Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz for the March of Dimes

[MegTheBlondeone]

I'm 16 and I am in love with this show. My mom used to watch it all the time and I got hooked :D I love both of them and I don't care about the divorce. They still loved each other.

[1Natick1]

I was in one of the (successful) tests. I was very lucky!

[darinsgirl86]

I had no idea they did a commerical with thier kids

[FranklyMyDearTV]

I love this. Such a gem... And so lovely to see them all together like this for a worthy cause.

[LeahWayEarth]

Probably the greatest TV couple because they really were one.

[circuitdesign]

Lucy and Desiri used by the New World Order. With all due respect, they had no idea they were being used...

[usagiprincess28]

i wonder y their daughter wasnt on da show

[mseti1]

They had such beautiful kids !!! and they were always so proud of them !

[mseti1]

They had such beautiful kids !!!

[14lanicup]

polio is gone thanks to jonas salk

[cassielynnejo]

If only we could get rid of cancer like they did polio..

[darinsgirl86]

@cassielynnejo i agree

[datswassup07]

Ive never heard Lucy talk so proper and professional. Im so used to her being upbeat.

[sugarlipz96]

aw i luv seeing them together like this! sucha beautiful family! and you can see the love they had for eachother, even until the day they died!

[LucyNic83]

I love this! ♥ They melt my heart.

[sugarlipz96]

aw thats so sweet! and what a beautiful family!

[ilovelucy2011]

so sweet :) their children were so adorable!!

[cookingmamaliteraly]

what a cute baby!

[IsntLifeJuicy89]

That's Beautiful.

[cubanita1101]

well now we have a worse problem which is swine flu but the elderly are immune to swine flu unlike the youth o3o &&we have MORE DISEASES mostly cancer :( !

[BernardProfitendieu]

@cubanita1101 if you think swine flu is worse than polio, than you don't know what polio was (and you can thank the March of Dimes for that!)

[cubanita1101]

@BernardProfitendieu no i don't i think that swine flu is the worse i think cancer is actually :o but that's just MY opinion :P

[tranurse]

i read somewhere that lucy had polio.

[KarolineKayySaysHeyy]

I LOVE THEM.

[MsAwesomerocks]

what a beautiful family!

[alexandshady]

i am very happy too see that they tried too help polio. My uncle had polio then he died then when he did my family didn't want that to happen to anyone else's children So we donated every part of change that we could get our hands on. To help the world in it's time of need. Now all we have to do and to donate is to cancer every type we have too fix it. So the next time you see a cancer center go in and donate. Donate as much money as you can even the most smallest amount can help a child in need

[anstonian]

What a lovely family s cene. Johnny Wisemuller, Who played Tarzan, in the 30s and 40s. Apparantly had, polio as a child. It is claimed, they put his legs in a barrel, and taught him how to swim. he later, became. 6 times olympic swimming champion. Thanks for posting. I love Lucy. LOL .

[lucilleballfan100]

so cute

[lilacmagnolia]

omg their kids are adorable

[BRONXPEPE]

her voice was deepen as she got older i love her

[Harris63]

In 1952 and 1953, the US experienced an outbreak of 58,000 and 35,000 polio cases respectively. The first effective vaccine was developed by Jonas Salk in 1952. The 1954 study mentioned in the video eventually involved 1.8 million children in 44 states. The results were announced on April 12, 1955. The Salk vaccine was over 90% effective against poliovirus type 2 and type 3. By 1957 the number of polio cases fell to 5,600 and by 1961 only 161 cases were recorded in the United States.

[yaywhewclips242]

Desi Arnez Jr. grew up to VERY cute in his teenage wears (he was 16 in 1970 for THE LUCY SHOW, he played her son and she played her daughter)

[vieetverite]

Desi ARNAZ, Jr. (not Arnez!) was 15 in 1968 when he first played his mother's son, and Lucie ARNAZ played her daughter, on HERE'S LUCY, not THE LUCY SHOW.

[sara1964fox]

is the voice lucy's using her real voice, the "lucy ricardo" voice, or a mix of both?

[vieetverite]

It sounds like a mix to me. 1:15 to 1:22 sounds like her real voice, but 1:30 to 1:39, for example, she sounds like she's mixing it up, throwing in a little of the Lucy Ricardo voice. It must have made her throat sore when she talked in that high Lucy Ricardo voice, especially when she had to project it out to a studio audience. I know if I try to talk for long in a high pitch, even at a normal volume, my throat feels strained.

[jaqua89]

I thought their t.v. son on I love Lucy was their real son Desi Arnaz Jr.??

[paks7]

no another kid played their tv son on I Love Lucy although desi jr was on screen with lucy in her later series The Lucy Show

[coolgamegirl101]

their kids are so CUTE!!!

[CAvideoFAN]

Wow! It's funny to see such an old commercial, especially with Lucille Ball. Funny how the first time the kids were asked to say "Hi". it didn't go so well (it was edited down).

[melaniehernandez3]

i am going to help

[mebekris]

Where did you get this video from?

[MarchofDimes]

Our organization has a huge archival library from the "polio era". This was one of the Public Service Announcements created during that time.

[yamagoof]

I LOVE seeing them with their children! :) They love them and it's such a beautiful, candid moment...

I also LOVE them promoting March of Dimes, it is such a WONDERFUL and worthy organization.

[kachoo2135]

Two cousins of mine had polio; each became successful in their careers. One became a manager of a radio station; the other is a successful real estate salesman.

[bjnboy]

Trivia:

Was the first woman to own her own film studio.

She entered a dramatic school in New York, but while her classmate Bette Davis received all the raves, she was sent home.

Married Desi Arnaz twice.

Lucy was obsessed with the game of backgammon. She had a backgammon table in nearly every room of her home and several around the swimming pool in the backyard.

Her favorite flowers were red and white carnations.

[sara1964fox]

really? i always thought that she just married desi once in 1940, divorced him in 1960, and then married some guy named gary morton in the 1960s (i'm not sure what year it was.) when did she marry desi again?

[bjnboy]

Trivia:

Gary Morton, Lucy's second husband, was often referred to as "Mr. Balls" or "the man who lights Lucy's cigarettes."

When the Rolling Stones used an unflattering portrait of her in the gallery of women on the cover of their Some Girls album, Lucille Ball threatened to sue.

Lucy often said that her deceased friend Carole Lombard kept turning up in her dreams to offer marvelous advice.

Her mother wanted her to be a concert pianist.

[kachoo2135]

You should see them now!  Lucie is the finest of the foxes, and Desi Jr. became a real hunk. Lucy and Desi are smiling down from Heaven on them and all of us.

[Cathie8791]

Oh, how cute are the kids when they say "hi" and "bye"? It's so sad how this beautiful family ended up. Lucy and Desi waited so many years to have children, and when they finally did, they had no time to spend with them because of their work. They also spent a decade trying to work together so they could be together, and when it finally happened, the pressures ruined their marriage. But there was so much love there. You can see it in every appearance they made on film.

[4EverDarling]

Adorable family! It's hard to imagine how bad the marriage was. I'm not used to Lucille being serious, I was waiting for something funny to happen. She was stunningly beautiful!

[Evlprincesssara]

who better to have say "inoculate" then Desi Arnaz in his awesome accent.

[LAE88]

I was thinking the same thing! :)

[pinecove11]

its so cool that that such great actors as Desi and Lucy, can take a few minutes out of there lifes to support a great cause as so...

:-]

[rebmem88]

Image was and is still a thing for every celebrity so being phony is part of the game they have to play.

[amadeusyaoi]

One thing that's important to remember is really how serious polio was in the early 1950s; it had an outbreak that spread to 60,000 people in 1952.

Since 1980, fewer than 10 people a year have contracted the disease in the U.S.

[chalastay51]

can't imagine that there are so many young Desi and Lucy fans even to this day, Lucy will never go out of style. We all just love her, Desi loved her to the very end and she loved him, I'm sure they are together right now.

[lucy3142]

yepp. Im 14 and Lucy and Desi are my utter idols along with Bea Arthur (rest all their souls)

Barely any people know who desi is and than I 'splain it to them. (lol) But they all know who Lucy is! Lucy was and is an iconic pioneer figure. In this commercial, and i've noticed on here that alot of people are saying that they sound fony. Probably bcuz their reading a teleprompter. But Lucy and Desi loved their children. I love them both <3

[renitayv]

Lucy and Desi were so happy then. It's a shame that they got divorced.

[Powerhousezz]

i luv u lucille!!! R.I.P.

[83survivor]

That's practically the same wardrobe used for the I Love Lucy show. Her 50s wardrobe was very stylish and popular around this time.

[sweetmusicwoman984]

I want to rent some of the epps of this show, it looks good. :)

[drummfreak22]

Aw this makes me sad. Desi ended up cheating on Lucille and they got a divorce and then they all eventually died. It was real sad, but The show is always going to be one of my favorites.

[ilovelucymorethanyou]

We all will die in the end but it wasn't all Desi's fault.

[drummfreak22]

ok?

[miamidavid]

I grew up watching "I Love Lucy" reruns in the 70s. As far as I'm concerned, she is the greatest comedienne of all time. I can't imagine anyone watching her performances and reacting negatively. How do you not love Lucy?

[DesiArnazDevotee]

Because I love Desi more.

[ilovelucymorethanyou]

Hahaha, my grandma grew up in the 1950's and she utterly hated Lucille Ball and did not think she was funny at all. But I love her!

[Valie61]

Yes, lucy sounds very natural. Lucy was the best of the best!

[stiqman]

Whoa Desi thanked God.

[lildivagirl09]

I Love Lucy is the best show in the entire world. No One Loves Lucy like me. She has opened a lot of doors for me.

[pichooni]

no one loves llucy like me,im 44 and loved her since im 5 , ihave all her videos and even took a tour past  her house!

[michelle092293]

im 14 and i love lucy and desi i think everyone in my generation should love them to!

[fiftiesproject]

You're right. I'm a teen too and I was talking with some of my friends and brought up lucy's vitameatavegamin skit and they were all like, is that from the Hallmark audio card? To which I could only roll my eyes.

[joant1221]

Interesting to see immunization propaganda in the 50's. My children are in their early twenties, no vaccines. Immunizations are dangerous.

By the way, I love Lucy and Desi.

[chinacutie1545]

wow she sounds so natural

[ladynfsoffice]

This was a great clip. I have always liked seeing celebrities plug worthy causes as this one was (polio). I have read Lucille Ball was only comedic in her roles, but a very serious businesswoman in real life, and Desi was certainly an innovator and businessman as he proved with his ideas/input for the I Love Lucy shows. The kids are adorable. Also read Lucy was crazy about her kids. I also felt though the marriage was ended, they still loved each other. Very nice clip-thanks for sharing it.

[dan020350]

no more polio

[divakristina]

Adorable family! It's hard to imagine how bad the marriage was. I'm not used to Lucille being serious, I was waiting for something funny to happen. I never noticed how stunningly beautiful she was.

[melirose89]

In several biographies and documentaries and things her own family and friends have said that she was a serious woman in real life and that Desi was the more charismatic and outwardly funnier one off screen. The writers of the show have said that she didn't know what was funny in context but after she would rehearse it a lot she would be completely hilarious. In interviews she always seemed very serious too. Either way they were both brilliant people. There will never be another Lucy and Desi :)

[phatboybright]

Its funny how on the show you see them do commercial and it seems like a joke but it looks like thats just the way things were done.

[tcrtoo]

woah, it's weird to see her serious.

and seeing their family, you would never expect that their marriage was the way it was.

[KOOLTVMAN]

i luv it

[z71guy66]

It was hard to imagine Lucy being serious. I kept thinking at any moment she was going to do something very funny. ha ha

[ousooner280]

Me too I thought she was going to trip or something!

[juliewestfall]

I'm always amazed at the new stuff I can alway find about Lucy.

[mexicanmayhem07]

What a sweet family :)

[ninous]

such sweet clip with the family, so cute, they really were the best couple of all time

[karenscott3]

FANTASTIC MEMORIES....thanks......:)

[chefmikehenry]

Are you tired, runned down and listless, do you poop out at parties? Then all need is a great BIG NEEDLE in our arm to stamp out your problem. Yes, with the polio vaccine, you can walk you way to health! LOL, I love this campy spot!

[charliebradley1979]

ROFL that was tooo funny, and yet tacky at the same time :)

[charliebradley1979]

LOL that was too funny yet tacky at the same time :)

[Nappeehead83]

Come on you guys, WE GOTTA FIGHT POLIO!!!! Boy how times have changed.

[Trog2007]

Amazing. If only those two were alive now to see how much we idolize them. If only...

[princehottie]

I read Lucille's bio and she was married twice

[ochealth1]

I believe she was married three times. The first was a marriage of convience to an older media exec. The second was Desi, and the third was Morton.

[charliebradley1979]

No. she was married just two times. First to Desi and then to Gary Morton.

[effyleven]

Lucy and Desi had genuinely high regard for each other, so it is likely the love they show here is quite real. It is worth noting that this mutual respect lasted well past the break up of the marriage and into later life.

[meeyamii]

They also stayed great friends. Raising their children and grandchildren together.

[meeyamii]

They loved each other all their lives. Lucy was the last person Desi spoke to before he died and she said "I love you, I love you".

[omylucy]

it is a real dame they didnot stay together as a couple. as she would say, THEY WERE THE "AMERICAN" COUPLE. they didnot want desi to play as her husband in i love lucy, boy were they wrong! it was a TOTAL SUCESS, anyways at the end she ended up staying married to gary morton longer than she did desi, and she was ver happy. and that's all that really counts.

[Starlet21]

She had a lot of happy years with Desi too, they just didn't last sadly.

[LucilleBallnumber1]

we sure do miss them, too bad everyone has to die...

[bluesugar58]

yup but they had 20 years together married and about 20+ as friends

[DesiArnazDevotee]

I personall don't give a damn about the divorce because they still loved each other for the rest of their lives.

And I really really hate it when people put all the blame of the divorce on Desi.

[sugarlipz96]

@DesiArnazDevotee i agree completely!

[eddiesteele]

happy memories, x

[luvraiderslakers]

Thank you Desi & Lucy for so many beautiful laughter and joy you brought to everyone...

[pakieire]

The mid 50s was when the rates of poilo soared BECAUSE of the polio vaccine. Rates had declined 40% BEFORE th vacc was invented. Read a little about the history of the vaccine. You might just be SHOCKED. Especially the 300 people in the famous Cutter Incident who got polio from a Parke-Davis vaccine.

[MichaelTheSeraph]

God Bless Lucy and Desi, there will never be another couple like them!

[benetke]

I love lucy.

[50heaven]

Yes, those were great people

[babywu48]

I really love lucy I watch the I love lucy shows every day.

[vonkavonka]

So cool!!!

[gilgamesh818]

They were good people. They have some props from the show at Universal Studios.

[wgmhottie11551]

i was about to cry!! I wish she was still alive!! shes my idol

[marissamj]

Oh they're so wonderful. :) Little Desi and Lucy are adorable

[eternallyoung]

A great way for people to contribute - the dime-in-the-slot card. I remember them well. Thanks for the clip of the the REAL "Ricardo" kids!

[Mktryk]

That was a really cool vid with the Arnazes. At that time, ALL parents lived in fear that polio would badly cripple or even kill their healthy children. I hope the Arnazes (and their children) were proud of the role they played in helping to raise the funds to get the vaccine tested so polio would be wiped out in the USA in a very short time.

[RadieCarter]

she was truly beautiful

[JNicole123]

What a great clip. So sweet!

[llw3920]

Sweet cute

[mistyrow]

where did you find this???

It is GREAT archival footage...

Desi so gorgeous and

Lucy with her flawless diction...

Glad that polio was wiped out...

Kids were cute!!!

[Billie05]

awwwww ! Soooo sweet ! ^^

[jjsainz28]

thank you for posting this! :o)