Let's Hear It For Viv!
Let's Hear It For Viv!
#0Let's Hear It For Viv!
Posted: 9/13/06 at 1:36pm
I've been watching "I Love Lucy" on DVD every night now and just wanted to express my love for Vivian Vance.
Lucille Ball is fantastic, even beyond, but Viv usually seems to get lost behind her image. Well, I'm here to say "We love you Viv!".
She was an amazing actress with perfect timing, and her voice was to die for. Anyone rememeber the epsiode "The Operetta" where Viv sang "Lily of the Valley" in lovely operatic tones then belted the last part? Sublime.
Let's hear it for Viv!
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#1re: Let's Hear It For Viv!
Posted: 9/13/06 at 1:55pm
i identify with Vivian Vance.
i wish i was more like Lucy, but i must accept & embrace that i am more like Viv.
#2re: Let's Hear It For Viv!
Posted: 9/13/06 at 2:13pm
I Love Viv!
Not only as Ethel, but also as Viv on The Lucy Show. My favorites were when they decided to fix the shower themselves to save money and when they had to use bunk beds.
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#3re: Let's Hear It For Viv!
Posted: 9/13/06 at 2:17pm
And let's not forget that Vivian Vance got her start on Broadway in musicals. She was Ethel Merman's understudy in the original Anything Goes and she was also in Red, Hot & Blue.
And she co-starred with Danny Kaye and Eve Arden in Cole Porter's Let's Face It.
#4re: Let's Hear It For Viv!
Posted: 9/13/06 at 2:21pmLOVE!
"They're eating her and then they're going to eat me. OH MY GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD!!!!" -Troll 2
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#5Ethel Mae Potter, we never forgot her!
Posted: 9/13/06 at 2:25pm
I don't know if it's still in print, but try to pick up Frank Castelluccio and Alvin Walker's The Other Side of Ethel Mertz. I read it not too long ago. It's a pretty interesting read.
My favorite I Love Lucy episode is the one where they stop in Albuquerque (Ethel's home town) on their way to California. I think this might be the funniest Lucy ever.
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Updated On: 9/13/06 at 02:25 PM
#6Ethel Mae Potter, we never forgot her!
Posted: 9/13/06 at 2:27pmMy all time FAVORITE is the "Vitametavegimen" episode. I don't think I ever laughed that hard at a TV episode before or since. "Are you unpoopular? Do you pop out at parties?"
"They're eating her and then they're going to eat me. OH MY GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD!!!!" -Troll 2
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Broadway Legend Joined: 11/2/05
#7Ethel Mae Potter, we never forgot her!
Posted: 9/13/06 at 2:28pm
"She was Ethel Merman's understudy in the original Anything Goes"
Wow - I knew she had a Broadway background, but didn't know THAT!
DG
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/2/05
#8Ethel Mae Potter, we never forgot her!
Posted: 9/13/06 at 2:38pm
Lucy in a chocolate factory - funny.
Lucy in a chocolate factory run amok - funnier.
Lucy and Ethel together in the factory run amok - priceless.
#9Ethel Mae Potter, we never forgot her!
Posted: 9/14/06 at 9:33pm
I'm an "Ethel's Hometown" lover myself.
" ...the happiness in the tune convinces me that I'm not afraid."
#10Ethel Mae Potter, we never forgot her!
Posted: 9/14/06 at 9:49pm
:: cturtle sings ::
i'm lily
of the valley
of the valley, valley, valley over there ...
RIP glebby <3
#11Ethel Mae Potter, we never forgot her!
Posted: 9/14/06 at 10:12pmViv was a brilliant comedic actress. She was paled by Lucille Ball, but none the less helped make I Love Lucy what it is today. Bravo Vivian Vance, you are not forgotten.
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#12Ethel Mae Potter, we never forgot her!
Posted: 9/14/06 at 10:16pm
I know a girl's supposed to wait for a Prince to come and get her
But the only Prince I've ever met is my neighbor's Irish Setter...
Lily in The Pleasant Peasant
" ...the happiness in the tune convinces me that I'm not afraid."
#13Ethel Mae Potter, we never forgot her!
Posted: 9/14/06 at 10:23pmToo funny Glebb!
"He is your friend, your partner, your defender, your dog. You are his life, his love, his leader. He will be yours, faithful and true, to the last beat of his heart. You owe it to him to be worthy of such devotion."
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#14Ethel Mae Potter, we never forgot her!
Posted: 9/14/06 at 10:24pm
I didn't used to love Lucy.
I use to LOVE LUCY!
" ...the happiness in the tune convinces me that I'm not afraid."
#15Ethel Mae Potter, we never forgot her!
Posted: 9/14/06 at 10:49pmWell done medium Rayah.
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