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‘I Love Lucy’ Special Kicks Off CBS’ 2016 Summer Schedule of TV Shows

Edit Inquisitr 22 Apr 2016
I Love Lucy is coming back to CBS this May, says the network in a press release. The new I Love Lucy Superstar Special, is actually a re-broadcasting of two of the TV show’s more iconic episodes remastered and colorized and will be presented on Sunday, May 22. I Love Lucy, which starred Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz, Vivian Vance and William Frawley, aired on the CBS network from 1951 to 1957 and ran with consistently good ratings....

Feminism in 1962

Edit About.com 22 Feb 2016
Here are a few important events that related to feminism in 1962 ... space program. The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing was published ... The Lucy Show, a television sitcom starring Lucille Ball and Vivian Vance as women without husbands this time around, began airing. ....

Feminism in "The Lucy Show"

Edit About.com 09 Jan 2016
Lucille Ball, Vivian Vance, Gale Gordon, Mary Jane Croft, many celebrities who guest starred as themselves ... Lucille Ball played a widow and Vivian Vance, for part of the show’s run, played her divorced best friend; notably, the main characters were women without husbands ... time, where she and Vivian Vance engaged in countless antics as Lucy and Ethel....
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Vivian Vance, left, is Ethel Mertz, and Lucille Ball is the irrepressable Lucy Ricardo, in the "I Love Lucy Christmas Special", Nov. 1956,

‘I Love Lucy’ returns … with Vitameatavegamin

Edit Zap2it 23 Dec 2015
Vitameatavegamin. If you know the word, you know one of television’s most classic sitcom episodes ... 23) ... The first (also shown in the first two specials) logically is the 1956 “Christmas Episode” that finds Lucy and Ricky Ricardo (Ball and Desi Arnaz), along with friends and neighbors Fred and Ethel Mertz (William Frawley and Vivian Vance), decorating a tree while recalling the birth of Little Ricky ... RELATED ... ....

The Best of I Love Lucy box set review: ‘One of the most successful sitcoms of all time’

Edit The Guardian 10 Dec 2015
Their best friends are their landlords, Fred and Ethel Mertz ... Not only is it a classic moment of physical comedy, it’s a great example of a fine double act in action, Vivian Vance as Ethel being one of nature’s most accomplished foils. The same could be said of our heroine’s attempt to stomp grapes into wine in Lucy’s Italian Movie, in which she goes to Rome as research for an audition ... It’s not all clowning around ... ....

A Marxist View of History or You’ll Duck Soup The Rest of Your Life

Edit The Examiner 13 Nov 2015
The Marx Brothers’ Duck Soup from 1933 is considered one of the greatest anti-war films ever made. However, at the time of its release it was a flop both critically and at the box office ... After Duck Soup bombed at the box office the Brothers were dropped by Paramount ... I refused ... This scene has been copied dozens of times, most famously some twenty years later for television on I love Lucy by Lucille Ball and Vivian Vance ... Rufus T. Firefly....

‘Star Trek,’ ‘I Love Lucy’ DVD series sets released

Edit The Oklahoman 06 Nov 2015
Lucille Ball as Lucy Ricardo and Vivian Vance as Ethel Mertz star in the seminal sitcom "I Love Lucy" (1951-60), which has been repackaged for a new complete-series DVD release this week. (CBS/Paramount). New DVD box sets of the “Star Trek” and “I Love Lucy” TV series are available this week. “Star Trek. The Original Series ... The Animated Series” and “Star Trek. Deep Space Nine”) ... “I Love Lucy ... “My Favorite Husband) ... “Worricker ... “Getting On ... ....

21 Catchphrases That Defined Our Favorite Classic TV Shows

Edit Huffington Post 18 Sep 2015
The 67th Emmy Awards will come and go, and the winners will, no doubt, celebrate ... (And we get to hear their acceptance speeches. Yea!). Let's take a moment to shout out to an unrecognized category ... there just are ... Sgt ... Her cohort, Ethel Mertz (Vivian Vance) was somewhat skeptical at times to play along, but the two BFFs made life interesting for their respective spouses, Ricky (Desi Arnaz) and Fred (William Frawley) to say the least ... Mr ... ....

South Florida theater calendar: Performances for the 2015-16 season

Edit The Miami Herald 09 Sep 2015
SOUTH FLORIDA THEATER FESTIVALS. City Theatre's Summer Shorts. June 3-26. Arsht Center, 1300 Biscayne Blvd., Miami. 305-755-9401 or www.citytheatre.com. Out in the Tropics. June 14-18, various Miami Beach locations. 305-316-6165 or www.fundarte.us. XXIX International Hispanic Theatre Festival. July 7-24. Arsht, Teatro Prometeo and other venues. 305-445-8877 or www.teatroavante.org. MIAMI-DADE & MONROE THEATER ... 8 ... 7 ... The Vivian Vance Story, Nov....

Lynn University announces new play readings lineup

Edit Sun Sentinel 04 Sep 2015
Middletown Lynn University. Lynn University ... and Elaine Johnson Wold Performing Arts Center on Lynn's campus, 3601 N. Military Trail, Boca Raton ... "The Vivian Vance Story" ... Vivian Vance had a difficult and complicated life; from her humble roots in Kansas to the heights she reached as the most famous "second banana" in television history as Ethel Mertz, Lucille Ball's sidekick in "I Love Lucy.". 7.30 p.m. Nov. 2....

Cate Blanchett is playing Lucille Ball. Here's who should play her costars.

Edit IMDb 02 Sep 2015
... has the glamor factor necessary for the real Lucille Ball), let's offer up suggestions to play her castmates Desi Arnaz, Vivian Vance, and William Frawley ... Margo Martindale as Vivian Vance Sure, »....

Earl Lloyd's image may be bound for the front of a postage stamp, which sounds ...

Edit Syracuse 27 Aug 2015
Syracuse, N.Y. — We've been issuing postage stamps in this nation since 1847, and across all of those 168 years only once has one of those things been dedicated to the memory of a person with the surname of Lloyd ... Turns out, Kevin Lloyd, the earnest son of Earl Lloyd, wants to double that "Lloyd" count to two ... Postal Service has honored cantaloupes, the Simpsons and Vivian Vance on previous stamps ... postage stamp ... Anybody opposed? ... ....

Sarah Kendall on Lucille Ball, slapstick queen of a comedy revolution

Edit The Guardian 14 Aug 2015
With her shock of orange hair and clownish eyes, the star of I Love Lucy had me and my grandmother in stitches – she was my gateway drug to comedy. In summer, during the school holidays, I’d often go to play at my grandma’s house ... I liked her because she made Grandma laugh ... The condescension has dated terribly, and is made all the more grating because Ball and Vivian Vance, as Ethel, are such better comedians than their male co-stars ... ....
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