There's no other way to say, I LOVE LUCY! I always have and I always will!

@reneebraxton1032

Жыл бұрын

Amen!

@reneebraxton1032

Жыл бұрын

😘💕

@deeeliades3426

7 ай бұрын

Yes, the greatest of all time! The world loved Lucy.

Lucy was cut from a different cloth.. one in a million.. I miss her..❤️

Lucy did a terrific job in "Mame". One of my favorites, also Bea Arthur co-starring with her was classic. Miss them both.

@JL0ndon

2 жыл бұрын

I loved rosiland Russell’s mame so much- bea was great in the musical as Vera ❤️

@thewkovacs316

Жыл бұрын

cant sing...cant dance...mugged to the camera worst performance ever

She was real. That’s all I love about her. Her realness.

@jakevendrotti1496

Жыл бұрын

Except at 26:20 when she delicately framed what Donahue was delicately asking about Desi cheating on her, and she turned it into a conversation about her giving things to goodwill. That was very savvy and elegantly done on her part. The public asking indelicate questions about your being cheated on is pretty humiliating. Well done, Lucille Ball. A real pro.

gosh, i love everything Lucille Ball...she was amazing! and such a smart & savvy business woman back in the day when it was rare for women to be in business.

I love her non judging attitude and her live and let live approach to life. This is the first time I see this as I was a child back then and could not have appreciated this interview as I do now.

The most amazing woman! Inside and out. She will always be my favorite!

The true Pioneer of comedy and she could make anyone laugh, that's a gift!

Donahue was a great interviewer during his time. He kept the show moving, and sometimes he got the interviewees to answer honest questions.

@jakevendrotti1496

Жыл бұрын

I guess so. It was a really rude of him to ask her what she weighed and what size clothes she wore. I know that's a common celebrity detail but she's the first lady of comedy, it's really out of line to ask her that

@BossNotes

Жыл бұрын

@@jakevendrotti1496 Being from Dayton , this man ALWAYS said stuff he should have never asked , he received a-lot of ridicule here in Dayton due to his manners !

@DeanLeonard1

10 ай бұрын

@@jakevendrotti1496 Yet you'll notice that Lucy answers him quickly and unabashedly. She didn't seem to mind the question at all. I also like the way she speaks frankly and matter-of-factly about her diet.

I watched MAME the FIRST week it was released! I went with my Mom & my Grandmother, all three of us thought IT WAS TERRIFIC! I watched every single re-run on TV and the reruns on video & then DVD in our family room. I never ever get tired of Lucy as Mame! I thought she was the best and her singing is just fine.

Love,love,love 'I love Lucy'-and all her interviews,doc's xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

@DonnaBrooks

Жыл бұрын

I like the first 3 seasons of "The Lucy Show" when Vivian Vance co-starred. It was great seeing them together as different characters! Vivian left the show after S3.

Like the great Bette Davis, Lucy's work was really her life; she didn't know what to do with herself (for a long period of time) without her work. It was their idenity.

@BillyAlabama

2 жыл бұрын

Actually most of us are the same way no matter our vocation.

@scotnick59

Жыл бұрын

@@BillyAlabama Not quite as "cemented" I think

I just loved all the songs lucille ball sang in The lucy show ,my heart belongs to daddy ,Dixie lucie ,oh my darling clementine etc,,and loved her songs in Mame ,just as her song "hey look me over "became her anthem Go to the opera if you love music, lucy's songs just uplift my spirits and thats the main 5hing

Lucy is so wonderful here. Before Mame's bad notices would crush her. I fell I should appologise for being someone who loved Mame and felt Lucy was perfect for it. And I should identify myself as someone who at that time had never seen Rosaland Russell in Auntie Mame. Who cares if Lucy was shot through gaze. Mame was never intended to be a young girl. if Lucy's singing voice was not perfect Mame herself would not care and get up and sing! Lucille Ball is so down to earth, humble, real with herself and others. Dispite her personal issues, solid as a rock and the best of Hollywood. I am moved everytime I fall upon Lucille Ball, the woman in clips. No one like her.

@craftilady

2 ай бұрын

I agree!! I love Mame! And the whole point of the movie is to live every moment to the fullest! “Life is a banquet and most poor b@$t@rd$ are starving to death.”

Lucy is a goddess asoblutely radiant beautiful I love ❤️ Lucy my dream girl !! As a marine i Just adore her !!

@HopefulInterventions

3 жыл бұрын

🥰

I just love her. Thanks so much for sharing this. I enjoyed it so much !

Awesome. Sending love from Dayton Ohio in 2017....salute

I remember seeing Mame growing up and I liked it. She sounded like she was having fun. I think Phil seems a little un-prepared or somewhat intimidated. Thanks for sharing interview. I was either in school or working when these legends were sharing the body of work on Phil or Merv. Now as a "matured" adult and having had children by Cesarean section in my 3o's, I can relate to her. Her professionalism and spunkiness is refreshing.

What a catchy theme tune THE PHIL DONAHUE SHOW had during its early days in Dayton, Ohio!!! :) ;)

@facebook51ify

2 жыл бұрын

The show moved to Chicago and to New York and cancelled in September of 1996.

THANK YOU!!!!!

just................WOW

if i had been in that audience, I would have stood up for her when she entered the studio. No one in that audience stood up for a woman that was and still is an American legend.

@brendaannedufaur6244

5 жыл бұрын

you are SO SO SO SO RIGHT

@marbury2403

3 жыл бұрын

Ba wha whaa.

@rah62

2 жыл бұрын

oh please - not everyone and everything needs a standing ovation. She'd just been in one of the biggest flop movies of all time.

@LJ-ht4zs

2 жыл бұрын

@@rah62 Biggest flop movies of all time? Also with decades of movies, tv shows, running a huge studio under her credits - she is and will always be a legend. I am not into worshiping stars or the like - music or movie etc. However I would have stood up for all she has done. She made me laugh as a child in I Love Lucy - when it first came out (I was age 6) and now thru the pandemic have seen all the reruns a few times. Now I am 76 and still appreciate the show and Lucille Ball.

@rah62

2 жыл бұрын

@@LJ-ht4zs Yes, "Mame" was a huge flop. Bea Arthur gave an interview saying she was embarrassed to have taken part in the movie, and that Lucille Ball was horribly miscast - and some of her biggest flops ("Life with Lucy", "Stone Pillow") were still to come.

thanks for posting

@love4myclarks7

8 жыл бұрын

We hope you enjoy it! A very big thank you to Warner Bros. Entertainment who allowed us to share this.

@danielrobinson9270

7 жыл бұрын

+love4myclarks7 Thank you,what a gem..Please most any other classics you may have.

Thanks for posting! One correction, though: this interview took place in 1974, the year of "Mame"'s release.

One thing I love about Lucille Ball is that she rarely ever says a negative word about anyone. She always pays compliments to others. I’ve only ever once heard her say anything even kind of negative about any other person. I love that! ♥️

Thanks for posting...this is great! A really good interview - On one hand I don't love Phil Donahue (never have) because he just seems so antagonistic to his guests, but it's great to see how Lucy handles him and the tough questions. Other talk show hosts really would fawn over Lucy so this is an interesting change.

@hardren101

7 жыл бұрын

I have seen mny lucille ball interviews and lucille is vry fast on her feet and vry calculating....she ruled the roost...once lucille ball ascended the throne as president of Desilu she was the most powerful n feared women in hollywood....keep in mind women have made great strides in 2016...but in the 60's women were not respected in business and at that time the old hollywood would culture very much existed in hollywood...as a women you had to be tuff,aggressive and willing to got toe to toe with any man.....bette davis came in the door with that attitude on day 1 her career took a certain path because she tookm no shit frm the old boys of hollywood and no director of any of her films...by the 70's lucille was a respected vet who had paid her dues and any interviewer wld be a fool not not fawn all over her and give her the respect she had worked so hard for....but even with all that said lucille ball was a narcissist with a huge ego....she did not have the range,depth, to pull off mame...she brought her way into the movie and it was a complete and total failure...

@StevenBarryVideos

7 жыл бұрын

You make good points and I agree she was a trail-blazer for women running things and was way ahead of the pack. I saw Mame as a young person and loved it. I think she may have been too old for the role but have always enjoyed: the story, the humor, the music, the acting and yes, even Lucy. I don't agree it was a total failure. I think it isn't the best musical out there - but it often gets an unfair deal. It is essentially a remake of a beloved film (Auntie Mame) and many cannot get over the fact that Lucy and her team basically remade that movie. Also, many felt Angela Lansbury who starred in this musical on Broadway should have starred in the film as well. The studio however making the film would not cast Ms. Lansbury because she wasn't a big enough star then - and musicals at this time (1970s) were not really popular or making much money. They only agreed to make MAME into a musical film IF someone as BIG as Lucy would agree to star in it. I like the film and think it's good....not great, but good.

@LJ-ht4zs

2 жыл бұрын

@@hardren101 I feel that so many of the choices of other actors in Mame were meh - did not like Robert Preston and the actors who played her nephew both as a child and man were not up to par.

that theme is crazy. love it.

@jeaniechowdhury6739

4 жыл бұрын

Jane Doe yeah! Lol.

I miss Lucy, she was the best and my favorite lady comedian ❤️✝️🙏

Ya gotta love that Donahue theme music! Lol. Seeing Lucy is wonderful - I remember seeing her on tv talk shows in the 1970s & watching reruns of her shows as a kid. She was on Meri Griffin with that broken leg - I will never forget it. She was special beautiful classy and hilarious.

@stephenr3910

3 жыл бұрын

I remember how they worked the broken leg into Here's Lucy episodes.

This was when a talk show was exactly that! Loved the audience questions. I noticed that this was 47 minutes long. Only 13 minutes of commercials on a hour show! Now, you 20 minutes of commercials in any hour show. I think Lucy owns whatever movie/show she stars in. I liked the other MAME with Rosalind Russell, but Lucy did a fine job.

@devontehuntley6274

Жыл бұрын

Thats because there was very limited commercials then so shows could be longer. TV was like a quarter of a century old at this time, so still fairly new. Also, there were very few companies around to advertise their stuff. Now things have grown massively everyone needs their ad time so of course shows have gotten shorter to make room for all the companies we have now than back in 1974.

Alot of people have put the movie down. But I love it.

thanks alot for posting. the video quality isnt that bad as some here have said

I didn't know Lucille Ball, but I love Lucy Ricardo, not Lucy Carmichael, or Lucy Carter. I only discovered this recently, or at least was able to admit it.

14:43 ... 46:05 ... These played in my head from 1974 to 2017... My God has it been that long???

@Jack21Spades

4 жыл бұрын

1:10, too!

I'm with Sam Adamsson I really enjoyed her in Mame such a fascinating Woman.

It's interesting to see her promoting a film that was such a monumental commercial and critical flop, and I say this as a huge fan of Lucy.

@akrenwinkle

3 ай бұрын

She had enormous talent but no sense of quality and didn't realize it was bad. A lot of fans couldn't tell, either. I also say that as a huge Lucy fan, grateful to her for the many hours of laughter she provided.

@lauras7352

Ай бұрын

She was also on Johnny Carson talking up the movie before the bad reviews started coming in...sad, but she can't sing, and she was no longer in her prime. Hollywood is tough.

@akrenwinkle

Ай бұрын

@@lauras7352 I think the more important factor is that she couldn't act. There was no difference between Mame and her Lucy character post-I Love Lucy. Those who claimed they enjoyed her in Mame did so out of loyalty and gratitude, likely, for providing us with so many years of entertainment... and not what they were seeing and hearing on the screen in Mame.

Great interview. I'd love to see a better video quality version of this.

I ❤️ Lucy.

From the studios of WLW-D now WDTN in Dayton.

Lucille Ball a class act great interview ty for sharing 😁🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦

At 20:39 when she talks about the lowest point of her life and says divorce and disruption... She never really did recover from it.

Love how she told all about her homes. Such a quintessential golden age Hollywood way of living. House in Beverly Hills, weekend home Palm Springs, and vacation condominium in Snowmass Village (Aspen)! So that is how Lucy lived such a golden age Hollywood way of doing things she would just need the home in Palm Beach or an apartment in New York City to complete the look.

Mane is a one of my favorite movies.

@bitfatcunt230

6 жыл бұрын

Mane? lol

@DonnaBrooks

Жыл бұрын

@@bitfatcunt230 LOL. I noticed that, too.

Lucille Ball was a gorgeous blond model that looked like Gene Harlow!

@Scorchy666

2 жыл бұрын

Who's "Gene" Harlow?

@LJ-ht4zs

2 жыл бұрын

I felt that she was prettier than Jean Harlow.

While Lucy was filming Mame, she also had a weekly series on CBS.

Will always LOVE Lucy; also always thought, she sounded like John Wayne, when singing!!

Her boy with the bugle is so moving and touching

And just the history of 40's and 50's film and tv xxxxxxx

"Warm" and talented. Interesting use of the word, "Warm".

@sherryparkman7635

6 жыл бұрын

I loved her she was so funny with good writers, but I found her personally to be very direct and straight forth not funny without writers.

Didn't think much of Donahue but learned at lot about Lucille

Damn that clip was long!

I never knew that Phil Donahue had his show since then and I never knew he had Lucy on the show.

I love Lucy

3 years later when Barbara Walters asked her if she cooks she brushed over it so lightly and made it sound like she didn't. She said she had one dish that she liked to make and even her husband Gary said in so many words that she wasn't a cook but yet in this interview she says she loves to cook

@neeneec5394

7 жыл бұрын

pokergalpoker so it may of been a temp hobby for her. we all have hobbies we later lose interest in and Lucy wasn't too much of a eater as she addressed several times in this interview so it only makes sense she'd eventually lose interest. BTW she was smart to only eat when hungry.

@nonenoneonenonenone

6 жыл бұрын

Maybe it was an image she wanted to project. Cooking and washing up for 17-20 people is a big job! And by cooking, she probably means directing her staff in what to do.

@nonenoneonenonenone

6 жыл бұрын

But she didn't live that long in old age, and if she was smoking cigarettes all day instead of eating, that was not good at all.

@cliff9685

5 жыл бұрын

She’s Lucy she doesn’t HAVE to cook! Lol

@stephenr3910

3 жыл бұрын

Lucie Arnaz said Lucy loved to get into the kitchen and make chicken and dumplings but wasn't home enough to do that often.

Was there ever a time when Donahue didn't have grey hair?! 😂 I love him and Lucy! 💙🩷

I wonder if vivian's book was ever published ,since she passed away after falling ill soon after this

watching this 2017...

Grand lady❤️

When Donahue was relevant. Pre his Jerry-Springer-esque deterioration into shock TV...

@Scorchy666

2 жыл бұрын

Oprah came along with the goal to beat him, which she did. Phil had to pivot the format to stay on the air along with the Springers and the Geraldo's.

@tracylf5409

2 жыл бұрын

@@Scorchy666 He might have lost some viewers, but they could simply put him in a different time slot. He was a great host and didn't do all of the touchy-feely stuff aka OW. I especially enjoyed political and other highbrow interviews and topics.

Recorded from one cellphone to another

Where did this come from?! This is Donahue even before he hit it big coming to Chicago! I used to watch the Chicago iteration all the time in high school. Very much a product of its time, I remember these people.

@facebook51ify

Жыл бұрын

The show was produced in Dayton by WLWD now WDTN.

Movie (Mame) was a complete bomb-she never made another motion picture. Only on TV - Stoned Pillow.

If it hasn't been mentioned already, I'm thinking this would have been from Donahue's last season at what was then WLWD-2 in Dayton. His show would move to Chicago a few months later, and to New York a decade after that until its end in 1996 or so.

@facebook51ify

2 жыл бұрын

The show ended in September of 1996.

We have the benefit of hindsight now, but god the critics were just wrong. She was proud of the picture and she should've been. Its so glam and shes such a star.

I found myself staying focus on this particular segment piece actually Lucille Ball discuss her role in the movie " Mame ". I was a bit put off by it mainly because of some scenarios of the production, just didn't fit her. Because what I had read about Lucille Ball, she had always wanted to be taken as a serious actress. Seeing as she was coming out that Lucy Ricardo characterization, perhaps she felt that the actual part was made for her. Of course, I certainly can't take that title " Queen of Comedy " away for her. As I grew aware of part of the movie " Mame ", I found it quite entertaining. Sure, there would still be the question pertain asking myself do want to see it again. Now I faced with answering that question, I must state my answer is no.

We’re so lucky Desi was smart enough to invent the rerun. They were the first to do it, and owned the episodes on film. CBS thought who would want to see a show they’ve already watched. Because of Desi and Lucy’s foresight, new fans are created everyday. They will hopefully, still be entertaining us 100 years from now.

Great in Mame.

awesome.

Phil was still in his 30s!!! (38 or 39) it really used to hit different

Donahue was on for (I think) about 30 years. Are all of his tapes existing somewhere? I wish there were more online.

❤️❤️❤️

I remember watching this Phil show with Lucy as guest when I waited for my bus in 3rd grade. Phil was right, though. CBS let her save face but the weekly series was pretty much canceled. It went from top 10 to almost 30 the last season.

@DonnaBrooks

Жыл бұрын

What weekly series??

@franklovullo8685

Жыл бұрын

Stephen R: Here's Lucy

❤ 👑

such a pity angela lansbury didnt get to do the movie.

@Italy55

2 күн бұрын

Reviews were very mixed.

Mame is lucy

I disagree Lucielle was magnificent in Mame. I have watched that movie over & over,enjoyed it more each time.Wheni was feeling blue that movie cheered me up.Everyone is in titled to their own feelings.

@Eagle4Change

7 жыл бұрын

same with me Cathy

@brendaannedufaur6244

5 жыл бұрын

SO glad the movie helped you. Lucy would have been so happy. She is such a talented person.

@scotnick59

4 жыл бұрын

Seems people either love it or really dislike it: matter of taste, methinks

@LJ-ht4zs

Жыл бұрын

Actually, I have seen Mame 3 x and liked it better each time - from okay, to good, to very good. Also on first viewing did not appreciated Robert Preston - was I wrong - and did not enjoy the young man who played her nephew. Changed my mind on all counts.

If Lucy thought SOB was bad, can only imagine if she was still alive to see HBO haha

@FORRESTJASPER

6 жыл бұрын

HBO has been around since the summer of 1971. She died in '89. You do the math

@aldofhister6859

5 жыл бұрын

@@FORRESTJASPER but how much has Society changed since 89 to 19

That intro drum ditty was the poor man's house music from back in the day.

Where did he get that suit

Named my new kitten after u ms ball may u rip

All the smoking gave her a raspy voice

@nonenoneonenonenone

6 жыл бұрын

She was also harsh on her voice when playing the Lucy character.

@Lulu-kt6gr

5 жыл бұрын

And heart disease 😰

@scotnick59

4 жыл бұрын

She read so many scripts for just her 500 TV shows (not to mention movies). She yelled, affected her Lucy Ricardo voice (which took a toll on her vocal chords) & drank Scotch as well as being a dyed-in-the-wool smoker

@stephenr3910

3 жыл бұрын

She smoked a lot for years. Also when she was in Wildcat on Broadway she had to shout a lot of the songs several times a week.

Lucille Ball was a stunningly beautiful woman…especially in the 30s and 40s.

¿Soy el único que vino a ver esta weá por el logo final?

Why are so many interviews of hers on here all from 1974, the majority of them anyway, you don't see many other years than 1974.

@blueberrycobbler

5 жыл бұрын

Bruce Merrill Because she was promoting the film Mame at that time. She was making the obligatory press tour for the film.

Don is such a negative person. I LOVE LUCY! She’s always positive. ❤

Rip

46:20 Producer-Director PATRICIA McMILLEN. (Years later, Ms. McMillen would be the HEAD HONCHO as "Phillie D's" EXECUTIVE producer!!! Patty was a real trailblazer for women in television BEHIND the camera if ever there was one--well, SHE and Lin Bolen!! ;) )

I have that suit on

Too bad the picture bombed. Other than that and the failed sitcom she had in the 80s, Lucy had an incredible career and is set in history history

That logo at 46:52 is horrifying, goodness.

What's with the shaking?

interesting Lucy always said she never thought funny...but could act funny. Here you see it...not funny at all...serious

Either this picture is really old or it needs to be repaired (fixed). I could be wrong if it is beyond repair.

I'm sorry but I DEFINITELY think that Lucy should be on Mount Rushmore! She has given so much more to the world (not just the US) in laughter, tears and outright joy than any of the men currently on there. Saying that she doesn't belong is an insult.

@DonnaBrooks

Жыл бұрын

Please have some perspective: Those men on Mt. Rushmore gave us the country in which you have freedoms & civil rights & National Parks. These are ideas that have been copied by countries all around the world! Lucy doesn't belong there. Her life mission & contribution to humanity & the U.S. was different. She has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, & other memorials suitable for an entertainer. She doesn't belong on a statue with great former Presidents! I mean, why not insert her into the statue of the marines raising the flag at Iwo Jima? She did HER part to win that war! Or why wasn't she buried in Arlington National Cemetery?

The presentation of the show seems very awkward. Including the theme song and the way people asked questions.

did Phil actually say Lucy was, "flaunting her body" in that scene in the red dress? what the frig is he talking about - it's the most baggy, non-form fitting outfit ever. during this time period, older women weren't "allowed" to show their bodies anymore. it was moo-moos and baggy, non descript old lady outfits - that and the helmet head hair-dos, made women look 20 years older than their years - very sad. the only possible exception was Dinah Shore, but she had a natural sexuality to her that defied age - just ask Burt Reynolds .. . .

@nonenoneonenonenone

6 жыл бұрын

She was throwing herself around and it was very clingy, if not revealing, saucy for it's time.

I think Desilu produced the original Star Trek series.

You can't top Rosalind Russell in "Auntie Mame" she was the best!!!

@Eagle4Change

7 жыл бұрын

yes you can, thats your opinion only, they are very different....I love them both and see them as different movies.

@brianandrews7099

4 жыл бұрын

Amazing, your opinion is correct!

Whenever Dick Cavett flew, he'd ask the airline staff, "Who's the worst celebrity you had to deal with?". The answer was always, "Lucille Ball".

@Scorchy666

2 жыл бұрын

I can believe it. She always looked as if she wanted to complain about something.

@meandmymonkey5137

2 жыл бұрын

I knew flight attendants s who confirmed that. Fact

The Lu in Desilu