well @Daniel, she was in the MGM stable of gorgeous models, wannabe actresses filling in small roles in many many movies. I admire Lucy’s honesty, she is right.
She was great in The Dark Corner. It would have been interesting if she had done some serious dramatic parts later in her life (I know of one - Stone Pillow, a TV movie about a homeless woman played by Lucy).
I think Mary's question was about whether Lucy had done drama before she did comedy, not before I Love Lucy. In fact, her first role was a stage production in her hometown where her role was sort of comic relief. And her earliest roles in Hollywood had her taking a pie in the face in an Eddie Cantor film and working with the Three Stooges. I heard her in an interview once refer to her dramatic movie roles as "inadvertent." She was doing what the studios asked her to do, which was not necessarily what she wanted to do.
Mutual admiration . By the way Valarie Harper the future MTM co star was part of the troup that supported the Ball Broadway show WILDCAT. Lucy also mentions her CBS contract did not allow to ski , She must have had a change in her contract by 1973 .
They're talking like these just came out this week. I actually have all these in my archives. They sent the shows to our troops overseas. That's how I got mine
This is one of THE MOST beautiful, tasteful and elegant of any interviews! Lucille Ball and Mary Tyler Moore REALLY like each other! Do you have and can POST, any interviews of Lucile Ball interviewing: - Eve Arden - Audrey Meadows - Ann Sothern - Jayne Meadows? 🙂
A Master Class for actors...between 2 of the greatest...delivered with such humble grace and mutual respect! #sensible indeed!! Many thanks and I just noticed, it was published on my birth date, Aug 9!
Two of my favorites! Two ladies who changed the face of comedy. Lucy made it more available for women, Mary wore pants which was frowned on back then. Thank you very much! Wich TV was still like this.
Actually Lucy wore slacks or at least wide legged pants fairly often but I don't think and never heard that the censors had any problem with Lucy's choice, unlike Mary's problem with CBS censors.
@@rtususian That 's right however Lucy wore hers mostly for stunts and was older . MTMs were a little tighter and she was not the main star of the DVD show .
What an absolute brilliant conversation between two Mothers’s and Two Actresses. Great questions for conversational and pleasant expression ❤️🌟❤️🌟🧡🌟🌸🌷🎶💐🎼🍁
It's ironic that Lucy and Mary talk about breaking bones while skiing and that's exactly what happened to Lucy in real life about 7 years later and which was chronicled on Here's Lucy!
Lucy shortchanges herself and her talent when she says that she never did anything dramatic. Her performance in 1942's "The Big Street" was a dramatic role, and one for which she received considerable acclaim. Interesting, Lucy's remark that CBS didn't want to let her ski, presumably because a skiing injury would have disrupted production of her show, considering that that would indeed happen a few years later, when she broke her leg, and her injury needed to be written into "Here's Lucy".
I don't understand Lucy's answer to MTM about Lucy's dramatic background - Lucy sounds as though she modeled for Hattie Carnegie and then just jumped into I Love Lucy and had no dramatic roles? Lucy actually says she didn't have any dramatic roles?? Really puzzles me.
I also am puzzled by Lucy's answer regarding her dramatic background. Before I Love Lucy, Lucy made movies for 20 years, many of them dramatic parts including a couple of film noirs. She also did a terrific dramatic role with Henry Fonda in the early 1940's.
Listen carefully to Mary's question. Mary asked, "You had a dramatic background before you went into comedy, didn't you?" And the clear answer is NO. Lucy's comedy career did not begin with I Love Lucy. Her first time performing was in the play "Within the Law" in her hometown of Jamestown, NY, when she was a teenager, some 23 years before "I Love Lucy." Her performance was basically the comic relief. After that, she went into modeling and did not do any acting of any kind for several years, until she started getting bit parts as wisecracking young women (as in "Broadway Through a Keyhole," her first movie role), and in numerous musical comedies and comedies where she was doing things like taking pies or seltzer in the face. Other than that, all her other early parts just consisted of posing as beautiful women (basically still a model) with no dialogue. So she was doing comedy from the very start. It was several years after beginning her movie career that she was ever cast in any actual dramatic roles, roles which she claimed were "inadvertent" and done at the behest of the movie studios employing her. (She started getting tutored in drama by Ginger Rogers' mother several years after arriving in Hollywood so she could take on those parts). All along, though, she was studying with Buster Keaton, observing Jack Benny, and working with or for numerous comedic performers like Harold Lloyd, the Three Stooges, the Marx Brothers, and too many others to name, because comedy was her passion.
but she is right, she got experience but she did not really have it when it came to dramatic movie roles. I think its admirable she says so and has on several occasions.
Seriously? You jump straight to the accusation that "Lucy is lying"? Are you always this quick to judge? Lucy is not lying. You apparently just weren't listening. The statement she was replying to was "you had a dramatic background before you went into comedy, didn't you?" And her reply is absolutely correct, unless you count the dramatic class she attended in New York when she was 15 and quickly got kicked out and sent back home. Her first time performing anything was as a teenager in her hometown in the play "Within the Law" where she was basically the comic relief and got notices in the local paper for the laughs she got. From there she went into modeling, and that then led later on to movies and shorts -- mostly musical comedies and comedies -- where she was playing wisecracking women for comedy relief, or taking pies or seltzer in the face. Or otherwise just posing as beautiful women in bit parts with no dialogue. So her performing career STARTED in comedy NOT drama. It was several years after arriving in Hollywood before she was ever cast in any actual dramatic roles, and she always claimed those dramatic parts were "inadvertent"; she was just doing what the studio asked her to do at the time. And for that she was tutored by Ginger Rogers' mother. But most of her homework -- studying with Buster Keaton, observing Jack Benny, and working with numerous comedic performers -- was in comedy.
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