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I Love Lucy: The Movie

Jan 1, 1953 · 1h 20m
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Family
Comedy

PLOT

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.

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CAST

Lucille Ball
Lucy Ricardo / Self
Desi Arnaz
Ricky Ricardo / Self
Vivian Vance
Ethel Mertz / Self
William Frawley
Fred Mertz / Self
Benny Baker
Audience Member
Ann Doran
Audience Member
Roy Rowan
Announcer
Barbara Pepper
Party Guest (archive footage)
Directed by Edward Sedgwick

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Status
Released
Original language
EN
Budget
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Country
US
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