This was great fun. Thanks for posting it. I'm a retired stage manager, and 40 years ago I did a show, The Sunshine Boys, with Gale Gordon. He was just shy of 80 at the time, but still going strong. He just didn't want to stop working. It was a dinner theatre, and one night there was a fire in the kitchen. All the alarms went off of course, the house lights came up, and people started scrambling for the exits. But Gale, rather than heading for an exit himself, stayed onstage and made jokes as people filed out. "Don't worry folks, they probably just burned the roast beef!" His wife was furious with him for not getting the heck out of there. Lovely man.
Thanks for that great story! Gale Gordon must have loved the business and he was such a great speaker. I'm sure he was one of those guys that could read something once and remember it. He had the kind of comedic timing people are only born with. I recently watched "Life with Lucy" and Gale Gordon was still going strong. He was great!
So much has been written about the tenseness on the Lucy sets - but, at least in these bloopers, Lucy seems to be having a great time with her co-stars and with her staff.
Comedians curse so much today they are not funny. They cuss for cussing's sake. Gale Gordon was so comedically talented he didn't have to curse to get a laugh.
Thank you for posting this. I've never seen 'Here's Lucy' bloopers before...and it's so interesting to see Lucy off-script because she was such a notorious perfectionist.
@@JackNtheVideoBox I meant in the scene. Gale flubbed a line but he wanted to keep going and Lucy made him go back and do it again. That said, Gale was IN his 80s in Lucy's last sitcom and he could still do schtick better than anyone. Moe Howard, is, of course another master of schtick.
@@maestroclassico5801 I admire actors and old ball players that milk out every last drop of their career. A lot of people die not long after they retire. To continue working at something you love extends your life!
Lucy and Ginger Rogers were pals back when they were both contract girls for RKO...they were distant cousins. Ginger's Mom was her manager.....she kept the gals from getting mistreated (casting couch, etc)
Lela Rodgers later inspired Lucy to create the Desilu Workshop where she mentored young upcoming talents like Ken Berry,Carole Cook,and future TCM host Robert Osbourne.
It is low but by both volumes, I assume you mean the RU-vid video volume and your computer volume are both on full blast? If not, try to max both of them out.
"Life with Lucy" in 1986 was on ABC. It was the only Lucy show not to air on CBS. Lucy passed away in 1989 so she was still working right up until the end.