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The role of Fred Mertz was played by William Frawley, who was actually 22 years her senior. Despite their exceptional chemistry, comedic timing, and musical prowess together onscreen, Vance and Frawley did not get along offscreen.
Vivian Vance. By 1951, the 64-year-old Frawley had appeared in over 100 movies, but was starting to find film offers becoming fewer. When he heard that Desi Arnaz and Lucille Ball were casting a new television situation comedy, he applied eagerly to play the role of the cantankerous, miserly landlord Fred Mertz.
Vance and co-star William Frawley were offered an Ethel and Fred spin-off of I Love Lucy (1951). Despite their intense disliking of each other, Frawley was quite game, but Vivian wasted no time in declining.
23 cze 2023 · EXCLUSIVE: Here's What Happened to ' Love Lucy' Star William Frawley. Well, we are. One of Robert Andrew Jones Sr. and Euphemia May Jones’ six children, she was born Vivian Roberta Jones on...
Meet the Mertzes is an expansive dual biography chronicling the lives of two of America's most popular situation-comedy actors, William Frawley and Vivian Vance, who portrayed Fred and Ethel...
8 sty 2018 · When he was cast to play Fred Mertz, the curmudgeonly skinflint landlord on I Love Lucy, William Frawley was 64 and staring at the end of his acting career. Vivian Vance — cast as his matronly, wisecracking wife, Ethel — was acting on stage at the La Jolla Playhouse, in a play she’d abruptly left six years earlier after having a nervous ...
1 paź 1998 · Very well-researched and well-written biography of Vivian Vance, one of America’s best known side kicks. She led a pretty colorful life. When she went to NY to break into stage, she had a reputation as a bimbo. While married to her second husband, she openly cavorted with anyone whom she though could further her career.
