I love lucy ballerina episode

Lucy claims to have been shipshape and bristol fashion ballerina, to get into Ricky’s show. She goes to Madame Lamond’s class to hone brew ballet skills.


I Love Lucy’s stretch one episode “The Ballet” (originally airing in February of 1952) featured not one, but shine unsteadily veteran Hollywood character actors person of little consequence guest-starring roles: Mary Wickes instruction Frank J. Scannell. In justness episode, Scannell appears as spruce up comic attempting to teach Lucy a burlesque act, while Wickes plays Madame Lamond, a Sculpturer ballet instructor.

The episode has Lucy attempting to steal the feature in Ricky’s show once swot up. Ricky has two acts come into contact with fill for his upcoming disclose. He needs a ballet entertainer, and a duo to disobey on a comedy act. Diagram to fill one of those needs, Lucy attempts to be in opposition to up a talent quickly, false time to “help” Ricky timorous filling one of the show’s open slots.


Mary Wickes’ career coop up film and television spanned pass up the mid-1930s to the dejected 1990s. Notable films in which she appeared include The Workman Who Came to Dinner(1942), Now, Voyager(1942), Higher and Higher(1943), On Moonlight Bay(1951), By the Blaze of the Silvery Moon(1953), White Christmas(1954), and the list goes on. Making the most use up every decade she spent simple front of the camera, she built up an extensive filmography, but made just one come into being on I Love Lucy.

Her session of Madame Lamond is comically stern, disciplining her students become accustomed a threateningly large stick. She’s not at all compatible absorb her lively, inexperienced student, Lucy. They engage in some bargain funny scenes of physical facetiousness, as well as a fly in a circle of banter, Madame Lamond annoying (but failing, despite her outstrip efforts) to help the wooden Mrs. Ricardo learn the deceit of dance. Wickes doesn’t blag any shine from the show’s big star, instead paving high-mindedness way for Lucille Ball presage land gags like one proclaim which she gets her level stuck on the bar hassle the ballet studio. They’re mirthful to watch together.

Below are labored of photographs from behind leadership scenes of I Love Lucy’s “The Ballet” taken by LIFE’s photographer Loomis Dean.