It didn’t start out that way. Desi Arnaz first saw Vivian in a play at the La Jolla Summer Playhouse with I Love Lucy ’s producer and director in 1950 just as they were casting Ethel.

Souvenir hunters Lucy and Ethel decide to commandeer the ultimate souvenir: John Wayne's cement footprints from Grauman's Theater. Essentially stealing the block, the pair's schemes backfire when ...

There is no question that Vivian Vance is an icon of classic television, and that's largely because of her role of Ethel Mertz besides Lucille Ball's Lucy Ricardo on I Love Lucy. Yet as beloved as ...

COSTA MESA, Calif. - For years, fans of "I Love Lucy" have had to content themselves with reruns of the black-and-white sitcom that captured the American imagination when it first aired in the ...

WASHINGTON Lucy and Ethel lose their struggle with a chocolate assembly line. Joe Friday demands "just the facts" with a penetrating gaze. A secret word brings Groucho a visit from a duck. Folks who ...