She was living in Hollywood at this time appearing in small movie roles here and there while also making radio appearances. She actually auditioned for the role of Scarlett O'Hara for Gone With the Wind in 1938.
The only reason we get to enjoy "I Love Lucy" is because Lucille Ball decided everything shot at Desilu should be on shot on 35 mm film and preserved. The networks destroyed many of their early recordings of TV shows or never recorded them at all. She was a visionary television pioneer and her shows are just as fresh and fun to watch now as they were 65 years ago. I can't imagine the hurdles it took to be a self-made female television executive and TV studio owner in the early 1950's.
"Several demands were made by CBS, insisting that a pregnant woman could not be shown on television, nor could the word "pregnant" be spoken on-air. After approval from several religious figures the network allowed the pregnancy storyline, but insisted that the word "expecting" be used instead of "pregnant". (Arnaz garnered laughs when he deliberately mispronounced it as "'spectin'".) The episode's official title was "Lucy Is Enceinte", borrowing the French word for pregnant;however, episode titles never appeared on the show." "Ball's necessary and planned caesarean section in real life was scheduled for the same date that her television character gave birth."
TooShiftyForYou on January 5th, 2018 at 15:38 UTC »
She was living in Hollywood at this time appearing in small movie roles here and there while also making radio appearances. She actually auditioned for the role of Scarlett O'Hara for Gone With the Wind in 1938.
johnmasonnn on January 5th, 2018 at 16:35 UTC »
The only reason we get to enjoy "I Love Lucy" is because Lucille Ball decided everything shot at Desilu should be on shot on 35 mm film and preserved. The networks destroyed many of their early recordings of TV shows or never recorded them at all. She was a visionary television pioneer and her shows are just as fresh and fun to watch now as they were 65 years ago. I can't imagine the hurdles it took to be a self-made female television executive and TV studio owner in the early 1950's.
sonia72quebec on January 5th, 2018 at 18:30 UTC »
"Several demands were made by CBS, insisting that a pregnant woman could not be shown on television, nor could the word "pregnant" be spoken on-air. After approval from several religious figures the network allowed the pregnancy storyline, but insisted that the word "expecting" be used instead of "pregnant". (Arnaz garnered laughs when he deliberately mispronounced it as "'spectin'".) The episode's official title was "Lucy Is Enceinte", borrowing the French word for pregnant;however, episode titles never appeared on the show." "Ball's necessary and planned caesarean section in real life was scheduled for the same date that her television character gave birth."