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<blockquote data-quote="Crimson" data-source="post: 374669" data-attributes="member: 5079">Boy would I have liked to see that episode.&nbsp; Like the TROG accounts, there are differing versions in various &#039;Lucy&#039; books.&nbsp; Lucy herself claimed&nbsp; that Joan was nearly blind drunk through rehearsals;&nbsp; others among the crew back up that version.&nbsp; But there are also those who claim that Joan was merely nervous and shaky or, at most, that she dipped into some liquid courage to get through a week of working with Lucy who seems to have come on rather strong, even by her standards.Even the most sympathetic of Joan&#039;s biographers (Spoto, whose book I recently re-read) leaves no ambiguity that Crawford&#039;s drinking was bad by the late 60s.&nbsp; How much that affected her professionalism and actual performances is less clear.&nbsp; She&#039;s not very good on THE LUCY SHOW, but her performance seems timid and nervous more than tipsy.&nbsp; &nbsp; I haven&#039;t seen TROG in years.&nbsp; The clips on YT that I watched didn&#039;t show any obvious signs of performative decline, although it&#039;s certainly not implausible to me that her documented drinking problem slipped through in some scenes.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Crimson, post: 374669, member: 5079"] Boy would I have liked to see[I] that[/I] episode. Like the TROG accounts, there are differing versions in various 'Lucy' books. Lucy herself claimed that Joan was nearly blind drunk through rehearsals; others among the crew back up that version. But there are also those who claim that Joan was merely nervous and shaky or, at most, that she dipped into some liquid courage to get through a week of working with Lucy who seems to have come on rather strong, even by her standards. Even the most sympathetic of Joan's biographers (Spoto, whose book I recently re-read) leaves no ambiguity that Crawford's drinking was bad by the late 60s. How much that affected her professionalism and actual performances is less clear. She's not very good on THE LUCY SHOW, but her performance seems timid and nervous more than tipsy. I haven't seen TROG in years. The clips on YT that I watched didn't show any obvious signs of performative decline, although it's certainly not implausible to me that her documented drinking problem slipped through in some scenes. [/QUOTE]

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