5/29/2023 0 Comments I love lucy in color![]() ![]() In addition to Arnaz’ unbridled conga playing, the home movie, above, contains a lovely, unguarded moment at the 2:40 mark, of the stars calmly awaiting slating, side by side on the soundstage.īatgirl Fights for Equal Pay in a 1960s Television Ad Supporting The Equal Pay Act The Harpo Marx-esque Professor character Lucy plays is a holdover from both the pilot and the vaudeville show she and Arnaz created and toured nationally in 1950, in an attempt to convince CBS that audiences were ready for a comedy based on a “mixed marriage” such as their own. Oppenheimer’s son, Jess, eventually obtained the footage, inserting it into the appropriate scenes from “ The Audition,” the episode from which they were snagged. This covert operation on Octoshed light on the true colors of both the Tropicana nightclub and Ricardo apartment sets. The ubiquity of smart phones have made unauthorized celebrity shots commonplace, but consider that this regular Joe managed to smuggle a 16mm movie camera into the bleachers of producer Jess Oppenheimer‘s tightly controlled set. ![]()
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