I LOVE LUCY Mattel BARBIE Doll LUCILLE BALL The Operetta GYPSY Original MIB

Description

This is an ORIGINAL MIB Mattel Barbie Doll set
of  LUCILLE BALL as LUCY RICARDO in a scene from the famous The Operetta episode #38,
from the CBS Classic 1950's comedy series,
I Love Lucy
A daffy woman constantly strives to become a star along with her bandleader husband and gets herself in the strangest situations.
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. The first major show to be put on film rather than kinescope.
The Entire cast included:
Lucille Ball
...
Lucy Ricardo
(181 episodes, 1951-1957)
Desi Arnaz
...
Ricky Ricardo
(181 episodes, 1951-1957)
Vivian Vance
...
Ethel Mertz
(176 episodes, 1951-1957)
William Frawley
...
Fred Mertz
(175 episodes, 1951-1957)
Doll measure 12" high   Box is in good shape.     Nice shape for the LUCY FAN!
Shop with confidence! This is part of our in-store inventory from our shop which is has been located in the heart of Hollywood where we have been in business for OVER 37 years!
MORE INFO ON LUCILLE BALL: The woman who will always be remembered as the crazy, accident-prone, lovable Lucy Ricardo was born Lucille Desiree Ball in Jamestown, New York, on August 6, 1911. Her father died before she was four, and her mother worked several jobs, so she and her younger brother were raised by their grandparents. Always willing to take responsibility for her brother and young cousins, she was a restless teenager who yearned to "make some noise". She entered a dramatic school in New York, but while her classmate
Bette Davis
received all the raves, she was sent home; "too shy." She found some work modeling for
Hattie Carnegie
's and, in 1933, she was chosen to be a "Goldwyn Girl" and appear in the film
Roman Scandals
(1933).
She was put under contract to RKO and several small roles, including one in
Top Hat
(1935), followed. Eventually, she received starring roles in B-pictures and, occasionally, a good role in an A-picture, like in
Stage Door
(1937) or
The Big Street
(1942). While filming
Too Many Girls
(1940), she met and fell madly in love with a young Cuban actor-musician named
Desi Arnaz
. Despite different personalities, lifestyles, religions and ages (he was six years younger), he fell hard, too, and after a passionate romance, they eloped and were married in November, 1940. Lucy soon switched to MGM, where she got better roles in films such as
Du Barry Was a Lady
(1943);
Best Foot Forward
(1943) and the
Katharine Hepburn
-
Spencer Tracy
vehicle
Without Love
(1945). In 1948, she took a starring role in the radio comedy "My Favorite Husband", in which she played the scatterbrained wife of a Midwestern banker. In 1950, CBS came knocking with the offer of turning it into a television series. After convincing the network brass to let Desi play her husband and to sign over the rights to and creative control over the series to them, work began on the most popular and universally beloved sitcom of all time.
It is part of our in-store inventory from our shop which is located in the heart of Hollywood where we have been in business for the past 37 years!
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