Year: 1958

Country: USA

Actors: Vivian Vance, Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz

Director: Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz, Vivian Vance

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When exasperated, he often reverts to speaking rapidly in Spanish. As with Lucy, not much is revealed about his past or family. Ricky's mother (played by actress Mary Emery) appears in two episodes; in another Lucy mentions that he has five brothers. Ricky also mentions that he had been "practically raised" by his uncle Alberto (who was seen during a family visit to Cuba), and that he had attended Havana University.

Year: 1951

Country: USA

Actors: Vivian Vance, Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz

Director: Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz, Vivian Vance

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Country: USA

I Love Lucy is an American television sitcom starring Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz, Vivian Vance, and William Frawley. The black-and-white series originally ran from October 15, 1951, to May 6, 1957, on the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS). When the original series ended, the show continued for three more seasons with 13 one-hour specials, running from 1957 to 1960, known first as The Lucille Ball-Desi Arnaz Show and later in reruns as The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour.

Year: 1952

Country: USA

Actors: Vivian Vance, Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz

Director: Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz, Vivian Vance

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I Love Lucy was the most watched show in the United States in four of its six seasons, and was the first to end its run at the top of the Nielsen ratings (an accomplishment later matched by The Andy Griffith Show and Seinfeld). I Love Lucy is still syndicated in dozens of languages across the world.

Year: 1953

Country: USA

Actors: Vivian Vance, Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz

Director: Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz, Vivian Vance

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Country: USA

The show was the first scripted television program to be shot on 35 mm film in front of a studio audience, won five Emmy Awards and received numerous nominations. In 2002, it ranked second on TV Guide's list of television's greatest shows, behind Seinfeld and ahead of The Honeymooners. In 2007 it was listed as one of Time magazine's "100 Best TV Shows of All-TIME." I Love Lucy remains hugely popular today, as 60 years after its debut, it is still seen by 40 million Americans each year.

Year: 1954

Country: USA

Actors: Vivian Vance, Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz

Director: Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz, Vivian Vance

Available Quality: DivX

Country: USA

Originally set in New York City, I Love Lucy centers on Lucy Ricardo (Lucille Ball) and her singer/bandleader husband Ricky Ricardo (Desi Arnaz), along with their best friends and landlords Fred Mertz (William Frawley) and Ethel Mertz (Vivian Vance). During the second season, Lucy and Ricky have a son named Ricky Ricardo Jr. ("Little Ricky"), whose birth was timed to coincide with Ball's real-life delivery of her son Desi Arnaz Jr. by Caesarean section.

Year: 1954

Country: USA

Actors: Vivian Vance, Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz

Director: Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz, Vivian Vance

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Country: USA

Lucy is naive and ambitious, with an overactive imagination and a knack for getting herself into trouble. Known for her fiery red hair, (despite the fact the show aired in black-and-white), Lucy appears as a scatter-brained homemaker with the matchless ability to turn an ordinary household chore into a complete and unprecedented disaster. Yet, underneath the cover of her wild behavior and crazy antics, she honestly yearns for stardom. She longs to join her husband in show-business, despite his refusal to cooperate. When things go wrong, she tends to say "Eww". Fred and Ethel are former vaudevillians and this only strengthens her resolve to pr...

Year: 1955

Country: USA

Actors: Vivian Vance, Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz

Director: Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz, Vivian Vance

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Country: USA

The show provided Ball ample opportunity to display her considerable skill at clowning and physical comedy. Character development was not a major focus of early sitcoms, so little was offered about her life before the show.

Year: 1956

Country: USA

Actors: Vivian Vance, Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz

Director: Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz, Vivian Vance

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Country: USA

A few episodes mentioned that she was born in Jamestown, New York (Lucille Ball's real-life home town), (later corrected to West Jamestown), that she graduated from Jamestown High School, that her maiden name was "McGillicuddy" (indicating an Irish ethnicity, though she once mentioned her grandmother was Swedish), and that she met Ricky on a blind date. Her family was absent, other than occasional appearances by her mother (Kathryn Card), who can never get Ricky's name right, she has once called him Mickey Richardson. Lucy also exhibited many stereotypical female traits that were standard for comedy at the time, including being secretive abo...

Year: 1957

Country: USA

Actors: Vivian Vance, Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz

Director: Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz, Vivian Vance

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Country: USA

She is also depicted as a devoted housewife and attentive mother. Lucy and Ricky are mountain climbing in the Alps during their 1956 European vacation.Lucy's husband, Ricky Ricardo, is an up-and-coming Cuban American singer and bandleader with an excitable personality.