Vivian Vance appeared as a guest.

While awaiting their food at The Brown Derby, a Hollywood restaurant, Lucy ( Lucille Ball ) and Ethel ( Vivian Vance ) argue over whether a certain portrait on a nearby wall is Shelley Winters or Judy Holliday.

* 1909 – Vivian Vance, American actress ( d. 1979 )

Also, during the first few seasons of the first of Lucille Ball's two 1960s television series, The Lucy Show, cast members including Vivian Vance often did commercials for Jell-O.

* 1951 – The first episode of I Love Lucy, an American television sitcom starring Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz, Vivian Vance, and William Frawley, airs on the Columbia Broadcasting System ( CBS ).

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* August 17 – Vivian Vance, American actress ( b. 1909 )

After the transfer from the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater to the Vivian Beaumont Theater, Courtney B. Vance stepped into the role of Paul and Robert Duncan McNeill played Rick.

* Vivian Vance, actress who played Ethel Mertz on I Love Lucy

I Love Lucy is an American television sitcom starring Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz, Vivian Vance, and William Frawley.

Originally set in an apartment building in New York City, I Love Lucy centers on Lucy Ricardo ( Lucille Ball ) and her singer / bandleader husband Ricky Ricardo ( Desi Arnaz ), along with their best friends and landlords Fred Mertz ( William Frawley ) and Ethel Mertz ( Vivian Vance ).

Cast members from left, standing: William Frawley, Desi Arnaz, seated: Vivian Vance and Lucille Ball.

* Vivian Vance as Ethel Mae Roberta Louise Potter Mertz

Vivian Vance in 1948

Vivian Vance became a consideration on the recommendation of Lucy director Marc Daniels.

In an effort to please Vance, whom he had much respect for, Arnaz proposed doing a spin-off from I Love Lucy called The Mertzes to star Vivian Vance and William Frawley.

The main cast, Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz, Vivian Vance, William Frawley and Keith Thibodeaux were all in the show.

Both The Lucy Show and Here's Lucy are notable for having Vance as recurring characters named Viv ( Vivian Bagley Bunson on The Lucy Show and Vivian Jones on Here's Lucy ), so named because she was tired of being recognized on the street and addressed as Ethel.

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The following are well-known actors who feature in guest-starring roles on Rhoda: Henry Winkler, Vivian Vance, Eileen Heckart, John Ritter, Norman Fell, Doris Roberts, Joan Van Ark, Tim Matheson, Linda Lavin, Judd Hirsch, Ruth Gordon, Howard Hessman, Anne Jackson, Robert Alda, David Ogden Stiers, Jerry Stiller, Jack Gilford, Rene Auberjonois.

Cast members from left, standing: William Frawley, Desi Arnaz, seated: Vivian Vance and Lucille Ball.

Vivian Vance played Ethel Mertz, Frawley ’ s on-screen wife.

" ( Vivian Vance, who by then had left The Lucy Show except for an occasional guest appearance, does not appear in that episode.

* Julia Roberts as Vivian Ward, a beautiful, kind-hearted prostitute on Hollywood Boulevard, who is independent and assertive — refusing to have a pimp and fiercely reserving the right to choose her customers and what she would do and not do when with them.

Sir Vivian Fuchs ( right ) pictured with Sir Edmund Hillary in Wellington, New Zealand | Wellington after the return of the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition, 1958.

A world traveller in her own right, Joyce accompanied Vivian on his expedition to Lake Rudolf ( now Lake Turkana ) in 1934.

Vivian D ' Aramis met her fate at the hands of Puanteur in Justice League America, while Constance D ' Aramis had her throat slit by The Mist in the pages of Starman right before the building she was in was blown.

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Vance is best known for her role as Ethel Mertz, sidekick to Lucille Ball on the American television sitcom I Love Lucy, and as Vivian Bagley on The Lucy Show.

She appeared on The Lucy Show from 1962-65, as Vivian Bagley, a divorced mother of one son, sharing a house with Ball's character.

Vivian Bagley remarried and she, her son and her new husband remained in Danfield.

* The Lucy Show ( 80 episodes, 1962 – 1968 ) as Vivian Bagley

Cast of the show: Jimmy Garrett ( Jerry Carmichael ), Candy Moore ( Chris Carmichael ), Lucille Ball ( Lucy Carmichael ), Vivian Vance ( Vivian Bagley ), and Ralph Hart ( Sherman Bagley ).

Mike Nichols directed a production that opened on October 26, 1967 at the Vivian Beaumont Theatre in Lincoln Center, then transferred to the Ethel Barrymore Theatre.

Gibbard took the band name from the title of the song written by Neil Innes and Vivian Stanshall and performed by their group, the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, in The Beatles ' 1967 film, Magical Mystery Tour.

However, the 1967 dramatisation enjoyed a high profile at the time and it featured several leading actors of that era including Ronald Fraser, Freddie Jones, Vivian Pickles, Nicholas Courtney and James Villiers.

* The 1967 TV version written by Giles Cooper and starring Edward Woodward with James Villiers, Ronald Fraser, Freddie Jones and Vivian Pickles Waugh met Cooper at the Dorchester Hotel early in 1966 before the latter started work on the script.

Lucille Ball, Vivian Vance in a 1967 episode of " The Lucy Show "

In the episode " Don Juan is Shelved ", Schary's character was played by Philip Ober, Vivian Vance's husband at the time.

She was also in the Seinfeld episode " The Blood ", in which she played Elaine Benes ' friend Vivian, a woman with health problems who wants Elaine to look after her son if she dies, a case of art imitating life, as her real-life heart condition had already been diagnosed.

* On the television show The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air in 1994, it is revealed that Philip proposed to Vivian on an episode of Soul Train in the 1970s.

In 1955, actress Vivian Vance sang " My Hero " from The Chocolate Soldier on the fourth season episode of I Love Lucy titled " Ethel's Home Town ".

Also, Inspector Gadget. Although he was supposed to marry Vivian during the final episode, he was caught up in catching a criminal but started wheezing and supposedly died.

The last episode to be aired, " Mother of the Bride ", featured Audrey Meadows, who was going to be cast as a regular to give the show a new direction and Lucille's character a comic foil and partner, similar to the role previously played by Vivian Vance in Lucy's previous series.

* In " Maude's Dilemma ", the ninth episode of the first season of Maude, Maude tells Vivian that she is pregnant.

In the Season 4 episode " My Pest Friend's Wedding ", James Avery and Daphne Maxwell Reid ( Vivian Banks ) guest starred as Dr. Maxwell Stanton's parents.

Jean Stapleton was nominated for the 1995 Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy series Emmy Award for playing Aunt Vivian in the episode " The Road to Paris Texas.

In 2003, she lent her voice to an episode of the Disney cartoon Kim Possible as Vivian Porter.

At the end of the episode, Benson's parental rights are revoked by Vivian who sends Calvin to live with his grandparents.