a Facebook friend just postd some screen captures of the William Holden episode of "I Love Lucy." so I watchd that classic show again & laughd as deeply as I'm sure I did as an 11 year old.
when I lookd it up I saw its original showing was on 7 feb 55. that's a month after the first episode of "So This is Hollywood." I've written before abt how influential that sit com was on my notion of what Hollywood was.
so the short-lived Mitzi Green series & the Hollywood episodes of "I Love Lucy" came together to inform my young mind abt the movie capitol of thw world.
after I grew up -- & startd visiting Hollywood regularly -- things changed. however on my walks of those old neighborhoods I'd think of Queenie picking oranges every time I passd a group of bungalows straight out of that series. & I bet that the first time I went to the Brown Derby on Vine I rememberd Bill Holden as I orderd Cobb salad.
in some ways Hollywood for me will always be that mythical place that it was when I was 11.
when I lookd it up I saw its original showing was on 7 feb 55. that's a month after the first episode of "So This is Hollywood." I've written before abt how influential that sit com was on my notion of what Hollywood was.
so the short-lived Mitzi Green series & the Hollywood episodes of "I Love Lucy" came together to inform my young mind abt the movie capitol of thw world.
after I grew up -- & startd visiting Hollywood regularly -- things changed. however on my walks of those old neighborhoods I'd think of Queenie picking oranges every time I passd a group of bungalows straight out of that series. & I bet that the first time I went to the Brown Derby on Vine I rememberd Bill Holden as I orderd Cobb salad.
in some ways Hollywood for me will always be that mythical place that it was when I was 11.
3 comments:
Lovely post. I’m just a year or two behind you—but without your Hollywood experiences—and the Lucy Hollywood episodes are, still today, among my favorites and exactly my idea of Hollywood. I never did get there. And now I’m trying to identify the caricatures on the wall above Lucy and William. I can pick out, I think, Jimmy Durante, Perry Como, James Cagney(?), and Bob Hope, but none of the others.
Thanks for continuing to post. I’m pleased that you seem happy in your new home.
Rob2
i remember that episode of i love lucy also colored my own hollywood. when i did get to visit hollywood i was 16 and on a family vacation. i looked for the brown derby. it was closed, shuddered, but the shell of the building stood. a monument to old hollywood in the shape of a chapeau. perhaps if i managed to get to hollywood a couple years earlier i would have had the chance to dine at the brown derby. but alas, it was not to be, but why not. thru lucille ball, and loony tunes -- merrie melodies -- cartoons, and the great films made in hollywood, i can always visit the brown derby. and hollywood.
good to hear from you Richard. it's been a while. hope all is well.
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