Friendly Persuasion (1956)
Directed by William Wyler
There’s an episode in I Love Lucy in which Lucy, out in Hollywood with Ricky who’s there to star in a hokey romance-film, is trying to impress her friend from New York by introducing her to all the movie stars they’ve gotten to know. That’s not going to be easy, since Ricky’s not around that day, so Lucy filches her friend’s glasses so that she has to …
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