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	Ethel Mertz - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ethel Mertz is a fictional television character played by Vivian Vance in the American sitcom " I Love Lucy ".
		She was married to Fred Mertz, whose character was played by William Frawley.
		Ethel was Lucy's landlady, and Ethel and Lucy were always scheming.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ethel_Mertz (70 words)

	Vivian Vance - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Lucille Ball was less than sure; she had envisioned Ethel Mertz as much older and less attractive than Vance.
		A youthful-looking and attractive woman, Vance was required to wear frumpy clothes that were actually a size smaller than Vance usually wore in order to make her appear overweight (she was not, however, contractually forced by the show to be 20 pounds (9 kg) overweight throughout its run, as is often claimed).
		She and Frawley were a perfect match as the bickering Mertzes, since they detested each other in real life.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Vivian_Vance (505 words)

	The Other Side of Ethel Mertz : The Life Story of Vivian Vance (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Evidently Vivian Vance, a proficient theater and television actress, was not according to this biography happy with her Ethel Mertz character on the Lucy show.
		Ethel Mertz is more evident than the name Vance which I find rude to her and to those of us who value her talents.
		Vance never escaped her role as Ethel, but she lived a full and complete life worthy of this book and was a more accomplished actress than given credit for.
	www.cookingreviews.com /The_Other_Side_of_Ethel_Mertz_The_Life_Story_of_Vivian_Vance_0425176096.html (972 words)

	The Other Side of Ethel Mertz : The Life Story of Vivian Vance (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Meet the Mertzes is an expansive dual biography chronicling the lives of two of America's most popular situation-comedy actors, William Frawley and Vivian Vance, who portrayed Fred and Ethel Mertz on I Love Lucy.
		Vivian, in spite of the dullness of Ethel, was a splendid woman but resentment, jealousy and competition between her and Lucille Ball did not help but on the contrary constrained her possibilities.
		Evidently that feud with Bill Frawley, (Fred Mertz on the show), and her resentment of playing a dull housewife opposite Ball was consuming most of her vigor, self-esteem and health.
	www.enotalone.com /books/0425176096.html (1616 words)

	I Love Lucy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Both Lucy and Ethel are convinced their husbands have been drafted when they see them drilling in the living room with brooms.
		Neighbors Fred and Ethel jump to the conclusion that the Ricardos are having a family tiff.
		Ethel Mertz takes such pride in her generous action that she brags about it at a bridge luncheon.
	rockford.k12.mn.us /students/projects/TutorialSites/lucyal/guide.html (10810 words)

	LUCYlibrary Profile: Vivian Vance ("Ethel Mertz" of I Love Lucy, starring Lucille Ball & Desi Arnaz)
		She was a former Broadway showgirl who between 1932 and 1947 appeared mostly, with varying degrees of success, in stylish New York staged musicals and comedies.
		When she was first considered for the role of Ethel Mertz six years later, she was replaying Olive Lashbrooke at the La Jolla Playhouse near San Diego.
		Once they became TV's Fred and Ethel, they were fated to be recognized throughout the world as two of the medium's most loved second bananas.
	www.lucylibrary.com /Pages/profile-vance.html (488 words)

	Vivian Vance~Ethel Mertz
		Vivian Vance, most commonly know as Ethel Mertz, was born Vivian Jones in 1909 in Cherryvale, Kansas.
		Ethel Mertz is a trusted and loyal friend to Lucy Ricardo.
		This gives the Mertzes a place to live and a comfortable income, but not much else as Ethel has discovered over her nearly 25 years of marriage to tightwad Fred.
	www.angelfire.com /fl/LuvinLucy/viv.html (518 words)

	National Obituary Archive(NOA) - Arrangeonline.com
		Vivian Vance, best known for her role as Ethel Mertz on the long running CBS comedy, I Love Lucy, died August 17, 1979.
		In 1951, Desi Arnaz asked her to play the part of Ethel Mertz in the new comedy series he and his wife, Lucille Ball, were producing and starring in.
		And although she was in real life the opposite of Ethel Mertz, the public saw her as the comical sidekick of Lucille Ball.
	www.arrangeonline.com /Obituary/obituary.asp?ObituaryID=63886659 (314 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: The Other Side of Ethel Mertz: The Life Story of Vivian Vance (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Though the role of Ethel on the classic sitcom brought Vance fame if not fortune (she and stage hubby William "Fred Mertz" Frawley were not in on the deals that enriched others attached to the show), it also robbed her of her identity.
		When she married for the fourth time, it was to a man 12 years her junior who had been involved in a 20-year relationship with another man. The marriage was, by all accounts, a happy one.
		Those who wish to meet the woman who created Ethel Mertz are unlikely ever again to mistake Vance for her alter ego.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0425176096 (1565 words)

	Articles - I Love Lucy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Eventually the Ricardos and the Mertzes moved to a house in the rural town of Westport, Connecticut.
		Ethel Mertz and Betty Ramsey, the neighbor from the later seasons, were childhood friends.
		Ethel: (referring to hamburgers) "At least we put meat in ours." Lucy: "And just what are you insinuating we put in ours?" Ethel: "I'm not saying but you can bet on it in the afternoon and eat it at night!"
	www.poncier.com /articles/I_Love_Lucy (1783 words)

	I Love Lucy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Finally, making fred and ethel into lucy and ricky's dependents instead of their landlords ruined the balance between the four of them and made the mertz's seem a bit pathetic.
		Also in a post hollywood episode ethel talks like caroline is really more lucy's friend than hers This is way off the three women belong to the same fine arts club,and the also all played bridge with marion strong.
		Just great, terrific...also the one where she and Ethel try to make a barbecue, and she thinks she lost her wedding ring in the cement, so she and Ethel tear it apart and put it back together.
	www.jumptheshark.com /i/ilovelucy.htm (20657 words)

	Lucy Ricardo & Ethel Mertz vs. Laverne DeFazio & Shirley Feeney @ WWWF Grudge Match (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Sometimes Lucy is working with Ethel against Fred and Ricky and sometimes she is working with Ricky against Fred and Ethel.
		Lucy and Ethel may be in their own place, but Laverne and Shirley are gonna be the ones left to clean the blood off the walls.
		Ethel, while not burdened with kids (that we know of), has the eternal task of making sure Fred doesn't maim/slay/otherwise damage himself.
	www.grudge-match.com /History/lucy-laverne.shtml (3659 words)

	I Love Lucy, Ricky, Ethel, Fred & Little Ricky Too! / Episode Guide / Season 3
		Lucy and Ethel have visions of making a million dollars by bottling and selling old-fashioned salad dressing -- until their operations reach the point of diminishing returns, largely because of their bizarre views on how to run a business.
		Lucy and Ethel enroll in a charm school to cope with their husbands' interest in a sweet young thing who exudes personality-plus.
		Championship golfer Jimmy Demaret visits the Ricardos when Lucy and Ethel arrive at a bizarre scheme for combating their "golf widowship." The girls install a basketball court in the Ricardo living room and pretend to be as deeply absorbed in the game as their husbands are in the fairways.
	www.geocities.com /favoritetvclassics_lucy/episodeguide3.html (3802 words)

	HotAIR - I Love Lucy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The second family, the Mertzes, consisted of a husband, Fred, and a wife, Ethel.
		A close examination of the data pertaining to Ricky and Little Ricky further indicates that by 1957, adult American males had lost prominence to such a degree that their positions in society were being usurped by young children.
		Because of the paucity of data pertaining to the Mertz family, the results concerning Mertz data are statistically less significant than the results concerning Ricardo data.
	www.improb.com /airchives/classical/jstuff/v36/lucy-36-1.html (549 words)

	I Love Lucy, Ricky, Ethel, Fred & Little Ricky Too! / Episode Guide / Season 1
		Lucy decides Ricky's love is growing cold, so she takes Ethel's suggestions: that she join her spouse in his weekly poker game and that she turn the apartment into a Cuban hacienda to appeal to Ricky's native tastes.
		Ethel Mertz misinterprets a gossip column item and decides Ricky is interested in a chorus girl.
		Ethel has seen the first one to much, everyone has seen the second one to much, and the third one is too tight, Lucy decides on the fourth dress.
	www.geocities.com /favoritetvclassics_lucy/episodeguide1.html (5393 words)

	Baltimore City Paper: ARTS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		"Lucy's idea was for Fred and Ethel to stick their heads in the door every script for a couple of lines and they'd be gone, then she'd carry the show," I Love Lucy script clerk Maury Thompson recalls in The Other Side of Ethel Mertz, the first biography of Vance.
		Without Lucy and Ethel there might be no Ralph and Ed, Andy and Barney, Mary and Rhoda, Roseanne and Jackie, Jerry and George, or Frasier and Niles.
		But they're to be commended for doing the legwork, interviewing dozens of Vance's friends, relatives, and colleagues (including Lucy and Desi's daughter, Lucie Arnaz), and for telling a surprisingly inspiring personal story: Vance battled mental illness for years and was open about her successful psychoanalytic treatment decades before celebrity confessions were commonplace.
	www.citypaper.com /arts/story.asp?id=4570 (1423 words)

	Memorable Quotes from "I Love Lucy" (1951) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Ethel Mertz : Oh, Lucy, I know you're not going to move, but if you ever do move, don't move.
		Ethel Mertz : Fred, I'm sorry I said you were a dumb bunny.
		Ethel Mertz : All Fred's taste is in his mouth.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0043208/quotes (2372 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		ETHEL : I’m still recuperating from your last plan.
		ETHEL : It’s hard to believe that Fred was ever a little boy.
		ETHEL : Ah, ah, ah, I think you go there to meet you liver.
	www.expage.com /ilovelucylinesle (279 words)

	KIT Publications - Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Ethel Mertz, was a talented and sensitive actress who fought a frightening personal battle.
		Long before Desi Arnaz chose her for the TV role of Ethel - against Lucy's wishes - Vivian had an exciting life and career.
		This well-researched and documented book portrays her life, from her childhood in Kansas through her early years in theater and vaudeville, and reveals little known facts about her background and her stormy relationship with Lucille Ball.
	www.booktrends.com /p_biography.htm (412 words)

	Lucy Desi 101 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The supporting actors were Vivian Vance as Ethel Mertz and William Frawley as her husband Fred.
		Fred Mertz was an old vaudevillian, half of the Mertz and Kertz team.
		Ethel actually had three middle names during the history of the show (Louise, Mae, and Roberta).
	www.lucy-desi.com /site_images/library_images/ld_101.html (1642 words)

	Vivian Vance (Ethel Mertz) Biography \| Youns.com
		She next understudied Ethel Merman in "Anything Goes." Her first starring role was as Kay Thompson's last minute replacement in "Hooray for What!" starring Ed Wynn.
		After undergoing psychotherapy and limited movie work, she returned to "Voice of the Turtle" at the La Jolla Playhouse, where she was seen by Desi Arnaz who decided she was perfect for the role of Ethel Mertz in the I Love Lucy television series.
		At first she didn't want the part (too frumpy), and she always hated being cast as the wife of William Frawley (she was 39, he was 64; the two never got along).
	www.youns.com /lucy/vivianvance.asp (292 words)

	What A Character! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		I Love Lucy fans know Vivian Vance as Lucy’s neighbor and cohort “Ethel Mertz.” Born Vivian Roberta Jones in Cherryvale, Kansas, she was the second of six children, and from birth was blessed with an outgoing personality.
		Although she had become a top performer, the demands of the onstage life took their toll on Vance, and in 1945 she suffered a nervous breakdown.
		Paired with William Frawley as “Fred and Ethel Mertz,” Vance and Frawley made a convincing couple despite the twenty-five year age difference between them.
	www.what-a-character.com /cgi-bin/display.cgi?id=VanceV (382 words)

	Bodies in Time (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		As she got up, she saw herself in the mirror, and realized she had awakened in the body of Ethel Mertz.
		Later, in the afternoon, after David Crosby had awakened in the body of Little Ricky, and Lucy, Ethel, Fred and Little Ricky were eating a late lunch, there was a knock on the door.
		It was the Jetsons, who had decided to spend their vacation using their new time machine, which was the newest product put out my Spacely Sprockets, which was expanding its line of merchandise, due to the fact that the time machine had revealed that sprockets would soon be obsolete.
	members.aol.com /bovineprod/2bs02.html (618 words)

	LocationLohan.com > Lucy and Ethel and others (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Dec 29 2004, 03:17 PM i dont know about the lucy and ethel part, but i do know that cruella de vil is the evil woman in 101 dalmations who wants to kill all the puppies for their fur.
		i dont know about the lucy and ethel part, but i do know that cruella de vil is the evil woman in 101 dalmations who wants to kill all the puppies for their fur.
		Dec 29 2004, 05:56 PM "Lucy and Ethel" refers to Lucy Ricardo (played by Lucille Ball) and Ethel Mertz (played by Vivian Vance) from the television show I Love Lucy.
	hover.simnaweb.com /~linlohfc/ll/lofiversion/index.php/t1991.html (487 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Books: The Other Side of Ethel Mertz: The Life Story of Vivian Vance (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The two authors, Frank Castelluccio and Alvin Walker, were not only the most pleasant of folks to work with, I was impressed over and over again with their meticulous attention to every detail of Vivian Vance's life.
		She was, in every sense of the words, a rich and complex woman, at once an easy subject for a biography (because of her depth as a human being) and difficult (Vivian often changed the "facts" of her life to fit her image of herself).
		We set out to write a book sadly missing from the registry of television history but, most importantly, we set out to give tribute to a fascinating, glamorous, complex, and funny woman, who for 47 years has never been given the credit she deserves.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/1879198266 (977 words)

	End of the World - Part 2
		Nothing exciting came to her, and just as she was about to telephone her best friend and landlady Ethel Mertz, she heard the back door open and Ethel appeared in her living room.
		Lucy Ricardo kept her hands high in the air, while her husband looked on wild eyed, and the Mertzes stepped backwards together as though they were about to make a run for it.
		The Ricardos, Mertzes, and Simons were in a discussion about how the brothers could help the other two couples return to New York when they all noticed an automobile leaving the road and heading out across the desert floor, heading directly toward them.
	www.angelfire.com /my/bvfanfic/barb/end_of_the_world.html (5612 words)

	KIT Publications - Biography - Vivian Vance
		Chances are, like most of America, you think you know Lucy's feisty sidekick Ethel; but the actress Vivian Vance, who backed Lucille Ball so successfully in the comedy series "I Love Lucy" had an exciting life and career long before Desi Arnaz chose her, against Lucy's wishes, to play Ethel.
		At the time she was considered one of the most adept comic actresses of her time, bringing happiness to millions each week Vivian Vance fought a frightening personal battle with depression.
		Her story - the story of a woman who overcame family problems, marital problems and a host of professional problems to help create a television classic - is told with gusto and with nothing held back in The Other Side of Ethel Mertz: the Life Story of Vivian Vance.
	www.booktrends.com /more/more_vance.htm (373 words)

	Television Heaven (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		In 1951, the part of Ethel Mertz was still not cast for Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz’s new sitcom, I Love Lucy.
		She was also having marital troubles; two early marriages failed and her third to actor Phil Odets was falling apart (he was becoming jealous of her growing popularity; the couple divorced in 1959).
		In the world of sitcoms, Vance's Ethel Mertz was arguably "second banana to none".
	www.televisionheaven.co.uk /unsviv.htm (1127 words)

	I Love Lucy in Morty's Mall
		Next, "The Girls Want to Go to a Nightclub" for the Mertzes' anniversary, but Ricky and Fred have fight tickets; Lucy tries to "Be a Pal" when she thinks Ricky's growing tired of her; and Lucy goes on "The Diet" to squeeze into the costume of a singer in Ricky's nightclub act.
		Then, the Ricardos' and Mertzes' could be "Breaking the Lease" if they don't stop feuding, and Lucy heads to "The Ballet" in her latest attempt to become graceful.
		William Frawley and Vivian Vance co-star as the Ricardos' neighbors, Fred and Ethel Mertz.
	www.mortysmall.com /lucy.shtml (3572 words)

	Playbill Features: STAGESTRUCK by Peter Filichia: Before She Was Ethel Mertz
		Of course she'll always be known as TV's Ethel Mertz.
		You can learn it all from The Other Side of Ethel Mertz: The Life of Vivian Vance, a marvelous biography by Frank Castelluccio and Alvin Walker that will be published in October by a small Connecticut house called Knowledge, Ideas, and Trends.
		Vance meticulously studied star Ethel Merman (well, who could blame her?), and came to ape her vocal style so much that she became The Merm's understudy -- and went on twice.
	www.playbill.com /features/article/65687.html (1475 words)

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