I Married Joan S1-03 "Ballet" 10/29/1952 with Florence Bates

[@22Schwade]

My cousin. Carol Kaiser Hodges, played one of the ballet dancers in this show. She was 10 and is the platinum blonde. She was picked from her dance studio, and she still lives in Southern California.

[@GenevieveThornton]

22Schwade that’s so cool! Did she go on to act in other tv?

[@LauraLutz-mv6ci]

Was, Joan nice to cast? I imagine she was. I think there was a great hostility & negative rumors from, Ball camp against, Joannie.

[@garymattscheck9066]

Love those vintage GE commercials.

[@belleroseelizabethsmith8148]

I like how these open with couples having problems before he tells the story of the situation he had with Joan

[@Buisness1]

@ 5:08 "Am I the only married woman in the class"? (laughter)

[@KratostheThird]

Joan Davis definitely deserved more credit than she did. It's a shame that only Lucille Ball is still recognizable amongst today's audiences. There were several very talented comediennes. Miss Ball, Joan Davis, Eve Arden and Gale Storm, among others. That's not to mention character actresses, Hollywood had plenty of good comedic character actresses during this time. Zazu Pitts co-starred with Gale Storm in her second television series, another great comedic actress. Like Miss Ball, Eve Arden and Gale Storm, Joan Davis was in a string of Hollywood movies before she had her own television show. She was in Hold That Ghost with Abbott & Costello, and The Traveling Saleswoman, an obscure comedy that Joan Davis makes worth watching.

[@kaybutcher5719]

I’d like to find “Hold that Ghost” I had it but think it was a VHS cassette type thing of the past.

[@Rusty-mt9qc]

This was a great show. No sit-com that is out today comes close. Joan Davis was so talented. Even though she was such a great comedic actress, I always found her to be quite an attractive woman. Thanks.

[@eugenekozma2697]

I agree joan Davis was talented.this is a great show.no show today can match I married joan.yes joan Davis was a babe.a major babe.

[@neonmoon82]

I am glad I found these episodes here on You Tube.

[@fountainmedia4683]

Another great episode. When I was a little boy growing up in Greenville, MS, I watched one episode when Joan tried everything possible to make daylight look as if it was still nighttime. It was so funny and my first time ever watching the IMJ show. I am 48 now and have thought of the IMJ show and that episode throughout the years. I can't wait until I see it again. I will view all 3 seasons online and hope that I see it again. I'm so happy I found this channel.

[@JoanDavisChannel]

Mahthias Fountain Thanks so much for watching. We can fast track you to the "day for night" episode you're looking for. It's called "Lateness," and posted on our channel. Enjoy!

[@fountainmedia4683]

JoanDavisChannel I see never thanked you for referring me to that wonderful episode, I mentioned, years back when I wrote this. Thank you so much.

[@JoanDavisChannel]

You're very welcome--stay tuned!!!

[@stacyblue1980]

this show is awesome. A real gem. Love this channel and I love Joan!

[@JoanDavisChannel]

Thanks! Please stay tuned--more episodes to come...

[@eugenekozma2697]

I love this show too.

[@danielstanwyck2812]

FLORENCE BATES - the great character actress from the 40's - Hitchcock's "Rebecca" and many others. One of the best from that era. Why bother comparing Ball to Davis? They were both unique and wonderful in their own comedic ways. May as well mention Eve Arden in the same breath, another great actress. Again, no comparisons. Just like them for their individual qualities.

[@JoanDavisChannel]

daniel stanwyck We agree. All different. All great. Thanks for watching.

[@cjb8010]

Wait. In the opening scene with the judge in chambers, isn’t that Carolyn/Lillian Appleby and Jerry the Bell Boy? And ballet? This episode aired in October 1952. I Love Lucy’s very similar ballet episode (with Mary Wickes) aired on February 19, 1952, 9 months earlier.

[@TavgaHawrame]

I Married Joan was very interesting show series on NBC television , talented Joan Davis , Jim Backus and other talented cast performed hilariously

[@Buisness1]

BOY did you see Joan take that bow! SHEESH!

[@fountainmedia4683]

JoanDavisChannel Thank you so kindly for responding and assisting me with one particular episode. I'm looking forward to spending many evenings watching IMJ, especially since they're available online. I will lookup the,"Lateness," episode. Again, thank you for assisting me.

[@MrBillybooks]

That's Leif Ericson, I believe, playing the football hero.

[@neonmoon82]

I actually liked I Married Joan better than I love Lucy. I wish they would show this series on TV like they do with Lucy.

[@eugenekozma2697]

I prefer I married joan over I love lucy.i married joan has been unjustly placed in the shade.

[@Buisness1]

Joan was most definitely more agile than Lucy (smile)

[@johnhetherington8830]

Now we know where Lucy came from I love this show

[@karlakor]

+John Hetherington Actually, the Lucy episode, from the 1951-52 season of I Love Lucy, predated this episode of I Married Joan. This scene with Joan Davis is clearly inspired by Lucille Ball's success in the same situation, particularly when Joan lapses from her ballet steps into the Charleston. Lucy Ricardo did the same thing in the previous television season.

[@patrickraynes6068]

Back in the 1950s there were so many husband & wives shows that there were no husband & wives to watch them.

[@upthedownescalator630]

This, I Love Lucy, and the Honeymooners. What else? Not many?

[@Toyuki1]

I wish I could cook a turkey that fast! What a zany character that Joan is!

[@jimkilleen9130]

I believe the youngest of the ballet dancers is Jerry Weil from Leave It to Beaver

[@issakelly8071]

Just to clarify, Lucy's version of this premise debuted in January 1952 while Joan's was in October 1952, which is stated above. Lucy did it first.

[@keddoann]

This was a great show. I've been trying to find out what make of car they had. It had a sort of heart shaped windshield.

[@jeffreyanderson1851]

Kaiser or Henry J ?

[@amparovaldiviafernandez7587]

At 05:56 is pas de boureé courú, at 06:56 is retireé and at 07:42 is (I don't know how to write it) changemann.

[@Buisness1]

Pause @ 4:45 The girl in the middle looks familiar for when she got older an actress!!!!!!!!!!!!! And the one on the left looked like a mouskatier.

[@ItsBunnyBuns]

🚨 SOMEONE HELP me figure out who that blonde little number was (the one pretending to be his wife)!! I love her look and voice and want to find more of her 🥰

[@hippytreehugger4ever]

It's sad how young she died and how her family were killed in a house fire.

[@86Rcavalier]

I didn't know. I wish I had more info

[@shellyblanchard5788]

According to the imformation she died 1962 of heart attack at the age of 48. So she was 30 something here.

[@califdad4]

@@shellyblanchard5788 she was 53, died in 1961 they messed with their birth dates a lot back then. Her daughter, elderly mother and 2 grandsons died in the palm springs house fire in fall of 1963. Most of the fire was in the back master bedroom Joan's daughter was smoking in bed and they figured the grandma and Young son tried to save her and were overcome with smoke. House is still there, very mid century modern, expensive neighborhood even today. Joan died in the same house, it was hers originally, May 22,1961. Looked up, in the desert paper back then, pictures has the garage was open and had toys and a Rolls Royce in it. Not sure I would want that house with 5 deaths in the house in just over 2 years. The house is at 1981 Yucca Place , Palm Springs Ca

[@shellyblanchard5788]

@@califdad4 i don't remember watching the show that much. Our house caught on as a results of mom making too big of a fire in stove. and we moved to different house. I was like 2 years old at the time. they may have I don't remember the show that well. It was a tragic loss for Joan in deed.

[@califdad4]

@@shellyblanchard5788 last year of the show was when I was born, my Parents got a 21 inch console TV in 1953, but knew nothing about this show till I saw a thing that Scott Michael's"Dearly Departed online" did on her got me interested and its Kind of a cute 50s show. The thought is that her heart problem was giving her issues and they ended the show, she did some later guest star appearances on other TV shows, but doing a TV series in those days was a ton of work and hard on a healthy person, a guest appearance wouldn't have been too hard on you

[@kaybutcher5719]

Wondering who is the guy that played Francis (sp?). His voice and looks seems like someone I should know.

[@aubreytreves]

Leif Erickson.

[@garymattscheck9066]

Lucy did a ballet thing on her show.

[@Juliaflo]

Robert Jellison appeared in 'The Life of Riley' with one Herbert John Gleason.

[@dudler1231]

This episode is very similar to the I Love Lucy ballet episode!

[@LauraLutz-mv6ci]

Lucy was slapstick. Joan was almost an acrobat, her physical comedy was complex & faultless.

[@Juliaflo]

That's the idea.

[@cayetanotirado5907]

This is a copy of an I love Lucy episode, it even has some of the same character actors from I love Lucy in it.

[@markbarret6836]

Then, Lucy's Barbeque episode is a copy of Joannie's, her episode was years before ILL. Face it, are there any original plots? Shame Joanne never got the recognition she deserved.

[@pamelabagley6027]

I thought Lucy's ballet episode came after this.

[@LauraLutz-mv6ci]

@@pamelabagley6027 . Me too!

[@Kimmie0323]

Wow this is such a copy of the I Love Lucy episode.

[@Buisness1]

I THINK THIS was slightly BEFORE Lucy show's episode.

[@upthedownescalator630]

11:52 her voice is mortifying. I could never, never live with myself if I had a voice like that

[@LauraLutz-mv6ci]

It made her millions on radio while Lucy was making, “The Fuller Brush Girl”. I should have a voice like, Joan Davis.

[@alabamabregan]

IMJ is just as funny as I Love Lucy, maybe funnier, but there's nothing iconic about the cast, nothing that would engrain it in the consciousness of succeeding generations.