Ethel May Potter Mertz Hates Fred and You.

Actress Vivian Vance best known as  “TV’s most beloved second banana,” on TV's greatest sitcom " I Love Lucy". She was quoted from a dinner with Andy Warhol on her fame, fans and why she did not want to participate in a movie with Warhol...



"I'd love to do it, Andy, I really would, but you must understand that for all those people out there I'm still Ethel Mertz, Lucy's next-door neighbor and the nicest woman in America, and that's why I can still go into any dinner theater in the country and get paid $20,000 a week, because all my nice fans in their mink stoles want to see Ethel Mertz be nice. I hate being nice and I hate my fans and I hate their mink stoles. But I love making $20,000 a week anytime I want." – actress Vivian Vance to Andy Warhol and Bob Colacello over dinner at La Caravelle in New York in 1976, on why she couldn't star in Warhol's movieBad. (via Warhol Stars)

Ohh Ethel! You Silly Bear! Someone must have woken up on the wrong side of the bed.


Yesterday also Marked the passing of Vivian Vance on August 17, 1979, at the age of 70, of bone cancer.