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two things:
  1. She was known as “Technicolor Tessie” in the 1940s because of the combination of beautiful red hair, blue eyes, and red lips.
  2. When I would watch “I Love Lucy” reruns as a kid in the 1960s and 1970s, I always wondered why she had a Communist husband. I mean, he was from Cuba…and they were all Communists there, right?
 
I Love Lucy…timeless comedy. When something is funny, it spans the course of time, one generation of viewers to the next.
I Love Lucy is a TV classic!
 
I used to watch it sometimes (In reruns, as I am in my early 30s). Haven’t seen it for sometime, though.
 
I am a huge I Love Lucy fan.

I have a collection of her shows on VHS.

Classic television. Once in awhile I still see shows I have never seen before.

Fred and Ethyl. Ricky and Lucy. What a great foursome.
 
It hasn’t been on tv recently for a bit except very early in the morning on The Hallmark channel.

Amazon has a number of episodes you can stream for free.
 
One episode I love I think is called “baby pictures”. Where Lucy is in competition with Caroline Appleby over which baby is cuter Ricky, or Stevie.

Amazon doesn’t have that one to stream. But it’s really funny.
 
I was a Lucy fan when I was a kid, but I was too young to really remember “I Love Lucy” and the only Desi I knew was Desi Arnaz Jr. who guest-starred on shows like “The Brady Bunch”.

The Lucy program I watched was “The Lucy Show” which was on in daytime syndication and featured her as a widow with best friend Vivian. It reminded me so much of my mother’s antics with her best female friends. Many years later I learned that Lucy was originally from the same part of upstate New York as my mother’s family, and her accent/ voice sounded like my mother and several of my aunts, so she seemed like a family member.
 
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I Love Lucy!

When she was pregnant on the show, I think she was really pregnant, but I don’t remember if she was having Desi or Lucy. I know they pre-taped several shows to be aired while she was out on maternity leave.

One of my favorite episodes is the one where she tells Ricky she is expecting…and how she finally ends up breaking the news! So sweet!
 
Lucy, Vivian and Gale Gordon “Mr. Mooney” were absolutely hilarious. I have to say I found the three of them funnier than Lucy and Desi.
 
I Love Lucy too! Around my middle-school years, I used to watch the reruns every day after school.
 
F_Marturana said:
It’s Robert Mitchum’s birthday today as well. 1917.
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Today is also Michelle Yeoh’s birthday. Connection to Lucy … Ms. Ball’s company, Desilu, produced the original Star Trek; and Yeoh stars on the current Star Trek show, Discovery!
 
I’ve watched the show numerous times (the first 4 seasons) with my parents growing up. They watched reruns when they were kids so they showed it to myself growing up. Funny but the sexist remarks get to me sometimes, like when Lucy calls Ricky “sir”. I cringe
 
I have to admit I much preferred “The Honeymooners” where Alice always put Ralph in his place. We all knew he wasn’t really going to send her “to the moon”. The women in my mother’s family were pretty much all just like Alice.
 
She got yelled at a lot in that show, I only saw it twice, my mother refused to show my family that show. She hates it so much
 
And the censors at the time were all very nervous about depicting a pregnant woman. They had to not use the word “pregnant” but “expecting”.
 
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