as people don't know about her anymore. She was a highly successful actress with a lucrative career , but time marches on...
What I can't understand is how someone fundamentally unentertaining (Kardashians) can be so famous? Surely humanity can't have changed so fundamentally in such a short time? Even 50 years ago, people appreciated talented performers exclusively. Still do to a point, but now many are entertained watching wealthy, spoilt, surgically augmented, beautiful women self obsess - & other pointless, shallow, uninspiring content. Wtf is going on?
Edit: sorry for puking on you, it just crossed my brain.
her accent is nothing like she normally sounds..great job!
She was an awesome character actress who was in many movies and tv shows. Love her in the 1962 Music Man.
I too love Mary Wickes. Was't she in "Now Voyager?" I also love Lucy.
💯💯💯@@hensonlaura
I went to Lucille Ball's memorial mass at a Catholic Church in Beverly Hills, California, in 1989. Lucie Arnaz came in with Carol Burnett. They were in the pew right in front of me. Mary Wickes, the ballet instructor, was in the pew just across from me. I could tell she was a devout Catholic as she was saying the rosary. The priest said that a "parishioner" of the church and lifelong friend of Lucille Ball arranged the mass. I have no doubt that that parishioner and lifelong friend of Lucille Ball was Mary Wickes!
Catholicism is idolatory and ritual. No religions enter
heaven as they are man made. People must repent of sin from the heart, commit to Jesus ONLY and His Word, and be walking the narrow road with Him daily in order to enter heaven as He tells. (They must be born again of the Spirit).
What a great back story. Thank you
As a CA generational Catholic, this makes my heart burst 💕🙌🙏
Wonderful to hear this ❤ thank you for sharing.
Fun fact: the ballet instructor, played by Mary Wickes, also was Sister Mary Lazarus in “Sister Act” and voiced Laverne, the gargoyle, in “The Hunchback of Notre Dame.”
She was also in White Christmas and on an episode of M*A*S*H* ^^
And lucy's best friend in real life ❤@@jeniferclemente1252
Those of us of a certain age remember her as Miss Cathcart on “Dennis the Menace.” I once read that the last time Lucille Ball visited Vivian Vance when Vance was dying of cancer, Ball didn’t want to go alone, so Mary Wickes accompanied her.
Fun fact. She has hundreds of credits to her name, over 4 decades at least, & is a renowned master character actor. Not just 'in' a couple things the youngsters might know, to get some internet points. 🙄
@@hensonlaura I’ve seen her in other things, but those two roles stuck out to me the most. No, I am not trying to “get internet points,” whatever those are.
What a debt so many of us owe Lucy, for the many hours of forgetful lighthearted-ness she gave us. She was never afraid to play the fool or look ridiculous. A brave, brilliant artist.
And for Star Trek!!!!
She gave us years of laughs. Bless her.
Una gran actriz
👍👍
@@kiddozoo Yes! Star Trek! Remember the episode when Lucy and Ethel dressed like Martians? One of these days I'm going to a Star Trek convention dressed like Lucy in a Martian costume! Maybe I can get my daughter in law to join me! 😂
A movie star, model, and comedy is what we loved. She was so beautiful.
She was so talented. She makes the comedy look easy What a girl.
Incredible Lucy, a woman, a comedian, an actress, everything🎉
Lucy actually had to be quite limber and athletic to do this. She made it look easy. A wonderful clown!
Lucille Ball trained as a classical dancer.
@@lorihansen8674 Interesting! knew she was in the chorus line, but not that. She had solid status as an ingenue and a starlett; for a long time those were her roles. She really was breathtakingly beautifulin her twenties, but comedy was her genius.
@@hensonlaura And her physical comedy was a big part of that, and I think much underrated. There was an episode in "I Love Lucy" in which she disguised herself as an upholstered chair -- which meant she had to maintain a squatting position for several minutes, and maybe even move a bit that way. It was then that I realized her talent.
Thank you for the laughs! After a rough week I was fortunate to find this post. Thanks for the smiles
I love to laugh at these old episodes....they can sure cheer up a sad day.
Exactly!
LOL! Every second of this is hilarious! Don't know how the other dancers could keep from cracking up.🤣❤
That’s all I keep thinking too! Talk about talent on so many levels 🤯
I love her. It was so funny when she was yelling at her leg.
I honestly don't know how people worked with her without cracking up lol. OMG she's so brilliant.
I'm looking at the other dancers and wondering how they are not creasing up!
@@beckyharding6571 I am pretty sure that there were 3-4 takes before everybody laughed it out and were able to keep their faces straight.😂
@@mariakihl2583 Yes, but look at their faces and they are trying not to look or laugh! 😂
Давно я так не смеялась 😂😂😂 до слёз просто. Гениально!!! Отправлю ссылку хореографу, точно оценит )))
И я тоже😂 я концертмейстер.
И мне понравился отрывок , талантливая актрса❤😂
Я однажды пришла в студию балета и со мной все было примерно так же 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
One of my favorite scenes! I'm still belly laughing when she flips on the barre ... even though I've seen it dozens of times.
I love the guys in the back with their shirt tied like that. OMG too funny. I grew up in a small town and we had only 2 or 3 channels and we had no cable, lol. I remember watching, I love Lucy when I had a chance. We had a family business so we would work a lot during the day. It would be on late at night when I would watch it sometimes.
This is incredible considering that she was actually a great dancer and had to look awkward when she was anything but.
I did not know that! Thank you!
Her Charleston was great. High kicks!
I didn’t know about that but I got a hunch she was actually a dancer or knew one or two things about it by looking at her posture. Her legs had betrayed her is all I can tell.
In the 90's I was standing in line at my tv rental shop & the tv's had Lucy on with the sound down, I was laughing my head off despite no sound, the man behind the counter asked if he should turn up the volume, I said No thanks, she is funny even with the sound down. She was genius.
Solid GOAT when it comes to female comediennes.💯😂
Lucy fought her own legs 😂😂😂😂😂
This is right up there with the chocolate factory. I wish I could watch entire episodes.
They are on paramount+
Pluto
And crushing grapes with her feet.
I think if you look on TH-cam you could find whole episodes of I Love Lucy Show. Good Luck! 😉👍🌞
The funniest show ever. Lucy is the greatest.
It's a true testament to her talent she made it look so effortless! What a great comedic actress!
Lucy was incredible, so perfectly funny. It must be comforting to know that when you are being silly, daft, cleverly athletic, and completely hilarious, that you look amazingly beautiful! I bet she was completely beautiful underneath all the makeup. How very lucky we are that can still watch this.
She was hilarious!
She must have been a good danser to make movements like this.
Mary Wicks had the kind of career i admire, she sure kept going and going.
I love character actors , a lot of the time they're way better then the main stars .
She was unique 💐🧡!
Lucy was so amazing in I Love Lucy that anything else she did afterward was not good enough. It was a blessing but also curse.
If i recall correctly, Lucille Ball started out as a dancer. AS is evident in this and several other episodes of I Love Lucy. I recall seeing her in several specials in which she did waltzes and some other dances. Very gracefully too. then she would suddenly break into a comedic version of the dance. THATS TALENT!
Wow, I sure did love Lucy. Still do. And always will!♥️💖💗❤️🩷🥰
She was the best
Love how uncoordinated Lucy is in this skit. She was a gem.
That teacher played school marm role in so many shows. I remember her.
I miss laughing my back side, bring back I Love Lucy
It took talent to do those moves and look funny & silly! 🎉
Watching this after studying ballet is glorious.
She was so athletically gifted.
Какая же она смешная🤣🤣🤣
И без перевода все понятно👌❤
Those dude in dancing in the background sure knew how to rock those shirts! LOLOL
Помню Люси с детства. Один из любимых сериалов.
3:08 for some reason I burst out laughing at this one 😂
Que lindo volver a verla. Ha Sido una de mis series favoritas. Ídola total!!!.
Y me ha hecho volver a reír como cuando era niña.
Gracias por tan hermoso recuerdo.
Yes Lucy doing ballet is amazing😂💗💗💗
Just hysterically funny! In real life, no teacher would ever have that kind of patience. :)
There you go Lucy! You got it!
Good ol Lucille Ball love watching this as well. They should bring back her comedy show
Lucy rehearsed every move she made!! So funny.
The teacher, Mary Wickes, almost broke character... a smile was forming in her face😊
Oh boy, It was so good.
So so funny, could not watch her as a child, in UK only two channels to choose. These videos of Lucille make me laugh so much, thank goodness the world has moved on from only two channels in UK, not forgetting good old YOU TUBE.
Lucy espectacular, una gran cómica ❤❤❤
This is so funny, great show
her petite battement had me crying
petit [battement] - but, yeah, you are right.
I love Lucy ❤️ no one like her. The rest of the cast
God I love her . That tutu and cute face adorable .
Mi hija era pequeña y Lucy era la única actriz comica adulta que la hacia reír, como todo niño veía caricaturas.
Her physical comedy was peak
Классный сериал был, смотрела когда то))
Мы смотрели "Я люблю Люси" всей семьей... Прекрасная добрая комедия...
Ни слова не поняла, язык не знаю, но я так хохотала😂😂😂, слов не нужно
I saw this a few months ago Laughed so hard I pee my pants.
Welcome to the club! 😂
A Lucy deve ter pensado... "Não tenho mais idade para isso!! 😂😂😂
Hahaha! She is so funny!
Mary Wicks was Lucy's best friend.
Великолепный номер. Смеялась от души. 😂
Golden!!!
We love You Lucy!!!
I still love Lucy❤
Amaba ese programa!!!!! 😍😍😍
Своему сыну подростку даю для просмотра старые ДОБРЫЕ, ЮМОРНЫЕ, НАИВНЫЕ ФИЛЬМЫ ! Артисты того времени такие красивые, талантливые, индивидуальны. Отдыхает ДУША ОТ ПРОСМОТРОВ ЭТИХ ФИЛЬМОВ!
Comic genius!
WONDERFUL I LOVE IT THANKS FOR SHARE ❤❤❤
I miss this kind of comedy soooo much 🤣
Assistia qdo era criança muito bom 😊🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🌷🌹
Para mí smp será Lucy..como disfruté este acto🎉😂❤❤❤🇦🇷
Five! Hundred! Times! 😁
Leave it to Lucy to make Ballet lessons fun
I love Lucy 🫶🏻
Lucy, a truly great dancer, breaks into the Charleston during ballet class for comic purposes!
I love lucy
Such a great actrices.
I love ❤Lucy
I❤Lucy😂
Gostaria que fosse dublado ou legendado, mesmo assim, ri tanto que até chorei! 😂😂😂😂❤❤❤
Very funny.😆
Did Lucy ever get anything right? What a joy she was.
Only by accident! 😂
Lucy had to have had dance lessons. No one's that good without training, surely.
This is so funny. Lucy was a master! Maybe not of ballet though!
I love it!!!!!
Classic!!
Era genial!!😂😂😂
Another fact about Mary Wickes, the instructor here: she almost played Mary Poppins. That was when Poppins was not re-fashioned into the adorable nanny that Disney morphed her into. If you read the book, Mary Poppins is not sweet and is kinda scary. I saw Wickes’ photos from her test screening.
I swear I feel
Like I am Lucy and daily!
All the more funny because you KNOW Lucille Ball was a trained dancer
She reminds me of me 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
The Best❤❤❤❤💐🇧🇷
¡ÍDOLA! ¡CÓMO NOS REÍAMOS CON MI NONNA!