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I Love Lucy: The Movie is a american film of genre Comedy directed by Edward Sedgwick released in USA on 1 january 1953 with Lucille Ball
I Love Lucy: The Movie (1953)
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Add to a movie listI Love Lucy, aka I Love Lucy: The Movie is a 1953 American feature film spin-off of the sitcom I Love Lucy. Except for one test screening in Bakersfield, California, the film was never theatrically released and was shelved.
Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz co-star. Some scenes were directed by Edward Sedgwick, the final film work of his long Hollywood career. Sedgwick died in March 1953.
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The film plays out with three first-season episodes edited together into a single story: "The Benefit", "Breaking the Lease", and "The Ballet", with new footage included between episodes to help transition the episodes into one coherent storyline. As the series routinely took the format of filming scenes in chronological order, this adds to the "show within a show within a show" format of the film, as viewers watch the cast perform the episodes live. The film itself ends with a "curtain call", as the cast comes out and Arnaz thanks the audience for their support.Actors
Lucille Ball
(Lucy Ricardo)
Desi Arnaz
(Ricky Ricardo)
Vivian Vance
(Ethel Mertz)
William Frawley
(Fred Mertz)
Ann Doran
(Audience member)
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