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Scheming as usual to break into show business, Lucy teams with Orson Welles. She thinks they’ll be doing Shakespeare; he wants an assistant for his magic act. They’re both right (sort of): Welles levitates Lucy, who bellows: “Romeo, Romeo, get me down from here Romeo!” Miss Hanna: Ellen Corby., Scheming as usual to break into show business, Lucy teams with Orson Welles. She thinks they’ll be doing Shakespeare; he wants an assistant for his magic act. They’re both right (sort of): Welles levitates Lucy, who bellows: “Romeo, Romeo, get me down from here Romeo!”, When Orson Welles was signed to produce and direct films at RKO Radio Pictures in 1939, he’d wanted to cast Lucille Ball in an adaptation of Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness. The studio turned Welles down, insisting that the actress “can’t carry a picture.” Seventeen years later, Ball was more than carrying her own TV series — and thus, she and Orson Welles were finally able to work together. The plot of this episode finds Lucy Ricardo (Ball) trying to insinuate herself into Welles’ act at her husband Ricky’s (Desi Arnaz) nightclub. When Welles decides to hire her, Lucy alerts her former high-school drama coach (Ellen Corby), assuming that she will be co-starring in a scene from Shakespeare. What Lucy doesn’t know until the night of the performance is that Orson merely wants her to assist him with the “levitation” routine in his magic act.
