What’s your favorite I Love Lucy episode?

It’s far too difficult for me to choose one I Love Lucy episode, but since I get asked this question a lot I’ve decided to just say Lucy Does a TV Commercial. Here’s why: I decided to look up I Love Lucy one day because I remembered it from when I was younger and the first thing that popped up was the Vitametavegamin bit. Long story short; it made me an INSTANT fan of Lucille Ball. She’s been my queen ever since and no one can ever take her place. Ever. Therefore, Lucy Does a TV Commercial holds a very special place in my heart and is without question one of my many favorite I Love Lucy episodes.  

How do you make your gifs?

I use Aimersoft Video Converter Ultimate to select the clip I want and then import the clip to Photoshop (CS5) and make the gif there. 

Which classic movies would you recommend? 

110 movies everyone should see:

• Notorious (1946)
• Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)
• 8 1/2 (1963)
• Humoresque (1946)
• Judgement at Nuremberg (1961)
• The Lost Weekend (1945)
• The More the Merrier (1943)
• The Night of the Hunter (1955)
• Gone With the Wind (1939)
• A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
• Waterloo Bridge (1940)
• Anna Karenina (1935)
• To Have and Have Not (1944)
• Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
• The Awful Truth (1937)
• Bringing Up Baby (1938)
• I Remember Mama (1948)
• East of Eden (1955)
• Dinner at Eight (1933)
• It Happened One Night (1934)
• The Thin Man (1934)
• It (1927)
• My Best Girl (1927)
• Nosferatu (1922)
• The Cameraman (1928)
• The Navigator (1924)
• The Gold Rush (1925)
• The Great Dictator (1940)
• Torrent (1926)
• Camille (1936)
• Ninotchka (1939)
• A Star is Born (1954)
• Singin’ in the Rain (1952)
• Mary Poppins (1964)
• The Sound of Music (1965)
• The Wizard of Oz (1939)
• The Red Shoes (1948)
• Psycho (1960)
• Rear Window (1954)
• Mr. and Mrs. Smith (1941)
• Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
• Rebecca (1940)
• (okay, anything Alfred Hitchcock, really)
• Marie Antoinette (1938)
• The Divorcee (1930)
• Top Hat (1935)
• Swing Time (1936)
• The Big Street (1942)
• Peter Pan (1924)
• Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
• It’s a Wonderful Life (1946)
• Kitty Foyle (1940)
• My Man Godfrey (1936)
• Now Voyager (1942)
• Dark Victory (1939)
• Jezebel (1938)
• All About Eve (1950)
• Some Like it Hot (1959)
• Titanic (1953)
• Mildred Pierce (1945)
• Laura (1944)
• Random Harvest (1942)
• Mrs. Miniver (1942)
• Evelyn Prentice (1934)
• Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958)
• Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
• Ball of Fire (1941)
• The Lady Eve (1941)
• Sunset Boulevard (1950)
• A Place in the Sun (1951)
• Broadway Melody of 1940 (1940)
• The Big Sleep (1946)
• His Girl Friday (1940)
• Flesh and the Devil (1926)
• On the Beach (1959)
• What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)
• Mourning Becomes Electra (1947)
• Come Live With Me (1941)
• To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
• Love Crazy (1941)
• Cinderella (1914)
• The General (1926)
• The Women (1939)
• Gilda (1946)
• Carefree (1938)
• The Dark Corner (1946)
• The Shop Around the Corner (1940)
• You Can’t Take it With You (1938)
• No Man of Her Own (1932)
• The Letter (1940)
• The Man Who Came to Dinner (1942)
• Casablanca (1942)
• Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)
• The Great Ziegfeld (1936)
• Monkey Business (1952)
• The Philadelphia Story (1940)
• My Favorite Wife (1940)
• Morocco (1930)
• Shanghai Express (1932)
• Modern Times (1936)
• Sherlock Jr. (1924)
• The Play House (1921)
• The Kid (1921)
• Leave Her to Heaven (1945)
• Vivacious Lady (1938)
• Libeled Lady (1936)
• 12 Angry Men (1957)
• The White Cliffs of Dover (1944)
• The Apartment (1960)

What are your favorite books about Lucille Ball?

• Love, Lucy by Lucille Ball
• Lucy A-Z: The Lucille Ball Encyclopedia by Michael Karol
• Lucille Ball Treasures by Cindy De La Hoz
• Laughing with Lucy: My Life With America’s Leading Lady of Comedy by Madelyn Pugh Davis
• Lucy at the Movies by Cindy De La Hoz

I also highly recommend Jess Oppenheimer’s book: 

• Laughs, Luck…and Lucy: How I came to create the Most Popular Sitcom of All Time. 

Not solely about Lucille Ball, but the book is hilarious and Lucy is, of course, a major part of it. 

Who are your favorite actors/actresses?

Read my About Me

What do you think about Lucie Arnaz?

I don’t really know why I get this question so often. I guess some people have gotten the wrong impression of her or something. Personally I love her. I think she’s been incredibly generous and kind with the fans of her parents through the years and still continues to be. I think both Lucie and Desi Jr. are wonderful people. Wise, strong, reflected and very down to earth. 

Can you recommend me some books about Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz?

• Lucy & Desi: The Legendary Love Story of Television’s Most Famous Couple by Warren G. Harris
• Desilu: The Story of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz by Coyne Steven Sanders and Tom Gilbert
• Lucy & Desi: A Real Life Scrapbook of America’s Favorite TV Couple by Elisabeth Edwards