Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz were a married couple on the hit television show I Love Lucy that aired in the 1950’s. The couple met in 1940 on the set of a movie called Too Many Girls. Lucille and Desi fell in love and married after only dating for 6 months. No one believed that their marriage would last they even took bets to how long it would last. In 1950 CBS introduced a new idea to Lucille for a new TV show, she insisted that Desi play the part of her husband Ricky Ricardo. The two of them made a great team on and off the television screen. The two eventually became the most successful television couple of the 1950’s. Together they created a production company called Desilu Productions. Desilu Productions was the first Independent Television …show more content…
It is currently four in the morning. Lucy asks Ricky if he lost his temper today, which would make him lose their bet, and Ricky denies. Ricky walks on screen, gives Lucy a kiss, and then falls into his bed, mumbling that he’s exhausted. As Ricky is getting comfortable in bed, Lucy gives Ricky a dirty look, and then switches on the radio. If Lucy gets Ricky to lose his temper, with the loud music, Ricky will lose their bet. The radio blares loud folk music and Ricky is awoken. Ricky wakes up screaming, “Lucy! Lucy”, and looks frightened. Lucy looks at Ricky with innocence in her eyes and asks him if it's too loud. Ricky calms down, smiles, and says, “No, no, it isn’t too loud, I just thought it would disturb the neighbors”. Lucy turns off the radio and apologizes (Ricky Loses His Temper). As Ricky begins to lay down and get comfortable again, Lucy searches around and finds a nail filer. Lucy begins to loudly file her nails. Ricky begins to move around and his bed while Lucy watches him. After a while Ricky says, “please, please, I can hear that from over here”. Lucy apologizes while Ricky again gets comfortable in bed. Lucy then picks up Saltine crackers and begins chewing and crunching on them. Ricky sits up and stares at Lucy. Lucy offers Ricky crackers, stands up, and drops the crackers onto his bed. Ricky gives her a dirty look and tries to fall back asleep, …show more content…
Simple conflict initiates on differences in ideas, definitions, perceptions, or goals. Ricky got home from a long day. He feels tired and immediately goes to bed. On the other hand, Lucy might have planned something. She sees it unfair waiting on him all day for nothing. Now we will analyze how Ricky and Lucy manage the conflict applying theories and concepts we learned during the course. The interesting detail that we observe is the methods she used to win in a conflict. Lucy is trying to get Ricky to lose his temper in the scene solely by nonverbal communication. NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION is behavior other than written or spoken language that creates meaning for someone. In the scene Lucy is turning the music up loud, chewing her crackers, and cracking nuts in an attempt to interfere with Ricky's sleep. During the scene, Lucy is also engaging in face-threating. FACE THREATENING ACT is the communication that undermines or challenges someone’s positive face. She is trying to challenge Ricky's positive face by being facetious. We think that Ricky made the right choice in this situation. He selected avoiding as the most appropriate conflict management style. Ricky also applies corrective facework strategy. CORRECTIVE FACEWORK is an effort to correct what one perceives as a negative of oneself on the part of others. In response to Lucy's face threatening act Ricky tries to save his face by
Cuban bandleader and singer-turned savvy TV mogul who, after his marriage to comedienne Lucille Ball in 1940, parlayed their successful "I Love Lucy" series into the Desilu TV production empire, which in its heyday also produced the successful and highly lucrative "The Untouchables" and "Star Trek" series. *p*Desiderio Alberto Arnaz y de Acha III was born in 1917 to wealthy Cuban landowners. His father was also the mayor of the town they lived in, but that soon changed. At the age of 16, Desi and his mother had to flee to Miami because of Batista's overthrow of the Machado Government in 1933. *P**BR*When Desi arrived in America, it was a struggle for he and his mother. But soon after he arrived, he joined the Siboney Septet at the Roney Plaza. Later, he started working with Xavier Cugat's band in 1937 and later put together his own rhumba band. His youthful good-looks and engaging presence soon won him a featured spot in the 1939 Broadway musical and theatrical version of "Too Many Girls" and the following year he was signed by RKO. On the movie set, he met his future wife, Lucille Ball. Later that year Desi and Lucy eloped to Connecticut and got married in a country club. Arnaz was featured in several films, mostly as a colorful Latin. Joining MGM, he won attention for his sole dramatic role in the war drama, "Bataan" (1942), but gave up films for touring with his successful band. The marriage was subject to the road most of the time and to Lucy's movie career. When the couple came up with the idea for a television series, they fought to do it together to save their marriage. But the network didn't think the television series would work with Desi being Cuban. But that didn't stop Lucy and Desi.
Their house is so small, however, that everyone sleeps in one room. There are John and Alan in one bed, the Miller and his wife in another, the daughter in a third, and the baby in its cradle next to the wife’s bed. In order to get revenge during the night, Alan tells John that he is going to sleep with the daughter, and goes to her bed, later claiming that he had sex with her three times during the night. John on the other hand decides that he would lie there for a little while, until the wife needed to go to the bathroom. While she was gone, he moved the baby’s cradle next to his bed so she would think that that bed is the one she was originally sleeping in with the Miller. However, once she gets into bed, John has no problem taking advantage, and sleeps with her as well until three o’clock in the morning, when the roosters are heard
Furthermore, the American television house wife would quickly evolve into a whole new individual. The working woman would arrive on the scene in the late sixties. Mary Tyler Moore, an award winning actress from “The Dick Van Dyke Show,” would introduce a new show called “The Mary Tyler Moore Show.” The new show would air on prime time television. Moore would go from playing the typical housewife on “The Dick Van Dyke Show,” to playing an unmarried working woman on” The Mary Tyler Moore Show.” This shows biggest liberation of women was that it dealt with the independence of woman and the struggles they would have to endure. Therefore, the majority of people would view this character as a down to earth and realistic person, because it would
The first problem that arose was that Lucille Ball wanted her real life husband, Desi, to play her fake husband, Ricky, on the show. At first, the show’s sponsors didn't think that he w...
Along with the Fall season, comes many sports played in the fall. These include: volleyball, cross country, and football. The one that catches people's attention the most is football. If there is one thing a person can count on, it’s the the fact that the stadium stands will always be full of fans, cheering on their favorite players. The TV series Friday Night Lights captures the impact that football can have on high school students’ lives.
Dick Clark started hosting the American Bandstand, known for showcasing new talents and musical acts to many different generations, in 1956 that showcased on local television. Shortly after on August 5th, 1957, after being picked up by the ABC television network, the American Bandstand premiered nationally. The American Bandstand helped numerous artists sell out records and kids became a huge division in the consumer network, even then becoming known as “Trendsetters” (. The show included fun aspects such as a Rate-A-Record Segment, lip syncing to hit songs, a multitude of interviews with many different popular artists, one of the first interviews featuring phone calls to the King of Rock n Roll, the infamous Elvis Presley, while he was serving
Sanders, Coyne Steven and Gilbert, Tom. DESILU: THE STORY OF LUCILLE BALL AND DESI ARNAZ. New York: William and Morrow Company, Inc., 1993.
In 1940, Lucille Balled married her Cuban born husband Desi Arnaz. Together they developed the I Love Lucy show, which became one of the most popular sitcoms of all time.
The studio was first created to show CBS that Ball and Arnaz could make “I Love Lucy” work with Arnaz playing her husband. They produced the pilot episode. Arnaz and Ball made themselves their own bosses of the production and would give the episodes to CBS instead of under the network or sponsored by them. CBS wanted Ball and Arnaz to work together in New York. Ball and Arnaz refused to do so. CBS was worried that because of the time difference they would not be able to do live viewing for the people at home. Ball and Arnaz cut their joint weekly salary from $5,000 to $4,000 allowing them to create a simple solution for the time difference problem, producing the show on film and dispense with kinescopes altogether. Desilu Production, later on, expanding by producing many hits. The growing business needed for space so they sold the first 180 episodes of “I Love Lucy” to CBS gaining them 5 million dollars. They then later bought RKO studio and their 14 acres. Even with their rising success with Desilu Productions, the couple split in 1960, 20 years after their marriage. Arnaz, later on, asked Ball to buy him out of Desilu Production, costing her 2.5 million dollars, which then allowed her to become the first woman CEO of a major television and movie production. (“Desi Arnaz and Lucille Ball”) Being the CEO of anything was considered “a man's job” in the 50’s. Ball took that label and ripped it to shreds. She proved to society that a woman can handle a “man’s job.” She showed society that a woman can succeed in the movie business. Both with being an actress and with running a television and movie
In several occasions, conflict occurs in the communication of one or two people. Several people have thought of conflict as cases involving pouring of furious anger in a communication process. Nonetheless, conflict is the misinterpretation of an individual’s words or values (Huan & YAzdanifard, 2012). Conflict can also be due to limited resources in an organization (Riaz & Junaid, 2010). Conflict may as well arise due to poor communication or the use of inappropriate communication channel of transmission of information between the involved parties. Management of conflict has various conflict management styles that include avoidance style, forcing style, passive-aggressive style, accommodating style, collaborating style and compromising style. Workplace conflict comes in two different kinds: task involving conflict, which focuses on the approaches used in resolving the problem and blaming conflict that has the aspects of blame and never brings element of resolving problems between the conflicting parties. In the perception of several individuals, relationship conflict is negative.
She said, “It was not love at first sight… it took five minutes” (Ball 118). A little while after they met, Desi Arnaz and Lucille Ball enjoyed a meal at the restaurant El Morocco. The night before, Desi had gotten a negative comment in the newspaper, distressing him and Lucille. They were talking about this problem when a photographer came by and took a picture of them. That night they talked about their differences and decided that they never were going to marry. Once the dinner was over and they had both gone back to their apartments, Lucille got a telegram from Desi. It said “just wanted to say I love you, goodnight and be good. I think that I’ll say I love you again, in fact I will say it. I love you love you love you love you” (Ball 106-108). So they eloped just a week later, on November 30, 1940. They stayed married for four years before getting a divorce because of a rocky marriage. But they got back together again, re-married and created Desilu Productions to launch their vaudeville act. Later they produce their very own show I Love Lucy (Biography.com). Producing this television show made Lucille even more famous than she already was.
Abigail, R. A., & Cahn, D. D. (2011). Managing conflict through communication. 4th Ed. Boston: Allyn and Bacon.
I Love Lucy: How does Lucy tend to needlessly complicate situations? Are the effects of this habit always negative?
In the world of communication, there are many theories which describe different ways people communicate. According to Doctor Thomas Hanitzsch, an associate professor of communication at the University of Munich in Germany, “Communication Theory is an international forum publishing high quality, original research into the theoretical development of communication from across a wide array of disciplines” (“Communication Theory”). A specific communication theory that will be highlighted is the Face-Negotiation theory developed by Stella Ting-Toomey. Simply stated, Dr. Ting-Toomey suggests that conflict is a consequence of identity management on an individual and cultural level, and occurs when an individual or group’s face is threatened. Similarly, people from individualistic, low context cultures interact differently from collectivist, high context cultures. This means that “people from collectivistic cultures with an interdependent self-image are concerned with giving ‘other-face’ or ‘mutual face,’ so they adopt a conflict style of ‘avoiding or integrating’” (Griffin “List”). Likewise, “people from individualistic cultures with an independent self-image are concerned with protecting self-face, so they adopt a conflict style of ‘dominating’” (Griffin “List”).
Little lucy was getting very hungry. “Daddy i'm hungry” “yeah me too pops” said charles one of the twins “ ok kids let’s take a look around and if there is still nothing I will risk walking outside” The kids knew that if their father had to walk outside he won’t get caught.