Don Loper Fashion Show

OUCH!

Hahaha ohhhh, Mr. Loper, ohhh….

He's got nothin; on Jacques Marcel.

Mr. Loper was MARRIED. How DARE you suggest he might have been light in the loafers.

[quote]Loper is also known for introducing Judy Garland to her future husband, director Vincente Minnelli

Team Mrs. Van Heflin.

Jealous, bitches?

There is something odd about Don Loper's cadence.

"Next, the very pretty Mrs. Forrest Tucker."

I think he meant, "Next, the very lucky Mrs. Forrest Tucker."

r8 He was trying (and failing) to affect the British-adjacent mid-Atlantic accent.

I don't know why Sheila played it so hoity-toity.

Don Loper designed this suit for Ella Fitzgerald for an American Express ad campaign @1987/1988. Annie Leibovitz was the photographer.

Damn. Summer's almost here and I don't have a fishnet bag.

One night March 12 1962, Don Loper left a Hollywood club drunk and was driving recklessly down Hollywood Blvd. he hit a car and kept going.....sideswiping three other parked cars.

Police were called a several citizens in their private cars were chasing him and keeping him away from other cars until the police caught up with him.

The driver of the lead car was Mr. Jerry Lewis who kept in contact with the police on his car telephone.

If you have access to a Newspaper history service you can read all about it.

Don’t forget about me, bitches!

r15...Who?

Doesn't that Don Loper know any numbers besides 500?

Are you the one with pink roses on your ass?

r15 You weren't forgotten. See R4.

Yeah I’m surprised that Mrs. Tucker was able to walk… 🥴🤔

Actually a newspaper story in 1959 reported in an interview at his palatial Beverly Hills home that his designing business earned him more than three million dollars that year.

As he lounged next to the larger of the two swimming pools at the home, the former Broadway dancer, who has long been separated from his third wife, talked about his close personal friend and business manager who shares the house with him.

OUCH!

But....when all is said and done, those gowns in the fashion show are really quite stunning.

Don Lauper.

Mrs. Forrest Tucker (Marilyn) died of a heart condition at the age of 37, five years after this episode aired.

He went on to marry two more times before his death in 1986.

R7 I’m absolutely green!

Lots of details about Don Loper in the article linked below.

His business and life partner was Charles Northrup.

I’ve come to the conclusion that Don Loper was a

HOMOSEXUAL

Why wasn't I invited to the fashion show?! I could have recited "Trees"!

Richard Carlson (“The Little Foxes,” “It Came From Outer Space,” “Creature From the Black Lagoon”) was a blandly attractive guy often confused with Hugh Marlowe (says Wikipedia). His wife was a real dog. Nevertheless, they remained married until he died of a cerebral hemorrhage at age 65 in 1977.

A TV show staple.

R27 thanks so much.

When I saw the picture of the salon I I could only think of Lucy Ricardo in there saying on the phone: ".......this is Mrs Ricardo....the star's wife......yes.....will you please tell him that I have been detained at the Don Loper Say-lon."

Ethel: "Well that was a subtle performance."

Fascinating bio at r27! Thanks for posting.

We can all make fun but Loper really did it his way, was a huge success in Hollywood, and apparently never hid his homosexuality. I'm surprised that Lucy never had him guest on one of her later sitcoms.

Richard Carlson was a cutie in The Little Foxes

I didn't know he was married to a man!

Watching the fashion show again from up above.....the short gay standing next to the stage might be his business partner. He always starts the applause in a very LOUD manner and gets the audience going.

And remember it was Mrs. Alan Ladd who bought the same dress Lucy Ricardo did and then insisted on wearing it herself in the fashion show....so Lucy had to change to the tweed suit - and her dress was free....f-r-e-e!

That sounds just like that cunt Sue Carol, and then she didn't even get to model the dress on the episode.

R33 Sheila McRae later said that Loper was the first gay man to play himself on TV and just not care what anyone thought.

Don & Maxine

I still think “Don Loper and the Originals” would be a swell name for a band.

Sounds like some group they'd dredge up for PBS Pledge Week, r38.

Never hid his homosexuality, r33???? Hahahahahahaha.

After filming wrapped up, did Vivian Vance ask him out on a date?

He told Viv she could have a free dress if she let him blow Phil Ober.

Lucy posting at R42

We'll have it ready at nyoon!

Egg-sactly!

Lucy replaced Frances (Dee) McCrea in the show. It would've been nice had handsome Joel McCrea turned up in one of the Hollywood episodes. And where was Mrs Alan Ladd?

The famous actors who appeared in the Hollywood episodes of “I Love Lucy” tended to be actors like William Holden and Van Johnson that Ball had worked with in movies.

Van Johnson seemed a little...delicate

And speaking of famous actors who appeared in the Hollywood episodes, what's the story behind the Robert Taylor orange incident? Why was this mentioned but never shown?