FAQ
What’s your favorite I Love Lucy episode?
It’s far too difficult for me to choose one I Love Lucy episode, but since I get asked this question a lot I’ve decided to just say Lucy Does a TV Commercial. Here’s why: I decided to look up I Love Lucy one day because I remembered it from when I was younger and the first thing that popped up was the Vitametavegamin bit. Long story short; it made me an INSTANT fan of Lucille Ball. She’s been my queen ever since and no one can ever take her place. Ever. Therefore, Lucy Does a TV Commercial holds a very special place in my heart and is without question one of my many favorite I Love Lucy episodes.
How do you make your gifs?
I use Aimersoft Video Converter Ultimate for ripping and Photoshop CS5 to make the actual gif. Here’s a GIF tutorial if you need one.
Which classic movies would you recommend?
110 movies everyone should see:
- Notorious (1946)
- Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)
- 8 1/2 (1963)
- Humoresque (1946)
- Judgement at Nuremberg (1961)
- The Lost Weekend (1945)
- The More the Merrier (1943)
- The Night of the Hunter (1955)
- Gone With the Wind (1939)
- A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
- Waterloo Bridge (1940)
- Anna Karenina (1935)
- To Have and Have Not (1944)
- Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
- The Awful Truth (1937)
- Bringing Up Baby (1938)
- I Remember Mama (1948)
- East of Eden (1955)
- Dinner at Eight (1933)
- It Happened One Night (1934)
- The Thin Man (1934)
- It (1927)
- My Best Girl (1927)
- Nosferatu (1922)
- The Cameraman (1928)
- The Navigator (1924)
- The Gold Rush (1925)
- The Great Dictator (1940)
- Torrent (1926)
- Camille (1936)
- Ninotchka (1939)
- A Star is Born (1954)
- Singin’ in the Rain (1952)
- Mary Poppins (1964)
- The Sound of Music (1965)
- The Wizard of Oz (1939)
- The Red Shoes (1948)
- Psycho (1960)
- Rear Window (1954)
- Mr. and Mrs. Smith (1941)
- Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
- Rebecca (1940)
- (okay, anything Alfred Hitchcock, really)
- Marie Antoinette (1938)
- The Divorcee (1930)
- Top Hat (1935)
- Swing Time (1936)
- The Big Street (1942)
- Peter Pan (1924)
- Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
- It’s a Wonderful Life (1946)
- Kitty Foyle (1940)
- My Man Godfrey (1936)
- Now Voyager (1942)
- Dark Victory (1939)
- Jezebel (1938)
- All About Eve (1950)
- Some Like it Hot (1959)
- Titanic (1953)
- Mildred Pierce (1945)
- Laura (1944)
- Random Harvest (1942)
- Mrs. Miniver (1942)
- Evelyn Prentice (1934)
- Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958)
- Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
- Ball of Fire (1941)
- The Lady Eve (1941)
- Sunset Boulevard (1950)
- A Place in the Sun (1951)
- Broadway Melody of 1940 (1940)
- The Big Sleep (1946)
- His Girl Friday (1940)
- Flesh and the Devil (1926)
- On the Beach (1959)
- What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)
- Mourning Becomes Electra (1947)
- Come Live With Me (1941)
- To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
- Love Crazy (1941)
- Cinderella (1914)
- The General (1926)
- The Women (1939)
- Gilda (1946)
- Carefree (1938)
- The Dark Corner (1946)
- The Shop Around the Corner (1940)
- You Can’t Take it With You (1938)
- No Man of Her Own (1932)
- The Letter (1940)
- The Man Who Came to Dinner (1942)
- Casablanca (1942)
- Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)
- The Great Ziegfeld (1936)
- Monkey Business (1952)
- The Philadelphia Story (1940)
- My Favorite Wife (1940)
- Morocco (1930)
- Shanghai Express (1932)
- Modern Times (1936)
- Sherlock Jr. (1924)
- The Play House (1921)
- The Kid (1921)
- Leave Her to Heaven (1945)
- Vivacious Lady (1938)
- Libeled Lady (1936)
- 12 Angry Men (1957)
- The White Cliffs of Dover (1944)
- The Apartment (1960)
What are your favorite books about Lucille Ball?
- Love, Lucy by Lucille Ball
- Lucy A-Z: The Lucille Ball Encyclopedia by Michael Karol
- Lucille Ball Treasures by Cindy De La Hoz
- Laughing with Lucy: My Life With America’s Leading Lady of Comedy by Madelyn Pugh Davis
- Lucy at the Movies by Cindy De La Hoz
I also highly recommend Jess Oppenheimer’s book:
- Laughs, Luck…and Lucy: How I came to create the Most Popular Sitcom of All Time.
Not solely about Lucille Ball, but the book is hilarious and Lucy is, of course, a major part of it.
Who are your favorite actors/actresses?
Read my About Me
What do you think about Lucie Arnaz?
I don’t really know why I get this question so often. I guess some people have gotten the wrong impression of her or something. Personally I love her. I think she’s been incredibly generous and kind with the fans of her parents through the years and still continues to be. I think both Lucie and Desi Jr. are wonderful people. Wise, strong, reflected and very down to earth.
Can you recommend me some books about Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz?
- Lucy & Desi: The Legendary Love Story of Television’s Most Famous Couple by Warren G. Harris
- Desilu: The Story of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz by Coyne Steven Sanders and Tom Gilbert
- Lucy & Desi: A Real Life Scrapbook of America’s Favorite TV Couple by Elisabeth Edwards
