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Lucille Ball

TCM Greatest Classic Films: Legends – Lucille Ball GREATEST CLASSIC FILMS COLLECTION: LEGENDS THE LONG, LONG TRAILER (1954) Anyone know how to park this thing? Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz play newlyweds who hit the honeymoon road with a 40-foot house trailer in tow in this crowd-pleasing comedy directed by Vincente Minnelli. FOREVER DARLING (1956) Heaven help them! Ball and Arnaz head for the great outdoors and so does her guardian angel (James Mason) in a comedy that asks: Can marriage survive a camping trip? ROOM SERVICE (1938) Ball and Ann Miller join the Marx Brothers in a riotous romp about a cash-strapped theatrical troupe trying to nail down a backer for their new Broadway venture. DU BARRY WAS A LADY (1943) Their friendship is a perfect musical-comedy blendship! Ball goes from NYC torch singer to the dream girl of Red Skelton’s wacky, 18th-century-France reverie. Gene Kelly joins the fun, spiced by nifty Cole Porter songs! DISC 1: SIDE A ~ THE LONG, LONG TRAILER INCLUDES: Pete Smith Specialty Short Ain’t It Aggravatin’? Cartoon Dixieland Droopy Theatrical Trailer. SIDE B ~ FOREVER DARLING INCLUDES: Behind-the-Scenes Segment from The MGM Parade TV Series. DISC 2: SIDE A ~ ROOM SERVICE INCLUDES: Vintage Short Party Fever, Classic Cartoon The Daffy Doc. SIDE B ~ DU BARRY WAS A LADY INCLUDES: Pete Smith Specialty Short Seeing Hands, Cartoon Bah Wilderness.

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Lucille Ball Film, The Collection (DVD)Big Street: Haughty nightclub singer Gloria Lyons (Lucille Ball) doesn’t have time for the little people, including Little Pinks (Henry Fonda), the busboy who adores her. Then Gloria is paralyzed when a mobster knocks her down the stairs, and those little people are the only ones who help her. Critic’s Choice: Tossing inspired throwaway lines right and left, Hope is a New York critic who loves writing pointed reviews that close insufferably lousy plays. But there’s a new play in town by his redheaded wife (Ball). Dance Girl Dance: Bubbles (Lucille Ball) loves to dance. But she also likes to eat. Her friend Judy (Maureen O’Hara) may choose to suffer for her art, but not Bubbles. She swap hers balletshoes for a G-string…and turns patrons’ fantasies into dollars as burlesque sensation Tiger Lily White. Dubarry Was a Lady: Hapless nightclub hat check boy Red Skelton loves glamorous chanteuse Lucille Ball. Handsome hoofer Gene Kelly loves her too. But Lucy only loves money. Then Red mistakenly gulps down a Mickey Finn, dreams he’s in 18th-century France and before you can powder your wig, a throng of suitors fall in love with Lucy! Mame: Lucille Ball brings star sparkle to the title role, a high-living grande dame who’s outlandishly eccentric and, when suddenly faced with raising an orphaned nephew, fiercely loving.

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Lucille Ball RKO Comedy Collection, The: Volume 1 (2 Discs)Long before she was crowned the queen of TV, Lucille Ball reigned as the “queen of the Bs” for RKO pictures, appearing in over 43 films. This collection brings together three rarely seen treasures from Lucy’s RKO days, giving modern audiences a chance to witness a star on the rise. Before she hitched her antics to Vincente Minnelli’s The Long, Long Trailer, Lucy joined Joe Penner in 1938′s romp Go Chase Yourself. After bank robbers use her husband’s camper, Carol Meeley (Ball) sets out to prove her hubby is far too dumb to commit a crime. Lucy moved up to leading lady in Next Time I Marry. In order to claim her inheritance, heiress Nancy Crocker Fleming (Ball) must marry a “plain American Joe.” So she does what any self-respecting debutante would do – she hires a husband. Rounding out the collection is 1941′s Look Who’s Luaghing, featuring a now glamorous Lucy. James V. Kern, who would later direct I Love Lucy, pens the tale, while screen pioneer Allan Dwan directs this rollicking satire which also stars Edgar Bergen & Charlie McCarthy.

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Lucille Ball