With their neighbors/best friends/landlords, Fred and Ethel Mertz (played by William Frawley and Vivian Vance), they traveled, fought and made up, and met the industry stars of the day. The Ricardos' adventures took them many places and introduced them to scores of people. Oh, I love that Lucy!" And so the title of the show was born. As we were discussing her with our writers, Desi spoke up.
And there was something touching about her stage ambitions. Lucy Ricardo's nutty predicaments arose from an earnest desire to please. Even with pie on her face she remained an attractive and desirable female, stirred by real emotions. Lucy was impulsive, inquisitive, and completely feminine. Lucy's partner in the early television experiment was her husband, Desi Arnaz, and they had strong ideas about their characters' motivations: As Lucy Ricardo, I played a character very much like Liz Cugat on my radio show. What made Lucille Ball funny was not that Lucy was unladylike in her juice-induced stupor or obnoxious in her attempt to hide the chocolates-it was precisely that she was a lady who found herself in those bizarre situations that made America love her. Lucy was responsible for some of the most memorable moments in early television, and even today, sixty years after the premier of I Love Lucy, small-screen aficionados recognize the genius in such moments as the "Vitameatavegamin girl" and Lucy stuffing her cheeks with chocolate as the candies rolled off the factory belt too quickly. I considered myself lucky to be paid while learning a business I adored." "And never whined about the siphon water and pies in my face. “I took the slapstick parts the other starlets spurned," she notes in her autobiography. Stepping away from the mannerly comedies of the silver screen, Lucille Ball began to showcase her talents in gutsier venues early in her acting career being polite and pretty was getting her nowhere fast.
One of the characteristics of great comedy is risk. Tomorrow marks the one hundredth anniversary of Lucille Ball's birth.
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