@galileocan To be fair, nearly everyone had beautiful writing, it was something taught in schools, calligraphy__you know, when schools actually gave people an education.
@iWonderVIPs Lucy had one of those voices that you could recognize in a second, no matter how she tried to disguise it. I'm guessing that that's why the panel was able to guess who she was so quickly.
@cheeriosinabowl Yeah, I think the Broadway show was really taking a toll on her. She looks (and sounds) so exhausted, and that, in turn, makes her look a lot older than she actually was.
"She is a blessing to this season and adornment to the theater."
What a lovely compliment from Arlene and so true, too! They used to compliment others so nicely back then; today's version of the same thing would be calling her a "dawg." ;)
.... and yes, Lucy is gorgeous and so chic in that suit!
looking at lucy , no one can ever compare . look at the trash they consider entertainment now : jersey shore. makes you wish you grew up back then with lucy <3
Jan 1961: Lucy between divorcing Desi Arnaz and starting "The Lucy Show."
I show this clip to my college English composition students: it always stuns them. I show this as an example of jargon ( 4:08 ).
In both a 1955 and 1958 "Phil Silvers What's My Line?" clips posted by crepehanger47, Silvers commented to floor manager George about his use of the same jargon.
early 1961: Dorothy missed month of broadcasts when hospitalized for her substance abuse problems.
What year was this? Lucille Ball will always be a comedy and television legend. She is an amazing talent and she, unlike many actresses today, CAN ACT! She was clearly very comfortable around crowds of people and along with Judy Garland was probably one of the best live performers of that time, and still of this time (: I LOVE LUCY!
I noticed the ladies would touch up their hair whenever Lucy was on. They didn't want a strand of hair loose while in front of gracious greatness. I know I would have in front of Lucille Ball.
At the time this episode was done, Lucy was pursuing her only Broadway role in "Wildcat!" A trouble-plagued production, it ran only a few months (Valerie Harper was one of the chorus "gypsies"), It's perhaps best-remembered, if at all, as the show that produced the pop standard "Hey, Look Me Over!," sung by Lucy and Paula Stewart (Mrs. Jack Carter, then) in the first act.
Lucy would then return to the medium with which she's most associated, TV, to provide another decade of laughs.
A great beauty with terrific fashion sense and a great figure. And on top of that one of the world's all-time premiere comediennes. Also a fine dramatic actress. Then she took on the Broadway musical stage! She was fearless! Except she admitted she was terrified.
@theminicooper Lucy's did have bad health at this point -- after effect of the divorce from Desi and the overwork on the stage with Wildcat! She had to withdraw from Wildcat maybe 4? months after this broadcast.
I was just in Jamestown New York, My wife and I visited Lucille's gravesite. and now im sitting here all watery eyed while watching her on youtube. Thanks for posting. i would share the photos with the world. so I will be posting them on yutube asap. my youtube name is ..thedtkshow
I was just in Jamestown New York, My wife and I visited Lucille's gravesite. and now im sitting here all watery eyed while watching her on youtube. Thanks for posting. i would share the photos with the world. so I will be posting them on yutube asap. my youtube name is ..thedtkshow
I was just in Jamestown New York, My wife and I visited Lucille's gravesite. and now im sitting here all watery eyed while watching her on youtube. Thanks for posting. i would share the photos with the world. so I will be posting them on yutube asap. my youtube name is ..thedtkshow
I was just in Jamestown New York, My wife and I visited Lucille's gravesite. and now im sitting here all watery eyed while watching her on youtube. Thanks for posting. i would share the photos with the world. so I will be posting them on yutube asap. my youtube name is ..thedtkshow
Being a Trucker I was just in Jamestown New York, My wife and I visited Lucille's gravesite. and now im sitting here all watery eyed while watching her on youtube. Thanks for posting. i would share the photos with the world. so I will be posting them on yutube asap. my youtube name is ..thedtkshow
Being a Trucker I was just in Jamestown New York, My wife and I visited Lucille's gravesite. and now im sitting here all watery eyed while watching her on youtube. Thanks for posting. i would share the photos with the world. so I will be posting them on yutube asap. my youtube name is ..thedtkshow
Being a Trucker I was just in Jamestown New York, My wife and I visited Lucille's gravesite. and now im sitting here all watery eyed while watching her on youtube. Thanks for posting. i would share the photos with the world. so I will be posting them on yutube asap. my youtube name is ..thedtkshow
.Thanks so much for this clip.......Lucy was an American beauty, her dramatic acting talent , comedy talent, will never be matched today........she was always class and style in all her scenes.......Rest in Peace Lucy.......we will never forget the laughter you brought into our world both then and still now to this day.............
@Stineicus , no, the problem with her voice here was Wildcat. She didn't know proper voice projection techniques and greatly damaged her voice performing in that show, mainly from the singing (according to her costar). You can tell she's made herself hoarse. She also performed her TV shows before a studio audience and put a lot of strain projecting her voice rehearsing and performing her TV shows. And on I LOVE LUCY, she always spoke her lines in an unnaturally high pitch, which also did damage.
@kaitjsmith , this was taped just a few months after the last Lucy-Desi hour was filmed. Go back and watch that last episode. There is a huge difference between the quality of her voice in that episode and what you hear here. Smoking does damage the vocal chords, but it can't cause changes that drastic in such a short period of time. Keith Andes, her co-star in Wildcat, said she did great damage to her voice in Wildcat by not projecting her voice properly. This here is evidence of that.
1960 When she started "WILDCAT" Lucy looked GREAT. But before she Went into Production for "the Lucy Show" in 1962 She had a face-lift because in 1962/63 when she came back to WML for the Easter Seals charity she looked quite Younger. Still Beautiful and the Classiest of Hollywood Legends that EVER lived. These stars today when they have face lifts they always look so different and drastically different.. She really was one if not THE greatest Comedic talent we have had! R.I.P. Lucy!
Lucy never had a face-lit. I've read several books on Lucille Ball. Inparticular, "The Desilu Story", and they all discuss that Lucy never could do cosmetic surgery since she bruised easily and took too long to heal. Instead, she did a temporary face lift using surgical tape to temporarily lift her face which was used when filming shows from 1963 and beyond. The tape would only hold for 2 hours at a time. She wore a wig to cover the surgical tape.
Did anyone here the person around 1950 (shortly after she said I beg your pardon Mr. Berman) the guy that cracked, "Oh now you sound like Tallulah!" haha! she does! Tallulah was on the Lucy show and lucy did a great impression of her. Why was Tallulah herself never on this show? She would have been hilarious trying to hide her southern foghorn accent.
tallulah was on this show!! and i've been trying forever to find it :(... i hope it pops up some day ... the walter pidgeon wml has a reference to tallulah too i thought was cute :)
haha! even the pannalists clap her - that says it all no? and the women never get up one sprang up and the other was like ah yeh its Lucy! enchanting woman
OMG Lucy looks so much different than she did on ILL, even though ILL ended only a few years ago! But no matter how she looks she will always be beautiful.
Great explanations on Lucy's voice, thanks. I always wondered why it was so different and did think it was because of her smoking. ILL to HL such a difference. I liked her the best in ILL with Desi, but all of her shows were funny.
Oh this is great to see. I've read everything there is to read on Lucy and although as she said being in a show on Broadway was a big dream, the show was not very good, her talent alone carried it, she and Desi had divorced not long before, and it wasn't one of the happiest times of her life, if she ever did find happiness. She looks lovely here and so interesting to get a glimpse of her during this period of her life/career.
You're absoloutely right! I'm so glad that I found someone to agree with! I have always believed that smoking didn't destroy her voice...it didn't help, but it didn't do all the dammage. It's too bad that her voice was ruined, but in the end if she didn't do the "Lucy" voice the way she did...the show wouldn't have been the same.
I agree the Lucy character wouldn't have been the same had she not used that voice. But have you noticed how sometimes, especially in season one, her voice would crack when trying to hit that Lucy Ricardo high pitch? I've also noticed on TLS and Here's Lucy, the quality of her voice would start out okay at the beginning of each season, but would be hoarse after a couple months. For example, listen to the '67 Emmy win clip or HL premiere where she'd been resting her voice a couple months.
I should note that Keith Andes wasn't the only one who had that opinion about the singing. Lucie Arnaz has noted the same thing. She has said that whenever there was singing involved on Here's Lucy (which happened a couple times each season), or a screaming scene, Lucy would rehearse to death and by the end of the week her voice would be almost worn out. Notice also the significant drop in her voice between the 5th and 6th season of Here's Lucy. And what happened between those two seasons? MAME.
The smoking certainly hurt her vocal chords, but I think you are right. View the YouTube clip "What's My Line" (w/ guest Lucille Ball, Deborah Kerr) 3/3 from 1954. She uses both that high "Lucy voice" and some register that approximates her natural voice. Like me, you will probably find the contrast rather stark.
Yes, I've seen that 1954 WML clip and had the same impression. But I'm not saying the smoking didn't have an effect on her voice, just that it wasn't the primary cause of her vocal chord damage. Bette Davis smoked all her life but her voice didn't change that much. But unlike Lucy, Bette Davis didn't spend her career playing to a studio audience, or performing in a high pitch. And Davis didn't spend over half a year performing in a musical and failing to use proper vocal projection techniques.
I can't believe you noticed her voice cracking too. Her voice did get quite hoarse and seemed to stay that way after a while. She should've had someone to teach her how to project or speak in a way that wouldn't ruin her voice. But in my opinion I believe that her voice wasn't the most important part about her. If people asked me what I love about Lucy, I wouldn't say her voice. Lucy could've been mute and still be funny...you can tell from her silent conversations and acting out gossip in ILL.
One other observation about her voice: during the LS and HL years, I think she probably also talked non-stop. If you've seen any of those videos of her in rehearsal, you'll see her delivering her lines, then directing the other actors, directing the cameraman & lighting crew, and directing the director. :) Regarding her being able to perform with or without her voice, have you seen the "Lucy Conducts the Symphony" clip? That's proof she still could have been a comedy superstar in silent movies!
People constantly blame Lucy's voice on cigarettes. I'm sure they took their toll, but they are not the main reason her voice changed. At the time of this appearance, she was appearing in Wildcat. Keith Andes, her co-star in that show, said she destroyed her voice in Wildcat because she sang without doing proper voice projection. Besides that, she also strained her vocal chords doing the high-pitched Lucy Ricardo voice, which was not her actual voice. Her natural voice, even then, was much lower
Very true that her "Lucy" voice was much higher than her "Lucille" voice. Even watching Desi/Lucille pictures like "The Long Long Trailer" or "Forever, Darling", her vocals are much lower and softer than her Lucy Ricardo vocals. And same goes for her earlier b&w pictures. Think of "Meet The People", I thought her voice was quite low indeed in that movie!
Thanks for the info about Desi's autobiography!
Lucille Ball looks stunning as always but exhausted in this segment! Poor Lucy!
You're welcome. As soulierinvestments mentioned below, check out this YouTube clip: "What's My Line" (w/ guest Lucille Ball, Deborah Kerr) 3/3. This was from 1954, right in the middle of the I LOVE LUCY era. At about 4 min, 35 seconds, you'll hear Lucille Ball speaking in her true Lucille Ball voice, which sounds very little like Lucy Ricardo.
This could NOT be 1954 it had to be 1960 because she was in Wildcat (that opened in 1960) so that explains why she looks so different--she was nearly 50 here and just divorced.
Furthermore, Desi wrote in his autobiography that when they first married, Katharine Hepburn had told Lucy her voice was too high. Lucy and Desi used to take weekend trips to Palm Springs, and he said when they would get out on the open road, Lucy would scream at the top of her lungs because she had heard that would make her voice deeper, which is true. Then years later, to play Lucy Ricardo, she tried to get it back up again with that fake high-pitch voice, which is known to damage vocal chords
She was on this game show three times. Oh wow.
HellBreak777 1 month ago
@HellBreak777 Four times, no? She was on with Desi once and then three times on her own, I think.
BartimaeusTrilogyFan 3 weeks ago
They certainly knew how to dress respectfully on t.v. in those days.
rrbond07 1 month ago 3
@rrbond07 Didn't they? I agree. Very classy.
Smalltowngal29 1 month ago
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tracy1010 3 months ago
MARVELOUS, THERE"ll NEVER BE ANOTHER LUCY. JUDA59ful
JUDA59ful 3 months ago
This may be an odd comment, but don't you think Lucy had beautiful hand writing??
galileocan 3 months ago 7
@galileocan I actually thought the same thing! It was so neat and precise. Wish I could write like that.
hyelin25 1 month ago
@galileocan To be fair, nearly everyone had beautiful writing, it was something taught in schools, calligraphy__you know, when schools actually gave people an education.
dangraphic 1 month ago 2
How can the panel guess the person so quickly? basically the only thing they knew were they were on theatre and a she. seems too quick...
iWonderVIPs 3 months ago
@iWonderVIPs dont forget they all knew each other very well and knew all the plays opening etc etc etc
ILUVCF1961 2 months ago
@iWonderVIPs Lucy had one of those voices that you could recognize in a second, no matter how she tried to disguise it. I'm guessing that that's why the panel was able to guess who she was so quickly.
hyelin25 1 month ago
Can we talk about the fact that all three times that she was on this show, one of the questions that was asked is "Are you a man?".... I ADORE LUCY!
Hoofer26 5 months ago 3
Lucy and i share a birthday. I would know that husky voice anywhere!
djintheatl 5 months ago 2
She looks a lot different here. I prefer the zany Lucy from "I Love Lucy" show.
cheeriosinabowl 6 months ago
@cheeriosinabowl Yeah, I think the Broadway show was really taking a toll on her. She looks (and sounds) so exhausted, and that, in turn, makes her look a lot older than she actually was.
hyelin25 1 month ago
"She is a blessing to this season and adornment to the theater."
What a lovely compliment from Arlene and so true, too! They used to compliment others so nicely back then; today's version of the same thing would be calling her a "dawg." ;)
.... and yes, Lucy is gorgeous and so chic in that suit!
FranklyMyDearTV 6 months ago
People overlook it because she was a comedienne, but she's so beautiful! <3
FranklyMyDearTV 6 months ago
i love lucy great show !
whirlyfan 6 months ago
Haha, I love her Tallulah Bankhead voice! <3
thelucidconspiracist 6 months ago 3
I look at her and I am suddenly full of ambition and ready to do something good with my life. What a woman!!!!!!
princessjoots 6 months ago 3
looking at lucy , no one can ever compare . look at the trash they consider entertainment now : jersey shore. makes you wish you grew up back then with lucy <3
toysoldierivana 6 months ago 3
@toysoldierivana Double thumbs up
sunlightangel87 6 months ago
@sunlightangel87 haha (:
toysoldierivana 6 months ago
Happy Hundredth, Lucy! You left a legacy of laughter which few performers will ever be able to duplicate.
librarybob1958 6 months ago
Jan 1961: Lucy between divorcing Desi Arnaz and starting "The Lucy Show."
I show this clip to my college English composition students: it always stuns them. I show this as an example of jargon ( 4:08 ).
In both a 1955 and 1958 "Phil Silvers What's My Line?" clips posted by crepehanger47, Silvers commented to floor manager George about his use of the same jargon.
early 1961: Dorothy missed month of broadcasts when hospitalized for her substance abuse problems.
soulierinvestments 6 months ago
I love Lucy so much, I use to watch her as a kid and I'd call her "Lucy Goosey", I wish she was still alive.
DannieNicole 6 months ago
I agree. The greatest of all time.
sebastianpellegrene 7 months ago
She's been on the show a couple of times already, I'm surprised they don't recognize her immediately.
Zomashu 7 months ago
What year was this? Lucille Ball will always be a comedy and television legend. She is an amazing talent and she, unlike many actresses today, CAN ACT! She was clearly very comfortable around crowds of people and along with Judy Garland was probably one of the best live performers of that time, and still of this time (: I LOVE LUCY!
bballchick1241 7 months ago 3
I noticed the ladies would touch up their hair whenever Lucy was on. They didn't want a strand of hair loose while in front of gracious greatness. I know I would have in front of Lucille Ball.
Zen53GT 8 months ago
TV Yes! Movie NO!
TheStanbabe 9 months ago
What is the DATE of this please???
oooowwwwdddd 10 months ago
@oooowwwwdddd Well the movie she starred in with Bob Hope - The Facts of Life - came out in 1960. I saw it on Netflix, good movie.
mightydesign 10 months ago
She wasn't a real redhead, one of my uncles went out with her.
dbmrhi 11 months ago
i wish they'd bring this show back for todays time...
Parkette1 11 months ago 3
she always used low voice
AdvantageYT 1 year ago
The panel knew who she was the minute she spoke.
lasuvidaboy 1 year ago 10
At the time this episode was done, Lucy was pursuing her only Broadway role in "Wildcat!" A trouble-plagued production, it ran only a few months (Valerie Harper was one of the chorus "gypsies"), It's perhaps best-remembered, if at all, as the show that produced the pop standard "Hey, Look Me Over!," sung by Lucy and Paula Stewart (Mrs. Jack Carter, then) in the first act.
Lucy would then return to the medium with which she's most associated, TV, to provide another decade of laughs.
librarybob1958 1 year ago
Lucy is starting to show a little age in this appearance.
imkluu 1 year ago
she looks amazing her so classy and beautiful
RobNLynchburgVA 1 year ago
The panel guesses her quickly every time she appears.
Her enormous presence could not be hidden behind blindfolds.
Lucy had three great shows that did not depend on the sex and toilet humor that all sitcoms rely on today.
I LOVE LUCY
PeoriaPokerPro 1 year ago 4
A great beauty with terrific fashion sense and a great figure. And on top of that one of the world's all-time premiere comediennes. Also a fine dramatic actress. Then she took on the Broadway musical stage! She was fearless! Except she admitted she was terrified.
waynebrasler 1 year ago 4
Lucille Ball...could anybody else be both that refined and classy, and also be such a madcap comedianne?
tedhobgood 1 year ago 19
She was starring on broadway in "Wildcat" when this was made. I stiill love Lucy!
RImusclebear 1 year ago 3
That may very well been the biggest reaction from the audience ever on What's My Line.
DominoRyder 1 year ago
@DominoRyder no i think the judy garland was
demigrl21 1 year ago
@demigrl21 Yeah, Judy definitely was-- or maybe Eleanor Roosevelt, but this is a good one.
vanityfair713 1 year ago
@DominoRyder Casey Stengel's was bigger
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The3rdHiltonSister 1 year ago
I wish she would have appeared on the syndicated version.
spagandtuna 1 year ago
How many times did Lucy appear on WML? There's quite a few videos of her appearances on the show, but I'm sure that's not all of them.
travis7310 1 year ago
@travis7310 Lucy appeared on WML in 1954, 1955 (with Desi), 1961 (here), 1963 (with Bob Hope), and twice in 1965 -- six in total.
soulierinvestments 1 year ago
She loves looking into the audience.
irvingklaw57 1 year ago
watching this video, I have a feeling Lucy wasn't feeling good... sad or tired or something! ... =(
theminicooper 1 year ago
@theminicooper Lucy's did have bad health at this point -- after effect of the divorce from Desi and the overwork on the stage with Wildcat! She had to withdraw from Wildcat maybe 4? months after this broadcast.
soulierinvestments 1 year ago
how do they guess her so easily! haha
ClassicsWEREandARE 1 year ago
I just viseted her grave in Jamestown NY. watching this im watery eyed now.
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TheDTKshow 1 year ago
Being a Trucker I was just in Jamestown New York, My wife and I visited Lucille's gravesite. and now im sitting here all watery eyed while watching her on youtube. Thanks for posting. i would share the photos with the world. so I will be posting them on yutube asap. my youtube name is ..thedtkshow
TheDTKshow 1 year ago
Being a Trucker I was just in Jamestown New York, My wife and I visited Lucille's gravesite. and now im sitting here all watery eyed while watching her on youtube. Thanks for posting. i would share the photos with the world. so I will be posting them on yutube asap. my youtube name is ..thedtkshow
TheDTKshow 1 year ago
I loved this lady since i was a child I'm only 23....This is the ORIGINAL QUEEN OF Comedy Indeed! No one could ever touch her in that area!!!!
MannyManFresh7 1 year ago
I LOVE her eyeswhile she is smiling, they are so kind and warm that while (but I must admit her eyes are very beautiful all the time :-) )
Etheline 1 year ago
Such a class act
Turnipable 1 year ago
How glamorous she was. We were so blessed to have her.
mightyorgan 1 year ago
an incomparable talent solely in a league of her own.....
HowardOfOz3565 1 year ago
@Stineicus that was my idea that her voice became like that because she smokes a lot. thanks btw
DannaRoseAguilar 2 years ago
Lucille Ball is such a class act!!
vyry108 2 years ago 5
She was an amazing talent. Nobody could make you laugh like Lucy could.
MJMyrna 2 years ago 88
.Thanks so much for this clip.......Lucy was an American beauty, her dramatic acting talent , comedy talent, will never be matched today........she was always class and style in all her scenes.......Rest in Peace Lucy.......we will never forget the laughter you brought into our world both then and still now to this day.............
MrTitan225 4 months ago
i've noticed that when lucille was older, her voice became deeper.
DannaRoseAguilar 2 years ago
It was due to all of the smoking. A LOT. :(
Stineicus 2 years ago 3
@Stineicus , no, the problem with her voice here was Wildcat. She didn't know proper voice projection techniques and greatly damaged her voice performing in that show, mainly from the singing (according to her costar). You can tell she's made herself hoarse. She also performed her TV shows before a studio audience and put a lot of strain projecting her voice rehearsing and performing her TV shows. And on I LOVE LUCY, she always spoke her lines in an unnaturally high pitch, which also did damage.
rachelazw 1 year ago
@rachelazw Not to mention the amount of smoking the regular american did in those days.
kaitjsmith 1 year ago
@kaitjsmith , this was taped just a few months after the last Lucy-Desi hour was filmed. Go back and watch that last episode. There is a huge difference between the quality of her voice in that episode and what you hear here. Smoking does damage the vocal chords, but it can't cause changes that drastic in such a short period of time. Keith Andes, her co-star in Wildcat, said she did great damage to her voice in Wildcat by not projecting her voice properly. This here is evidence of that.
Beejjjjjj 1 year ago
3 packs a day will do it...
MerleOberon 1 year ago
It was so sweet when she smiled at the audiences' applause after the question "Have you been enormously popular in television?"
Farrahsmom13 2 years ago
1960 When she started "WILDCAT" Lucy looked GREAT. But before she Went into Production for "the Lucy Show" in 1962 She had a face-lift because in 1962/63 when she came back to WML for the Easter Seals charity she looked quite Younger. Still Beautiful and the Classiest of Hollywood Legends that EVER lived. These stars today when they have face lifts they always look so different and drastically different.. She really was one if not THE greatest Comedic talent we have had! R.I.P. Lucy!
NFitalianGuy 2 years ago 3
Lucy never had a face-lit. I've read several books on Lucille Ball. Inparticular, "The Desilu Story", and they all discuss that Lucy never could do cosmetic surgery since she bruised easily and took too long to heal. Instead, she did a temporary face lift using surgical tape to temporarily lift her face which was used when filming shows from 1963 and beyond. The tape would only hold for 2 hours at a time. She wore a wig to cover the surgical tape.
bgsudude81 2 years ago
Did anyone here the person around 1950 (shortly after she said I beg your pardon Mr. Berman) the guy that cracked, "Oh now you sound like Tallulah!" haha! she does! Tallulah was on the Lucy show and lucy did a great impression of her. Why was Tallulah herself never on this show? She would have been hilarious trying to hide her southern foghorn accent.
DiabolicalAngel 2 years ago
Whoops I meant around 1:50 hahah
DiabolicalAngel 2 years ago
tallulah was on this show!! and i've been trying forever to find it :(... i hope it pops up some day ... the walter pidgeon wml has a reference to tallulah too i thought was cute :)
golddustwoman 2 years ago
Omfg ARE YOU SERIOUS? HOLY SHIT if you EVER get your hands on this, you HAVE to put it on youtube! I am a Tallulah fantatic..shes amazing!!! :D
DiabolicalAngel 2 years ago
her voice is WAYYYY too recognizable
artmania1990 2 years ago 2
I just realized that Lucy was 5 times on What`s my line. Wow
khtx 2 years ago
The initial applause gave her away.
I Love Lucy.
Chase627 2 years ago 3
I just love her. I used to watch I love Lucy with my grandma when I was a kid. One person that I would have loved to have met!
shelyr 2 years ago
she definetely looks exhausted.
tyler5wy1 2 years ago
they knew it was her right away! and same with the other time she was on
evolgub 2 years ago 2
Well when you are the First Lady Of Televison, it's kinda hard to not be known....RIP to this Great Talent
HowardOfOz3565 2 years ago
Was Lucille ever a panellist on WML?
tgrsable 2 years ago
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she seemed drunk!
kfag101 2 years ago
I love Bennett Cerfs voice...It's so calming yet comedic at the same time...
brewcrew01984 2 years ago 2
haha! even the pannalists clap her - that says it all no? and the women never get up one sprang up and the other was like ah yeh its Lucy! enchanting woman
ClassicMovieClub 2 years ago 3
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she looks so old........fabulous though. as always.
sugarhoneyicedtea123 2 years ago
She's so pretty. Her eyes are enormous.
sisalrug 2 years ago 67
@sisalrug enormus but gorgeous. am i not right?
LucilleBallFan2 1 year ago
i love Lucy she is really funny.
MOROMAMBO 2 years ago 5
A true gem
Scorpion1054 2 years ago 5
Lucy comes across as such a warm, serene person here. I love this appearance.
DeanLeonard1 2 years ago 4
OMG Lucy looks so much different than she did on ILL, even though ILL ended only a few years ago! But no matter how she looks she will always be beautiful.
sara1964fox 2 years ago 3
I noticed that. I think it's the 60s hairstyle that doesn't quite work. She looked like herself again by "The Lucy Show".
fabulbabe 2 years ago
I think Ms. Ball would have lived longer if she had not smoked...
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soulierinvestments 3 years ago
Great explanations on Lucy's voice, thanks. I always wondered why it was so different and did think it was because of her smoking. ILL to HL such a difference. I liked her the best in ILL with Desi, but all of her shows were funny.
tlf243 3 years ago 2
Wow she sounds like Lauren Bacall!
ags072889 3 years ago 2
Everyone loves Lucy!!! :)
TaylorAmelia 3 years ago 2
Oh this is great to see. I've read everything there is to read on Lucy and although as she said being in a show on Broadway was a big dream, the show was not very good, her talent alone carried it, she and Desi had divorced not long before, and it wasn't one of the happiest times of her life, if she ever did find happiness. She looks lovely here and so interesting to get a glimpse of her during this period of her life/career.
1timysand 3 years ago 3
Lucy looks very pretty here.
Muffy2314 3 years ago 2
Lucy is just so stunning!
illnsp08 3 years ago 3
Absoloutely fabulous! I believe Lucy holds the record for the number of times she was the mystery guest. I love that remarkable woman!
4EverDarling 3 years ago
Notice how much deeper her voice is here. Compare this clip to one of "Lucy
Meets the Moustache" from 1960, just a year earlier. People always assume
smoking destroyed her voice, but WILDCAT co-star Keith Andes claimed she
destroyed it in WILDCAT due to improper vocal projection when singing and this
seems to prove him right (same thing with MAME). Another contributor was
projecting the high-pitched "Lucy" voice on TV all those years. Smoking didn't
help, but this had more to do with it.
Beejjjjjj 3 years ago 2
You're absoloutely right! I'm so glad that I found someone to agree with! I have always believed that smoking didn't destroy her voice...it didn't help, but it didn't do all the dammage. It's too bad that her voice was ruined, but in the end if she didn't do the "Lucy" voice the way she did...the show wouldn't have been the same.
4EverDarling 3 years ago 2
I agree the Lucy character wouldn't have been the same had she not used that voice. But have you noticed how sometimes, especially in season one, her voice would crack when trying to hit that Lucy Ricardo high pitch? I've also noticed on TLS and Here's Lucy, the quality of her voice would start out okay at the beginning of each season, but would be hoarse after a couple months. For example, listen to the '67 Emmy win clip or HL premiere where she'd been resting her voice a couple months.
Beejjjjjj 3 years ago
I should note that Keith Andes wasn't the only one who had that opinion about the singing. Lucie Arnaz has noted the same thing. She has said that whenever there was singing involved on Here's Lucy (which happened a couple times each season), or a screaming scene, Lucy would rehearse to death and by the end of the week her voice would be almost worn out. Notice also the significant drop in her voice between the 5th and 6th season of Here's Lucy. And what happened between those two seasons? MAME.
Beejjjjjj 3 years ago
The smoking certainly hurt her vocal chords, but I think you are right. View the YouTube clip "What's My Line" (w/ guest Lucille Ball, Deborah Kerr) 3/3 from 1954. She uses both that high "Lucy voice" and some register that approximates her natural voice. Like me, you will probably find the contrast rather stark.
soulierinvestments 3 years ago
Yes, I've seen that 1954 WML clip and had the same impression. But I'm not saying the smoking didn't have an effect on her voice, just that it wasn't the primary cause of her vocal chord damage. Bette Davis smoked all her life but her voice didn't change that much. But unlike Lucy, Bette Davis didn't spend her career playing to a studio audience, or performing in a high pitch. And Davis didn't spend over half a year performing in a musical and failing to use proper vocal projection techniques.
Beejjjjjj 3 years ago
I can't believe you noticed her voice cracking too. Her voice did get quite hoarse and seemed to stay that way after a while. She should've had someone to teach her how to project or speak in a way that wouldn't ruin her voice. But in my opinion I believe that her voice wasn't the most important part about her. If people asked me what I love about Lucy, I wouldn't say her voice. Lucy could've been mute and still be funny...you can tell from her silent conversations and acting out gossip in ILL.
4EverDarling 3 years ago
One other observation about her voice: during the LS and HL years, I think she probably also talked non-stop. If you've seen any of those videos of her in rehearsal, you'll see her delivering her lines, then directing the other actors, directing the cameraman & lighting crew, and directing the director. :) Regarding her being able to perform with or without her voice, have you seen the "Lucy Conducts the Symphony" clip? That's proof she still could have been a comedy superstar in silent movies!
Beejjjjjj 3 years ago
its because she smoked alot, thats why her voice started to get all cough-y like this..
sailorandmeawesome 2 years ago
People constantly blame Lucy's voice on cigarettes. I'm sure they took their toll, but they are not the main reason her voice changed. At the time of this appearance, she was appearing in Wildcat. Keith Andes, her co-star in that show, said she destroyed her voice in Wildcat because she sang without doing proper voice projection. Besides that, she also strained her vocal chords doing the high-pitched Lucy Ricardo voice, which was not her actual voice. Her natural voice, even then, was much lower
Beejjjjjj 2 years ago 4
Very true that her "Lucy" voice was much higher than her "Lucille" voice. Even watching Desi/Lucille pictures like "The Long Long Trailer" or "Forever, Darling", her vocals are much lower and softer than her Lucy Ricardo vocals. And same goes for her earlier b&w pictures. Think of "Meet The People", I thought her voice was quite low indeed in that movie!
Thanks for the info about Desi's autobiography!
Lucille Ball looks stunning as always but exhausted in this segment! Poor Lucy!
gottamatch 2 years ago 3
You're welcome. As soulierinvestments mentioned below, check out this YouTube clip: "What's My Line" (w/ guest Lucille Ball, Deborah Kerr) 3/3. This was from 1954, right in the middle of the I LOVE LUCY era. At about 4 min, 35 seconds, you'll hear Lucille Ball speaking in her true Lucille Ball voice, which sounds very little like Lucy Ricardo.
Beejjjjjj 2 years ago 2
This could NOT be 1954 it had to be 1960 because she was in Wildcat (that opened in 1960) so that explains why she looks so different--she was nearly 50 here and just divorced.
manny2many 2 years ago
Furthermore, Desi wrote in his autobiography that when they first married, Katharine Hepburn had told Lucy her voice was too high. Lucy and Desi used to take weekend trips to Palm Springs, and he said when they would get out on the open road, Lucy would scream at the top of her lungs because she had heard that would make her voice deeper, which is true. Then years later, to play Lucy Ricardo, she tried to get it back up again with that fake high-pitch voice, which is known to damage vocal chords
Beejjjjjj 2 years ago
Beautiful Faye Emerson had her hair ratted out enough that she could've been the flying nun.
EDH1712 3 years ago
Shelley Berman made a number of interesting appearances in this time period
that appearance when he laughed so hard he cried
("Best of What's My Line?")
the appearance with the brother sister egg farmers and mystery guest Julie Newmar
and this "You"ve got to be a she" You betcha.
soulierinvestments 3 years ago
What did Bennett Cerf say to make him laugh like that? I have never been able to find the entire episode
ijustwanttosing 3 years ago
Lucy appeared 6 times as a mystery guest on WML
1954 -- Martian Talk
1955 with Desi Arnaz (Robert Lewis "are you sure I didn't see you today on television?}
1961 here
1963 with Bob Hope
1965 twice, which is unusual because Gil Fates had a policy that mystery guests appeared only once in a calendar year.
This one is my favorite. Daly knows just what to ask to get her talking: I find the whole sequence stunning.
Note they all stand up to greet her when she exits.
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