Lucy’s encounter with Holden at the Brown Derby culminates with her tripping the waiter and causing him to dump a cream pie all over Holden’s head. Being the creeper that she is, Lucy can’t stop staring at Holden, making him very uncomfortable in the process. Lucy catches a glimpse of Holden in the booth and is swooning. Ethel is immediately starstruck and gets Lucy’s attention. Then, big star William Holden sits down in the booth next to Lucy and the Mertzes. The greatest day of Nick at Nite’s annual Block Party Summer. “You touched her!” Lucy says, much to Ethel’s dismay at her faux pas. Ethel also manages to offend Eve Arden in the neighboring booth by asking her to identify a caricature of herself as either Judy Holliday or Shelley Winters. Lucy and the Mertzes see each and every one of them (offscreen) get up for the phone. We hear multiple celebrities paged to the telephone: Cary Grant, Gregory Peck, Walter Pidgeon, Ava Gardner.
Anyway, while at the Brown Derby, Lucy, Ethel and Fred are spotting celebrities left and right. As an aside, I will forever be sad that I cannot go to the Brown Derby, nor can I go to 99% of the famous Hollywood nightclubs of the 30s-50s. Bobby the Bellboy suggests that the group visit Hollywood’s famed Brown Derby restaurant–a well known hotspot for celebrities. at Last!,” Lucy decides that she and the Mertzes need to find the “celebrity watering hole,” where the stars all gather at the same place, thus saving Lucy time in having to track them down one-by-one.
I was instantly transfixed by Lucy’s antics. At that moment, I had no idea who the cast members were, let alone William Holden. at Last!” with William Holden guest starring. I still remember the first episode I saw, “L.A. The now-familiar I Love Lucy theme song started, the hearts on satin appeared with the cast’s names: Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz, Vivian Vance, and William Frawley. I honestly do not recall if I’d ever seen or heard of I Love Lucy prior to this moment, but I do know that it was not something I watched regularly.
A voiceover came on screen and announced that a show called I Love Lucy was coming up on the schedule. Anyway, I was instantly sucked in by the colorful graphics, catchy jingles and fun animation that once graced the evening Nickelodeon block. One evening in 1994, 10-year old me was flipping channels and came across Nickelodeon’s evening programming, something called “Nick-at-Nite.” For the record, 90s Nick-at-Nite was one of the greatest things ever and I really wish it would come back, but I digress.
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While I did watch the annual TV viewings of The Wizard of Oz, and had secretly seen Psycho and The Birds despite my mom not wanting my sister and I to see them (my dad rented them while she was out of town), these did not ignite my love of classic cinema. Having grown up in Salem, OR during the mid-to-late 80s through the early 00s, there wasn’t really any opportunity to see the classics in repertory theaters, as Salem doesn’t have any. I traumatized my parents enough that it was 2 years before I went back. Apparently I saw a re-release of The Aristocats in 1987 when I was 3, but according to my mom it did not go well and I did not see the whole movie.
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The first movie I saw in the theater was Disney’s The Little Mermaid at the age of 5 in 1989. I’m not old enough to have seen any of these movies in the theater during their original run. My introduction to classic film didn’t come via the usual routes. This is also my first opportunity to type something substantial using my new laptop that my husband got me for Christmas! Woohoo. I ‘m coming in hot with a last minute entry for Classic Film and TV Corner’s “Discovering Classic Cinema Blogathon.” I actually saw this blogathon announced awhile back and forgot to enter it.
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