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Your favorite movie that Lucille Ball starred in...

I didn't remember any Lucille Ball movies except something about a really big trailer they pulled on a trip. I remember laughing a lot during that movie. It has been a long time.
 
Rickrock said:
I didn't remember any Lucille Ball movies except something about a really big trailer they pulled on a trip. I remember laughing a lot during that movie. It has been a long time.
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I remember this having some funny scenes in it. :)
 
metta said:
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I remember seeing this when it was on television, long after 1968 when it was released, and thinking how shitty television writers were to just lift the story out of the movie and make the dopey The Brady Bunch. Of course, as a child in the early 70's, we adored The Brady Bunch because they were a happy family, had two parents, lived in a modern home, and had a nanny/maid/cook/comic-relief-sidekick. The household was literally the American Dream at the time. The average American family didn't want to live in the Clampett's mansion -- we wanted to live in the middle class suburbs that we saw when we drove by them going to our old house with an outhouse, or our rundown rental.

Also loved The Lucy Show, and I Love Lucy, but not particularly any of her movies. Stone Pillow looked like some hybrid social justice caricature of a bag woman, crossed with an aging comedian trying to go against type and win a dramatic award after her train had left the station.

Ball has always scared me after seeing her interviewed as an actress when she appeared on talk shows. She was bitter, brash, cold, jaded, and had the rasp of a chain smoker. In short, she reminded me of a better dressed version of my mother. At least when Bette Davis did interviews, it just solidified her plausibility as an ice queen rather than went directly against type.

Ball always seemed cynically jabbing at Hollywood and image creators and even her own children, while blithely making millions off all three, and that was when a million could buy something. I think she intentionally broke the spell that acting creates and enjoyed it. Why be a magician if you hate magic?
 

This is my kind of movie. Very noir but Lucille, in a far from typical role, adds a freshness and gives the film a lift. The lighting is superb, long deep shadows and luminous cigarette smoke. They don't make 'em like this any more.
 
unloadonme said:
I don't recall ever seeing a Lucille Ball film.
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In her early films, before television roles, she played hotsy-totsy, Depression-era, world-wise jaded women, fond of using Jersey-like slang. Think of Shelley Winters 150 lbs. before she sank the Poseidon.
 
NotHardUp1 said:
In her early films, before television roles, she played hotsy-totsy, Depression-era, world-wise jaded women, fond of using Jersey-like slang. Think of Shelley Winters 150 lbs. before she sank the Poseidon.
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Yeah, thanks. I have heard of her. I just don't recall ever seeing anything she was in. If anything like that was shown on the TV these days I can't imagine that I'd watch it.
 
I remember as a kid, seeing a Li'l Abner comic strip where cartoonist Al Capp did a parody of Lucille Ball, in which the character was named Lucille Bald. The only thing I remember was a frame where a tough guy mobster type was holding Ms. Bald outside a skyscraper window, upside down by the ankles, shaking her and making her wig fall off, revealing a hairless dome. "Da woild will see you're bald, Lucille Bald!" he said to her.
 
See, I've never found Lucille Ball funny. Sometimes the TV shows were entertaining, but I rarely ever laughed.

But I do have respect for her. And I had even more when I saw this quote extracted from some interview with her:

"Oh, I'm not funny. What I am is brave."
 
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