Definitely a classic I Love Lucy episode. Probably majority fanbase favorite of all time. I certainly enjoy watching this again and again and again. Too bad The Brown Derby isn't there anymore would've been great to eat there.
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Mack Sennett would be proud
bkoganbing18 September 2012
Warning: Spoilers
William Holden who co-starred with Lucille Ball in Miss Grant Takes Richmond in 1949 got to be a guest star on I Love Lucy five years later as the Ricardos took that celebrated trip to Hollywood where several film stars appeared as themselves. The one common thread was every time Lucy met a film star, something hilarious happened.
In the case of William Holden, Lucy had to go to that celebrated Hollywood eatery The Brown Derby which sadly is no longer there. You would think that being married to an orchestra leader like Ricky Ricardo would give her some kind of immunization from bad behavior toward celebrities. But that was some of the charm. Improbable though it is Lucy behaved like any other star struck film fan and the TV audience loved it.
When she saw Holden just trying to have a meal there, she goes ballistic in the end resulting in Holden getting a pie dumped in his face by a traveling waiter. It was the highlight of the episode though it came in the middle of the story.
Later on when Desi Arnaz brings Holden to their hotel room, Lucy puts on a Groucho Marx type glasses and mustache disguise in a vain attempt to avoid another scene with the film star she caused such an embarrassment to.
As for Holden I'm sure he loved the comic respite from his roles on film. He took the pie like a true Mack Sennett comic.
In the case of William Holden, Lucy had to go to that celebrated Hollywood eatery The Brown Derby which sadly is no longer there. You would think that being married to an orchestra leader like Ricky Ricardo would give her some kind of immunization from bad behavior toward celebrities. But that was some of the charm. Improbable though it is Lucy behaved like any other star struck film fan and the TV audience loved it.
When she saw Holden just trying to have a meal there, she goes ballistic in the end resulting in Holden getting a pie dumped in his face by a traveling waiter. It was the highlight of the episode though it came in the middle of the story.
Later on when Desi Arnaz brings Holden to their hotel room, Lucy puts on a Groucho Marx type glasses and mustache disguise in a vain attempt to avoid another scene with the film star she caused such an embarrassment to.
As for Holden I'm sure he loved the comic respite from his roles on film. He took the pie like a true Mack Sennett comic.
By a nose
kellielulu22 December 2022
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We did eat at the Brown Derby shortly before it closed forever. By then it wasn't anything like it's more famous time. No pictures of movies stars or anything but we could say we had lunch there .
The classic scene with Lucy's nose catching fire would seem planned of course it wasn't but Lucille Ball not only didn't panic but she calmly put out her nose in the coffee and carried on with the scene!
Bill Holden gets a pie in the face and is also a famous classic scene.
Underrated scene that should get more attention is Ethel cutting Lucy's spaghetti with a pair of scissors!
Definitely one of the most famous episodes with some memorable moments.
The classic scene with Lucy's nose catching fire would seem planned of course it wasn't but Lucille Ball not only didn't panic but she calmly put out her nose in the coffee and carried on with the scene!
Bill Holden gets a pie in the face and is also a famous classic scene.
Underrated scene that should get more attention is Ethel cutting Lucy's spaghetti with a pair of scissors!
Definitely one of the most famous episodes with some memorable moments.
Silly Crazy Overdone but there were 2 different Eve Arden scenes-versions shot!
garykettas3 January 2024
YES there were 2 - TWO!!! - different Eve Arden scenes shot (2 different versions) for Eve Arden eating in the next booth at the Brown Derby on TV a long time ago: the one I saw several years ago with her standing up out of the booth in a somewhat annoyed flustered disgusted mood & with some brief head turning in her wide-brim black hat & outfit & making a great (but un-remembered by me) classic snide Eve Arden comment she proceeded to walk past Lucy's-Mertz's booth & grandly walk out of the Brown Derby restaurant! That Eve Arden scene-version nowadays is gone-lost seldom if ever shown on TV any longer which I think logically occurred just before the crazy silly William Holden scene everyone loves!
- New latest REVELATION on missing Eve Arden scene-version just came to my older mind: the Desilu studio authorities in charge must have just simply CUT-DELETED IT after its earlier years showing on TV. It was probably there all along as part the original show filming but suddenly got omitted or deleted to save time-space or whatever reason. You can see in the newer permanent TV version some very brief odd strange camera shots of Eve Arden's empty booth in the Brown Derby with suddenly mysteriously no sign of Eve anywhere ... so they must have sneakily cut-out poor Eve Arden's departure scene entirely out without a trace except perhaps for the strange empty camera shots of the empty booth where Eve & her friends previously sat. Yeah I thought it was quite sneaky of those I Love Lucy show editors but probably no one else remembers it anyway to my dismay!?!?
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