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Joining Deadline as part of the Amazon Studios presentation at Contenders Film: The Nominees event were two of the stars of Aaron Sorkin’s funny, moving and cleverly constructed story of the relationship of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz in Being the Ricardos, which all takes place in a week during the course of a taping of an episode of I Love Lucy.

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‘I Love Lucy’ star William Frawley played matchmaker for Marilyn Monroe and Joe DiMaggio: author

Marilyn Monroe was introduced to husband number two by an unlikely matchmaker – an “I Love Lucy” star.The 25-year-old was dining out with her agent, Norman Brokaw, when William Frawley, who played Fred Mertz in the sitcom, approached them. He had an offer that the actress couldn’t refuse.“[My father] took her to a television program called ‘Lights, Camera, Action,’ which was a showcase for up-and-coming talent,” Norman’s son Joel Brokaw told Fox News Digital. “[It was] a live show in Hollywood that all the casting agents would tune in to watch.

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On this day in history, March 3, 1966, 'I Love Lucy' star, vaudeville performer William Frawley dies

William Frawley, the Iowa-born vaudevillian whose quick-witted comebacks and grumpy but lovable portrayal of Fred Mertz on the legendary sitcom "I Love Lucy" endeared him to millions of Americans, died on this day in history, March 3, 1966. He was 79.

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We may have found our Fred and Ethel Mertz!

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J.K. Simmons and Nina Arianda join Nicole Kidman and Javier Bardem in Amazon's Being the Ricardos

Nicole Kidman and Javier Bardem have gotten a pair of new co-stars in their Amazon Studios film Being the Ricardos, with J.K. Simmons and Nina Arianda signing on.Kidman and Bardem will play I Love Lucy stars Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz in the series, with Simmons and Arianda playingWilliam Frawley and Vivian Vance, via Deadline.Frawley and Vance played Fred Mertz and Ethel Mertz, the neighbors of Ball and Arnaz's characters Lucy and Ricky Ricardo, in the series, which ran from 1951-1957.

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J.K. Simmons To Play William Frawley In Amazon’s Lucille Ball-Desi Arnaz Pic ‘Being The Ricardos’

EXCLUSIVE: Oscar-winner J.K. Simmons has been tapped to play actor William Frawley in Amazon’s and Aaron Sorkin’s Being The Ricardos, film about the relationship between the I Love Lucy stars. Nicole Kidman and Javier Bardem are in final negotiations to play Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz in the film with Sorkin writing and directing. Frawley famously played Ball and Arnaz’s co-star in the I Love Lucy show in the role of Fred Mertz.

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