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THE MARVELOUS MRS. MAISEL (S3;E1) “Strike Up The Band” The episode’s soundtrack includes two songs originally sung by Desi Arnaz: “Spic n’ Spanish” and “Conga” – both from the film TOO MANY GIRLS (1940), the film where Arnaz met Lucille Ball. This episode is set during Christmas 1959, when Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz’s marriage…
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An “I Love Lucy” reference on “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” (S2;E8). Midge takes her friend Imogene to the Stage Deli where she expects to see famous people, but is disappointed. She sites Lucy’s visit to the Brown Derby in “Hollywood at Last!” (S4;E16). The “I Love Lucy” episode first aired in February 1955. “Mrs. Maisel” takes place in Fall 1959.
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Lucille Ball is mentioned on “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” (set in 1959). Season 2, episode 6 “Let’s Face the Music and Dance.” During the summer of 1959, Lucille Ball was busy shooting “Milton Berle Hides Out at the Ricardos” (LDCH #11). Coincidentally, Milton Berle is also mentioned in the same episode of “Mrs. Maisel”. Earlier in the summer…