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Brock

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It kills me that none of us can ever see any footage from Wildcat! They should've done the Lucy Goes To Broadway special. Just imagine it?

Yeah, thank God for the Ed Sullivan show giving us at least the main number. I keep reading that a second number, WHAT TAKES MY FANCY with her and an older gentleman would stop the show every night. Even more energetic than the main number.

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Some photos I'm sharing from my Wildcat collection:

Lucy "Tippy Tippy Toes"-ing

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Pretty and pensive:

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Hey Look Me over in COLOR

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And this from the souvenir program of the Dolores Gray production: the worst caricature ever

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Had they tailored the story to the I Love Lucy cast and transferred it to Broadway, "Wildcat" might have been about her taking her Stutz Bearcat to Cuba by ferry in the hopes of getting rich importing Cuban cigars and the first song would have been "Tobacco!" instead of "Oil!".

Lucy as Wildcat of course

and rounding out the rest of the cast:

Janie: Janet Waldo

Jose Micronite*: Desi Arnaz

Hank: Bennett Green

Countess: Vivian Vance

Sookie: William Frawley (who ELSE!)

Sheriff: Gale Gordon

 

*this reference is for anyone old enough to remember cigarette ads on TV, Kent brand had the "micronite filter", whatever that was.

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Some photos I'm sharing from my Wildcat collection:

Lucy "Tippy Tippy Toes"-ing

Tippy3__zps40b7c8ae.jpg

 

Pretty and pensive:

12-061Pose_zpsa352c41a.jpg

 

Hey Look Me over in COLOR

3-033HLMO2_zps77a5278c.jpg

 

And this from the souvenir program of the Dolores Gray production: the worst caricature ever

DoloresProgramCaricature_zps9395ab11.jpg

Ok, now tell me, isn't she always so much more gorgeous IN COLOR than in black and white????? Pensive indeed, try Goddess like!

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I assume it was an effect they were going for, but the sets of Wildcat are very crude....not unlike the backdrop Lucy whips up and hangs on the wall of the apartment for the western sketch in "Home Movies".

 

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Miss Harper and chorus during rehearsals:

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Lucy and Keith out on the town:

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I assume it was an effect they were going for, but the sets of Wildcat are very crude....not unlike the backdrop Lucy whips up and hangs on the wall of the apartment for the western sketch in "Home Movies".

 

WhatTakes1_zps60ff6dc1.jpg

 

Miss Harper and chorus during rehearsals:

VH2_600_zps2bbdc7f5.jpg

 

Lucy and Keith out on the town:

064_zps6b97ac8f.jpg

Geez, what GREAT pictures, were you the Wildcat HOUSE photographer or something?

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I assume it was an effect they were going for, but the sets of Wildcat are very crude....not unlike the backdrop Lucy whips up and hangs on the wall of the apartment for the western sketch in "Home Movies".

 

WhatTakes1_zps60ff6dc1.jpg

 

Miss Harper and chorus during rehearsals:

VH2_600_zps2bbdc7f5.jpg

 

Lucy and Keith out on the town:

064_zps6b97ac8f.jpg

Now THERE was some husband material!! If only ........ :lucymeh:
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