My Lucille Ball Autograph [Genuine]!

THE LUCY AUTOGRAPH CAME!

Actually, it came quite a few days ago and I've been desperately been wanting to blog about it, but I have been bogged down with so much homework and the like I haven't gotten the chance. But here it is, and I'm just so THRILLED!

Here's the little story of how I got it. About a week and a half ago or so, I was checking out one of my favorite Tumblrs when I came across a video featuring Lucie Arnaz explaining how she was planning to auction some of her parents memorabilia on eBay. I was excited but didn't get my hopes up because I presumed everything there was going to be completely out of my price range.

However, I decided to go look and get envious anyway. I was surprised to find that a "Lucille Ball household checking account card", which had her full autograph on it was $200. Reasonably priced for this kind of a thing and I liked the idea of paying for something that is more likely to be genuine (I mean, Lucie Arnaz was raised by Lucy, wasn't she, so let's assume she's not a fraud) then some random person selling a "Lucy autograph."

The thing is, even though I thought it would be in my means to purchase this, I was pretty sure someone else wanted to buy it, too, and with eBay and bidding and all... but you won't believe this; as we sat around waiting by the computer with only fifteen minutes left and finally put in the first bid for $201, NOBODY tried to bid against us. Nobody. We were the only ones, and so we got it for the minimum price of $200. I was... FLABBERGASTED, I tell you.

It is gorgeous, it is my new most prized possession. <3

Some more information:

• her full name: Lucille Ball. After I Love Lucy she signed all her autographs "Love, Lucy" so ones with her full name is rare.
• "Lucille Ball" printed on various places around it, as well as the address for Desilu Studios. 
• It was signed in the 1950s, likely during the run of Lucy
• It just feels seems super kind of awesome because it was something she TOUCHED and was actually something personal to HER and not someone else. I MEAN SHE TOUCHED IT! (Okay, I know I know that sounds pathetic but you know how much I love her).
• It comes with a Certificate of Authenticity signed by Lucie Arnaz
• It also comes with a black and white glossy of Lucy and Desi.

Here are the photos I took for you! I'm sorry if there are shadows on some of them. My lense quite long, which is SO annoying because it always casts a large shadow of itself over every photo; so I did the best I could.

It came in a glossy slip and folder. (Plus a lot of yellow tissue...)

Signed "Lucie Arnaz Luckinbill."

The back of the card:
("780 North Gower Street, Hollywood 38 Calif." is the address of Desilu Studios)

And here is the photo that came with it (so you can frame the two together).

I'm sorry the glare of the light is on it! :

Isn't it lovely????

I'm truly over the moon. It even smells old. I mean, you know, like old paper. If that makes any sense... Anyway, my first piece of memorabilia and I will literally cherish this till the day I die.

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Before I go, two things: 1) In the last moment I thew my hat in the ring for The Scarlett Olive's "For the Boys" Blogathon, which is this weekend. And 2) This is so amazing and funny and awesome (the only thing that's off is number of followers; 200? Try 2 million! lol). Yeah, you don't know what I mean so just go and read it and have a fun time doing it! I simply ADORE it.

That's it for now :) 

[BUT ISN'T IT AWESOME?? :D]

PS: One more thing. They reopened the case of Natalie's death! I have been hoping they would do this, so I'm awful glad... Natalie may have some justice now, you know. I'll probably do a post on this later; there may be more details by then. 

What's My Line? Wednesday || Errol Flynn

Is it just me... or does Errol look kind of out of it here? That's part of the reason I chose this WML?...tell me what you think. I also love how he signs his name with an exclamation mark at the end. :D

Tonight, tonight! Yeah, this is the last day to vote in the poll. One of the options is "West Side Story", and this year marks the fiftieth anniversary of it's release. In honor of that, TCM has the movie being re-shown in theaters around America tonight, but just for this one night. I would love to go and see it because you know, I've never actually watched a classic movie with a big group of people who appreciate and love it the way I do. One of the things on my bucket list is to go to California and see a classic movie in one of those old, palace theaters... there are a few that still exist! I think the experience would be awesome. But back to my point: Unfortunately, none of my nearby theaters are participating in this and even if they were: it's Wednesday, so you know I have homework. :/ But anyway, very cool that TCM is doing that! (Because, you know, I adore that movie). Back to the poll - this is the last night, thank you to whoever voted and I'll discuss the results, why I did the poll, etc. later this week.

Okay... big exciting news... I won a Lucy autograph! The autograph will be coming in the mail this weekend, and I plan to do a post about it then so I won't get into it too much right now. But I'm SOO excited, and I have pretty valid points to believe it's genuine (for starters, this was auctioned by her daughter, Lucie) - and I'm really over the moon, but I don't think it will feel physically literal for me until I hold it in my hands.  Then I'll probably flip for real. <3

Lastly, Happy Birthday, Hedy Lamarr! I think I have only seen one or two of her movies, but you know, anyone who had beauty AND brains deserves birthday wishes. Well, actually, I like to think that about everyone from Classic Hollywood, but I guess I am incredibly biased. :)

Oh... and I just learned it's Dorothy Dandridge's birthday today as well. The first African American to be nominated for a Best Actress Award - I think she died quite young, too, in the early sixties or so. Don't know much about her but makes me want to learn more! I tell you, Classic Hollywood NEVER ceases to amaze me. ♥

How I just totally survived an earthquake

Okay,  I know I already posted today. And this is not about classic movies. But ....

IT WAS AN EARTHQUAKE.

So why not post anyway?

The big deal is that we usually don't get earthquakes where I live. (In fact, the epicenter of this one was in another state but we could totally feel it). We had one last summer, but I actually slept through it... anyway, we never really get them and I didn't even THINK it was an earthquake.

I actually happened to be sitting on the floor my bedroom on my laptop and was working on that summer work when the whole bedroom began to shake, and since I was sitting on the floor (of course I would be), I could feel the whole house rattling underneath me. My dad was at work and my mom was outside, but I didn't even suspect that it was an earthquake. I looked outside the window - I don't know what I was expecting, for the ground to be shaking???

Then my mom screamed for me and I got the picture and we ran outside. By the time we got outside everything had stopped shaking, but I hadn't.

Wow. It was a 5.9 on the Richter scale, which is a lot more than the last quake, which was a 3.6 (and besides, I SLEPT through it). The funny thing was I wasn't actually scared when it started shaking -- except I feared it was going to get worse and something was going to topple over me, because we live in a pretty big house -- and only when I got outside did I start to get nervous or whatever.

Now I feel a lot better, and, of course, I had to write a Blog about it. ;)

"One night she started to shimmy-shake That brought on the Frisco quakes So you can put the blame on Mame, boys Put the blame on Mame"

What did it feel like? It felt like someone picked up our house and started to shake it like really violently, actually. Or, if you have a really old annoying washing machine like ours, it felt like when the washing machine is about to finish and it starts shaking quite badly - times like ten, though. And imagine just your whole house like that.

There are actually cracks on our driveway now because of the quake, which is.... pretty....wow.

Hmm!