I Love Lucy

1953
1h 20m

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Desi Arnaz greets the "I Love Lucy" studio audience and invites them to watch Lucille Ball and the cast film a special extended episode.Desi Arnaz greets the "I Love Lucy" studio audience and invites them to watch Lucille Ball and the cast film a special extended episode.Desi Arnaz greets the "I Love Lucy" studio audience and invites them to watch Lucille Ball and the cast film a special extended episode.

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- Marc Daniels
- Edward Sedgwick
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8.3/10

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Directors
- Marc Daniels
- Edward Sedgwick
Writers
Stars

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Lucille Ball

Lucy Ricardo…

Desi Arnaz

Ricky Ricardo…

Vivian Vance

Ethel Mertz…

William Frawley

Fred Mertz…

Ann Doran

Audience Member

Mary Wickes

Madame Lamand
(archive footage)

Barbara Pepper

Party Guest
(archive footage)

Erze Ivan

Dancer
(archive footage)

Benny Baker

Audience Member

Frank J. Scannell

Comic
(archive footage)

Roy Rowan

Announcer

Bennett Green

Party Guest
(archive footage)

Aubrey Lee Dale

Wilbur Hatch

Self
(uncredited)

Hazel Pierce

Party Guest
(archive footage)
(uncredited)

Directors
- Marc Daniels
- Edward Sedgwick
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Trivia
After the film was shelved, it was pretty much forgotten about and had been considered lost. But in 1996, editor Dann Cahn began searching for it. In 2001, he found it in a mislabeled film can in a vault. Clips of it can be briefly seen in I Love Lucy's 50th Anniversary Special (2001)

Goofs
After the Ricardos and Mertzes make up following Lucy and Rickys attempt to break their lease, the next scene opens with a shot of a chalkboard with the words Rehearsal Band & Cast "Cavalcade Show" 11AM Ricardo written on it. "Rehearsal" is misspelled as "Rehearsel" and "Cavalcade" is written as "Calvacade".

Connections
Edited from I Love Lucy: The Benefit (1952)

Soundtracks
Down Argentine Way
Sung by Desi Arnaz
(uncredited)

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10/10

I Love Lucy For The Big Screen

Due to the popularity of I Love Lucy this movie was planned. It consists of three episodes from the series first season. It opens with Desi welcoming the audience giving us an idea of what it might be like to be at a live broadcast. It then goes into the first episode. The remaining two are strung together with some new footage to try and create one cohesive story.

However, this endeavor never saw a theatrical release. At the time Lucy and Desi were promoting their film, The Long, Long Trailer for MGM. This film was being promoted as their return to the big screen. MGM demanded that the I Love Lucy movie be shelved so as not to contradict this claim and as the Arnazes were under contract to MGM they had to comply. As the story goes the film was forgotten and then "lost" for many years.

This is definitely one of those rare nuggets for the true I Love Lucy fan who has seen it all.