Vivian Vance

AKA:

0.5802

1909-07-26

Cherryvale, Kansas, USA

Biography

Vivian Vance (July 26, 1909 – August 17, 1979) was an American actress and singer from Kansas, best known for her role as Ethel Mertz on the American television sitcom I Love Lucy (1951–1957).

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Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {32}

Hester Goodbody

1965-07-01 7.1

The Great Race

Professional daredevil and white-suited hero, The Great Leslie, convinces turn-of-the-century auto makers that a race from New York to Paris (westward across America, the Bering Straight and Russia) w ...

Genre :Comedy, Adventure, Action

Singer

1972-02-14 7.1

The Lorax

The Once-ler, a ruined industrialist, tells the tale of his rise to wealth and subsequent fall, as he disregarded the warnings of a wise old forest creature called the Lorax about the environmental de ...

Genre :Animation, Family, TV Movie

Leah

1950-02-21 5.4

The Secret Fury

The wedding of Ellen and David is halted by a stranger who insists that the bride is already married to someone else. Though the flabbergasted Ellen denies the charge, the interloper produces enough e ...

Genre :Crime, Drama

Self (archive footage)

2022-01-21 7.1

Lucy and Desi

Explore the unlikely partnership and enduring legacy of one of the most prolific power couples in entertainment history. Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz risked everything to be together. ...

Genre :Documentary

Alicia

1951-10-26 6.6

The Blue Veil

A World War I widow loses her only child and spends the rest of her life as a children's nurse. ...

Genre :Drama

Minnie

1976-10-08 5.864

The Great Houdinis

A biography of the renowned escape artist Harry Houdini, examining his fascination with the occult and his promise to his wife on her deathbed that he would speak from the beyond. ...

Genre :Drama, TV Movie, History

Self

1976-11-28 7.3

CBS Salutes Lucy: The First 25 Years

CBS honors Lucille Ball with this celebration of her three CBS series: I Love Lucy, The Lucy Show and Here's Lucy. ...

Genre :Documentary

Viv

1977-11-21 5

Lucy Calls the President

Homemaker Lucy Whittaker calls up President Carter to complain about a local political issue—and to her astonishment, he agrees to come dine at her house. Now Lucy has her hands full as family, friend ...

Genre :Comedy, TV Movie

Ethel Mertz (archive footage)

1999-01-01 0

Television: The First Fifty Years

Trace the history of television and its impact on American culture with clips, newsreels, and exclusive interviews from television greats like Walter Cronkite, Carol Burnett, and Jay Leno. ...

Genre :Documentary

Dancehall Girl

1933-11-25 4

Take a Chance

Take a Chance was based on the hit Broadway musical of the same name, though only one of the original songs, Eadie Was a Lady, has been retained. The thinnish plot involves the misadventures of a pair ...

Genre :Music, Comedy

Ethel Mertz

1953-01-01 7.4

I Love Lucy: The Movie

The film plays out, with three first-season episodes edited together into a single story: "The Benefit", "Breaking the Lease", and "The Ballet", with new footage included between episodes to help tran ...

Genre :Family, Comedy

Ethel Mertz

1956-01-01 6.5

Lucy's Really Lost Moments

The legendary Lucille Ball as you've never seen her before! Laugh along with Lucy and Desi in these extremely rare television appearances, beautifully restored! Includes a rare appearance of the I Lov ...

Genre :Comedy, Documentary

Ethel Mertz

2016-12-02 10

I Love Lucy Christmas Special

Celebrate the holidays with the I LOVE LUCY CHRISTMAS SPECIAL, a new one-hour special featuring two back-to-back colorized classic episodes of the series. In "The Fashion Show," Lucy's lifelong dream ...

Genre :Comedy, Drama

May Brodey

1972-01-18 0

Getting Away from It All

Two city couples decide to leave the hectic urban life and retreat to the country, but find that rural living isn't quite what they thought it would be. ...

Genre :Comedy, TV Movie

Ethel Mertz

1956-10-21 0

The Bob Hope Chevy Show

The Bob Hope Chevy Show (21 October 1956) is an episode of The Bob Hope Show. It first aired 21 October 1956 on NBC. Includes a spoof of "I Love Lucy" in which Bob plays Ricky Ricardo and Desi plays F ...

Genre :Comedy

Self (archive footage)

2000-12-03 0

Lucille Ball: Finding Lucy

For more than 30 years, Lucille Ball was one of the most recognized and loved entertainers in the world. Known to all simply as Lucy, she portrayed a scatterbrained housewife with the ability to turn ...

Genre :Documentary

Vivian Jones

1968-09-23 6.7

Here's Lucy

Genre :Comedy

1974-09-09 6.2

Rhoda

Genre :Comedy

Ethel Mertz

1957-11-06 8.6

The Lucy–Desi Comedy Hour

The Lucy–Desi Comedy Hour is a collection of thirteen one-hour specials airing occasionally from 1957 to 1960, and originally served as part of Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse. Its original network titl ...

Genre :Comedy

Ethel Mertz

1951-10-15 7.889

I Love Lucy

Cuban Bandleader Ricky Ricardo would be happy if his wife Lucy would just be a housewife. Instead she tries constantly to perform at the Tropicana where he works, and make life comically frantic in th ...

Genre :Comedy, Family

Self

1962-10-01 6.2

The Merv Griffin Show

Genre :Talk

1961-10-02 7.2

Password

Password is an American television game show which was created by Bob Stewart for Goodson-Todman Productions. The host was Allen Ludden, who had previously been well known as the host of the G.E. Coll ...

Genre :Reality

1958-10-06 5.8

Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse

Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse is an American television anthology series produced by Desilu Productions. The show ran on CBS television between 1958 and 1960. Two of its 48 episodes served as pilots f ...

Genre :Drama

Self

1957-07-29 7

Tonight Starring Jack Paar

Tonight Starring Jack Paar is an American talk show hosted by Jack Paar under The Tonight Show franchise from 1957 to 1962. It originally aired during late-night. During most of its run it was broadc ...

Genre :Talk

Madame Zimia Zygmundt

1969-09-29 6.105

Love, American Style

An anthology comedy series featuring a line up of different celebrity guest stars appearing in anywhere from one, two, three, and four short stories or vignettes within an hour about versions of love ...

Genre :Comedy

Self

1950-04-09 7

The Bob Hope Show

The Bob Hope Show hosted by Bob Hope, debuted on April 9, 1950. During the 1952-1953 season, NBC rotated with other variety shows in a Sunday night block known as "The Colgate Comedy Hour" (Sept. 1950 ...

Genre :Comedy, Family, Talk

Self

1948-06-20 6.8

The Ed Sullivan Show

The Ed Sullivan Show is an American TV variety show that originally ran on CBS from Sunday June 20, 1948 to Sunday June 6, 1971, and was hosted by New York entertainment columnist Ed Sullivan. It was ...

Genre :Comedy, Talk

Emma Gant

1959-09-12 6.2

The Deputy

The Deputy is an American western series that aired on NBC from September 1959, to July 1961. The series stars Henry Fonda as Chief Marshal Simon Fry of the Arizona Territory and Allen Case as Deputy ...

Genre :Western

Vivian Bagley

1962-10-01 7

The Lucy Show

The Lucy Show is an American sitcom that aired on CBS from 1962–68. It was Lucille Ball's follow-up to I Love Lucy. A significant change in cast and premise for the 1965–66 season divides the program ...

Genre :Comedy

Self

1973-09-14 5.4

The Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts

The Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts is a NBC television special show hosted by entertainer Dean Martin from 1974 to 1984. For a series of 54 specials and shows, Martin would periodically "roast" a celebr ...

Genre :Comedy

Self

1974-10-21 6.7

Dinah!

Dinah's show premiered 9 September 1974 and continued through to 4 September 1981. She started out the 70's with Dinah's Place which usually featured one guest and was more of a home oriented show abo ...

Genre :

Self

1961-12-11 5.4

The Mike Douglas Show

The Mike Douglas Show is an American daytime television talk show hosted by Mike Douglas that originally aired only in the Cleveland area during much of its first two years on the air. It then went in ...