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Vivian Vance (born Vivian Roberta Jones; July 26, 1909 – August 17, 1979) [1] was an American actress best known for playing landlady Ethel Mertz on the sitcom I Love Lucy (1951–1957), for which she won the 1953 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress, among other accolades.
Actress Role Program Network Best Series Supporting Actress 1954 [note 1] Vivian Vance: Ethel Mertz: I Love Lucy: CBS: Bea Benaderet: Blanche Morton The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show: CBS Ruth Gilbert: Various Characters The Milton Berle Show: NBC: Marion Lorne: Mrs. Gurney Mister Peepers: Audrey Meadows: Alice Kramden The Jackie Gleason ...
I Love Lucy is an American sitcom that originally aired on CBS from October 15, 1951, to May 6, 1957, with a total of 180 half-hour episodes spanning six seasons. [2] The series starred Lucille Ball and her husband Desi Arnaz, along with Vivian Vance and William Frawley, and follows the life of Lucy Ricardo (Ball), a young, middle-class housewife living in New York City, who often concocts ...
Vivian Vance played Ethel Mertz, Frawley's on-screen wife. Although the two actors worked well together, they greatly disliked each other. Most attribute their mutual hatred to Vance's vocal resentment of having to play wife to a man 22 years her senior. Frawley reportedly overheard Vance complaining; he took offense and never forgave her.
The original cast (l-r): Jimmy Garrett (Jerry Carmichael), Candy Moore (Chris Carmichael), Lucille Ball (Lucy Carmichael), Vivian Vance (Vivian Bagley), Ralph Hart (Sherman Bagley). From the episode "Kiddie Parties, Inc." (1963) The Lucy Show is an American sitcom that aired on CBS from 1962 to 1968. It was Lucille Ball's follow-up to I Love Lucy.
Ethel Mae Mertz (née Potter) (alternately Ethel Louise, Ethel May, and Ethel Roberta), played by Vivian Vance, is one of the four main fictional characters in the highly popular 1950s American television sitcom I Love Lucy. Ethel is the middle-aged landlady of the main character, Lucy Ricardo, played by Lucille Ball.
On August 12, 1941, Ober married actress Vivian Vance. [8] They divorced in 1959. Ober's third marriage was to Jane Westover; they were married from 1961 until Ober's death in 1982.
The character of Ethel (Vivian Vance) is absent from this episode; Fred says that she is visiting her mother. The central sketch was originally created by Red Skelton and had been part of his vaudeville routine since the 1930s. Skelton granted Ball permission to use it in I Love Lucy. [7]