Easy To Wed (1946) | 'Continental Polka' | Lucille Ball 【HD】
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- Lucille Ball at her dancing best! One of my favorite song of Lucy... she's got some good moves.
I Love Lucy ..everyone does! :)
`Continental Polka`
Lyrics by Ralph Blane
Music by Johnny Green
Sung and Danced by Lucille Ball (dubbed by Virginia Rees) and chorus
Starring: Van Johnson, Esther Williams, Lucille Ball, Keenan Wynn, June Lockhart
She can be so subtle and so large... that eye "look" she gave when the fan didn't open... and how she tosses it over her shoulder and presses on... THAT is true comedic gold !!
Kevin Bertke was that planned? she carried it so naturally!
it wasn’t that funny
@@alisonmcgregor2002 it was funnier than it would have been if the fan had opened normally......
Ander Ander yeah i know but it’s not that funny in the first place
@@alisonmcgregor2002 I swear you took the words right put of my mouth.
It wasn't hilarious to begin with or "comedy gold"...
When she shakes her fan at 1:38 and it doesn't open, you see just a glimmer of the master comedienne she was soon to become.
Thought the exact same thing, too. The way she is honing on her ability to make the audience feel what she is thinking. Genius.
also in the two dramatic films The Dark Corner and Lured - you also see the comedic lines coming through here and there. In Easy to Wed and Du Barry Was a Lady the comedienne is definitely coming thru.
If you really want to see it, watch Miss Grant Takes Richmond and the typing scene.
The dubbing: a darn good match for Lucy's speaking voice. I'm sure it fooled 1946 audiences who hadn't yet heard her off-key Lucy Ricardo singing.
As Lucy Ricardo, Lucille Ball sang off-key intentionally, because in real life she could sing. It was done by purpose.
renarga she was an awful singer. Have you not seen mame?
Trudy Irwin dubbed her singing ( and was a good match).
@@jvanness90 : as bad as she sang in Mame( and she was atrocious), she could sing at one point. In 1960 she starred on Broadway in "Wildcat " where she introduced " Hey,Look Me Over". Her singing was not bad at all.
James Ryan that’s great to hear honestly. I’ve always love Lucille Ball. I’m guessing in mame, all the years of booze and heavy smoking had finally caught up to her
"Lucy Ricardo, the time has come for you to lip sync for your liiiiife!"
LOL
This was actually her singing. Lucy never really was a bad singer and the screechy singing she did on I Love Lucy was just really good acting.
Kent Huang Actually it's Virginia Rees singing here. It's also not one continuous dance number. You can tell when they switch to different camera angles. The position of the dancers change. The guy acting like a seal with a balloon stuck to his head, totally vanishes when the camera view is switched.
@@anthonyrobertson7062
Well, since you're getting technical, she wasn't lip syncing. She, like Audrey Hepburn, sang and danced the number herself, with the studio adding the dub later. Which was a common practice in the era, but still as interesting fact
achanwahn So are you claiming we are hearing Lucille's voice here? PS-- must have realized they didn't read my comment very well (had nothing to do with lip syncing, not my point) so decided to just not respond back. Saying we aren't hearing Lucille's voice here is not "getting technical", it's just a plain fact.
Lucille Ball was really an amazing talent.
So cute, her stage experience really shows here. And I love red heads in purple
thumbs up for the red head in purple!
Lucille Ball was the most beautiful and talented actress, I wish there were more movies in technicolor, her hair and eyes in color are the most beautiful thing ❤ people remember most about I Love Lucy but there is a lot more before the show.
I particularly loved two drama films in black and white (she is always mentioned for the Big Street with Henry Fonda) but I loved The Dark Corner and Lured.
Absolutely fantastic! There will never be another woman like Lucille Ball. Like everyone else says, she had it all: beauty, wit, comedy, class, everything! And those dance moves! I wonder just how many people watch I Love Lucy. It's THE best show ever. The younger generation should move away from trash on TV and turn to old Hollywood - the old movies are gems!
That's why l like the old movies and TV shows so much more than the stuff that's out now love Lucille ball so much too with her sexy hot beautiful self ooowwoooo happy😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂.
@@andrewjwheelerjr275 My favorite is the one where no one recognizes her the whole movie until her dress get ripped off her and then everyone turns points and says, Lucille Ball!
Debra Messing comes close !!! to being like Lucy, Debra reminds me of Lucy with her cascading red hair !!!
True that!!!! ❤️
@@vsedai Best Foot Forward......great film.
If anyone is having trouble finding this movie to watch, you can find it on the Esther Williams volume 1 DVD
True talent... The improvisation when that fan didnt open.... Priceless😘😘😉😉
What was really cool about Lucy is..that she was very pretty...a fine dancer and showgirl, etc. Pre Desi, which all us often forget.
She was a DIVA. Only Rita Hayworth was as great as her.
Sadly all the Three Stooges shorts that she co-starred in have been lost
Lucille Ball and Van Johnson. 💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖
Definitely an underrated beauty......WOW!
She was a pinup girl. I don't think she was underrated.
In her modeling days she was drop dead gorgeous - more than any other star of any era I have seen the most beautiful photos ever of Lucille Ball, where with brown hair, blonde or redheaded - she was dazzling.
She was so very talented. I loved this. Costumes were beautiful
one of her backup dancers was the extra in the trolley song with judy garland!!! omg love love
The greatest female entertainers of all time IMO were Lucille Ball, Judy Garland and Rita Hayworth. These were TRUE divas. I affectionately call them The Three Redheads. :)
I'm late but omg I thought I was the only one who noticed it!
LIP SYNC, FOR YOUR LIFE . Lucille slayed this performance
Tammy movies
Jonah Gonzalez why do you think she's lip syncing
Crystal Gutierrez that isn't her singing voice , I've checked out all her other live singing. and, I think there is a video online of a behind the scenes of this film and they explain she is lip syncing
Yes, dubbed by Virginia Rees.
Too bad it is dubbed. They used her voice in Too Many Girls (1940)
She was always soooo beautiful and as smart as they come. Mastered sexy roles and goofy ones. She brought her own husband on set. Started a company with him. Mixed race couple and made it work seamlessly for television, so well for the time. No one made fun of him. She was the only one to joke about his accent and wasn't mean just naggy which was very on par for the humor of the time. Everyone loved Ricky even tho Desi was unfaithful. They said they where gonna get a divorce but started a show together instead. She loved him til she died and I believe he did too
Lucy was a New York model before Hollywood. And the class shines through.
She was a pin-up.
yes: worked for Hattie Carnegie. And she was the Chesterfield Cigarette gal for 1931: posters survive.
it's crazy how Beautiful she looks here!
Great.
I was so soo happy I
watched it all ! Thank you so much … enjoyed
it 😂
Rest in Peace "Great Lady " April 26th 2017 We still Love Lucy!
While most of the time Lucille's voice was dubbed - it was her own voice in "Dance Girl Dance" and in the long Long Trailer "Breezing along with the Breeze", also "Hey Look Me Over"from Wildcat, also in various sketches.
Loved when she and Ann Sothern sang together, while her dancing was always good, her singing was fair to sometimes good. Also in some Lucy sketches - from tv. They played up she was a no talented wannabee - but several dance performances were great on I Love Lucy.
she looks like a living doll - with great legs!!
they re-used these dress's in the Easter parade Judy garland. I cant get over how awesome Lucille ball is here
What a redheaded fox 😍❤️💕 and Van was right, she does have great legs 💃
I wonder how she tricked Ricky into letting her be in this number
TheMadHatter this was before 'I love Lucy'.
50s. dream i know i was trying to be funny
This movie is from the 1940s.
Lol he was kidding
themadhatter I agree! all I can see!
Living for tossing away the uncooperative prop. It ain't workin'? Get that stuff oughta here. It's in the way of my being fabulous~
See...you get it!
Wonderful.
I love it when people post things like this. They are hard to find but they are so enjoyable. Thank you :)
Lucille Ball and Esther Williams wear very elegant costumes in this comedy.
I didn't know she could actually sing. No idea why I didn't know. I love her even more now. She is just so beautiful.
Hate to disappoint shes lipsyncing and someone else is singing
she is EFFORTLESS!! my icon and who i always wanted to be when I grew up; I learned the lip thing by 10! >.
It adds extra humor to I Love Lucy when you know IRL she was a showbiz star and on the show she was always making a fool of herself trying to become a star.
Keenan Wynn back in the day 🔥
Lucy was a terrific 💃!
Beautiful
She was quite the dish. They dubbed her voice.
I wish they had done some kind of 'dream sequence' on I Love Lucy where Lucy was allowed to sing in her normal voice.
The closest they came was when Lucy and Ricky were in Hollywood and she danced briefly with Van Johnson. No slapstick, just beautiful dancing.
1961 play "Wildcat" where Lucy sings "Hey Look Me Over" can see on youtube
See the Long Long Trailer about 1953 Breezing Along with The Breeze (her own voice)
As much as she was always a competent and supremely game actor even from the beginning of her career, this is the truly the beginning of her genius. She is absolutely fearless from start to finish, stealing every scene without breaking a sweat, and her flights of screwball fancy sail so far above the targets that I would have happily voted her the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress of '46. Tasty as this number is, folks, check out the whole movie. She is sublime.
It's very interesting to see Lucy in '30s and '40s films, when she wasn't playing the "I Love Lucy" character. She's so well-known for that, you tend to think she was really like that...which it's obvious she was not. She did a whole lot of other characters in her movies.
Love the clip, thanks for the upload,, kind of wished Miss Ball had stayed in that career path I've seen other Ziegfield Follies clips of her.. Multi talented lady for sure!
Actress, dancer, singer, director, writer, producer and a very smart businesswoman. Good at ALL this. In my humble opinion, the greatest female entertainer in the history of media was Lucille Ball.
Not one comment about her being queen of the “B Movies”? Also before she was Queen of the B-movie’s she had quite a few uncredited parts with Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers... Three that I can think of offhand Roberta, Top Hat and Follow the Fleet. Thank God for Turner Classic Movies, one of the few good channels on television left.
Everyone seems to remember Lucille Ball making a movie with Henry Fonda called, “Yours, Mine and Ours” in 1968. Well, 26 years earlier in 1942 she made a movie called, “The Big Street”. Basically, Lucille Ball is the girlfriend of a mobster who gets slapped and falls down a flight of stairs winding up in a wheelchair and penniless! Henry Fonda plays a Busboy named “Little Pinks” (Who madly in love with her.) He pushes her Lucille Ball‘s character Gloria Lyons all the way to Florida in her wheelchair! It’s definitely far-fetched and quite the tearjerker but still quite a performance!
Omg she is so good!!!! I didnt know she could sing and dance!!!!
This is definitely Lucille dancing ... but it is not her real singing voice. Someone else is doing the singing.
I agree with you Van, Lucy did have nice legs. Even in her later years.
She could have sung this herself; it's not a hard song. Even the great MGM could lack imagination.
beautiful inside and out - funny as hell!
Wow! Sometimes I forget that really SHE was the successful one in Showbiz when she got her husband a job with her. She's so famous for her I Love Lucy character that it's hard to remember that isn't her!
My favorite LOL!
love it so much
Wonderful 🙏🏽💌
Love Lucy!!
Wow she really could sing
If only Lucille Ball had actually sung this musical number instead of being dubbed by Virginia Rees.
Jesus she was gorgeous
I love those redheads!
brilliant!
Wow Mantul!!!
👌😊👍
Well i know what im gonna be watching later. :) THanks for the upload!
Shes so funny i like watching her. we also share the same birthday
When we do the Continental Polka
Just enough of every ruffle catches your eye
And when we do the Continental Polka
Every heart of every garter snatches your eye
As we hop along each cop along the main street
Pleased to think you take a gander at the show
Though they cheer us on they fear us on the main street
Cause they don't know just how far we're gonna go
Come and do the Continental Polka
You will see the smartest people learning the field
And if you try the Continental Polka,
You will jump on your little old toe and heel
Roll like a little old Ferris wheel
Fast like a little old circus seal
Books like a little old pair of steel
There's nothing that can make you shake a fan
Like the Continental Polka can
Come and do the Continental Polka,
You will meet the most elite
From here to Bombay
And if you try the Continental Polka,
You will shout with a little old "yip-i-ay"
Kick all your little old cares away
Dance till the little old break of day
Folks like a little old pair of spades
There is nothing that can make you shake a fan
Like the incidental polka, the sentimental polka,
The Continental Polka can
OMG she can actually sing very well!! So used to hearing her sing horribly on I Love Lucy!
This was 5 years before I Love Lucy.
Wow, looks like Lucy proved Ricky wrong!
I never saw this episode of I love Lucy before
It's not I Love Lucy.. it's an MGM movie called Easy To Wed ... A remake of Libeled Lady
That wasn't Lucille Balls voice singing the song in the movie. The song was dubbed by Virginia Rees.
Thanks, I thought it sounded a little different.
they did that a lot back in those days, audrey hepburns singing was dubbed over too in my fair lady, hollywood was extremely cutthroat those days, still is lol
And Ricky wouldn't let her in the show
+kaori409 Aw Ricky please? I want to be in the show!
"No, no, Looothee, yo can't! Ay Ay Ay Ay Ay!!!"
It’s amazing how people think Lucille Ball was a terrible singer just because Lucy Ricardo was one. That shows how good at acting Lucy really was.
Lucy was average at singing there. I mean have you heard Gerard Butler or Russell Crowe sing? They sound worse than Lucy. And don’t get me started on Emma Watson.
hot damn, Lucy!
I had a dream a few days ago that I was in heaven and hanging out with Desi Arnaz and Lucy walked by, they were in an argument so not speaking to each other, and she was so young, like 29 years old. The way people in heaven always look.. but not Desi. He was looking older like how he looked when he passed.. greying, aging a bit and overweight. I think that was part of the fight. :D. She was dressed to the nines, in a glamorous gown, makeup perfect. He was wearing a nice navy suit with a red and white pocket square. He said they weren't married in Heaven. But it's clear, these two souls are always around each other, still so very much in love and also..still so stubborn. ha! I ate with Desi in an old fashioned 1950s type cafeteria style diner. It was cool. We were catching up like old friends. I speak of this on my show, Metaphysical Soul Speak The Podcast! Found on all podcast apps and players and platforms or at:
Anchor.fm/metaphysical
She was soooooo pretty
at 1:15 I can only see Lucy Ricardo trying out to be in one of Ricky's numbers!!!!!
OMG can you BELIEVE how hot she was? I'm always amazed
💟😘Lucille Ball!!!😁Reyna!!!💟🌷
She was made for Technicolor!
YES!
Wow she could SING
She was beautiful. She could dance. She was killer funny. Remember in I Love Lucy, that yelling bawl that was absolutely devoid of vibrato she used as a singing voice? It’s hard to fake a bad voice if you really can sing. How many women have it all this way today? Exactly zero. Except, maybe, Barbra Streisand.
What a beautiful lipstick 😍
Lucy had skills! Not the dame who was lame in I love Lucy.
The Violet striped dress.The Wedding gown.The blue velvet suit with golden Top.
Is a reference from Guys and Dolls.
Sexy without being vulgar OR nude. Those 1940's people had everything.
Nancy Desch Exactly!
So true! You could cut their sexual tension with a knife! And yet it's so wholesome and classy.
There have always been raunchy songs as far back as songs could be commercialized. This is not a new gen thing.
I wanna dress like that everywhere
Wow
SUCH a BABE
That bussel! I would love to know how they made and attached those to the back of her dress!
Try the channel Prior Attire to see how the bustle is actually filled out. She does period accurate costuming, and shows how it's done.
❤
For a moment I was questioning if she had just really smoked that much by the time Mame came around and then I realized she clearly is dubbed...
Idk why but this is the only lucille ball video ive seen that screams" American!"
I can't even...
0:12 AII MEU KOKORO♥♡♥♡♥
Hahahaha! Essa mulher era linda mesmo!
Gosh, this doesn't even pretend to be her real singing voice.
Is that her singing? I know voice doubles were pretty common back then
Nice lip syncing! I keep thinking how The Tropicana missed out on this gem of a performer!
Deszy Rnet
I wonder who was doing the actual singing? I’m pretty sure that it wasn’t Miss Ball!
Well I never expected Lucy to sound like this!
Shes lipsyncing to another singer lol
The singing is actually done by Virgina Rees according to another comment.
How come the guys don’t have to show off their legs too?
stvp68 the blonde one was kinda cute , no ?
lady boywonder I did notice him!!
jjjmail Where are the women not allowed to wear pants back then?
jjjmail I’m not an idiot. I was being sarcastic about gender roles.
So back in the day when movies were made in East Coast, other than being pretty, you'll also have to be able to sing, dance, and act too?
I always new she could sing. Lol
Lucy...was a singer??