Movies with Vivian Vance
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I Love Lucy - Season Six
Genres: Comedy, Family
Starring: Vivian Vance, Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz
Directors: Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz, Vivian Vance
Country: USA
Year: 1955
The show provided Ball ample opportunity to display her considerable skill at clowning and physical comedy. Character development was not a major focus of early sitcoms, so little was offered about her life before the show.
I Love Lucy - Season Seven
Genres: Comedy, Family
Starring: Vivian Vance, Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz
Directors: Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz, Vivian Vance
Country: USA
Year: 1956
A few episodes mentioned that she was born in Jamestown, New York (Lucille Ball's real-life home town), (later corrected to West Jamestown), that she graduated from Jamestown High School, that her maiden name was "McGillicuddy" (indicating an Irish ethnicity, though she once mentioned her grandmother was Swedish), and that she met Ricky on a blind date. Her family was absent, other than occasional appearances by her mother (Kathryn Card), who can never get Ricky's name right, she has once called him Mickey Richardson. Lucy also exhibited many stereotypical female traits that were standard for comedy at the time, including being secretive abo...
I Love Lucy - Season Eight
Genres: Comedy, Family
Starring: Vivian Vance, Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz
Directors: Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz, Vivian Vance
Country: USA
Year: 1957
She is also depicted as a devoted housewife and attentive mother. Lucy and Ricky are mountain climbing in the Alps during their 1956 European vacation.Lucy's husband, Ricky Ricardo, is an up-and-coming Cuban American singer and bandleader with an excitable personality.
I Love Lucy - Season Nine
Genres: Comedy, Family
Starring: Vivian Vance, Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz
Directors: Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz, Vivian Vance
Country: USA
Year: 1958
When exasperated, he often reverts to speaking rapidly in Spanish. As with Lucy, not much is revealed about his past or family. Ricky's mother (played by actress Mary Emery) appears in two episodes; in another Lucy mentions that he has five brothers. Ricky also mentions that he had been "practically raised" by his uncle Alberto (who was seen during a family visit to Cuba), and that he had attended Havana University.
I Love Lucy - Season Two
Genres: Comedy, Family
Starring: Vivian Vance, Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz
Directors: Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz, Vivian Vance
Country: USA
Year: 1952
I Love Lucy was the most watched show in the United States in four of its six seasons, and was the first to end its run at the top of the Nielsen ratings (an accomplishment later matched by The Andy Griffith Show and Seinfeld). I Love Lucy is still syndicated in dozens of languages across the world.
I Love Lucy - Season Three
Genres: Comedy, Family
Starring: Vivian Vance, Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz
Directors: Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz, Vivian Vance
Country: USA
Year: 1953
The show was the first scripted television program to be shot on 35 mm film in front of a studio audience, won five Emmy Awards and received numerous nominations. In 2002, it ranked second on TV Guide's list of television's greatest shows, behind Seinfeld and ahead of The Honeymooners. In 2007 it was listed as one of Time magazine's "100 Best TV Shows of All-TIME." I Love Lucy remains hugely popular today, as 60 years after its debut, it is still seen by 40 million Americans each year.
I Love Lucy - Season Four
Genres: Comedy, Family
Starring: Vivian Vance, Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz
Directors: Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz, Vivian Vance
Country: USA
Year: 1954
Originally set in New York City, I Love Lucy centers on Lucy Ricardo (Lucille Ball) and her singer/bandleader husband Ricky Ricardo (Desi Arnaz), along with their best friends and landlords Fred Mertz (William Frawley) and Ethel Mertz (Vivian Vance). During the second season, Lucy and Ricky have a son named Ricky Ricardo Jr. ("Little Ricky"), whose birth was timed to coincide with Ball's real-life delivery of her son Desi Arnaz Jr. by Caesarean section.
I Love Lucy - Season Five
Genres: Comedy, Family
Starring: Vivian Vance, Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz
Directors: Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz, Vivian Vance
Country: USA
Year: 1954
Lucy is naive and ambitious, with an overactive imagination and a knack for getting herself into trouble. Known for her fiery red hair, (despite the fact the show aired in black-and-white), Lucy appears as a scatter-brained homemaker with the matchless ability to turn an ordinary household chore into a complete and unprecedented disaster. Yet, underneath the cover of her wild behavior and crazy antics, she honestly yearns for stardom. She longs to join her husband in show-business, despite his refusal to cooperate. When things go wrong, she tends to say "Eww". Fred and Ethel are former vaudevillians and this only strengthens her resolve to pr...
I Love Lucy - Season One
Genres: Comedy, Family
Starring: Vivian Vance, Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz
Directors: Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz, Vivian Vance
Country: USA
Year: 1951
I Love Lucy is an American television sitcom starring Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz, Vivian Vance, and William Frawley. The black-and-white series originally ran from October 15, 1951, to May 6, 1957, on the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS). When the original series ended, the show continued for three more seasons with 13 one-hour specials, running from 1957 to 1960, known first as The Lucille Ball-Desi Arnaz Show and later in reruns as The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour.
I Love Lucy (1953)
Genres: Comedy
Starring: Vivian Vance, William Frawley, Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz
Directors: Edward Sedgwick
Country: USA
Year: 1953
Desi Arnaz greets the "I Love Lucy" studio audience and invites them to watch Lucille Ball and the cast film a special extended episode.
The Great Race
Genres: Action, Comedy, Adventure
Starring: Arthur O'Connell, Denver Pyle, Keenan Wynn, Peter Falk, George Macready, Natalie Wood, Tony Curtis
Directors: Blake Edwards
Country: USA
Year: 1965
Professional daredevil and white-suited hero, The Great Leslie, convinces turn-of-the-century auto makers that a race from New York to Paris (westward across America, the Bering Straight and Russia) will help to promote automobile sales. Leslie's arch-rival, the mustached and black-attired Professor Fate vows to beat Leslie to the finish line in a car of Fate's own invention. The Blake Edwards style of slapstick and song originated with this movie. A dedication to Laurel and Hardy appears at the beginning of the film. Edwards' tribute to Stan and Ollie can be seen most clearly in the interaction between Professor Fate and his cohort Max, as w...