Real Reason(s) Lucille Ball's Voice Changed UNEXPECTEDLY On "I Love Lucy!" 

Yup! He was also Mario from Italy in the Season 6 episode

@@ricknineg So you just got off the boat today, huh?

ThAts a rrright!

And in a Danfield episode of The Lucy Show

@@ricknineg MARIO!

Agreed!

She makes my bad days not so bad.

She wos better than a clawn and the best comico in show bisness i am italiani a. nd i can sware you that she is the best

There hasn't been anyone like her ❤️

I love Lucy no matter what..end of story.

I agree!

watch the movie Being the Richardos.

@@johndean4727 I heard it was horribly inaccurate and I don’t want to be disappointed…

@@Jewel77777 I did not like it, particularly the parts played by Nicole Kidman and Javier B. Thought neither of these actors represented Lucy or Desi at all. Lucy so visually and facially responsive (Kidman seemed plastic); Desi was an attractive sensual appealing man - Javier the opposite.

Jessica Chastain would have been better as Lucy. As an actress Nicole Kidman definitely has went too far with the plastic.

​@@johndean4727 I watched like 5 minutes of it, couldn't stand that ugly actor who played Desi. What were they thinking?

100% bc of her smoking

This what I always thought too

That didn't even require a guess..she was a heavy smoker.

I've heard she took all kinds of pills along with her heavy smoking and drinking.

@@RayPointerChannel Rose Marie said she had a raspy voice because she sang guttural "torch songs" as a child when she was performing as Baby Rose Marie. She swears she never smoked.

As a long time Lucy fan, I think her constant smoking ended up costing her in the long term. Smoking doesn't mean your life span will be automatically reduced. Groucho Marx and George Burns both lived to ripe old ages, both smoked a lot (Groucho lived to 86, George Burns made it all the way to 100). Lucy and Desi were literally at the top of the world when this television sitcom was on primetime. But Desi's alcoholism and womanizing was a growing issue. The rest is history. Even over 30 years after her death, many people still resonate and love Lucille Ball. But I think many don't realize the kinds of stress and work schedule she was in. When Lucy divorced Desi she went into Broadway with Wildcat. Her work on that show from what I've read caused a lot of stress in her voice and figure. You can watch old interviews on Lucille Ball from the 1970s and 1980s. Her voice was lower than the average woman, and she was clearing her throat a lot which probably meant that smoking took its toll on her. She was a workhorse. Real and genuine. A talent and flair that no longer exists.

@@KratostheThird i think they were tallking abt how smoking could of changed her voice a bit

@@bloxborgbenji9120 That should be obvious. My mom is almost 70 years old and her voice is still fairly high pitched. Lucille Ball at 70 back in 1981 had a deep voice, definitely the result of long time smoking.

yes, and it's hard to maintain the high pitched voice she did in season 1... I think her voice changes mid season 3, by season 4 she uses more of her natural voice.

right, i think in the lucy show she tried to do a very acute voice like in the beginning of ILL but no longer could. she had gotten sick + smoking + age + she tapped every week and that can take a toll on one's voice... there are episodes that it feels like her throat is so dry and hurting. she did everything she could to be in character and make people laugh....

When she switches like that, I think to myself, I want Lucy Ricardo, she sounds much more fun than Lucille Ball!! LOL

@@rtususian I agree. They said that in person, Lucille Ball wasn't at all funny.

Wow! I'll have to look that episode of The Ed Sullivan Show up!

Looked up the episode. If it was a radical change that was because the I Love Lucy segment chosen portrayed great anxiety. In most of I Love Lucy, her voice was not all that much higher than her natural voice. However she could make it extremely high in highly anxious scenes, for laughs. Her voice deepened dramatically after I Love Lucy, becoming impossible for her to mask.

Andrews lost her voice due to medical malpractice

Julie’s issue has nothing to do with this topic

FYI....Julie Andrews voice was ruined due to a botched surgery. She sued the Dr. And was awarded damages. Sad. She had a beautiful voice.

wow

Compared to Fran Drescher, Lucy's voice sounds like a prayer. Also agreed that years of smoking doesn't necessarily change your voice. I mean, John Wayne's voice never changed and he smoked for most of his life.

I always try to find those cool nugget for all of you

It’s def sad to see this happen. Similar thing happens to weightlifters with their knees as well as runners

But it doesn't happen to 90% of them. Everyone except opera singers smoked,lol

Not the case with Mike Love.

Hudson was advised by some studio exec to do the yelling in order to make his voice deeper. The ensuing damage permanently gave Rock a very distinctive low voice.

In regards to Jean Stapleton; I think it's more likely that Edith had a little bit of Jean's real voice in her voice, rather than that Jean continued to use her Edith voice

Thanks Marz. Nice seeing you back after some time

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Really? it wasn't strange that later in life she sounded like man?

@@dio7184 sadly that is what YOU notice. When I see her I think of what she achieved not only as an American but even more so a woman. The gift she and Desi left us future generations is whay I see and hear when it comes to Mrs. Ball💚

@@SiLaChaCha So you must not notice she died either.

@@dio7184 awww you poor soul. Go and enjoy your Christmas. Bye💚

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Thank you! Yes, I’ve been posting regularly. Def enjoying it. Thanks for the support!

This was one of the first few episodes in Season 1 of I Love Lucy, where Lucy Ricardo used glamour and later tried to enter a poker game with Ricky and Fred. Lucille Ball was 40 years of age when the episode was filmed. Smoking definitely didn’t help as others have mentioned. Both her husbands Desi Arnaz and Gary Morton smoked a great deal. Smoking can vary from person to person though. Lucy’s natural voice was already deeper than most womens. However, while you state that there were already cracks in her voice when I Love Lucy, there was no doubt that it was worse by the time the Lucy Desi Comedy Hour premiered on TV. Wildcat only furthered the decline.

But one of the best scenes of the entire show, where she decorates the apartment like Cuba and does the Carmen Miranda imitation to Mamae Eau Quero. And Ricky’s flubbed line at the end.

I never liked Lucy's hairstyle during the LUCY SHOW and HERE'S LUCY years -- I know she is supposed to be a "clown", but her hairstyle almost imitates Bozo The Clown's hairstyle. My favorite Lucy TV hairstyle is the long and loose style she had in earlier episodes of I LOVE LUCY, like during the No Children Allowed episode, or Ricky Asks For a Raise.

@@rtususian Lucy wore wigs literally exclusively from 1964 onward. Plus the tape lifting the face changed her look. Believe she had her eyelids lifted around 1967.

Boom link right there. I found nothing other than one source on the polyps but there is something, as you mentioned, about “throat surgery” which would make sense putting those two together. Wow!

My pleasure

She just turned 40 when starting ILL. I actually studied menopause and never heard that women's voices changed.

Glad you said that.

Thanks Liane

If I recall correctly from her autobiography she went to work on Wildcat right after she did The Facts of Life with Bob Hope. She had an accident during her time working on the movie and her leg was still not quite 100% during Wildcat. Regardless, she was a trooper all throughout her show business career. She was tough and fought right to the end of her life, when she was in the hospital in April of 1989, and passed away at the age of 77. Ultimately, I think the stress from her perfectionist personality, her hard work ethic, her never say die attitude, and her relentless drive all took a toll on her well being. That’s not to mention her divorce from Desi Arnaz, plus she smoked a great deal. Many of her old black and white photos show Lucy with a cigarette in her hand. Both Desi and Gary Morton smoked. Lucy historians are also aware that the TV movie Stone Pillow put a toll on her life as well. She wore haggard looking clothes when it was very hot outside, which certainly didn’t help Lucy who was in her 70’s. Her failed sitcom Life with Lucy and Desi’s death from cancer made Lucy herself into a bit of a recluse, and certainly more tempered. Nowadays I see Hollywood people young to middle aged who look considerable younger because they have a more healthy lifestyle. But there is no real drive or personality. Lucy, Desi, Ginger Rogers, Red Skelton and others were all exceptional. There were never be another generation like them again. And Hollywood today is just an utter embarrassment. How the mighty have fallen.

I like all the episode of I love Lucy

Yes, I was waiting for someone to mention menopause, you are practically the only one here to do so. In 1961 Lucy was 50 years old.

@@rtususian Also in 1961.. they did not have things like estrogen replacement therapy patches. In fact.. menopause often triggers divorces - even WITH hormone replacement therapy. My mother became like a Dr. Jeckyll & Mr. Hyde with menopause.

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You’re definitely a Lucy fan because I don’t think anyone would know Go Chase Yourself unless you’re seriously into Lucy’s life and career. I strongly believe that Three Little Pigskins was the very first film that Lucille Ball was credited in. She was notably tall (easily taller than the other two actresses) but had a very skinny frame. Voice was much higher pitched. One note though. Lucy was breathtakingly gorgeous in some of her old RKO films. At times her voice in Go Chase Yourself seemed deeper then that of Joe Penner.

Lucy was too wholesome for me to imagine her lighting up a bong and smoking a doobie :P

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Let me put all the ladies that use or have used Max Factor Makeups minds to ease, The use of their make up had nothing to do with the fact Lucille opted not to have a face lift. And many issues contributed to her changing voice not all if which Rick has considered nor should he, nor would anyone in the know care to confirm. Even a celebrity's medical history deserves to be private. Thus I find this installment in bad taste. Sorry Rick but stick to the positive and public aspects of I Love Lucy Best, Jack A.S VanNote President JAV Communcative Enterprises A Multimedia Firm, Film Television and Video Productions General Programming, Sports Sport/Enterainnent and Christian Family Fare