1973-74 Television Season 50th Anniversary: Here's Lucy (Lucy 3/7/74 Interview w/Cavett Pt 2 of 5)
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- čas přidán 26. 05. 2024
- As we continue our Memorial Day remembrance holiday weekend, and as we look back at the 1973-1974 season, one of the milestone events that took place was the ending of Lucille Ball's remarkable run on network television with CBS. Her third series, Here's Lucy, had now run for six seasons, and as she will state in this interview series, six seasons was in her mind and plan as just about right for her series. As it turns out, all three: I Love Lucy, The Lucy Show and Here's Lucy ran six seasons (I Love Lucy running a bit longer in its monthly hour long format).
This interview with Ms. Ball on The Dick Cavett Show, which aired March 7, 1974, is a real charming event... she is in good spirits and at a point in her life where she's comfortable talking about a wide range of topics, both professional and personal. At this point, she had worked on CBS with her three Lucy series from 1951 to 1974 (with a two season break in the early 1960s). A remarkable achievement.
We've segmented this interview between Lucille and Dick Cavett into five video clips, and in these clips she talks about her television series, marriages to Desi Arnaz and Gary Morton, her children, fame, the pros and cons of being a liberated woman and business executive, and life, love and her craft.
A fascinating look at a television legend who was truly becoming at legend in her own time by the mid 1970s.
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Enjoy. Parts 3 through 5 of this interview will be presented later this week as we wrap up the month of May and say hello to June.
Lucy is still way ahead of everyone. She was fun and a force. She took chances. People today could learn alot from her.
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My first thought while watching this clip was that Lucy turned her body away from Dick. She seemed guarded and apprehensive. She was much loved - considered a treasure - and Dick was thought to be a slightly serious interviewer… a step above talk show hosts like Merv Griffen and Mike Douglas. Maybe my take isn’t accurate; I was just in my early teens when I would watch their shows with my mother.
Lucy is smart abd funny❤But that Cavett guy is horrible. Period.
I just can't understand how they could have put someone like him on TV, and interviewing famous people.
You must be joking. He had on some of the best guests and obviously, the network liked his ratings. He was not arrogant and tried to be sensitive to his guests. There were a few walk-offs during his career but ones such as Lily Tomlin, had nothing to do with him. If you look for Lily Tomlin walks off Dick Cavett Show, you will see what I mean. He was on from 1968 to 2007. People like him. He was a gentleman and very intelligent. This clip with Lucille Ball does neither of them justice. She was not as people think of her. She even tried to kill herself in Manhattan as a very young woman after a rejection for a small part. She had a very hard life and I believe it contributed to her anger, depression and even chain smoking. She was a great entertainer but hated by more people that most would realize. Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor hated her. There were others.
HD Lucille Ball, Carol Burnett & Lucie Arnaz 1971 Interview on "The Dick Cavett Show" You might find this surprising. She was only 16 at the time. Her daughter Lucie seems very upset about hearing this for the 1st time. Lucy plays down her distress and makes it into a joke of sorts. It is not funny. I find it very disturbing. This occurred around 1927.
@@albertmarnell9976 I have watched that interview before. I am going to watch it again now. I can't agree with you about Cavett. He was not intelligent. He did not know how to read the guests or the situation. He really didn't have a good grasp on the guest's background ( from lack of research ). He seems extremely uncomfortable interviewing and he makes his guests uncomfortable. I just feel embarrassment when ever I watch any of his interviews, and I've watched a lot of them.
@@k_DAN I believe you. Listen, we all are different. As you know, getting people to agree with us in life is not logical or rational. I'm guilty of expecting people to see things through my eyes. All people are that way. I too have watched many of his interviews. I find him relaxing to listen to.
I'd heard about his depression and just found this from the Yale School of Medicine. That might be part of what you notice. He obviously struggled with it.
For author, blogger, raconteur, and talk-show host Dick Cavett, when the topic is depression, it’s personal. Cavett had his first bout with the illness a year after graduating from Yale College in 1958, and debilitating episodes continued to dog him during his storied reign as host of the various incarnations of The Dick Cavett Show, which first debuted on ABC in 1968.