I Love Money

American’s home becoming known as the dawn of the television age. A famous sitcom in the 1950’s which first aired on October 5, 1951 is I Love Lucy. This particular show is the building blocks of the beginning of television, exposing viewers of the society in the 1950’s, along with the minimal similarities and mass differences when compared to today’s shows.

I was never a "soaps" fan, so my apologies to those who are and can't believe that I only discovered Ali Sweeney a couple years ago when she started making films for Hallmark. Honestly, every film she has made for the Hallmark Channel and the Hallmark Movies & Mysteries Network has been virtual gold for the brand, and the viewers have been ecstatic about her films. I count myself as a definite fan, and every time I interviewed one of her co-stars, I heard such phenomenal things about Ali herself

Some might ask ‘Does this relate to sexism and gender stereotypes?’ but you can also take the route of ‘Does clothing define a person for who they are?’ In situation comedies like I Love Lucy and Leave It To Beaver, all the men and all the women in both shows dress fairly similar. Women wear long dresses and aprons on normal days and men wear their suits or dress shirts. Children would wear clothing similar to the adults. Even though

Everybody loves a good rebel. Throw a love story in with it and bam you’ve got yourself a great plotline. What makes it even better is if it is a true account. This story of Bonnie and Clyde has survived through the ages and the critics by surpassing any movie that had been done on the killer duo before it. It was the American dream that had a deadly ending. It did not end well for them much like it hadn't for most chasing the dream of prosperity. And while Bonnie and Clyde may not have gotten their

Lucille Ball has rightfully earned the nickname the ultimate trickster by her character’s depiction through the popular 50s comedian show, I Love Lucy. For six seasons, it was aired on CBS consistently receiving the #1 rank show for six years straight. The show and Lucille’s character was one of the most successful products television has broadcasted to the society. America was experiencing a postwar era in the 1950s, a devastation that occurred to the economy and the society after World War II ended

Lucille’s character believed in women’s power and in equal rights. In two of my favorite episodes, which happen to be two of the show’s most famous episodes, titled “Equal Rights” and “Job Switching” brings that to light by emphasizing those issues. In the episode “Equal Rights” Lucy and her husband Ricky fight about how women deserved equal rights in America and should be treated in the same manner as men. In the “Job Switching” episode, Ricky and Lucy argue about who has the hardest job, women

with less known actors, that “she began to be known as the “Queen of the Bees”.” Herringshaw 49)Once she started to get popular she started to be more famous and acting in A-movies until she finally got her own show called I love Lucy, which she c-produced. Her show I love Lucy was a huge success and everyone loved it. The show was mostly comedy but also dealt with mature themes like marital issues, women in a workplace, and gender

told in Top 101 Remarkable Women, edited by Jeanne Nagle, Lucille Ball was unsuccessful at first, but she eventually became more and more popular. To the point she and her husband formed Desilu Productions, launching comedies and specials, such as, I Love Lucy and The Lucille Ball-Desi Arnaz Show. (Nagle 8) She may have struggled, but in the end, Ball was heard. She was a legend because of it. More and more, her voice was heard, she became a powerful

that has been on everyone’s mind, what does a real “family” look like? What is a “family?” What are mothers supposed to do? fathers? children? What are their gender roles? Well, during the 1950s, there were many families whom believed that the show “I Love Lucy” portrayed the perfect family, but that was back in the “good old days”. It has been more than 50 years and there are still current shows today that portray a perfect family, in different ways. The American television series, “Modern Family”

we can slowly change the image of women and how they are perceived. Stereotypical television has been around since the early fifties and sixties. Shows like I Love Lucy and I Dream of Jeannie have all depicted women in the household, taking care of their husband or male partners. Let’s start with the earliest one, I Love Lucy. I Love Lucy aired in October of 1951. The basic analysis of the show’s premise was to depict a somewhat