It's been speculated that Lucille Ball's vocal chords were severely coarsened between the last Lucy/Desi comedy hour and season 1 of this show; when she was on Broadway night after night performing in Wildcat; during which she developed a polyps on her larynx which forever changed the way her voice sounded. You can hear, in her acceptance speech for her 1968 Emmy Award for this show, her voice is significantly lower than it was on I Love Lucy. And you can tell that she is straining to squeak her way into that high pitched I Love Lucy little-girl voice register that made her so popular while she is on this show; and that too is likely damaging her vocal chords.
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05-03-2025 alle ore 08:21