That one had already been told what would have to happen: she would have to fight with Ball, and at some point, Ball’s legs would have to stick up in the air out of the vat. I Love Lucy centred on the lives of Lucy Ricardo (played by Ball) and her bandleader husband, Ricky Ricardo. The series won five Emmy Awards, including best situation comedy (19) and best actress (Lucille Ball, 1956).
Our director didn’t speak Italian, I didn’t speak Italian, no one spoke Italian.”īut the Italian ladies knew how to stomp grapes. I Love Lucy, American television situation comedy that aired on CBS from 1951 to 1957 and was the most popular show in America for four of its six prime-time seasons. “And they said fine, fine, okay, they understood. “So the man that came that day with them said, now this is what you’re going to do,” Ball continued. And we came up with three that didn’t understand English. “We really had to go way down into one of the grape vineyard areas to find anyone that was real Italian. I Love Lucy: A Colorized Celebration - 'Lucy Does a TV Commercial' clip Fathom Events 55.1K subscribers 6.7K 373K views 3 years ago Get tickets at: Fathom Events and CBS. “It’s very difficult to find the real, peasant, short, stocky type of little Italian lady,” Ball explained to Cavett. What followed was a serious fight in which Ball almost drowned in the grape juice. And it got ugly.īall later told Dick Cavett in 1974 that she accidentally hit one of the real Italian ladies that producers had cast to stomp grapes, and the woman took it personally. But it turns out the fight, filmed before a live audience, was a real one.
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