{"id":6144,"date":"2014-12-20T05:18:13","date_gmt":"2014-12-20T10:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/dreamgates\/?p=6144"},"modified":"2014-12-20T05:18:13","modified_gmt":"2014-12-20T10:18:13","slug":"advice-from-a-dead-movie-star-created-the-star-of-i-love-lucy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/dreamgates\/2014\/12\/advice-from-a-dead-movie-star-created-the-star-of-i-love-lucy.html","title":{"rendered":"Advice from a dead movie star created the star of “I Love Lucy”"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n<\/a>On the day the Obama administration announced that it intended to seek to reopen diplomatic relations with Cuba, a friend reported dreaming of Lucille Ball, the star of “I Love Lucy.” She wanted to know why she was dreaming of the star of “I Love Lucy”. I commented that the dream seemed to me to be timely in view of the detente with Cuba, since Lucille’s husband and co-star, Desi Arnaz, was a Cuban bandleader.<\/p>\n

Then I remembered that Lucille was a world-class dreamer and that it was dream guidance from a deceased friend that convinced her that she was making the right decision by “going for broke” in the then new and untested medium of television.<\/p>\n

In her own words, \u201cEveryone warned Desi and me that we were committing career suicide, by giving up highly paid movie and band commitments to go for broke on TV. But it was either working together or good-bye marriage!\u00a0 Ever try being married seven years out of ten by long-distance call and wire? Then I dreamed about Carole Lombard.\u00a0 She was wearing a very smart suit Carole always dressed very beautifully–and she said, `Take a chance, honey.\u00a0 Give it a whirl!’ \u00a0\u00a0After that, I knew for certain<\/em> that we were doing the right thing.”<\/p>\n

Lucille Ball had been devastated when her good friend Carole Lombard died in a plane crash in January 1942. But their friendship continued after Carole\u2019s death and \u2013 as Lucille explains in the quote \u2013 Carole gave her friend the confidence to take the risk and shine as TV\u2019s \u201cLucy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Carole was not the only dead celebrity who showed up in Lucille’s dreams to offer advice. At \u00a0a party, she told Clark Gable that his long-deceased wife kept turning up in her dreams to offer very helpful advice.\u00a0 Lucille recalled that the actor “stared, gulped, and plowed off in a daze.”<\/p>\n

Source: Warren G. Harris, Lucy and Desi, the Legendary Love Story of Television’s Most Famous Couple<\/em>. \u00a0(New York: Simon & Schuster, 1991)<\/p>\n

Photo: Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz in 1957. Public domain<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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