Lucia, I was 7 yrs por when I Love Lucy began. I barely knew English. I am Brazilian. I thank God for having watched every single show until September 1954 when we returned to Brasil. I never forgot Lucy nor your father. The pandemia helped me revisit several shows and I laughed and cried over each show. Thank you for reminding me of the happiest time of my Life. I still Love Lucy, Desi, you and your brother. God blessed you all with all His Love.
Remember as Lucie said, @andyscott, much due to Lucy’s MOM who raised the kids from infant to school years most days. Lucy & Desi worked long grueling hrs and weeks working I love Lucy
If it wasn’t for Lucie...I don’t think the legacy of her parents would live on today. Thank you Lucie Arnez! Yes your parents still have fans! I’m only 56 and still watch the show. It brings me great comfort when I’m depressed
Lucie, THANK YOU for sharing these precious family history treasures with us. Born in 1956 in Oneonta, NY and raised in nearby Morris, NY, , I watched your family on TV from my earliest years onward, delighting in all the vividly funny situations written into I LOVE LUCY and because I was a child not always understanding that all I saw WASN’T real. In a deep sense I first learned about American culture and sensibilities from TV of that era-accurately or not-and from the Ricardos and Mertzes-and later from you and Desi Jr. in your own roles too-and you all became an indelible part of the background of my life as a small town Baby Boomer kid. The nation came to not only appreciate I LOVE LUCY as a beloved look at the hilarious but sincerely loving lives of the Ricardos but I think the show’s title also became, at least in our household, a description of how we felt about your mom-and dad too-i.e., AMERICA loves Lucy and Desi as well. Who COULDN’T love your parents for the characters they played and for the laughs we all enjoyed? And of course the regularity of TV episodes coming into one’s living room every week (or each day during reruns) made the characters of television shows seem like extended family. Indeed, as a kid I always felt that kinship for your parents’ characters-and by extension for your parents and for you as well-because of how wonderfully entertaining they were but also because watching you all was a regular part of my own family life and routine-just like there are others who still like to think of Mayberry, North Carolina as a real town inhabited by Andy Griffith & co. I hope you can ‘forgive’ the general public for being so…not gullible, really, but HAPPILY PERSUADED-by the medium of television and by the sheer fun of the show. I can’t quantify it for you here, but I eventually studied music in college (three degrees) due to all the wonderful music I grew up hearing in my youth-including your dad’s orchestra on I LOVE LUCY and also its wonderful theme song. TV music made a deep impression on me and that era of television and radio had more than its share of incredible, memorable music. I would of course see your family elsewhere on TV as well-including game and interview shows-as YOURSELVES and that was always fascinating to me because it gave glimpses at who the real people behind the familiar characters were, and I’ve always been intrigued to know the real people and personalities behind the faces and character names. I think in your mom’s case the ‘carryover’ was especially strong for me because her character shared her real first name-blending the two in my kid’s perception of things. Your dad was Desi PLAYING Ricky but your mom was always and forever Lucy, which rendered her bigger than life to an even greater extent. Your mom was also special to our family because she was from upstate NY like us and because I LOVE LUCY was set in New York City, where my mom had herself lived for three years and attended Mills Teachers College in the late 1930s. So I guess my mom, who loved her years in New York, felt right at home with both the set and setting of I LOVE LUCY. After my father’s death in 1990 my mother and I both moved to Indiana to be near my sister. I’m single and we took care of our mom in her older age and I, being a driver and my mom not, drove us back east to upstate NY every year to visit family and friends. One year in the later 1990s I talked my mom into stopping in Jamestown to see your family’s museum (when it was still downtown) and we-pardon the expression!-just had a BALL. I enjoyed seeing the family painting and the huge movie projector from your home, etc., but what I most enjoyed was learning about your family as YOURSELVES. Beloved TV fiction is one thing, but knowing more chapters in the ongoing struggle that life is for all of us, and understanding the common humanity of that, is also something that I value a great deal and so both my mom and I felt that we had genuinely ‘connected’ with your family that day and the experience gave us broader context and made all of our previous knowledge of your family’s TV and film work specially meaningful. And, also meaningful to me, your mom’s family’s house in Jamestown is a very ‘familiar’ part of what upstate New York has always looked like and meant to me in my own everyday existence growing up. Hearing snippets of your family and their history in this RU-vid video broadened that familiarity further, and so I wanted to thank you personally for your generosity in making that possible. If I could say something to your parents-and I can say it to you!-it would be THANK YOU ALL-I watched you on TV too-for enriching my life with laughter and with better understanding of our common human experience. Your dad’s public words about being grateful for everything the United States had given him by way of opportunity is an important part of that legacy for me too. And your family also gave us-I’m smiling here!-the ongoing world of STAR TREK! THANK YOU AND YOUR FAMILY so very much, Lucie. There’s humor, goodness, and much expression of America’s best values that many millions of us carry in our hearts as a result, and for that I’m personally very grateful. D. Campfield, D.M.A. Mishawaka, IN
I grew up in Oneonta and am still in the area. Always been a Lucy fan. My mom and I traveled to Jamestown several years ago to attend the birthday festival weekend. Great time!!!
I met Lucy on the beach at Santa Monica in 1986, I think. I spent 20 minutes talking with her and will never forget it as long as I live. Lucy, if you eve read this, please know that the conversation I had with your Mom has made a profound influence on my life. I would love to talk to you about it sometime. Px.
Such a gift to us, to share your family history. I was quite young when I moved to Hollywood. I had already been a huge fan of I Love Lucy. I remember the day she passed. I was extremely moved, as I didn't have family, and...in a way, your family became mine. I walked down to Hollywood Blvd with a bouquet of roses, to where her star was, and I was met with so many people doing the same. The flowers were stacked high, you couldn't really see where they started from. I will never forget meeting, crying, laughing, and doing lines with so many connected strangers. Probably one of the most beautiful moments of my life.
I was fortunate enough to buy the book Love Lucy at a local bookstore that carries old books and movie posters. It was next to the checkout counter. I immediately took the book and bought it being the Lucy fan that I am and read it from cover to cover. The black and white family photos and narrative photos were an added bonus to the book. It’s amazing how I ran into the book without having to search for it. I bought it at a time in my life that I needed to relive those memories of one of my favorite people from my childhood and the memories of watching I Love Lucy with my family from the tender age of 4 years old to my senior years. Thank you, Lucie, for sharing these precious moments with all of us. ❤️🙏🏻
I'm 2 minutes in and I'm already lost!! I started it over, thinking I must have missed something! But, nope! I'm just as lost now! I don't know who anyone is. How odd!
Luckily I know most of their names I’ve followed most of them at one time or another this was meant to only be a private movie history on their lives until Lucie Arnaz thought of sharing it with the public otherwise I’m sure they all would have been identified
To know that Lucille was most likely going to publish her very own life is just something else!! Would have loved to have seen what her plans were. She was always working or had projects lined up just waiting for the right timing. Luv ya Lucille
One of the stipulations that Lucy insisted on for her autobiography was that she did not have to write anything negative about Desi. If that isn't true love, I don't know WHAT is! I wish she had lived long enough to complete it. She and Desi are together again, and that makes me smile.
Wonderful! First I've seen of the comedy duet's respective parents' histories included. Thorough & w/GREAT historical pics. Both were of wealthy lineage families. Amazingly grounded & compassionate folks Desi & Lucy turned out to be, considering. THANK YOU!
Great to see for any lover of Lucy's work: a classic example of a full-fledged LEO was Lucy: center stage. Once she got her rather late stardom (superstardom) doing I LOVE LUCY, she was addicted to doing her work, working hard at it,
I'm pretty sure Ann Miller was 15 when she did a movie with Lionel Barrymore, Jean Arthur and Jimmy Stewart, called "You Can't Take It With You" 1938. She did a few before that, but they were small roles and mostly uncredited.
Thanks for sharing, I know the family is aware who the older family members and friends are ( not the celebs) but would be a nice if they had captions of who they were and how they're related to the family?.
Thank you thank you so much. Lucille Ball had such a rich life and I found this as fascinating as I did another documentary I viewed the other day. I have just found myself thinking about what an amazing person she was. What an amazing person Desi was as well. Just life tapestries so rich in diversity, blessing, suffering, and love. so much love!
“I Love Lucy” has meant more to me than words can describe. Throughout my life your parents’ gift to the world - the greatest show in tv history - has brought me such joy. During this horrible pandemic and lockdown, when I’ve felt low, your parents, Viv and Bill have made me laugh and forget our troubled world. Among my family and friends I’m known as the “I Love Lucy” fanatic - a moniker I proudly accept! I always wondered what color your mom’s clothes were on the show. Some of the dresses and gowns were gorgeous, like the dress she wore in the Van Johnson dance number - do you know if it was pale pink, blue or another color? And the Don Loper fashion show. I’d love to know the colors for the fabulous clothes worn by the models who were wives to famous stars! Occasionally I see a colorized version of the show but don’t know if it’s a pirated colorized version or authentic. If you can recommend an authentic citation for the wardrobe colors I’d be thrilled. Either way, thank you for keeping your parents memories alive. God bless you, your brother and your families. ❤️
Lucy died when I was 5. I did not know of her till I was 13. My mom made me watch long long trailer cause she thought I would like Lucy and I fell in love with her and I will always love lucy❤️...I love desi too but never understood why be would wanna cheat on lucy cause he was the luckiest man alive....
Very cool (even though it's not high quality visuals) but ...... Why does it just stop without an ending or credits? Weird! Were there other parts (of a long video)?
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Nice for them to put this together... However, I'm not sure of who's actually speaking, the one lady who hair color was same as Lucy's I would have loved to kno her name...😔.... The popping noise is a little hard to bare ..... Great idea to put her family history together... Would be nice if they have a redoing of Lucy, I thgt we would see the family videos ( not that her family members aren't important) I just would like to see videos of Lucy and Desi...
I know Desi drank and womanized, yet I felt rather sorry for him: like he was cheated somehow/ He was basically a sweet man and the genius behind the show. He knew instinctively what was right for Lucille, something Gary Morton was very poor at.
You know, this may be heretical, but the more and more I've learned about Lucy and Desi ... I still find Lucy interesting, but I'm coming to find Desi was much more fascinating. Of the 2, he seems the most relatable, amd seems to have been the one you'd enjoy having a conversation with. A freer spirit of you will. Contrast that with Lucy's constrained, rigid type A personality, lacking in spontaneity. Funny on screen, but not a pleasant person behind it. The bubble has burst, and I'd rather have known Desi than Lucy I think there's this misconception, that women in positions of power and authority, feel they need to emulate men in similar positions to earn respect. They over compensate, and become worse than the men. Fail to comprehend, that the men whom they're looking to as example. They, aren't respected, nor admired. That you don't need to be THAT much a ball buster to earn respect, even back then. You can be firm, without being mean
