Cornel Wilde appeared in one of the Hollywood episodes of I Love Lucy.
His was the one where he was elsewhere in the same apartment building as Lucy, so she sought to sneak into his room, became locked on the balcony and attempted to climb down to her own apartment.
Just one more episode of Lucy Ricardo, celebrity stalker.
I believe (I may be wrong) that this episode was hilighted as the fiftieth celebrity appearance on the show. I don't see how that can be correct.
Fifty Hollywood actors hadn't made their way through the Ricardoes presence by then.
But what makes this episode wholly unique is how the entire I Love Lucy saga is summed up by one little line uttered by Vivian Vance.
Vance had some extremely profound bits of dialogue at this time on the show. Not sure why.
Lucy, locked out on Wilde's balcony, seeks to get Ethel's attention in her own apartment, where Ethel is baby-sitting little Ricky, by throwing her shoes down the balcony.
Ethel looks around and sees the shoes falling. Lucy calls down to her.
Lucy tells Ethel her plan, to cut up the jacket she is wearing a make it into a rope and climb down.
All she needs is scissors.
Lucy tells Ethel to get the pair of scissors out of the desk drawer and pass them up to Lucy on the end of the broom.
Lucy then tells Ethel where to get the broom.
Ethel looks in the desk drawer, sure enough, there are those scissors.
She then goes to where Lucy said the broom was (against the wall or something) and again, that broom is there.
Ethel begins forcing the ring of the scissors onto the broom handle to pass them up to Lucy and speaks the most incredible line imaginable.
"You think I'd be used to this kind of thing by now."
I guess we were thinking Ethel was like we were; complacent to the Lucy antics. Sure, put the scissors on the broom handle and pass them up.
Set your nose on fire to hide from William Holden, steal John Wayne's footprints, stomp grapes, eat chocolate, meet Superman, get drunk on medicine, put 3 dozen eggs down your shirt.
Yet she tells us in that one line, she isn't used to it. Why does she blindly obey Lucy's instructions. She is Lucy's enabler. She enables Lucy to tell her what to do.
Pass the scissors up on the end of a broom handle? Sure, Lucy, sure.
Why did Ethel and her husband, Fred, let Lucy do as she told them, jump thru the hoop like trained puppies? Well.
I guess they got to go to California and eventually to Europe.
And this was the price, Ethel. This was the price. Now hand up those scissors.
His was the one where he was elsewhere in the same apartment building as Lucy, so she sought to sneak into his room, became locked on the balcony and attempted to climb down to her own apartment.
Just one more episode of Lucy Ricardo, celebrity stalker.
I believe (I may be wrong) that this episode was hilighted as the fiftieth celebrity appearance on the show. I don't see how that can be correct.
Fifty Hollywood actors hadn't made their way through the Ricardoes presence by then.
But what makes this episode wholly unique is how the entire I Love Lucy saga is summed up by one little line uttered by Vivian Vance.
Vance had some extremely profound bits of dialogue at this time on the show. Not sure why.
Lucy, locked out on Wilde's balcony, seeks to get Ethel's attention in her own apartment, where Ethel is baby-sitting little Ricky, by throwing her shoes down the balcony.
Ethel looks around and sees the shoes falling. Lucy calls down to her.
Lucy tells Ethel her plan, to cut up the jacket she is wearing a make it into a rope and climb down.
All she needs is scissors.
Lucy tells Ethel to get the pair of scissors out of the desk drawer and pass them up to Lucy on the end of the broom.
Lucy then tells Ethel where to get the broom.
Ethel looks in the desk drawer, sure enough, there are those scissors.
She then goes to where Lucy said the broom was (against the wall or something) and again, that broom is there.
Ethel begins forcing the ring of the scissors onto the broom handle to pass them up to Lucy and speaks the most incredible line imaginable.
"You think I'd be used to this kind of thing by now."
I guess we were thinking Ethel was like we were; complacent to the Lucy antics. Sure, put the scissors on the broom handle and pass them up.
Set your nose on fire to hide from William Holden, steal John Wayne's footprints, stomp grapes, eat chocolate, meet Superman, get drunk on medicine, put 3 dozen eggs down your shirt.
Yet she tells us in that one line, she isn't used to it. Why does she blindly obey Lucy's instructions. She is Lucy's enabler. She enables Lucy to tell her what to do.
Pass the scissors up on the end of a broom handle? Sure, Lucy, sure.
Why did Ethel and her husband, Fred, let Lucy do as she told them, jump thru the hoop like trained puppies? Well.
I guess they got to go to California and eventually to Europe.
And this was the price, Ethel. This was the price. Now hand up those scissors.