26 minSeason 6 • Episode 27
LatestRicky has been chosen to dedicate a new Revolutionary War statue in the Westport Town Square. There's a problem: Lucy has accidentally destroyed the one-of-a-kind sculpture.
Cuban Bandleader Ricky Ricardo would be happy if his wife Lucy would just be a housewife. Instead she tries constantly to perform at the Tropicana where he works, and make life comically frantic in the apartment building they share with landlords Fred and Ethel Mertz, who also happen to be their best friends.
Acting
Lucille Ball's face is a precision instrument of comedy.
Production
Shot on 35mm film with a live audience — unprecedented for 1951.
Writing
Three-camera setup and serialized storytelling invented here.
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz's real marriage was crumbling during filming; their on-screen chemistry was partly strategic denial. They divorced in 1960, the year after the show ended.
Network executives wanted Ball to dye her hair blonde and cast a white actor as her husband. She refused both. Desi Arnaz's accented English and Cuban identity became central to American television's first interracial couple.
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