#Rudy Vallée

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Rudy Vallée. Now that was a lie, that was a downright lie. Rudy Vallée being popular. What kind of people could have dug him? You know, your grandmothers and mothers. But what kind of people were they? He was so sexless. If you want to find out about those times and you listen to his music you’re not going to find out anything about the times. His music was a pipe dream. All escapes. There are no more escapes. If you want to find out anything that’s happening now, you have to listen to the music. I don’t mean the words, although Eve Of Destruction will tell you something about it. The words are not really gonna tell it, not really. You gotta listen to The Staple Singers, Smokey and the Miracles, Martha and the Vandellas. That’s scary to a lot of people. It’s sex that’s involved. It’s not hidden. It’s real. You can overdo it. It’s not only sex, it’s a whole beautiful feeling.

Bob Dylan

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Miguel Covarrubias, That Evening Sun Goes Down, 1938

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Betty Co-Ed (Fleischer, 1931)

NOT Betty Boop, but you'd be forgiven for thinking so. It's Screen Song #43, in which Rudy Vallée leads the audience in singing his 1930 hit song "Betty Co-Ed," which pre-dates Betty Boop altogether. (Personally, we love the extreme off-model look!)

Buy me a coffee!

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Looney Tunes Song References

Decided to track down some of the song references in the Looney Tunes and Merry Melodies shorts.

Book Revue (1946) Stop That Dancing Up There

Long-Haired Hare (1949) When Yuba Plays The Rumba On The Tuba

Little Red Rodent Hood (1952) Rag Mop

Back Alley Oproar (1948)

The song being sung is Angel In Disguise.

But it's in the style of Spike Jones.

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Mike Patton & David Lynch used the same OPTIGAN TAPE LOOP

SWING IT!

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Halloween Song Bracket

Please listen to both songs before voting.

Anything Can Happen on Halloween

With Her Head Tucked Underneath Her Arm

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Images of 1913 Fashion -

Left 1913 (August) Juliette Rudy in dress by Buzenet, Les Modes, Les Modes - photo by Félix. From les-modes.tumblr.com/page/17 730X1920.

Center 1913 (August) Juliette Rudy in ensemble by Buzenet, Les Modes, Les Modes - photo by Talbot. From les-modes.tumblr.com/page/17; fixed bigger spots & flaws w Pshop 762X1920.

Right 1913 (August) Les Modes Racing ensembles by Drecoll. From les-modes.tumblr.com/image/146257484044; fixed larger spots w Pshop 1269X1920.

1913 (August) Les Modes Racing ensembles by Drecoll. From les-modes.tumblr.com/image/146257484044; fixed larger spots w Pshop 1269X1920

Left 1913 (November) Dress and hat by Jeanne Lanvin, Les Modes - photo by Talbot. From les-modes.tumblr.com/page/10 1280X1882.

Center 1913 (October) Afternoon dress dress by Beer, Les Modes - photo by Félix. From les-modes.tumblr.com/page/9 1024X1920.

Right 1913 (September) Suit by Antoine and Hubert, Les Modes - photo by Félix. From les-modes.tumblr.com/page/10 706X1920.

1913 Anne Innes-Ker, Duchess of Roxburghe by Lallie Charles. From Wikimedia 3374X4878.

Left 1913 (November) Evening dress by Zimmerman, Les Modes - photo by Félix. From les-modes.tumblr.com/page/10 745X1920.

Right 1913 (October) Evening dress by Beer, Les Modes - photo by Félix. From les-modes.tumblr.com/page/9; fixed bigger spots w Pshop 1280X1890.

Left 1913 (September) Armand Vallée illustration of Jeanne Lanvin dresses, Les Modes. From les-modes.tumblr.com/page/10 1280X1868.

Right 1913 (February isue) Les Modes Cover - Dress, Mantle and Hair-Ornament by Jeanne Paquin - by Armand Vallée. From tumblr.com/mote-historie/731370297852329984/dress-mantle-and-hair-ornament-by-paquin-1913?source=share& 1961X3000

Left 1913 (October) Gaby Deslys in Paquin dress, Les Modes - photo by Talbot. From les-modes.tumblr.com/page/9; fixed biggest spots w Pshop 1280X1891.

Right 1913 (October) Gaby Deslys in Paquin dress and another headdress, Les Modes - photo by Talbot. From les-modes.tumblr.com/page/9; fixed biggest spots w Pshop 1270X1920.

1913 Dress worn by comtesse Greffulhe (Palais Galliera, Musee de la mode de la Ville de Paris - Paris France) photo - Pierre Bulloz. From twonerdyhistorygirls.blogspot.com/2016/12/the-extraordinary-style-of-countess.

1913 Anna de Noailles La condesa Anna de Noailles by Ignacio Zuloaga (Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao - Bilbao Spain). From tumblr.com/random-brushstrokes 1398X1080.

Left 1913 Baroness de Guestre before bas relief sculpture. From the Library of Congress Bain collection 550X899.

Center 1913 Baroness de Guestre climbing stairs (Library of Congress Bain collection). From Wikimedia 1878X2048.

Right 1913 Baroness de Guestre in the garden. From the Library of Congress Bain collection via flickr 553X912.

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Song recommendation from Alastor:

"Life Is Just A Bowl of Cherries"

Written and published in 1931

Composers: Ray Henderson (for the music) and Lew Brown (for the lyrics)

Made popular by the amazing singer: Rudy Vallée

[P.S. The ask box is empty so feel free to send asks]

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Rudy Vallée was born on July 28, 1901 #botd

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Tonight I watched Time Out for Rhythm, a mid-tier 1941 musical with Rudy Vallée and Ann Miller as the main romantic leads...and I swear to Christ I didn't make it gay but it is, OH BOY HOWDY IT IS. There's WAY more time spent on the relationship between Vallée's character and Richard Lane's as business partners, and they have a ridiculous amount of chemistry. They start with a cute meet and Lane basically asks Vallée to marry him before he knows his name.

Then later on, they fight because Lane's character is infatuated with - you guessed it - a girl who isn't worthy of him. Vallée is mad about it because he's the only one Lane should be infatuated with. Okay, technically it's because Lane wants to dump all the other talent from their show (including Ann Miller) and feature the girl, but we all know the real reason.

They stand really close and stare deeply and intensely into one another's eyes. So mad.

They fight, they break up, Vallée comes into Lane's office and says "I'll get my stuff out of our apartment tonight." No, I'm not making this up. And then Lane looks at him like this. No, I'm not making that up either.

Vallée heads to the door, turns around. Lane gives him the full on puppy dog eyes.

That tears it: their breakup lasts exactly another five seconds, they make up, Lane leaps up and runs around the desk to get close to Vallée.

I have never seen Richard Lane do a bashful head duck and grin in a movie before. He's not your bashful head duck and grin kind of guy.

But then - because their love story is the driving plot device of this lightweight musical - they break up again just in time for the second act. In the non-musical scenes the other leads (including Vallee's supposed love interest) seem to be there to comment on their relationship. In one scene MIller talks to Allen Jenkins about how Vallée and Lane are "lost without one another" and that they have to get them back together somehow.

Later, she decides to disappear and give up her big break in the show so that she won't come between them and they can reconcile (don't worry, she's back and dancing her heart out in the final number).

Jenkins also gets trapped in the middle of a hilariously awkward divorce scene in a restaurant where Vallée spends the whole time ignoring Lane in the most passive agressive way possible.

By the third act, of course, love wins (actual lines: (Lane, soft) "How you been doing?" (Vallée shakes his head and smiles) "Rotten." (Lane, grinning in relief) "Me, too.")

and the movie finishes not with the romantic leads in a clinch, but with this. I just. I SWEAR I DID NOT MAKE THIS MOVIE QUEER, OKAY. BLAME THESE TWO.

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[PICTURES] "LIVE A LITTLE, LOVE A LITTLE" (1968) 🐶📸

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ᐁ THE KING, ELVIS ᐁ

Those guys next to EP are Joe Esposito and Charlie Hodge, El's personal friends (Memphis Mafia guys).

ᐁ Elvis and his leading lady, Michele Carey ᐁ

That one scene above! [LOL] One of those, 'I can't believe she did this!' moments I mentioned on my review of this movie. I actually laugh at all the times they're together. Just the pictures are enough to make me laugh. Bernice is the best! That's the best Elvis movie! 🤣

ᐁ Elvis and co-stars, Michele Carey and Celeste Yarnall ᐁ I love that [BELOW] scene so much!🤣

ᐁ Elvis and Rudy Vallée (Mr. Penlow) ᐁ

ᐁ Elvis and Don Porter (Mike Lansdown) ᐁ

ᐁ Elvis and the West boys, Sonny and Red ᐁ I wonder how much fun Elvis had beating them up, even if just play pretend. What if at times he'd really kicks and slaps them? I wouldn't dare saying it never happened. Boys being boys.🤣

ᐁ Sterling Holloway (The Milkman) ᐁ He's the one I told you about on my review (fun facts section), the actor making all those dubbing acting work leading his voice and talento to such great classic Disney movie characters during his career years! ♥

ᐁ Elvis and Susan Henning ᐁ

THE MOST SPECIAL ONE 🐶 ᐁ Elvis and 'Albert' ᐁ

People are commonly mistaken saying this dog was one of Elvis' own Great Danes (Elvis had three Great Danes: Brutus, Snoopy and Edmund), but Priscilla said it wasn't one of their family dogs. I didn't found his name or info about who he belongs to, tho. :( If I find anything I'll update this post.

Well, I'll stop here just because the "only 30 pictures per post," Tumblr issue [ugh!]

I do have some more pictures I'd like to share with you. I think I might share all of it, really. I can't help it. I just love everything about this movie and I get carried away. 🥹

Until then, If you'd like to read my review (or just see the previous pictures / footage / music videos I shared from this movie): CLICK HERE.

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✦ [UPDATE -January 16, 2024]: MORE PICTURES HERE + BEHIND THE SCENES STORY, MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. MURDER DURING 'LIVE A LITTLE, LOVE A LITTLE' PRODUCTION. HOW THE CREW REACTED, HERE. ✦

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Is there any other Elvis movie you'd like to know a bit about what I think of it (if it even matters to anyone), or do you want some help finding any of them available online? LET ME KNOW. ♥

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Alice Faye with Don Ameche, Spencer Tracy, and Rudy Vallée (Radio Mirror, November 1937)

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Glynis Margaret Payne Johns (October 5, 1923 - January 4, 2024) Film, stage and television actress, dancer, musician and singer. In a career spanning eight decades on stage and screen, Johns appeared in more than 60 films and 30 plays. She has received various accolades throughout her career, including a Tony Award, a Drama Desk Award, a National Board of Review Award, and a Laurel Award, in addition to nominations for an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, and a Laurence Olivier Award. She is widely considered as being one of the last surviving major stars from the Golden Age of Hollywood and classical years of British cinema.

Johns made her television debut in 1952 with Fletcher Markle's Emmy Award-winning series Little Women. She appeared in just one episode: season 4's "Lilly, the Queen of the Movies" as Lily Snape. Her television credits of the 1950s include brief appearances in the Hollywood anthology series Lux Video Theatre (in the 1953 episode "Two For Tea"), Errol Flynn's anthology series The Errol Flynn Theatre (in the 1956 episodes "The Sealed Room" as Lou McNamara and "The Girl in Blue Jeans" as The Girl Susan Tracey), CBS's anthology series Schlitz Playhouse of Stars (in the 1957 episode "The Dead Are Silent"), and ABC's variety and drama series The Frank Sinatra Show (in the 1958 episode "Face of Fear" as Christine Nolan)

Johns was cast in 1961 in the ABC/Warner Bros. crime drama The Roaring 20s. She portrayed Kitty O'Moyne, an Irish immigrant who falls overboard into the harbour as she arrives in the United States. Johns guest-starred in the CBS anthology seriesThe Lloyd Bridges Show in the episode "A Game for Alternate Mondays" of the 1962–63 television season, playing widow Leah Marquand, with Leslye Hunter as her daughter Isabella. On 5 August 1963, Vacation Playhouse premiered the episode "Hide and Seek" as the pilot of her eponymous CBS television series Glynis. The original working title for the series was The Glynis Johns Show; in it, Johns played the neophyte mystery writer and amateur sleuth Glynis Granvile. In the autumn of that year, Glynis officially premiered, starring Johns and Keith Andes as a married couple, Glynis Granville and Keith Granville, a criminal defence attorney. Due to pressure from NBC's The Virginian and Bill Cullen's The Price Is Right game show on ABC, the programme was cancelled after thirteen episodes. In 1965, when CBS reran the series as a summer replacement for The Lucy Show, Glynis ranked #6 in the Nielsen ratings. Johns remained busy on screen, appearing as Steffi Bernard in the episode "Who Killed Marty Kelso?" of ABC's detective series Burke's Law opposite Gene Barry. In 1967, she appeared in four episodes of the Batman television series as villainess Lady Penelope Peasoup, one half of the evil duo with Rudy Vallée as her brother Lord Marmaduke Ffogg.

During the first season of NBC's hit sitcom Cheers, Johns guest-starred as Diane Chambers' mother, Helen Chambers, an eccentric dowager who, due to a stipulation in Diane's late father's will, will lose all her money unless Diane is married by the next day. In 1985, Johns played Bridget O'Hara in the episode "Sing a Song of Murder" of CBS's crime drama television series Murder, She Wrote, working again with Angela Lansbury. From 1988 to 1989, she played Trudie Pepper, a senior citizen living in an Arizona retirement community, in the television sitcom Coming of Age, also on CBS. (Wikipedia)

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Here are 10 things you should know about Rudy Vallée, born 123 years ago today. One of the first teen idols, he enjoyed success in recordings, radio, movies, TV, and on Broadway. We're featuring his music all day on Cladrite Radio so tune in now!

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Rudy Vallée, 1931.

You folks may find this neat, this is my Brunswick Panatrope 106, which was produced sometime between 1923 and 1928. I plan on doing some minor restorations soon, but I recently had the reproducer repaired and as such I’m very excited to hear it play.

I collect 78s, and currently have a few hundred about. I also have a Victrola VV 11 A, which is obviously not as portable as this but I would also like to show sometime as I have a real adoration for spring powered record players.

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MOVIES on TV!

Part 3 ~ The Movies of “Here’s Lucy”

In “Here’s Lucy,” Lucille Ball had a new character, a new family, and a new show - but one thing remained constant, her love of movies!  Here are some of the movies (real and imagined) of “Here’s Lucy.” 

~FACTUAL FILMS~ 

“Lucy and Carol Burnett” aka “The Unemployment Follies” (1971)

Carol and Lucy stage a tribute to Hollywood using unemployed actors. The films mentioned and/or feted include:

TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT (1944)

BLUE ANGEL (1930)

CASABLANCA (1942)

42ND STREET (1933)

THE WIZARD OF OZ (1939)

SINGIN’ IN THE RAIN (1952)

ROSE MARIE (1954)

The set is decorated with posters from:

HOLLYWOOD OR BUST (1956) 

SAMPSON AND DELILAH (1949)

THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH (1952) 

SHORT CUT TO HELL (1957) 

GONE WITH THE WIND (1939) 

UNDER TWO FLAGS (1936) 

“Ginger Rogers Comes To Tea” (1971)

Ginger Rogers leaves her purse in a movie theatre where she's gone incognito to see one of her films for the first time. Lucy and Harry discover the purse and hope to get to meet the star in person by inviting her to tea. Instead of working late, Lucy tells Harry that she wants to go to a Ginger Rogers Film Festival. They are showing Tender Comrade (1943) and Flying Down To Rio (1933), two films made at RKO, which eventually became Desilu.  

Rogers tells Lucy she has done 73 movies. Rattling off some of Rogers' hits, Lucy adds a sugar cube to Ginger's tea for each title: Top Hat, Roberta, Flying Down To Rio, Follow the Fleet, Shall We Dance, and The Barkleys of Broadway.  When Lucy realizes she's put six lumps of sugar in Ginger's tea, Rogers says she only wanted Top Hat and Roberta (two lumps).  

Trying to impugn the taste in films of the mystery woman (a disguised Ginger Rogers), Lucy tells her to try back next week and they might be showing Beach Blanket Bingo (1965). This was the fourth of the light comic films set on the California beach starring Frankie Avalon and Annette Funicello.  

After dancing the Charleston with Lucy and Kim, Lucy asks Rogers to do a scene from Kitty Foyle, Ginger’s Oscar-winning role. Rogers graciously declines, asking Lucy to become a Katherine Hepburn fan instead!  

“Guess Who Owes Lucy $23.50?” (1968)

Lucy loans Van Johnson money to fix his car – but the man turns out to be an impostor. This episode is written for Van Johnson to work in a not-so-subtle plug for their latest film Yours, Mine and Ours (1968) starring Henry Fonda.

VAN IMPOSTER:“I loved working with that kooky redhead.” LUCY: “Personally, I thought she was much too young for Henry Fonda.”  

Lucy says she remembers Johnson from his appearance in The Romance of Rosy Ridge (1947).  She later tells him she saw the film 17 times!  When Lucy is escorted out by the studio guards at Van’s direction, Lucy says that now she’s glad he got court martialed in The Caine Mutiny (1954).

“Lucy and Aladdin’s Lamp” (1971) 

When Lucy holds a garage sale, she discovers an old lamp that she believes may be make wishes come true. Lucy pulls out a fur-lined jacket she says was worn by Joan Crawford in Mildred Pierce.  The 1945 film won Crawford an Academy Award. Craig says that judging by the shoulder pads she could have worn it in The Spirit of Notre Dame, a 1931 football-themed movie starring Lew Ayres.  

“Lucy and Flip Go Legit” (1971)

Lucy takes a temp assignment with Flip Wilson in order to answer his fan mail. When she is caught sneaking into Wilson’s office to ask him a favor, she gets caught and fired.  The favor is to appear  in a community theatre production of Gone With The Wind (1939) – as Prissy. Lucy plays Scarlett O’Hara, Harry plays Rhett Butler, and Kim takes the role of Melanie Wilkes. 

“Won’t You Calm Down Dan Dailey?” (1971)

Lucy gets a job working for Dan Dailey. When he starts to dictate a letter to Paul Newman at Universal Studios, Lucy says she saw Newman on the late show in Winning, a 1969 film about a race car driver.

“Lucy and Rudy Vallée” (1970)

Famous crooner Rudy Vallée is waiting tables to pass the time until his music comes back into style. Lucy convinces Kim to help update his look and sound while Harry gets him a booking at the local teen hangout. When a life-size portrait of Vallée in a raccoon coat is revealed, Vallée says he wore the coat in his first picture, Varsity Hero, a silent picture where critics raved about his singing!    

In reality, Vallée’s first film (aside from two shorts playing himself) was The Vagabond Lover in 1929.

“Lucy and Chuck Connors Have a Surprise Slumber Party” (1974) 

Harry rents out Lucy’s home for a movie shoot. After causing several re-takes, Lucy is banished from her own home. When she returns early, she doesn’t know that Chuck Connors is staying overnight – in her bed!  

Jerry, the film’s director, tells Chuck that his film Good Morning, Miss Dove starring Jennifer Jones is on television that night. Connors says the film was one of the few times he got to nuzzle something besides a horse. Released in 1955 by 20th Century Fox, the film co-stars Mary Wickes, a frequent guest star on all of Lucille Ball’s sitcoms. It also features Jerry Paris, who directed two episodes of “Here’s Lucy” before being fired, and Robert Stack of Desilu’s “The Untouchables.” Other “Lucy” alumni in the film include Herb Vigran, Hal Taggart, and Arthur Tovey – all appearing uncredited.

“Lucy Meets the Burtons” (1972)

The hotel manager tells Burton that the back door is mobbed by the Elizabeth Taylor Fan Club – Glendale Chapter. Membership to the club requires seeing National Velvet 10 times!  National Velvet (1945) was made when Taylor was just twelve years old.  

“Lucy’s House Guest, Harry” (1971)

As Harry is finally is finally about to leave, Lucy has a horrible thought: what if he is like Sheridan Whiteside in The Man Who Came to Dinner and falls on his way out and must stay with them even longer?  The play, by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart, opened on Broadway in 1939. It starred Lucille Ball's good friend (and “Here's Lucy” performer) Mary Wickes as Nurse Preen. Wickes was one of several actors who recreated their roles in the 1942 film adaptation.

~FICTIONAL FILMS~ 

“Lucy, the American Mother” (1970)

Craig makes a film about Lucy, a typical American mother. During the episode, Kim does impressions of Katharine Hepburn in Stage Door (1937), a film that also featured Lucille Ball, Maurice Chevalier in Innocents of Paris (1929), and Bette Davis in The Great Lie (1941).  

The title of Craig's movie will be “A Day in the Life of My Mother.”  When Lucy can't seem to act natural in front of Craig's camera, she suggests he get someone else to play his mother; someone like Raquel Welch, Carol Burnett, or Don Knotts.

~FILM INSPIRATIONS~ 

“My Fair Buzzi” (1972)

Kim’s shy and awkward friend Annie (Ruth Buzzi) comes out of her shell in order to audition for a 1920s revue, only to find the director was looking for someone shy and awkward in the first place! The episode title and story of transformation were inspired by the 1956 Broadway musical and 1964 film My Fair Lady, which, in turn, was inspired by George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion. Both are mentioned in the dialogue of the episode.

“Dirty Gertie” (1972)

Lucy gets a surprise fruit basket and heads downtown to share her good fortune with her hairdresser. On the street she is mistaken for Dirty Gertie, an apple peddler who just happens to be the good luck charm of a local gangster. This episode was inspired by the 1961 Frank Capra film Pocketful of Miracles in which Bette Davis played Apple Annie, a poor woman reduced to selling apples on the street. The film featured previous “Lucy” co-stars Edward Everett Horton, Jay Novello, Ann-Margret (film debut), Sheldon Leonard, Jerome Cowan, Fritz Feld, Ellen Corby, Benny Rubin, Hayden Rorke, Bess Flowers, Vito Scotti, Bert Stevens, Arthur Tovey, and Romo Vincent.

“Lucy Runs the Rapids” (1969)

The Carters take a road trip in a camper. The episode opens with the soundtrack playing “Breezin’ Along”, the theme song from The Long, Long Trailer (1954), a film starring Lucy and Desi as a couple honeymooning in a trailer. 

~FILM FAKES~

“Lucy Cuts Vincent’s Price” (1970)

Price is filming a new horror film titled Who’s Afraid of Virginia’s Wolfman? He says it has the best title since he starred in The Giant Chihuahua That Ate Chicago.

~FILM REFERENCES~

“Lucy, the Cement Worker” (1969)

In Pierre’s the knife thrower’s studio, there is a handbill on the bulletin board for ‘Cherokee Jim’s Rodeo and Wild West Show’, which is a direct reference to the 1945 film Incendiary Blonde starring Betty Hutton as Texas Guinan. The film was directed by George Marshall for Paramount, the same director and studio producing this episode of “Here’s Lucy” 25 years later!  

“Lucy in the Jungle” (1971)

When Harry sees baby chimps Fido and Rover, he reminds Lucy and Kim that King Kong started out as a baby, too!  King Kong, Hollywood’s tale of a giant ape, was first filmed in 1933, then re-made in 1976 and 2005. Fay Wray, one of the stars of the original film, also made The Bowery that same year, one of Lucille Ball’s first films. 

“Lucy and the Ex-Con” (1969)

Lucy and Rocky (Wally Cox) go undercover as little old ladies to catch a crook.   When Lucy and Rocky pass out (as planned) one of the crooks says to the bartender “Give me a hand with arsenic and old face.”  Arsenic and Old Lace is a 1944 film where two elderly spinsters serve lethal glasses of elderberry wine to unsuspecting older gentlemen and bury them in their basement!  

“Lucy and The Generation Gap” (1969)

Lucy and Uncle Harry help Kim and Craig stage the school musical. In the first act of the musical set in ancient Rome, Lucille Ball is reading a magazine called 'Roman Scandals’. Roman Scandals is also the title of Lucille Ball’s uncredited film debut in 1933.     

“Lucy and Shelley Winters” (1968)

Hired to watch over dieting movie star Shelley Summers. On the mantle of Summers' apartment is a photo of a svelte Shelley Winters from the 1950 film Frenchie. She glances guiltily at the photo when she is about to overeat. 

“Lucy Carter Meets Lucille Ball” (1974)

Although Lucille Ball's dressing room wall is lined with photographs of Mame and the soundtrack plays the title tune by Jerry Herman, the name of the movie is never specifically mentioned. The film was given its world premiere on March 7, 1974 three days after this episode first aired, and released nationally three weeks later. As Mame, Lucy failed to ‘charm the husk off of the corn.’