Desi Arnaz
Everything’s Coming Up Lucy
You and everyone on the planet (and perhaps in outer space) know all about I Love Lucy, right — are you sure? Take our quiz.
Studio 360’s I Love Lucy Quiz: The Answers
On Monday, we started our Week of Lucy with apop quiz. Here are the answers: Which was not in the contract for the cast members? A. Desi Arnaz could only perform a song when it was deemed by the writers to be essential to the plot. B. Bill Frawley was allowed to miss performances if […]
Quiz: How Well Do You Know Lucy?
You and everyone on the planet (and perhaps even in outer space) know all about Lucy, right? Are you sure? Which was not in the contract for the cast members? A. Desi Arnaz could only perform a song when it was deemed by the writers to be essential to the plot. B. […]
Bonus Track: Notes on a Scandal
In 1955 Confidential Magazine, a Hollywood scandal rag, reported on Desi Arnaz’s supposed philandering. Dartmouth Film and TV professor Mary Desjardins explores the less desirable side effect of being a celebrity couple. â?? Read about Lucy and Desi in Confidential Magazine (1955)
I Love Lucy
This is where television invented itself. It set the model for the hit family sitcom. Lucy was a bad girl trapped in the life of a ’50s housewife; her slapstick quest for fame and fortune ended in abject failure weekly. Both the antics and the humiliation entered the DNA of TV comedy, from Desperate Housewives […]