![]() There were people that committed suicide over this. Speaking by phone from Stuyvesant, New York, Tannen says: “Lucy was the most apolitical person I know but it was a big deal and the only reason why her career was not ruined was because she was so beloved and Desi helped her through that point. ![]() And the corporate powers behind I Love Lucy declined to kill the goose that laid the golden egg. I want you to meet my favourite wife – my favourite redhead – in fact, that’s the only thing red about her, and even that’s not legitimate.” (Ball had gone from brunette to blond to red.)Īrnaz had saved the day. She braced herself for booing from the studio audience at the next recording of I Love Lucy.īut before she walked on set, Arnaz warmed up the audience by quipping: “And now. ![]() When the influential columnist and broadcaster Walter Winchell broke the news, and newspapers followed up, Ball seemed doomed to the same fate as other Hollywood stars and screenwriters blacklisted by the communist witch-hunt. ![]()
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