Vivian Vance (July 26, 1909 – August 17, 1979) was an American award winning television and theater actress and singer. Often referred to as “TV’s most beloved second banana,” she is best known for her role as Ethel Mertz, sidekick to Lucille Ball on the American television sitcom I Love Lucy, and as Vivian Bagley on The Lucy Show. Born Vivian Roberta Jones in Cherryvale, Kansas, Vance was the second of six children born to Robert Jones and...
Lucy tells Ethel she took a book out at the library to learn abnormal behavior.
Ethel tells Ricky Lucy might go crazy if he keeps telling her she can't be in...
Ethel tells Ricky that Lucy might become depressed if he doesn't let her act ...
Ethel tells Ricky he's being mean by not letting Lucy join the show.
Ethel tells Lucy what the ad Ricky placed in Variety said.
Ethel tells Lucy that Ricky's ad in variety is for finding new acts down at t...
Ethel listens to the phone conversation between the parents of the boy Lucy w...
Fred tells Ethel since she already spilled the beans to Lucy she might as wel...
Lucy and Fred tug on Ethel. Lucy wants to hear what she has to say about Ric...
Fred and Ethel visit Lucy three times before they tell her they're there to s...
Ethel tries to convince Lucy to have Fred be her partner in practicing for th...
Ethel tells Lucy not to fall for Ricky's idea of having Lucy come down to the...
When Ethel finally tells Lucy what she is referring to, she patronizingly say...
Lucy has no idea what Ethel is referring to as she offers Lucy her friendship...
Ethel thinks for $5 an hour, the baby must be something else.
Lucy finds a job in the paper for a babysitter at $5 an hour.
Ethel jokingly talks about smooching Fred so she can keep the plunger she bou...
Ethel and Lucy come in from a shopping trip and Ethel's' feet hurt bad.
Lucy is mad because Ricky gives Lucy the not so funny parts in the skit and s...
Ethel gets upset because Fred knew it was her in a horse' butt part of a cost...
Lucy and Ethel go through Ricky's old costumes and find a horse suit and Lucy...
Ricky, Lucy and Ethel rehearse the play that Lucy wrote for the women's group.
Over the last few weeks, we’ve seen some large sea changes on Mad Men, so many changes that we seemed due for a break. Last night’s episode, “The Crash” was a break in more ways than one and an unanticipated jaunt through the back alleys of show creator Matthew Weiner’s mind. The Stalker We’ve never [...]
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As I said back when we looked at Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, JJ Abrams’ Star Trek is not my Star Trek, but like Khan, it is a franchise saving spectacle from the mind of an interloper. It’s another film that twists the nethers of purists while serving as a gateway drug to the uninitiated. Sure, [...]
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We knew that changes would come when Don and Ted merged SCDP and CGC, but while this week’s episode did show off some of those anticipated growing pains and redundancies, we also got a chance to pivot back to Don’s consuming love affair with his neighbor Sylvia. The Treehouse. Like a shoebox filled with valuable [...]
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I’m usually not a fan of issue movies. These films take impossibly complex issues and try to condense them down into bite-size portions, usually abandoning the true horrors of these situations in favor of unrealistic heroism, resolution, and a laundry list of cinematic tropes that cheapen the overall project and push people away from [...]
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