Thursday, October 7, 2021

TCM Star of the Month October 2021: Lucille Ball

Lucile Ball in Du Barry Was a Lady (Oct. 21, 8:00 PM)

Now that we're into the first full week of a new month, it's time for a new Star of the Month on TCM. This time out it's Lucille Ball, who was already a Star of the Month at least once considering the piece on her narrated by Carol Burnett that TCM loves to run whenever there's a Lucille Ball movie coming up. But then she made a lot of movies at RKO before decamping to television, and those movies would be in the library that Ted Turner bought which became the backbone of the programming on TCM, which probably still makes it cheaper for TCM to get the rights to those films. At any rate, TCM will be showing Ball's movies every Thursday in prime time, continuing into Friday morning

This first Thursday in October has a bunch of Ball's movies from the 1930s, starting at 8:00 PM with Stage Door, which is definitely worth a watch. Then next week, we get all three of her films with her husband of 20 years, Desi Arnaz, including The Long, Long Trailer (pictured left) at 10:00 PM. The 28th includes some of her later movies, including Yours, Mine, and Ours, which I really enjoy.

Apparently, the "Scary Lucy" statue that had been installed in her home town of Jamestown, NY, was replaced a few years back:

with something more appropriate:

1 comment:

Birgit said...

I love Lucille Ball. My mom in law, back in the 70s, travelled with her husband and my ex, who was 11 at the time, out west in a 5th wheel camper. Along the way, she collected rocks but dad in law told her to get rid of them because they had to climb a mountain. Well, she didn’t..she hid them in all the places she could but when dad tried to get up the mountain but he almost killed the motor so he pulled over and when he opened the door, All the rocks fell out! My ex was laughing and my mom in law tried to hide.