![]() ![]() Ritter thinks that her dropped hints mean that she is attracted to him. Lucy tries her hand at playing Cupid, but Mr. ![]() Lucy's neighbor, Miss Lewis, has her eye on Mr. Lucy ends up performing on stage when she agrees to take care of young twin boys who are set to appear in an amateur hour hosted by Ricky. Note: This episode was edited together with the episodes "Breaking the Lease" and "The Ballet", along with twenty minutes of new footage to create the unreleased I Love Lucy movie in 1953. But her Parisian dance teacher has more than dancing on his mind.Įthel wants Ricky for her club's benefit show, but Lucy wants to be in it too. When Ricky needs a dancer for the Parisian Apache dance number at the club, Lucy wants to be in it. Ricky and Fred, however, think the girls are pregnant and decide to organize a baby shower. When Ricky asks Fred to join him, Ethel thinks the same, and they begin knitting their husbands going away presents. She becomes convinced that he has been drafted (although the base just wants Ricky to appear in a show to entertain the troops). Lucy intercepts a letter for Ricky that asks him to appear at local Army base Fort Dix. Note: William Frawley does not appear in this episode. Lucy dons a disguise and heads for the Tropicana, upset by a gossip column item that links Ricky with Rosemary, a dancer at the club in an earlier version of the script Rosemary was a singer, not a dancer, hence the episode's title. He arranges for Fred to pose as a burglar and "steal", it, but when a real thief sneaks into the apartment during the night, Lucy manages to hang on to it. Ricky rents a mink coat for an act at the club, but Lucy thinks it is for her, and will not take it off. However, when a photographer from Look magazine is set to come the apartment to take pictures, Ricky expects Lucy to clean up the whole apartment. He can be messy in his half, but not hers. Tired of Ricky's messy behavior, Lucy divides the apartment in half. But when both Lucy and Fred pretend to be a spirit, things quickly get confusing. To please him, Lucy arranges a séance that evening in their apartment featuring "Medium Rhea" (Ethel). ![]() Merriweather reveals that he is also interested in the occult. Merriweather, that Ricky cannot appear in a show because of his horoscope. This hobby almost destroys Ricky's career, as Lucy tells an important talent agent, Mr. Lucy is on a superstitious kick, studying numerology and astrology. Note: Vivian Vance does not appear in this episode. (This is a remake of an original unaired pilot that was considered "lost" until 1990.) Ricky sends Lucy downtown for an errand to keep her away from his nightclub while he does a TV audition, but when a clown has an accident and cannot make it, Lucy shows ends up taking his place. Frank Nelson makes the first of eleven appearances on the show, three times as game show emcee "Freddie Fillmore". When Ethel tells Lucy's fortune with a deck of cards and predicts death in the future, Lucy fears that Ricky is planning to murder her-especially after she overhears Ricky talking about "replacing" a girl (actually one of the dancers in his show).ĭesperate to balance her household accounts, Lucy agrees to a quiz show stunt in order to win $1,000, and must introduce a stranger to Ricky as her "long lost husband." However, when Lucy mistakes a tramp for the stranger, things get confusing. Lucy cannot put down a murder mystery novel she is reading, which features a man who kills his wife to remarry. "Lucy Thinks Ricky Is Trying to Murder Her" Lucy is determined to lose weight, and Ricky provides an incentive by telling her she can appear in his show at the Tropicana nightclub where he and his band perform, if she can fit into a size 12 dress. When that does not work, Lucy decorates the apartment with things to remind Ricky of his childhood in Cuba, and then she puts on a performance as Carmen Miranda. Ethel reads to Lucy a book full of advice on how to rekindle the flame, and insists that Lucy take up Ricky's hobbies. Lucy thinks Ricky is losing interest in her. An old friend helps Lucy and Ethel play a trick on their husbands, but Ricky and Fred soon see through the ruse and turn the tables. The girls decide on The Copacabana, but the men want to go see the fights. The Ricardos and the Mertzes agree to celebrate the Mertzes' wedding anniversary together. Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh and Bob Carroll, Jr. The pilot was first broadcast on CBS television stations nationwide on Monday, April 30, 1990, 39 years after it was originally filmed. This unaired pilot was considered lost until the widow of Pepito Pérez (the clown who appeared in it) notified CBS that she owned a copy, given to Pérez by Desi Arnaz and Lucille Ball in gratitude for his performance. ![]()
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