I love this number from "I Love Lucy" because it's one of the few times Lucy sneaks into Rocky's stage show and it winds up being successful. But what is her character supposed to be as "Sally Sweet"? Is this how prostitutes looked in the 1950s? I can;t figure out otherwise what she's supposed to be.
*Ricky not Rocky
| by Anonymous | reply 1 | February 16, 2018 2:10 AM |
More likely the '30s or '40s since that was already an old number when they performed it
| by Anonymous | reply 2 | February 16, 2018 2:29 AM |
So is she a 30s-40s prostitute?
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | February 16, 2018 2:32 AM |
I love love love that number. Thanks Miss OP for posting that.
| by Anonymous | reply 4 | February 16, 2018 2:40 AM |
A DL thread complimenting Miss Ball? Has the world turned upside down? Is black white? This must be Alice in Wonderland.
| by Anonymous | reply 5 | February 16, 2018 2:54 AM |
The number is from the Desi Arnaz film "Cuban Pete"
| by Anonymous | reply 6 | February 16, 2018 3:04 AM |
One of the things I like about this number is that Lucy gets to succeed on stage by just dancing and being funny. Lucille Ball was actually a very good dancer, even though she couldn't sing--and they freely admitted this on "I Love Lucy." But when she had success in a Broadway musical, "Wildcat" (only because Cy Coleman wrote songs especially for her like "Hey Look me Over" that had only about five notes in them, all close together), she became fooled into thinking she could actually sing--thus the disaster of "Mame."
| by Anonymous | reply 7 | February 16, 2018 3:35 AM |
OMG, Cuban Pete is going to smack that poor headless girl!
| by Anonymous | reply 8 | February 16, 2018 4:12 AM |
"Cuban Pete" is a song composed by Joseph Norman under the name José Norman in 1936, recorded by Louis Armstrong in 1937, and popularized by Desi Arnaz in the 1946 film "Cuban Pete" and in I Love Lucy (performed as Ricky Ricardo).
| by Anonymous | reply 9 | February 20, 2018 7:54 PM |
What Sally Sweet actually is can be open to interpretation, but yes, you can assume she was a street walker.
| by Anonymous | reply 10 | February 20, 2018 8:19 PM |
No, she wasn't.
| by Anonymous | reply 11 | February 20, 2018 8:49 PM |