I Love Lucy: The Movie

I Love Lucy: The Movie

1953 · 80 min · ★ 7.7 · Family, Comedy

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.

Directed by Edward Sedgwick

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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)
Bennett Green Party Guest (archive footage)
Mary Wickes Madame Lamand (archive footage)
Erze Ivan Dancer (archive footage)
Frank J. Scannell Comic (archive footage)

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