Lucille Ball and
Desi Arnaz, presented "I Love Lucy" on CBS for the first time on
Oct. 15, 1951.
The Lucy Desi Center will celebrate the 60th anniversary of this TV classic with assorted events on Saturday in Jamestown, N.Y.
Jamestown resident Greg Peterson will unveil a
playbill he discovered which the center believes is the earliest one
with Lucy as a star performer. The playbill promotes a show at an auditorium in Jamestown, N.Y.,
then known as the Scottish Rite Temple. Today, it's called the Robert H.
Jackson Center, which is where Peterson discovered the playbill and
will also introduce it.
Following his presentation, the center will screen the pilot episode
of "I Love Lucy" and the first episode of season one: "The Girls Want to Go to a Nightclub."
Saturday's events also include Lucy Town Bus Tours of Lucy's
hometown, birthplace, childhood residence and more at 10 a.m. and 3 p.m.
At a lunch presentation, John "Jack" Keeney, a historian and current
mayor of Celoron, N.Y., will talk about Celoron Amusement Park, Lucy's
old stomping grounds.
The Lucy-Desi Museum also has some new exhibits and displays. The
door from CBS' Studio A, which Lucy and Desi passed through countless
times, is part of a permanent exhibit. They walked through it the first
time when they appeared on "The Ed Wynn Show" in December 1949, then two
years later to produce the "I Love Lucy" pilot. Such stars as Bob Hope,
Gary Cooper, Cary Grant, and Katharine Hepburn walked through that
door, as well.
The exhibit also features never-before-displayed photographs of Desi
Arnaz during his U.S. Army days in early 1940s. The Santa costume from a
1956 "I Love Lucy" Christmas episode that was not aired for 55 years is also on
display.
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