The Plot Thickens: Lucy - Episode 3: Hollywood

[@EMMALEEMC]

imagine decades later we huddle around podcasts to listen of days people huddled around radios with as much intrigue. this is such a thrilling series for LUCY fans, but an inspiration for life too. don't give up on the life you can create! thank you BEN & TCM *

[@bejoyful]

What gems these recordings are; a young California; clean air, Orange trees; those days must have been wonderful.

[@PatriciaM64]

I wish that I had been born earlier so that I could have enjoyed these stars in their prime.

[@billgreen1861]

...and they were, up to 1982 you could get a wonderful feeling of that with the exception of "clean air" and Orange Groves. Now it's all dirty and mucky full of homeless everywhere. It's as if no one took care of California. When I first moved to L.A. I lived in Hollywood it was fun and wonderful, then I moved to Beverly hills, you could feel excited to be there knowing all those stars were in your neighborhood, well... now you don't even know who or what is your neighbor. So I moved back to NYC, never been happier. And being retired doesn't hurt any.😊

[@scotth.9295]

Those day are over in California.

[@bejoyful]

@@billgreen1861 Wonder what changed???

[@billgreen1861]

@@bejoyful I'm sorry it took so long to answer but, had internet problems. I'll tell you the short version and I'm not political. It used to be "us" in California we took care of us, now it's them, they and those, we have been divided so much that no one cares anymore. Hence nobody cares about the State of California anymore that is why it's gone down way down. When it was "us" problems were fixed immediately and life was good for everyone. I hope your question was answered.

[@carrieheffernan1685]

Lucille Ball pulled a Lucy Ricardo in that Hepburn story.

[@andyvanm1]

lol Hepburn was great actress but she always came off as a real horse's ass .....I guess even at the start of her career ?

[@howardkerr8174]

@@andyvanm1 Hearing that story made me think back on all the episodes of Lucy and how she always seemed to be so accident prone around stars. I guess some of her real life encounters " snuck in " as inspiration for her writers on ILL.

[@jackdouthwaite3161]

Great Podcast! It is nice to have such a retrospective of her iconic life. Can't wait for next week. Thank you

[@andyvanm1]

Thanks I will always love Lucy....The Stage Door story is great... and The Kate Hepburn coffee ...lol

[@denisewright4778]

LOVE this series! Thanks so much!

[@gidgetlawrence2536]

Wonderful Series, Ben. I look forward to the next Episode.

[@GLSoap]

Lucy is such an inspiration!! Love hearing Lucy stories!! ❤

[@tomdegan6924]

Great podcast, Ben!

[@HenPapirman]

Getting to the end of this podcast with excitement and tears for what I have already known and heard before, it touches me every time. ". Maureen O’Hara would later say it was like fireworks exploded in the RKO commissary that day"..."And together Lucy and Desi would make television history."

[@dorrittakach970]

This is wonderful-I especially when she meets Desi.

[@jasonraschen1109]

This season is fantastic. I’m learning so much about Lucy. Bring on Episode 4.

[@SM-gl8yo]

Hi Ben. If you can present this with CC option would be greatly appreciated. Thoroughly enjoying this. Thanks.

[@holyspacemonkey]

THIS. Inaccessible podcasts are unacceptable in 2021. I wish I could share this with my deaf friends. 😭

[@DeedeeSch1]

This is so awesome, and special. An enormous thank you, Ben and Mr. Ted Turner Blessings! I Love Lucy!

[@antoniod]

I love the "I Want to Be a Minstrel Man" number from KID MILLIONS(1934), with Eddie Cantor and the Nicholas Brothers.

[@carolynstockton5876]

Excellent

[@jayham____fromgeorgia]

episodes 1&2 were very nicely done.. looking forward to the rest of the series.. thank you tcm and the great work that they do to keep classic cinema/entertainment alive and well. oh, and thank you to Ted Turner. A true visionary. thank you Ben Ben

[@Outofthepastblog]

Top notch podcast! Really enjoying this season.

[@veronicamwarren5750]

I'm loving these podcasts about Lucille Ball! So glad to be able to hear them on KZbin. I am a Lucy fan!Thank you TCM and Ben I love the TCM channel. 70s-80s childhood.

[@dicunha74]

Nice job here. What an interesting human being Lucy was. And her grandpa...oh, what a lovely soul he was.

[@jackcovey1832]

That same $85-per-month rental house at 1344 N. Ogden is now on sale for $1,550,000.

[@rondaleroi]

Sold for that amount five years ago (2016). Estimated value now is $2,361,300.

[@jennyrine7216]

I looked it up too! Funny no mention is made of Lucy having lived there.

[@tracyotrhuiskamp1012]

I think people really underestimate everything. Desi contributed to I love Lucy. People here are saying Lucy was miserable I don’t know about that but i think Desi really polished Lucys rougher edges. I love love love Lucy and Desi and I love Lucy is one of the most hilarious well done tv comedies of all time

[@Texaslawhorn]

I love "Stage Door." Very interesting hearing about the behind-the-scenes of its filming.

[@markfadness9204]

Fun fact: Ginger Rogers' mother, Lela E. Rogers, played Ginger's mother "Mrs. Applegate" in Billy Wilder's "The Major & The Minor." Striking resemblance to Ginger.

[@deepachand9689]

Lucy's own radio shows "Let's talk to Lucy" are much more informative and interesting ,giving her perspective in her own chatty way

[@jackcovey1832]

True ... sort of ... but try to appreciate this for what it is, not what it is not.

[@janethayes5941]

I'm really loving these.

[@linapagliari8003]

Ty for sharing this beautiful segment pt 3 of Lucille ball what an amazing lady rip Lucille ball😁🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦

[@ceciliatownsend1807]

Love, Love, Love 💕....thank you for such an entertaining & well produced podcast. The Lucy series is the Best. Thank you

[@kathleenbrady]

On underestimating Desi (which someone here asked about): When I interviewed Lucille Ball for a magazine article (and much later wrote her biography. I asked her how much Desi had contributed to her success. She said, "Business-wise 100%"

[@TimRusso]

so she threw coffee at katherine hepburn to get her caps back but did she get em back?? lol

[@marylarson4905]

I enjoyed this. Can you do one on Frederick March?

[@BlackPantherStudios]

Great TCM video 👍👌👏😊☺️

[@billgreen1861]

Podcast not video. Lol!!!😆

[@BlackPantherStudios]

@@billgreen1861 okay but still great podcast

[@January.]

Amazing woman/legend who deserved more respect than she was given after her last TV show ended because people in this country don't appreciate older people, especially older women.

[@howardkerr8174]

As a bit of a fan of Ms Ball, I wonder if it was a case of her getting older or was it that she had just " milked " her character for too long? If you look at the writing credits for her different series, they all featured, at some point, the same three writers that she had started with at I Love Lucy. Lucy as a slightly cockeyed grandmother might have worked as a series.

[@mariacardenas4665]

Classy beautiful gorgeous woman

[@Rmby5759]

Wow, thank you

[@mts339]

We lived near Jamestown, in Olean, NY, where we purchased a leather topped desk at a fundraiser, an auction. The story was that this desk had belonged to a man Lucy dated, somewhat seriously before going to California. I've never found a reference to a boyfriend who became a doctor, now I'm wondering if the desk belonged to "Doc"?

[@speedy6792]

Love this but some pictures would be nice as well

[@coolaunt516]

I looked for Lucy's appearance in "Follow The Fleet on KZbin. She's hard to recognize!

[@reneepolin6549]

I've always thought when Lucy was you g she was gorgeous

[@europainhollywood]

Why all the commercial break pauses

[@ToughXArmy69]

Ms Ball ran Desilu with mission impossible star trek Mannix abd a smash hit movie yours mine and ours

[@FIREBRAND38]

Love the stuff I'm hearing about for the first time but I can't help but think that it's just snobbishness that you completely glossed over her non-showgirl appearance while at Columbia in a 1934 Three Stooges Short, 'Three Little Pigskins'. I know she said that the only thing she learned from the Stooges was "how to duck", but I'd still like to hear about it.

[@lindseycarribean5113]

Can't wait to see Nicole's work but in terms of looks Debra Messing & Oscar Isaac were more appropriate.

[@rondaleroi]

I'm counting on the makeup, hair, and costume people to work their magic on Nicole (and her own talent for the acting).

[@mariacardenas4665]

I Miss My Redheaded Girl

[@turboredcart]

go 25:00 she tried to kill kathy hepborn

[@deesandiego]

❤

[@jv-ep2tc]

grandpa hunt never used the term sex workers.

[@deepachand9689]

Nothing new in these TCM memoirs ,as one would expect

[@FIREBRAND38]

Well, I'm learning a lot so just don't watch. We'll try to struggle along without you.

[@billgreen1861]

If you are 100 years old then you seen and heard it all but, for the new generations this is all new. Think 🤔 before posting you are not alone on this planet.

[@deepachand9689]

@@billgreen1861 actually i'm 110 years old so Don't judge me for parading my knowledge about the universe sonny

[@kjgammon1658]

@@deepachand9689 I humbly apologize for the rudeness of those of my generation...some are just idiots...karma will settle the books..., lol!

[@deepachand9689]

@@kjgammon1658 in all sincerety , i like all these people for taking an interest in Lucille Ball who was the epitome of gracious ,kind living , led her life according to her principles of good ,clean entertainment for her public ,so if in this day and age , when i hear of all our beloved authors being banned ( P.G Wodehouse , Enid Blyton , Agatha Christi etc) and comic book heroes taking on, new , unnecessary gay identities ,its heartening to see people still taking an interest in good old Lucy As an aside ,when i recently lost my brother ( who was ten years younger...i had literally brought him up ) and suffered a mild heart attack due to all the crying , Lucy and her shenanigans were what kept me afloat . I admire her as a woman who triumphed in a man's world and did not compromise on her principles to the end of her days Bravo Lucy you still have diehard fans !

[@grecogrant2511]

Gingers mother was not a nice woman anti lots of things

[@mercoid]

I DO NOT love Lucy. Always struck me as not a nice person at all. Anything to justify this feeling of mine? No. Just my gut reaction to her. She sends off an extraordinarily bad vibe to me.

[@scotnick59]

There are many who feel the same

[@Jasper7182009]

… maybe it’s not your “gut feeling,” it’s just indigestion. Because television and even film entertainment would not have been the same without the great Lucille Ball. And if you listened to this episode, you were told that she wanted to bring her family out to California. And she did it! Ginger Rogers had her mother to help her. Lucille Ball did it on her own … Lucille Ball was a gutsy lady; maybe not classy, but certainly gutsy. Give her the respect due her.

[@billgreen1861]

Then why are you even listening to this podcast! (this is a statement not a question).

[@Scorchy666]

Beginning around 1960, Lucy started behaving brittle and impatient in general and never grew out of it. After Desi basically checked out of the marriage, Lucy ended up settling on Gary Morton, who tried acting like a boss on her other shows but wasn't Desi.

[@mariacardenas4665]

Why Are you here then???

[@lindseycarribean5113]

It's sad she died a miserable woman.

[@stephaniestanley8041]

I hope not. Lucy reached the pinnacle of her life in her 40s so it might have been difficult to deal with her life after that.

[@andyvanm1]

Not that i ever heard,Lucy had a family that loved and her fans were loyal til the end ...she is beloved...

[@Jasper7182009]

… where are these couch psychoanalysts coming from?? (a miserable woman?)

[@mariacardenas4665]

She Didn’t died Miserable why would you say that

[@mariacardenas4665]

No She Didn’t Died Miserable

[@npcforyou]

Why are you jamming this mediocre actress down our throats with promo’s day after day after day.

[@annettepora8091]

How disrespectful. No one is forcing you to listen you know. Plus your opinion means literally nothing. Just noise.

[@bethgood3214]

Be nice everyone!

[@Jasper7182009]

@@bethgood3214 …. Lucille Ball is an American institution and we are standing up for her and what she gave to the American public in entertainment. Whoever “M” is, he is in a minority that is barely enough for a hand of bridge.

[@RoverBoy1899]

I think you meant "four time Emmy Award winning actress."

[@rosemariemann1719]

Dear "M": They are honouring a Hollywood Legend.😊 You don't have to listen to it ! 😊 😊⭐🇺🇲💕🇬🇧😊