That doesn't mean she was untalented, or that she wasn't nicer when she was younger-before the divorce, before the anxiety about running Desilu practically by herself, before she became so frantic about staying on top of the ratings for long past her expiration type.īut everything I've ever read agrees with Burton that during the latter years of her career (after the divorce from Desi, but particularly after Vivian Vance left her show) she was just a mean and nasty piece of work. I know Lucille Ball worshippers like yourselves desperately wish she had been like Lucy Ricardo in person during her entire lifetime, but she just wasn't. It says something that she made even Joan Crawford cry and (notoriously) exclaim to her friends at the time, "And they say *I'm* a bitch!" And almost everyone who worked with her has agreed. But the evidence is almost unanimous that Lucy during her later years of "The Lucy Show" and "Here's Lucy" was just a nasty, cold, controlling, shrewish bitch to everyone-even her daughter, who upholds her legacy, admits she was not a nice person then. R5 and r13: Richard Burton was certainly no joy to work with himself.
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