Elsa Lanchester was the Highest Paid Guest Star to Ever Appear on I Love Lucy She was Paid 10k for her Guest Starring Appearances in this Role higher than John Wayne.
This from the we/b/site named Everything Lucy: "Special Notes: Elsa Lanchester (Mrs. Grundy) was known as the original Bride of Frankenstein. She was paid a flat fee of $500.00 for her guest appearance."
The funniest part of this episode is when they're fixing the flat tire. When they jack the car up Ethel says something like "Look, the tire isn't flat anymore"
That's the great character actor Strother Martin, who went on to play the prison warden in Cool Hand Luke, uttering the famous line , "what we have here is failure to communicate."
Gosh...Lucille Ball has huge eyes...so beautiful. Ethel was a true friend to her...on the show and in real life. True friendship is more valuable than rubies and diamonds and pearls in my book My only true friend is my Lord Jesus Christ so i have a true friend. Also...my kitten i call Blondie. I had 4 good friends that our Lord took home so i get kinda lonely....oh well. Must be content with what I do have and hope rapture comes soon according to 1 thes.4:16....i am watching episodes of Lucy now and staying home for 3 days because of the winter storm. So Jesus and Blondie are with me Am content now
And when the woman shares her watercress sandwiches with them then asks if they like the sandwiches, Lucy says: "It's alright. If you like buttered grass". 🤣
Elsa Lancaster who as a child studied dance under Isadora Duncan! She said all she remembered was Isadora lying on a couch and they had to dance around here.
We all from here up North'd like one o' them hot dogs fer 25 cents or corned beef fer 45 cents. Much obliged! (P.S. I also crack up every time at the way Elsa Lanchester asks, "What are you two muttering about?")
I never understood this hat of Lucy’s. It looks like the hat worn by.a character in the Archie comic books. It also looks like a cartoon version of the crown of thorns. Bizarre design. Regardless, no show ever topped this. The greatest.
It looks like the type of store located out in Chatsworth or somewhere in the West San Fernando Valley, near to where Desi and Lucy lived in real life on a sprawling ranch. That's the way the area also looked in the early 60's before all the big developers and real estate interests horned they way in.
