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 !!

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.

Lucille Ball was really an amazing talent.

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.

So cute, her stage experience really shows here. And I love red heads in purple

True talent... The improvisation when that fan didnt open.... Priceless😘😘😉😉

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.

If anyone is having trouble finding this movie to watch, you can find it on the Esther Williams volume 1 DVD

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!

Lucille Ball and Van Johnson. 💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖

"Lucy Ricardo, the time has come for you to lip sync for your liiiiife!"

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.

one of her backup dancers was the extra in the trolley song with judy garland!!! omg love love

She was so very talented. I loved this. Costumes were beautiful

Definitely an underrated beauty......WOW!

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.

Lucy was a New York model before Hollywood. And the class shines through.

LIP SYNC, FOR YOUR LIFE . Lucille slayed this performance

Rest in Peace "Great Lady " April 26th 2017 We still Love Lucy!

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

I love it when people post things like this. They are hard to find but they are so enjoyable. Thank you :)

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 💃

it's crazy how Beautiful she looks here!

Great.

Keenan Wynn back in the day 🔥

she looks like a living doll - with great legs!!

she is EFFORTLESS!! my icon and who i always wanted to be when I grew up; I learned the lip thing by 10! >.

Beautiful

Wonderful.

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!

Lucille Ball and Esther Williams wear very elegant costumes in this comedy.

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~

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.

I wonder how she tricked Ricky into letting her be in this number

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!

I wish they had done some kind of 'dream sequence' on I Love Lucy where Lucy was allowed to sing in her normal voice.

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.

My favorite LOL!

Lucy was a terrific 💃!

Wonderful 🙏🏽💌

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.

She was quite the dish. They dubbed her voice.

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.

I agree with you Van, Lucy did have nice legs. Even in her later years.

Omg she is so good!!!! I didnt know she could sing and dance!!!!

beautiful inside and out - funny as hell!

Well i know what im gonna be watching later. :) THanks for the upload!

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!

Love Lucy!!

love it so much

She could have sung this herself; it's not a hard song. Even the great MGM could lack imagination.

Jesus she was gorgeous

I love those redheads!

If only Lucille Ball had actually sung this musical number instead of being dubbed by Virginia Rees.

Wow she really could sing

💟😘Lucille Ball!!!😁Reyna!!!💟🌷

brilliant!

That wasn't Lucille Balls voice singing the song in the movie. The song was dubbed by Virginia Rees.

Wow Mantul!!! 👌😊👍

Shes so funny i like watching her. we also share the same birthday

I never saw this episode of I love Lucy before

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

This was 5 years before I Love Lucy.

hot damn, Lucy!

OMG she can actually sing very well!! So used to hearing her sing horribly on I Love Lucy!

Wow, looks like Lucy proved Ricky wrong!

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

She was soooooo pretty

Is a reference from Guys and Dolls.

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

And Ricky wouldn't let her in the show

She was made for Technicolor!

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.

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.

What a beautiful lipstick 😍

The Violet striped dress.The Wedding gown.The blue velvet suit with golden Top.

Wow she could SING

That bussel! I would love to know how they made and attached those to the back of her dress!

Wow

Sexy without being vulgar OR nude. Those 1940's people had everything.

I wanna dress like that everywhere

SUCH a BABE

Lucy had skills! Not the dame who was lame in I love Lucy.

❤

Is that her singing? I know voice doubles were pretty common back then

Idk why but this is the only lucille ball video ive seen that screams" American!"

I wonder who was doing the actual singing? I’m pretty sure that it wasn’t Miss Ball!

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...

0:12 AII MEU KOKORO♥♡♥♡♥

Deszy Rnet

Lucy...was a singer??

Nice lip syncing! I keep thinking how The Tropicana missed out on this gem of a performer!

I can't even...

Did she do her own sjnging

How come the guys don’t have to show off their legs too?

Where can i watch this in full?

Is a Guys & Dolls Parody??.

Is this her actual singing voice?