Lucille ball dancing with chorus line scene

I win. Lucy comes out as Petunia Ricardo and dances pretty well if she was on drugs. In reality, Lucille Ball was a chorus girl. But Lucy Ricardo is a tutu-clad pile of poop on legs. Maybe you should be reading my Episode Watch Party posts every Wednesday! What I want to know is what the fuck are those dudes wearing? Was that really necessary?

Anyway it turns out Ricky went ahead and hired a ballet dancer, so her whole plan goes to shit and she has to settle for being a comic. Which is actually the backstory of every comic. It meant a clown who talks. And he only wants to work with a dude.

Lucille ball dancing with chorus line scene

Fortunately Lucy convinces him to act with her, even though she has the serious handicap of a gaping hole between her legs. But at least this guy knows the appropriate use of makeup:. The comic tells a charming story about how he discovered some stranger was banging his wife, and how he stalked them all over the world. The best would be either lemon meringue or pavlova, with whipped cream on top and no fruit.

Come to think of it, I could just make a pie and eat it straight up. This is not a great episode for coulrophobics. He was one the leading dancers for choreographer Agnes de Mille As an actor, Mitchell is primarily remembered for his role as diabolical businessman Palmer Cortlandt in the long-running soap opera "All My Children". Mitchell played this role from to , and Cortlandt was one of the series' major characters until In , Mitchell was born in Sacramento, California.

His parents were English immigrants who operated a fruit farm in Turlock, an agricultural settlement in Stanislaus County, California. In , his parents separated. His mother returned to England, and took Mitchell's siblings with her. Unable to raise Mitchell on his own, his father entrusted him to the care of vaudevillians Gene and Katherine King.

While the senior Mitchell eventually reclaimed custody over his son, Mitchell became interested in a show business career of his own. Mitchell left Turlock in , in order to seek education as an actor. He studied drama at Los Angeles City College, and was trained in modern dance by famed choreographer Lester Horton Following his graduation, Mitchell formally joined the Lester Horton Dancers , Horton's own dance company.

Horton attempted to form a new dance company there for dancer Sonia Shaw, and his main investor was Shaw's husband. The investor reneged on the deal, and Horton's company went bankrupt before its debut performance. Mitchell was left unemployed for the first time in his career. Mitchell had trouble finding acting or dancing jobs in New York City, where there were many available performers.

Mitchell himself had no connections in the city. He eventually applied for a job as a dancer in the musical "Bloomer Girl" , where Agnes de Mille was the choreographer. She asked him to perform ballet moves, unaware that Mitchell had little to no training in ballet. Instead Mitchell performed a dance improvisation. De Mille was sufficiently impressed by his style to offer him the dual position of principal dancer and assistant choreographer in the show.

He took the offer. Mitchell's professional relationship with de Mille lasted from to In her autobiography, she praised Mitchell, commenting that he gad "probably the strongest arms in the business, and the adagio style developed by him and his partners has become since a valued addition to ballet vocabulary. He was eventually offered a contract with Warner Brothers by producer Michael Curtiz Mitchell only appeared in two Warner Brothers-produced film.

Mitcell was next signed to a contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM , where he played supporting roles in films from to His last MGM-produced film was the Biblical epic "The Prodigal" , a notorious box office flop that resulted in losses of , dollars by the company. Mitchell's contract was terminated shortly afterward. In , Mitchell gained his first lead role in a film, playing gunfighter Terrall Butler in the Western "The Peacemaker" It was a low-budget production by independent producer Hal R.

Makelim, and the film eventually only had a limited release. It was Mitchell's last film role for decades. Mitchell was able to find steady work as an actor in television productions. In , he gained the recurring role of corrupt Captain Lloyd Griffin in the soap opera "The Edge of Night" He eventually gained the lead role of professor of literature Julian Hathaway in another soap opera, "Where the Heart Is" The series had "fairly healthy ratings" for its entire run, but it was typically the lowest-rated soap on CBS' daytime schedule.

It was eventually canceled and replaced by a more successful soap opera, called "The Young and the Restless" For much to the s, Mitchell was reduced to sporadic guest star appearances in television. He financially supported himself as an acting teacher at Juilliard, Yale University, and Drake University. He was eventually offered the new role of businessman Palmer Cortlandt in the soap opera "All My Children", a role he played for 31 years.

By , Mitchell was forced to reduce his television appearances due to health problems. He was suffering from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, an obstructive lung disease characterized by long-term breathing problems and poor airflow. He formally retired from acting in , but made return appearances in He died in January , his death caused by his chronic disease and complications by pneumonia.

He was years-old. Dennis O'Keefe. Tall, cheerful, outdoorsy leading man of Hollywood B movies who started in show business as an infant accompanying his vaudevillian parents "Flanagan and Edwards, the Rollicking Twosome" on the stage. In his teens, Dennis started to write film scripts while attending college. He then tried to break into films as an extra, appearing under his birth name Bud Flanagan.

His easy-going manner and impudent grin -- possibly reminding Clark Gable of himself they worked together on Saratoga -- led to the star suggesting Bud to MGM management for leading roles. In short order, Bud Flanagan became Dennis O'Keefe, resident tough guy of action dramas and the occasional comedy. Serious acting was rarely called upon but Dennis handled the material given to him with aplomb and good humour.

After his contract with MGM expired in , he free-lanced and appeared in, arguably, three of his best pictures: in support of Roland Young and Joan Blondell in the delightful supernatural murder spoof Topper Returns ; in the Val Lewton -produced thriller, The Leopard Man ; and in the tense crime melodrama T-Men which he co-scripted with John C.

Higgins for Eagle-Lion. This rather unambitious little film for what was essentially considered a 'poverty row' studio proved so successful that it spawned a CBS radio series three years later. Dennis was chosen for the lead though his character was renamed and his delivery was perfect for scripts which balanced drama with light comedy. For most of the period between and , Dennis alternated roles on radio with film work.

He had another lead in the radio serial "Hollywood Mystery Time" as a movie director-cum-sleuth. On screen, he displayed his penchant for comedy in the funniest version of the much-filmed Brewster's Millions , followed by the forgettable farce Getting Gertie's Garter from the same stable. In addition, there were scores of 'cheap and cheerful' action films including several made in Europe.

Dennis eventually turned his hand to directing with Angela , a crime thriller set in Rome which he also co-scripted under the pseudonym Jonathan Rix. At the end of the decade, Dennis starred in his own short-lived television sitcom about a widowed Los Angeles syndicated columnist. After that, he guested in just a few more TV episodes before his untimely death from lung cancer in August Tommy Rall.

He first appeared on film as a child in After a series of great dancing roles on screen Kiss Me Kate , Seven Brides for Seven Brothers , My Sister Eileen , he performed in a variety of character roles in films. He then returned to the American Ballet Theater. He appeared on Broadway in "Miss Liberty" and "Milk and Honey" , as well as in several less successful shows.

He died at age 90 in Matt Mattox. Andrea Leeds. Actress Soundtrack Stage Door She made only a handful of films within a span of four years , but gentle, soulful-eyed Andrea Leeds touched hearts with those few, culminating in an Oscar-nomination for Best Supporting Actress as the sensitive, aspiring young actress who doesn't survive the school of hard knocks in the movie version of Edna Ferber - George S.

Kaufman 's serio-comic play Stage Door Andrea was born in Butte, Montana. As her father was a British-born mining engineer, the family traveled quite extensively during her "wonder years". Following graduation from UCLA with the intentions of being a screenwriter, she pursued acting instead and apprenticed in bit roles under her given name, Antoinette Lees.

She appeared in Hal Roach comedy shorts with comedian Charley Chase at this same time before landing better parts in better pictures. She portrayed another actress hopeful in the fine film Letter of Introduction , and gave equally affecting turns in the sentimental drama The Goldwyn Follies , Swanee River as Mrs. Stephen Foster , The Real Glory and Earthbound , all blessed with her trademark gentleness, grace and humanity.

Howard's racing stables, and gave up her profession completely to raise a family. Devoutly religious, Andrea and her husband eventually settled in the Palm Springs area with their two children, Robert Jr. Her life and interests would include owning and breeding horses. After her husband's death in , she operated and owned a modest jewelry shop in the Palm Springs area, designing many of her own pieces.

Andrea died of cancer in at age Virginia Grey. Actress Soundtrack Airport Born into a show-business family--her father was a director and her mother was a film cutter--Virginia Grey made her film debut at age 10 as Eva in Uncle Tom's Cabin After a few more films as a child actress, she left the business to finish her schooling. Returning to films as an adult in the s, she started out getting extra work and bit parts, but soon graduated to speaking roles and was eventually signed to a contract by MGM.

The studio gave her leading parts in "B" pictures and supporting roles in "A" pictures. She left MGM in and went out on her own, working at almost every studio in Hollywood. She worked steadily in both films and TV, and retired from the business in Gwen Verdon. Gwen Verdon was born to the theater. Her mother, Gertrude, was a vaudevillian and dancer.

Her father, Joseph, was an MGM studio electrician. She had to wear corrective boots as a child to straighten out her legs, which were misshapen by childhood illness. Nonetheless, she first appeared as a tapper on stage at age 6. She got her break in Bob Fosse 's "Damn Yankees" in She married Fosse in and separated from him, although never divorcing him, in the mid-'70s.

She and her daughter, Nicole Fosse , created the current stage musical "Fosse". Upon her death, Broadway dimmed all of its marquee lights in tribute. Barbara Pepper. Actress Soundtrack Foreign Correspondent Barbara Pepper's signature roles were as worldly "dames" during the Hollywood's s and s Golden Era, fitting snugly alongside other flashy broads of that period such as Iris Adrian , Joan Blondell and Veda Ann Borg.

Barbara patented her own unique, hard-boiled style, however, and should have gone further than she did. Most people who remember this fine character actress today as Doris Ziffel, the shrill, slovenly barnyard neighbor of Eddie Albert and Eva Gabor on TV's highly popular bucolic Green Acres series. By age 16, her mind was already set for a show biz career.

Within a short time, and against her parents' wishes, she nabbed a show girl spot in Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. Here is where she met fellow chorine Lucille Ball and the two became lifetime, dedicated friends. After appearing as a member of the "George White's Scandals" on Broadway, Barbara soon integrated radio and film work as well, paying her dues primarily in bit parts as saloon girls, clerks, chippies, and the like.

A couple of movies gave her the chance for brassy stardom, including Our Daily Bread as a floozie named Sally, and a love interest role opposite comedian Bert Wheeler of Wheeler and Woolsey in Mummy's Boys , but the roles were basically one-dimensional and she remained in the secondary ranks for the rest of her career. Her father, Dave Pepper , a non-professional, put together a brief, minor character career when he visited his daughter on the film set of Wanted!

Jane Turner and was cast by director Edward Killy in the unbilled role of a detective. Father and daughter both also appeared in another movie the following year: The Outcasts of Poker Flat Trained by acting guru Maria Ouspenskaya at one stage, she married actor Craig Reynolds ne Harold Hugh Enfield in and the marriage proved a loving one despite later financial hardships when both could only find sporadic work.

Dance, Girl, Dance is about the trials and tribulations of two dancers. The other is a beautiful, self-centered "dame" who puts alot more "oomph" into her dancing, she's known simply as "Bubbles" Lucille Ball. They belong to the same dancing troupe. The scene opens at a seedy nightclub the girls work at in Akron, Ohio. Just as they finish their number the club is raided because it's really a front for a gambling den in the back room.

The handsome, wealthy Jimmy Harris Louis Hayward happens to be there that night, drowning his sorrows because his marriage is falling apart. Bubbles makes a play for him but he looks right past her to Judy, to whom he is instantly attracted. The feeling is mutual. They hit it off until he notices her blue eyes, which remind him all too much of his estranged wife.

When Bubbles tries to work her charm on him again he responds and goes off with her, leaving a disappointed Judy wondering what on earth just happened. But she quickly puts it past her. As she points out to her friend Sally Mary Carlisle , "The only thing I really care about, is dancing". Of more importance at the moment is finding another job, so the troupe make their way back to New York.

Back in the big city, their agent, Madame Basilova Maria Ouspenskaya gets them an audition for a hula number. Bubbles has yet to return from Akron so Judy does the solo. She is a ballet dancer, and unfortunately, her "classy" style is not what they are looking for in a hula. Written in Music by Ray Henderson, lyrics by Sam M. Lewis and Joe Young.

A song from the movie Babes On Broadway It was also featured in the movie Don't Bother To Knock Music by Burton Lane, lyrics by Ralph Freed. Written by Johnny Mercer. A hit by Frankie Laine. In English, it means "The Cockroach". Music by Tolchard Evans, lyrics by Erell Reaves. Music by Walter Donaldson, lyrics by Gus Kahn.