Lucy and Desi: A Home Movie
by Lucie Arnaz
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Actor: Bob Hope, Desi Arnaz, Lucie Arnaz, Lucille BallDirector: Lucie Arnaz
Brand: MPI HOME VIDEO
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 108 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2009-02-10
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: MPI HOME VIDEO
Product features:
- LUCY AND DESI: A HOME MOVIE (DVD MOVIE)
DVD Reviews of Lucy and Desi: A Home Movie
DVD Review: Great documentary and extras, sound is spotty
Summary: 4 Stars
The most interesting thing on this DVD, to me, is in the bonus features. There is a game show called 'I've got a secret' that Lucy is on. The show has a guest who has a secret and must answers questions from the celebrity panel. The guest whispers in the ear of the host the secret, to which they display on the screen(or something along the lines of): 'witnessed the assassination of President Lincoln.' This show was in the mid 1950's and this man is in his late 90's. He was 5 years old when he witnessed the assassination. After the panel had guessed who he is, the old man said that as a kid he was concerned about the guy who fell from the balcony. Obviously he did not know about the President being shot as John Wilkes Booth jumped from the balcony to escape!
Oh yeah, the rest of the dvd, that has Lucy and Desi on it: Very good, very interesting. A lot of pictures and home videos and more than I thought it would be when I bought it. A lot of interviews from family members, including thier 2 kids who made this documentary, and celebrities(Lucy's brother, neice & cousins are on here). There are a ton of bonus features: Lucy & Desi commercials for kitchen appliances that are not on the I Love Lucy or Lucy-Desi comedy hour DVDs), appearances on game shows, photo gallery, etc. The only real dissapointment for me was the often muddled sound of, well, EVERYTHING since its all so old. But I did not expect the documentary, made in the mid 1990's, to sound that way. Unfortunately it does. It sounds like someone ran a VHS copy off and put it on the DVD with no effort to improve the sound. However, this DVD is worth buying. I was just expecting better sound since it is on a DVD.
DVD Review: "I love Lucy and she loves me..."
Summary: 5 Stars
LUCY AND DESI: A HOME MOVIE first aired on CBS-TV on Valentine's Day, 1993. As stated at the outset of this Emmy-winning documentary, it was an answer from family and friends of the famous couple to a 1991 TV movie expos? entitled: LUCY & DESI: BEFORE THE LAUGHTER. (VHS only)
Factually correct, this tribute glosses over only a couple of points:
Desi's womanizing is dismissed as part of Cuban culture, besides, he couldn't help himself-- those girls threw themselves at him (yah sure).
Lucy's relationship with Vivian Vance is described as loving and sisterly. Maybe so in later years, but during the run of I LOVE LUCY Vance highly resented that she was forced to look dowdy and decades older than the show's star, when in fact there was only a two year difference in their ages.
The program is hosted by daughter Lucie and features commentary from Desi Jr., Gale Gordon (still vital in his late-80s), Van Johnson, Ann Miller, scripters Bob Weiskopf, Bob Schiller, Bob Carroll Jr. and Madelyn Davis, Jackie Cooper and author/editor James Bacon. Contributing family members include Lucy's brother Fred and her cousin Cleo Morgan.
Highlighted are many clips of beautifully-preserved full color home movies, plus scenes from pictures that Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz appeared in, both individually and as a team. They're younger in their privately-shot films than they are during the TV show years, and so obviously in love. These marvelous glimpses (courtesy of the Arnaz kids), plus the personal recollections make a for fine Valentine card to America's all-time favorite TV couple.
Recommended to all!
DVD Review: A Masterpiece
Summary: 5 Stars
I can't but help watch it over and over again. It's not overly sentimental, but by the end you will have tears in your eyes.DVD Review: Lucy & Desi: A home movie
Summary: 5 Stars
Me I'm a Lucille ball fan. I loved seeing this side of them its definitely different. I cried during the movie. They were really meant for each other its just too bad they didn't stay together forever. Loved IT!DVD Review: Love this!
Summary: 5 Stars
I really enjoyed watching this with my family. The only thing I didn't care for was the quality of sound, sometimes it was too high or too low to hear, but that should have been edited when the company put it to DVD. Other than that, it was wonderful and very interesting. The bonus features were really fun to watch as well.
Description of Lucy and Desi: A Home Movie
Emmy Award-Winning SpecialDesi and Lucy's daughter, Lucie Arnaz, hosts this emotional and honest glimpse at the extraordinary lives of her world-famous parents, highlighted by never-before-seen color family movies along with insightful interviews from family members, business associates and celebrity friends such as Bob Hope. Winner of the Emmy Award for Outstanding Informational Special, LUCY & DESI: A HOME MOVIE is a sensitive and absorbing documentary that details the circumstances which brought the immortal twosome together and ultimately drove them apart.
Bonus features include:
Interview with Lucie Arnaz and Desi Arnaz, Jr.,
Lost Lucy & Desi television appearances
Outtakes and bloopers,
Trivia,
Still gallery,
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