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The Plot Thickens

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Tv & Film, Film History

4.8 • 4.8K Ratings

🗓️ 14 December 2021

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Lucy sinks into a depression after the failure of her newest show and becomes a reclusive, fiercely competitive backgammon player. Yet she's still revered, and following a memorable final appearance at the Academy Awards, her heart gives out. As the memorials pour in, the public clamors to learn everything about her life, while those closest to her wonder if they ever really knew her at all.

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0:00.0	Luceel Ball did the occasional interview after she left television in 1974, mostly on
0:13.6	talk shows.
0:15.4	There's only one way to introduce this legendary entertainer here is the first lady of television,
0:21.6	Miss Luceel Ball.
0:26.0	Watching those interviews now, you can feel how excited the studio audience was to see
0:31.4	it.
0:33.2	Luceel was always asked some version of this question.
0:37.6	Would you ever go back to a weekly series?
0:40.3	That's Merv Griffith.
0:41.5	Luceel was on his talk show in 1981.
0:44.2	I don't think so.
0:45.8	I mean, well, Gale was around, but my Vivian's gone.
0:52.0	And, well, let's not talk about it.
0:57.8	But you know, Sensen trying to top what we've done?
1:01.2	No, but there's a continuity of coming up with something brand new and proving yourself
1:06.7	again.
1:07.7	No?
1:08.7	I bet you were more of a gambler than that.
1:14.5	You just don't want to have to go to work every day.
1:17.0	I know.
1:18.0	Not at all.
1:19.0	You're very wrong about that.
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