Lucy and Miss Shelley Winters – Here’s Lucy season 1
In Lucy and Miss Shelley Winters, Lucy helps a famous actress (Shelley Winters) with her weight loss. It’s a funny episode, as Shelley hides food in a variety of funny places. It’s an homage to Lost Weekend, only with food instead of alcohol. There’s a lot of prop comedy, ending with Lucy having put on weight! Since the only way to keep Shelley from eating was to eat it first!
Funny Quotes
Harry Carter (Gale Gordon): [Catching Lucy singing into his Dictaphone] This is a business office, not Tin Pan Alley!
Lucy Carter (Lucille Ball): Well, uh, Miss Summers, now that you mention it, uh, you have put on a little weight in the past few years.
Shelley Summers (Shelly Winters): A little weight? Honey, they invented Cinemascope to get my hips in the screen!
Songs
- The Man I Love, Music by George Gershwin and lyrics by Ira Gershwin. Performed by Lucille Ball
- Shortnin’ Bread, Written by James Whitcomb Riley. Performed by Gale Gordon
Cast of characters
- Lucille Ball (I Love Lucy, The Big Street) … Lucy Carter
- Gale Gordon (The Lucy Show, Our Miss Brooks)… Harry Carter
- Lucie Arnaz (Here’s Lucy) … Kim Carter
- Desi Arnaz Jr. (House of the Long Shadows) … Craig Carter
- Shelley Winters (The Poseidon Adventure, A Patch of Blue) …. Shelley Summers
- Bartlett Robinson (Sleeper, The Spirit of St. Louis) … C. B. Wellborn
Trivia
- First episode in the series not to feature Lucie Arnaz and Desi Arnaz Jr.