I Love Lucy (TV Series) Lucy Gets a Paris Gown (1956) User Reviews

Re-watching this....about 40 years later.

[planktonrules · 9/10 · 22 December 2019]

I was never a huge fan of "I Love Lucy", though one episode has always stood out in my mind...an excellent show that has timeless appeal..."Lucy Gets a Paris Gown". And, I just discovered that all the old Lucy episodes are available from CBS All Access. Is the show as good as I remembered?

Lucy and Ethel go to a Paris fashion show and naturally they want designer outfits. However, Ricky and Fred are cheap...and the fashions were pretty ridiculous anyway. So, to play a trick on them, Ricky and Fred create their own designer outfits...and they make them as ridiculous as possible. When they give them to the wives, the ladies are NOT pleased. What's next? Well, that's what makes the show worth seeing.

After re-watching the show, in many ways it's as good as I remember. About the only thing I didn't like was the hunger strike portion...as Lucy really overacted horribly...though, I must admit, the show was never intended to be subtle. But, on balance it's a great episode because in the 50s, like today, many of the fashion designers WERE and ARE dressing their models like idiots! Very funny.

Lucy goes to extremes - again!

[kellielulu · 10/10 · 28 August 2022]

Ricky tries to prevent Lucy from attending a Paris fashion show. He originally got Lucy and Ethel invitations but Fred warns him of the potential cost and Ricky tries to be a little underhanded. It doesn't work. Lucy promises she is only going to look but we all know better. What happens from there is a fake hunger strike on Lucy's part a willing partner in Ethel helping Lucy get food and Ricky and Fred playing what I personally think is one of their better revenge plots and showing the dresses were not so hard to make.

Some other very funny segments are Ricky and Fred's reaction to the fashion show dresses and Lucy and Ethel showing off their designs and then realizing they are not from the designer and trying to cover up in a public place! Look for the onlookers amused reactions. Underrated classic.

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[angelahptrio · 8/10 · 25 October 2023]

I know this episode is most memorable because of the fashion. But I personally like the performance of Lucy pretending she's on a starvation protest. The potato's sake dresses are hysterical on Lucy and Ethel; however, I remember the sneaking food around plot a little bit more. Lucy pretending she's starving but won't eat is memorable scene to me when Ricky tries to force her to eat a loaf of bread. Not to mention Ethel keeps on eating and Ricky takes the food service cart away from her. And then Lucy takes all her pieces of food to make a sandwich from all over the room where Ricky wouldn't think to look.

Lucy's other dress

[rgxdzrybr · 9/10 · 18 April 2024]

I think the dress Lucy is wearing when Ricky brings her the first Jaque Marscell dress is one of the prettiest dresses she ever wore on the show. She also wore it at the beginning of the Paris At Last episode . Certainly better than the designer dresses shown.

Still it's such a funny episode . Lucy wants an expensive dress ( five hundred dollars!) nothing to sneeze at now but a small fortune back then .

I'm also not sure I buy that Lucy would spend three days in a hotel room when she's in Paris or another two days moping around for having the first dress returned by Ricky . All that for a dress seems excessive. Lucy's priorities here seem exaggerated. Yet that's Lucy .

Going on a hunger strike for a dress ? I would be more with Ethel on this one but I love the places Lucy had the food hidden!

The revenge plot Ricky came up with was hilarious! One I actually didn't mind. They kind of evened out but why Lucy and Ethel were so quick to burn the dresses ? Did they ever get others?