this episode always makes me cry. i can watch it over and over again and the reaction will always be the same!
Favorite Lucy & Desi moments (in no particular order)
↳ Their real emotions coming to the surface in Lucy is Enceinte | First aired December 8, 1952
Lucy & Desi
I have this picture, framed, on my wall and I love it <3
Both times I was pregnant, I mooned for hours over a baby photograph of Desi, hoping by some magic I would have a baby who looked just like him. Then we did a show where Lucy tells Ricky she is having a baby. She sends an anonymous note to him at his nightclub, requesting that he sings “Rock-a-Bye Baby”. Ricky Complies, going from table to table singing the old nursery rhyme. In front of Lucy’s table, he looks into her eyes and suddenly realizes that he is the father. When we did this scene before an audience, Desi was suddenly struck by all the emotion he’d felt when we discovered, after ten childless years of marriage, that we were finally going to have Lucie. His eyes filled up and he couldn’t finish the song; I started to cry, too. Vivian started to sniffle; even the hardened stagehands wiped their eyes with the backs of their hands. The director wanted retakes at the end of the show, but the audience stood up and shouted, “No, no!”
- Excerpt from Love Lucy, Lucille Ball’s autobiography.
Lucy and Desi got to this point in acting out the script and then this strange thing happened: Suddenly they remembered their own real emotions when they discovered that at last they were going to be parents, and both of them began crying.
- Jess Oppenheimer
When we did this scene before an audience, Desi was suddenly struck by all the emotion he’d felt when we discovered we were finally going to have Lucie. His eyes filled up and he couldn’t finish the song; I started to cry, too. Vivian started to sniffle; even the hardened stagehands wiped their eyes with the backs of their hands. The director wanted retakes at the end of the show, but the audience stood up and shouted, “No, no!”
- Lucille Ball
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