Why did Vivian Vance’s career go down the shitter?

Drugs, sex and the hootchie-cootchie

She refused to deep throat William Frawley.

The delivery in OP's clip is straight Ethel Mertz.

She only made two films in the 1950s, both before I Love Lucy premiered.

[quote]She only made two films in the 1950s, both before I Love Lucy premiered.

I Love Lucy premiered in 1951, so two films in one year ain’t bad. And she was acting in The Voice of the Turtle when Desi discovered her.

[quote]And she was acting in The Voice of the Turtle when Desi discovered her.

Summer stock, surely.

Because she fell into the toilette and drowned.

[quote]Summer stock, surely.

A girl’s gotta eat.

Apparently, r9.

I mean, she's the undisputed queen of you queens, so can we really say her career fizzled? She gets name-dropped on here twice a day, and this is decades after her death and sparsely-attended memorial service.

After "The Lucy Show," she really wanted to show her stuff by playing Racine's Andromaque at the Comédie-Française, but alas it never came off.

She had a face and hairdo made for radio.

I'm sorry your mother looks like a weasel

She used too much teeth when giving blow jobs.

Wasn't she fired during rehearsals for the original Don't Drink the Water? Gary should have talked her out of it.

It didn't go down the shitter. She costarred on the biggest sitcom of all time. Nothing was ever going to top that.

[quote]Nothing was ever going to top that.

She was on Rhoda.

She made really good coffee.

It was hard for costume designers to work with that massive potamus.

Courtesy ChatGPT:

Vivian Vance, best known for her role as Ethel Mertz on the classic TV sitcom "I Love Lucy," didn't necessarily see her career go "down the shitter," as you put it, but she did face challenges and fluctuations in her career trajectory.

After "I Love Lucy," Vance continued to work in television, theater, and film, but she struggled to escape the typecasting associated with her iconic role as Ethel. This typecasting limited the range of roles she was offered and may have contributed to periods where her career seemed less prominent.

However, Vance did have successes outside of "I Love Lucy." She won an Emmy Award for her performance in the television series "The Lucy Show," where she played a different character, Vivian Bagley. She also appeared in various stage productions and continued to work in television and film throughout her career.

Overall, while Vance faced challenges in her career, she remained a respected and beloved figure in the entertainment industry.

Let's let Ms. Trumble get a load of us.

For reasons well known to her. Chiefly among them was that she corrupted the morals of the youth by attempting to infuse that vulgar jazz music into pure operetta.

MY SONG!

She had a career.

And then she DIED.