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  The Long, Long Trailer (1953)
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The trailer from the movie was made in Alma, Michigan.
The scenes where Lucy falls out the door into the mud and when she is trying to fix their dinner in the trailer while Ricky drives are hysterical.
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  The Long, Long Trailer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Long, Long Trailer is a novel by Clinton Twiss from the 1950s.
The trailer in the film was a 32-foot (9.8m) 1953 New Moon, which cost $5,345 at the time.
During the scenes of Nicky and Tacy pulling their trailer in the mountains, their 1953 Mercury Monterey convertible is replaced with a larger but similar appearing 1953 Lincoln Capri convertible.
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 RV.Net Open Roads Forum: "The Long, Long Trailer" - pulled by a '54 Merc   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The trailer tongue had been modified so that it had a solid stinger that went underneath the truck and hitched to the back of the axle.
No trailer weight was on the truck chasis, it was all carried on the axle and it towed much like a fifth wheel as far as stability and turning.
They enjoyed that trailer for 50 some years, it was shinny silver like an airstream, straight side walls and radiused at the front and back as many of the older trailers were made back then.
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 Charity's Place.com > The Long Long Trailer
He very reluctantly purchases the trailer on credit and exchanges his old car for one that can pull his honeymoon suite.
She does not appreciate the trailer camps and persuades Nicky to go out into the woods to set up their home for the night.
After Nicky brags about how well he drives the trailer he is asked to back it up in his their driveway.
www.charitysplace.com /review/longlongtrailer.htm   (617 words)

  
 Now Showing at Bates RV: The Long, Long Trailer
Tacy tries to cook dinner in the trailer while Nicky drives them to their destination which proves to be a really bad idea.
Along the way she collects rocks as souvenirs of the places she has been, along with lots of canned fruits and vegetables, eventually causing the trailer to be greatly overloaded.
The Long, Long Trailer is an hilarious comedy and a must see for any serious RV'er.
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 Amazon.ca: Long Long Trailer: Video: Vincente Minnelli,Lucille Ball,Desi Arnaz,Marjorie Main,Keenan Wynn,Gladys ...   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The Long, Long Trailer is one of those domestic nightmare movies, in which an ordinary couple has their existence upended by a new contraption: in this case, a lemon-yellow motor home.
Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz were one of the great comedy teams, and The Long, Long Trailer was one of their most successful films.
Nicky and Tacy buy a new 1953 Mercury to pull the long, long trailer, but during the hill-climbing scene it is the larger '53 Lincoln.
www.amazon.ca /Long-Trailer-Lucille-Ball/dp/6301972279   (1255 words)

  
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 THE LONG LONG TRAILER 1954
Captured on the onset of "I Love Lucy"'s success, The Long Long Trailer is a fabulously inventive film which captures the magic of Desi and Lucy from "I Love Lucy".
It is quite simple to say that the promotional ability of "The Long, Long Trailer" was actually very strong.
Tacy tries to cook while the trailer is moving, Nicky disrupts a house when trying to park the trailer in a drive way and they hang from a cliff when driving through the mountains...
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 The Long, Long Trailer - Lucille Ball and Desi Arnez
Even though it's only loosely based on the novel, the Long, Long trailer is one of my favorite comedies and is a must see for any serious RV'er.
"Breezin Along With The Breeze" by Haven Gillespie, Seymour Simons, and Richard A. Whiting, was the ideal song for the newlyweds to sing as the long long trailer passes by glorious scenery.
Hittaway carry Tacy in to the long long trailer.
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 The Long Long Trailer Movie Poster
The plot in The Long, Long Trailer has California newlyweds, Nicky (Desi) and Tacy (Lucy), who naturally, want to purchase a home.
Nicky protests a little bit, but before long, he gives-in, and the two end-up buying a gigantic lemon-yellow 40-foot house trailer (here in the trailer-park, we'd call it a big ol'single-wide).
The Long, Long Trailer really isn't a kool-kar-movie, but, I still got a kick out watching that gorgeous yellow fifty-three Merk, and it's little, er big, companion drive down the highway for an hour-and-a-half.
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 The Long, Long Trailer
The Long, Long Trailer (1954) was based on a non-fiction book about a middle-aged couple who spent a year traveling cross-country in a mobile home.
You know, I've been in gray and fl for a long time now." But her lack of stardom in films must have rankled, and returning to MGM in triumph was sweet revenge.
The Long, Long Trailer was shot in six weeks during the summer of 1953, and in spite of the complexity of some of the sequences, Minnelli recalled it as one of the easiest films he ever made.
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 The Long, Long Trailer (1954)   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Trivia: The New Moon trailers, produced by The Redman Trailer Co (as per original sales brochures & in viewing the actual 1953 models) weren't producing coaches with a "sunken living room" as was highlighted in the film.
The interior shots had a "dropped" section in the living room area and you can see that the vent windows are much further from the ceiling than they would be as seen from the exterior.
New Moon trailers also had a furnace in the corner between the front door and the kitchen cabinet.
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 The Long, Long Trailer, Lucille Ball Movies | Youns.com
The first of these, The Long, Long Trailer, stars Lucy and Desi as an upwardly mobile couple who decide to buy a trailer for their vacations.
Their "seeing America" trip turns out to be a slapstick disaster, topped by Lucy's foolish decision to hide a heavy rock collection in the trailer; as Desi tries to maneuver a treacherous mountain road, the weighted-down home-on-wheels nearly loses its balance and almost tumbles off a cliff.
Despite the fact that audiences could watch Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz in "I Love Lucy" for free each week on television, The Long, Long Trailer was a big hit at the box-office.
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 Lucille Ball - The Long, Long Trailer Framed Poster (Memorabilia-Movies) at Miss Martha's Collectibles
Not only was this film a hit for MGM in 1954, but also their best grossing comedy of the year, beating out their previous record holder, "Father of the Bride." A classic based on the book, The Long, Long Trailer, by Clinton Twiss.
It is 20" in length, and 16" high, and comes framed in clear glass, ready to hang.
A rare find is this poster for "The Long, Long Trailer" made for the Mexico market.
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 The Long, Long Trailer Review   (Site not responding. Last check: )
They quickly find that the interior of a moving trailer is ideal for tossing a Caesar salad - and everything else.
And that trailer-park folks are neighborly sorts who turn the lovebirds' rig into the wrong, wrong trailer by crashing the wedding night.
Co-starring comedy pros Marjorie Main and Keenan Wynn (Ball's frequent co-star in her MGM days), this smash was filmed at the height of the I Love Lucy craze and is packed with the inventive sight gags and physical humor that made the series a TV landmark 1c09.
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 The Long Long Trailer
Vincente Minnelli's The Long Long Trailer (1954) is Lucille Ball and Desi Arnez's finest film collaboration.
After the two are hitched -- figuratively and literally, they hitch up their trailer and begin what is envisioned at the start as a blissful cross country honeymoon.
In a slapstick moment derived from -- and carried off more successfully in, Sullivan's Travels (1941) Tacy attempts to cook dinner as the trailer careens from side to side, spilling the contents of her baking and dishes everywhere.
www.mediascreen.com /l/longlongtrailer.htm   (412 words)

  
 The Long Long Trailer - RV Burners (Don't Use Family RV) - tribe.net   (Site not responding. Last check: )
When my friend Deb heard that I was going to rent an RV for the first time, she said that I should watch the video "The Long, Long Trailer," with Lucillle Ball.
The trip up the mountain is funny, as is his first attempt to park where he runs it into the house a bunch of times.
Also true is when they go to buy the trailer and the one in the brochure was too small.
burningrv.tribe.net /thread/3210d656-a5d3-442c-9f08-7562c62a4235   (396 words)

  
 Amazon.com: The Long, Long Trailer: Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz, Marjorie Main, Keenan Wynn, Gladys Hurlbut, Moroni Olsen, ...
The Long, Long Trailer is one of those domestic nightmare movies, in which an ordinary couple has their existence upended by a new contraption: in this case, a lemon-yellow motor home.
Begrudgingly, Nicky goes along with Tacy to a trailer show, but the trailer that Tacy had seen advertised is much smaller than she expected.
Overall, "The Long, Long Trailer" is a hilarious, entertaining and engaging film that I wholeheartedly rate with 5 out of 5 stars.
www.amazon.com /Long-Trailer-Lucille-Ball/dp/6301972279   (1240 words)

  
 Comment - Long Long Trailer: How Minnelli Tamed Lucille Ball
Like the Father of the Bride, Long, Long Trailer has a dark quality to it, dealing with middle-class anxieties, both material and emotional.
The difference between the Father of the Bride films and Long, Long Trailer reflect the shifting relationship between Hollywood and television as competing entertainment industries in the early 1950s.
Despite these touches, however, Long, Long Trailer is one of Minnelli's lowest concoctions, one of his few escapist comedies that's a concession to the mass public’s vulgar taste.
www.emanuellevy.com /article.php?articleID=5772   (1183 words)

  
 VH1.com : Movies : The Long, Long Trailer : Plot
At the height of their TV fame, Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz were contracted by MGM to make two theatrical films.
Despite the fact that audiences were getting Ball and Arnaz for free each week on television, The Long, Long Trailer was a big hit at the box-office.
The film was adapted by Albert Hackett and Frances Goodrich from a novel by Clinton Twiss, with uncredited assistance from the I Love Lucy writing staff.
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 the Long Long Trailer Movie, Desi Arnaz, Lucille Ball
The couple travels together pulling their trailer with a car really inadequate to pull the trailer in real life.
When the trailer's brakes nearly overheat it is discovered that the wife likes to collect rocks; big heavy ones which are weighing down the trailer.
That being that long trailers, and limited pulling capacity coupled with steep hills spell trouble to say the least.
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 The Long, Long Trailer (1954) Overview
Nick describes how the trailer came to blight his life: Two months earlier, in Los Angeles, Nick laughs uproariously when his fiancée Tacy proposes buying a trailer, but she tearfully insists that a trailer would be the only way for them to have their own home while Nick travels on business.
The salesman recommends that they have the trailer professionally moved to Colorado, where a job awaits Nick, but Tacy insists that pulling it themselves would be much more fun.
Eventually they arrive at the Breeze Bay Trailer Park, but as Nick attempts to carry Tacy over the threshold of their trailer, they are beset by meddling neighbors who think that Tacy has injured her ankle.
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 Greenbriar Picture Shows
I mention these forgotten MGM starlets as they were elected to accompany the New Moon trailer shown here on its cross-country tour to promote The Long, Long Trailer, Metro’s 1954 comedy feature with Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz.
It was one thing to pillory a Larry Parks or Gale Sondergaard, but this was the most beloved comedienne in the nation, and her public wasn’t about to accept an industry shutout for their Lucy.
When Lucy and Desi attempt to pull their overloaded trailer up the side of a mountain, the thing assumes a Wages Of Fear level of tension, and shots of them hanging precariously at the edge of the abyss evoke Cary Grant’s later imperilment in North By Northwest, only Cary manages to get more laughs.
greenbriarpictureshows.blogspot.com /2006/06/lucy-and-desi-in-movies-part-1-do.html   (1473 words)

  
 The Long, Long Trailer (1953) - Trivia
The New Moon trailers, produced by The Redman Trailer Co. (as per original sales brochures & in viewing the actual 1953 models), didn't come with a "sunken living room" as was highlighted in the film.
This was done to add a reason for Desi Arnaz's character to take his pratfall when first entering the trailer.
New Moon trailers also had a furnace in the corner between the front door and the kitchen cabinet.
www.imdb.com /title/tt0047191/trivia   (433 words)

  
 Fire Chief - The Long, Long Trailer
Now their popularity is gaining strength with the introduction of a new generation of tillered aerial quints that combine the advantages of both configurations into a vehicle that's as versatile as it is long.
The disadvantage of the long overall length of tillered aerials is offset by the advantages of several other dimensions.
For example, the short rear overhang on the trailer and the distributed three points of contact between the tractor-trailer combination and the ground give tillered apparatus good ground clearance and high angles of departure.
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 Long Long Trailer : DVD : Lucille Ball : Vincente Minnelli : Warner - Buy.com
Co-starring comedy pros Marjorie Main and Keenan Wynn (Ball's frequent co-star in her MGM days), this smash was filmed at the height of the I Love Lucy craze and is packed with the inventive sight gags and physical humor that made the series a TV landmark.
It has everything you want to know about this genre: a castrating wife, a humiliated husband figure, consumerism at its ugliest, and witless comedy built around the couple's misunderstandings that serves as both a means of denigration and love.
There is a long, long trailer for The Long, Long Trailer, appearing at the end of the disc, which tries desperately to sell the film as a long version of I Love Lucy.
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 The Long, Long Trailer 2006, DVD: items on eBay.com
If you own a trailer you can identify with the 1st time you took it out and were learning.
The Long, Long Trailer is a classic comedy that delivers laugh after laugh as the two newlyweds explore life together in the comfort of tight quarters.
The Long Long Trailer is a movie that should be in every household that appreciates true comedy.
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 LONG, LONG TRAILER/ FOREVER DARLING (1954-56) - Soundtrak.com
With the world their oyster, Lucy and Desi returned to the big screen (where success had somewhat eluded Lucy) with two romantic comedies: The Long, Long Trailer (1954) and Forever, Darling (1956), featuring charming scores by Adolph Deutsch and Bronislau Kaper, respectively.
The Long, Long Trailer was a delightful road picture in which Lucy and Desi (in variations on their television characters) star as a newlywed couple who try to live out of a trailer -- with disastrous results.
The Long, Long Trailer features a short, classy score by British composer Adolph Deutsch based on the pre-existing song, "Breezin' Along With the Breeze," which Lucy and Desi sing during a happy moment.
www.soundtrak.com /browse/169-LONG-LONG-TRAILER-FOREVER-DARLING-1954-56-   (588 words)

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