Gary Morton on The Joan Rivers Show - husband of Lucille Ball - 1991
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- Опубликовано: 31 мар 2019
- This Segment of the show is with Gary Morton, the husband of the late Lucille Ball and Altovise Joanne Davis, wife of the late Sammy Davis Jr.. This episode of 'The Joan Rivers Show' looked at the spouses of famous people. Joan does not mention here the fact that she was on an episode of "Here's Lucy" in the early 1970s towards the beginning of her career.
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The Joan Rivers Show is an American talk show hosted by comedian Joan Rivers that premiered on September 5, 1989 in broadcast syndication. The show aired for four seasons and ended in 1993. The show was nominated for numerous Emmy Awards, with Rivers winning the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Talk Show Host in 1990. The series was produced by PGHM Productions, Joan Rivers's production company, and distributed by Tribune Entertainment.
In the mid-1990's the show was repeated on the E! TV network for several months. In early 2019 the show began re-airing on the Decades TV network, and it became available on the Roku streaming device.
Rivers had previously hosted late-night talk show entitled The Late Show with Joan Rivers which got canceled in May 1987. 
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The way Gary talks is so wonderful, so respectful. What a guy. That love was some thing so real.
Exactly, Grunthos!
Gary Loves Lucy❤️
I'm glad Lucy found some love and stability at that stage of her life. Gary seems like a classy guy and always said great things about Desi.
What a true gentleman. I wish more men were like him today.
People below are doubting Gary. All I know is if you can stay married to Lucy for 30 years you can't be too bad
27 years to be exactly
It sounds like Gary Morton had the perfect temperament for Lucy.
I see why Lucy loved Gary. He worshipped Lucy
My former employers was friends with the Mortons for over 30-years and my contact with them was always pleasant. Gary Morton was an especially nice man the few times I was around him.
Gary Morton. What a wonderful man. I can see why Lucy loved him. He is very open and real. And funny.
Gary Morton is so charming, funny, and charismatic. No wonder Lucy was with him for so long. He was actually 13 years younger than her. Altovise seems lovely. Sammy died broke - amazing how some of these stars squander their money - and she eventually had to move to Queens and live with her mother. Makes you wonder where Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, and Jerry Lewis, supposedly his best friends, were for her. This show was great. It was Joan's big comeback. I was lucky enough to see it live once, and while interning at CBS, I wandered onto the empty set and sat in Joan's chair. Oh, grow up - I did not damage or take anything!
When I was a kid (and before every star lived behind barriers of security) my Father took me to to California and bought a map to the stars homes. We went to Lucy's house via a taxi. Told dad I wanted to take a picture of the house, so I quickly stepped out of taxi and ran to the front door and knocked. A very annoyed Gary Morton answered the door and told me Lucy wasn't home . I was only 8..couldn't resist...lol..I'm an old fart now and still a crazy Lucy fan......
I can't imagine a time when you could knock on stars doors, I wished I lived in those times
@Ma P that's regular homes not celebrities tho
Awesome story...thanks for sharing! 😁
I remember times like that. What a lovely memory for you to have.
I would have run to Lucy's front door at age eight and rang her door bell and I would have said I love you lucy.
Joan Rivers is actually blushing!!!
Joan River's talk show was actually very good....I remember watching it all the time back in the early 90's.
Good interview... he seemed like a nice guy, Lucy was lucky to find him. I once saw him and Lucy together at a book signing in Beverly Hills... they drove themselves, j-walked across the street, and went into the bookstore...
I would have loved to have met her.
That is a STAR!
A nice guy? He was a horndog.. even Lucy mentioned it on the Carson show. He even tried to hit on Joan Rivers here even though he was dating someone. He was probably just Hungarian 😄 but nice? Idk
I hope not after what Lucy went through with Desi.
I wish Joan had married this man! Great guy and a great woman. RIP and God bless them both and their families.
He passed only a few years later
Seemed like she liked him.
He’s adorable!!🥰
All three of them Lucille Ball Joan Rivers Gary Morton were funny
The crazy thing is Joan died the same way. She went into the hospital and died like Lucy. Unexpected for them both.
Sad. :(
@@jimhanold9026 Terrible what happened to her. I used to work in a outpatient clinic. I can't believe how the people in that clinic behaved.
Except nothing whatsoever could change the outcome for Lucy but with Joan, her death possibly could have been avoided.
@@russelloverton9496 She pissed off Big Mike !
She was killed. She didnt die.
I watched the Barbara Walters interview with Lucy and Gary ...and it came across just how he tells it ...bless em xx
Gary seems like a very nice person. Lucy made a good choice. Altovise is so heartbroken. I am a widow so I understand.
Altovise died years ago after suffering a stroke. She was 65 yrs old. Sad... She and Sammy owed tons in back taxes.
So sorry for your loss.
Gary does seem very nice and I never heard that he was a "player"I think if he were Lucy would have ditched him right away - once bitten - twice shy. The only thing about the interview that perplexed me was Gary's statement about the big heir being the US Government. Lucy left Gary Morton 20 million in her will. Even if the government got 1/2 that means he was left 10million - also their joint properties. I think there were at least 3 houses - one in Beverly Hills, one in Palm Springs and one in Colorado. 10 M would have been very very satisfactory at that time (or any time).
30 year ago. Time flies
Carolyn Nigro 29! The year I graduated. I’m trying not to speed things up🤪
27 years
Altovise and Gary were both class all the way!
This touches my heart 🥺🥺🥺
Lucille Ball and Sammy Davis Jr. have more talent than any of the new so-called entertainers of today!. Show business never were the same once they passed....
So true. Past generation of entertainers seem to me so much more charming, delightful, elegant and naturally beautiful than today's Botox, GMO, drug dependant era.
Absolutely so very True!
It's more of an opinion really
One of the great is still with us, but she hasn't been near as active in the last several years which makes me sad. Betty White is hanging on and I hope she is in good health
show business.....was....never the same after they passed....,
Gary was a class act and funny. Met him on Warner's lot when Lucy was rehearsing a special in 1977. He parked his Stutz right next to my pals mustang...super close and it wouldn't start. Our windows were all down..We all laughed....he said, want to trade cars?
What anybody know that Warner Bros has purchased the Samuel Goldwyn Studios until 11/13/1980 and re-named the
Warner Hollywood Studios from 11/14/1980-present.
Joan's show was really good.
What a wonderful, funny interview between Joan Rivers and Gary Morton. He absolutely had her in stitches! I loved what he said about Lucy and their love for each other - one classy man! Joan should have gone out with him!
He wasnt serious. He was joking.
Some say it’s quite a compliment to the deceased spouse to want to remarry soon , it means they really enjoyed the married life
There are reasons for a divorce .
Gary seems like a decent man unlike Desi with his cheating & drinking.
L&D's marriage was 20 years.
L& G's marriage was 28 years.
@@deborahklinlger8565 That's cause most of the time Gary was at the golf course, then right after Lucy dies he suddenly had a pro golfer as a girlfriend, and then marries her. Desi was in her life then as well, Gary didn't even try to compete him. He used to call him his Husband-In-Law...
I think Garry Morton married Susan McAllistar sp? 3 years after Lucille Ball's death.
Gary may not have been the great love of her life like Desi was. But he was there for her when she needed him. And he never faltered in his respect and love for her. He made her laugh and made her feel secure. He was never insecure of her status or stardom. He was just always there for her. God bless them both.
Gary Morton a class act 100% and we would never ask a widow about her financial situation to Sammy’s lovely wife. Love her answer “I’ll take over your talk show” ha great come back!
Well Joan Rivers was always tactless...
My wife and daughter and I visited the Desi and Lucy museum in Jamestown NY last year which is three blocks away from the National Comedy Center. The Desi and Lucy museum has all the original sets from ILL and the cameras and editing machines, huge wall murals and even the set from the vegavita Mina episode. Desi was heir to the Bacardi Rum fortune and so Lucy married up with him. She was also instrumental to get many females and minorities work even when it cost her great hardship with the suits and big wigs of the day. Desi, despite his philandering was a brilliant businessman and paid $5 grand per episode of ILL to own the masters of each film. I did stand up for twenty five years in clubs and across the country and despite Gary doing two lines on the Dean Martin roast of Lucy, I’ve never seen his act so it must’ve stayed in the Catskills once he became a gentleman of leisure.
Lucy got a really great man in him but I know she still loves Desi even after all these years and her 2nd husband was good to her and her kids
Yes, he said after she died that she is finally happy because she is with Desi
This broke my heart 🥺
Great guy, faithful to her memory, he’s underrated and brought much to her that she deserved.
Thank-you for posting Milissa. Miss your mom hope your child is well. Really Miss Ron Jacobs. We were close never new Danny friends with Eva. Also know Ron's son. they all had so much talent including Jim and Andy. Joan was so good acting really quite and shy in person.
Great interview!!! Gary Joan and Altovise were all good friends and the warmth they all had for each other really comes through
i used to wait on Gary Morton frequently, he was one of the nicer celebrities that i waited on.
Gary was a wonderful man. I still miss him
Sadly, I do too.
Gary gave Lucy so much, he’s underrated, good interview.
WOW, how funny. I just watched a video on youtube today about how Lucy would send her friends a picture of her when she did the I L L episode where she did that play & played queen of the gypsies & had her teeth blacked out & the check bounced for the scenery LOL.
Lucy loved backgammon too , I'm surprised Gary didn't bring that up when Altovise mentioned Sammy Davis liking it.
Nice interview
You never forget your first love and the father of your children but Gary Morton was the better man. Married to Lucy for 30 years, he loved her, supported her and was faithful to her. Bless you Gary Morton. Joking aside Joan could have done worse than marry Gary.
Gary Morten married a much younger woman soon afterward and died a few years later.
I absolutely love and respect this channel man. TV was classy and just simple.
What is trashy is that she shows rare footage but none with the husband she is interviewing
I know,wtf.
Thought the same
Great interview
Lucy was highly patient towards Desi. Despite she didn't like his infidelity she didn't divorce him when he first didn't come home. Desi seemed more of a lasting flame and business partner of hers while Gary seemed more like her true match in nature.
@Chapman "Blood" feels like an excuse to me, to not even make the effort to change.
I think you're right. Lucy was devoted to Desi and he was a rat. Lucy had so much character. A truly remarkable woman, mother and wife.
@@zapkvr and from this interview you can tell she was the same way with Gary. She was the leading lady but at home she catered to her husband. Its almost like she craved to give up the leading role to her man. If that makes sense. Idk if that's just who she was or if it was a learned behavior from years of being married to Desi.
Exactly, Elaini!
What a great relationship.
wow...enjoyed this interview, never seen this one before or the vivian vance one.
bout 2 days ago i watched a comedy from 1944 starring ball & red skelton.....i bit taken aback b/c nvr realized what a stunning red head ball was...desi was very attractive in his youth but ball cld easily hold her own as she was a very attractive women...
Chase Jackson not Red Buttons, but rather Red Skelton. That movie was: Dubarry Was A-Lady!
A class act!
Gary is such a sweet man.And very funny!
Lucille deserved the best and she did have the best husband for her.
Lucille Ball is tremendously missed but never forgotten. I still watch her shows over and over and laugh my head off.
Lucille Ball was and will always be a comedy genius. I will always Love Lucy!
They both are in heaven now!🙏
Sammy Davis is missed as well!!A great entertainer!A very kind and generous man in every way!!
Joan is also a comedy genius. Love her!! Always makes me laugh when I'm depressed!
It's kinda funny that Gary Morton said Desi and him were friends, but if you listen to interviews from Desi and Lucy's daughter Lucie, Desi would call Gary Barry Norton. His daughter said that Desi was "extraordinarily" jealous of Gary.
She also said they got along well
Ocean Melody Ummmmm, did you just watch this interview, hon? Gary said Desi didn’t like him at first but later they became friends. Lucie said the exact same thing.
@@georgeroundy8408 I read Desi's autobiography
I also read a lot of the Desilu books.
I have heard that too - but that was in the beginning, esp. before Desi remarried to Edith Hersch. Lucie says that Gary was good step-father and never imposed himself as being the father figure, as he was certain aware how close the Arnaz children were to their father. Also, I believe that she said that her father and Gary would later golf together.
He had a great voice. I'm surprised he didn't work in radio. He was a Catskill mountains comic.
The only bad thing about this was that it ended.
This is a wonderful man who gave her the good she deserved, for 30 years. He really loved her and should be dignified in association with her memory.
Didn't realize they were married for 30 years.
Lucy was such s professional as st the grape stomping scene Lucy almost drowned in the vat!
Classy.
Gary and Lucy married in 1961 and she passed on in 1989. Maybe Gary rounded up when he said they'd been married 30 years.
This interview was done 30 years after their wedding. Even though Lucy had been dead two years maybe Gary felt married to her in 1991.
Lovely man
Lucky guy , played golf everyday ....
Love his accent
He was introduced to Lucy by comedian Jack Carter, a real comedian. This guy was clever.
I think Paula Stewart, who played Lucy's younger sister in the play "Wildcat" told Lucy about Gary. (I think Jack Carter was going out or married to Paula Stewart at that time.) Both of them Paula and Jack were best woman and best man in Lucy and Gary's wedding.
Gary was a good one. Intelligent handsome funny and loyal
Sadly enough-Joan Rivers' second husband Edgar Rosenberg committed suicide in 1987 after a long battle with pills, alcohol, and depression; additionally Edgar endured a number of business failures!
Nope. He committed suicide because he blamed himself for her shows cancelation
WOW~ He was one classy and handsome man~ Lucy was a lucky woman, vice versa~What a remarkable man~
Joan looks so pretty here. She had too much plastic surgery at the end.
I love when Joan tells the stories of Sammy's insane spending, and Altovise goes, "that's why . . . " then stops. What she wanted to say is, "yeah that insane spending is why I'm now broke and having to sell our house". Poor Sammy. He gave all those gifts to make people love him, and they all loved him anyway.
I know, I finished her sentence for her😬
Ask God to let you go the way you want and he will. My beloved uncle said I want to go fast. And an accident took his life in a fall he died instantly.
Gary seemed happy with his new love after Lucy!
In the fall of 1989, Gary Morton married to Susan McAllister shortly after the death of Lucille Ball.
He continues to work as an actor until 1990 and served as an board member of CBS before
his death in 1999.
(I don't mean to split hairs here) ...but... Gary was actually (legally) forced from the old house that He and Lucy shared. Just thought i'd mention that for the sake of clarity.
Hollywood is ALL make believe. No one should trust what’s said, ever. They’re there to entertain you and lie. Who would have known we have been lied to for decades; NWO, chemtrails, 5G rollout,vaccinations the list goes on ..Don’t bother to google, they remove truth and put up DISinformation. There’s an agenda going on, it’s deep :(
It was Morton that initiated a prenuptial agreement to prevent any suggestion that he was after her estate.
@@tbec3011 Interesting. All I know is what i've read and been told by those that were there at the time. But good to know, Thank you. I was just reading a letter Lucy (supposedly) wrote to Gary that was being auctioned off on Ebay last night. That was an interesting bit of info too. ^^
He certainly won the jackpot when Lucy married him. He always seemed to be trying to cash in on the windfall. Lucy was just so relieved to have a man that wasn't known as a lecher and womanizer that I think she overlooked most everything else.
@@jbolet1545 What a stupid thing to say. You make Lucy sound pathetic & stupid & Gary a leech. You're AWFUL.
What happened to the end of it?
Prince Phillip made very similar comments about Queen Elizabeth.
I recommend you to watch Hers Lucy. It’s well done great story’s of an other time. Free on tube
You are interviewing Gary Morton, Lucille's HUSBAND, why the fuck would you want to play videos of Lucy and Desi Arnaz? Gary was a gentleman, I would've walked right off.
No, he's an great guy and working for CBS as one of the board of directors, Gary Morton has great respect for
everyone here. No matter what he does. He's one great guy: former actor, comedian, producer and executive of
Desilu Communications from 1961 until 1991; current board member for CBS from 1991 until 1999.
Sadly he died in September of 1999. He survived by his wife, Susan McAllister. He will be deeply missed
but never forgotten.
SammyDavisJr., bought everybody expensive gifts. Paid for the whole room expense.
I wonder did he help his mother in law in Queens.
Joan sounded like she had throat issues
That was so disrespectful of him to joke about asking her out. Bad form. Then Joan puts movies with Desi on and not one of Lucy with Gary? Just weird. Then she dives into the finances of someone who is grieving the loss of her husband? Not a great tribute to Lucy or Sammi.
Lucy copied Mary Pickford . There are many many restored Mary Pickford silent movies here on RUclips. It was like watching I Love Lucy reruns!
It was this unlikely match that survived the test of time and gave lucy the much needed stability she craved after the disaster of her first marriage and yet it was her spoilt ungrateful kids who got her wealth even tho they have nothing but grouses and complaints about her ,especially her domineering pushy daughter who seems to resent her mother so much but still has no other relevance apart from being lucille ball s daughter .lucy staked her career and popularity at the alter of motherhood by starting a show for her children but they just did,nt have it in them to be successful in showbiz while the show was not so successful either .I read somewhere that her daughter even raised her hand against her ill and frail mother
Wow really? Who really knows. Relationships are so complicated.
The Bible has it written that marriage is “ till death do us part.” So if a man or woman wants to remarry the next day it’s ok by me. Unless there is foul play involved in the death!
Saint Paul had a different view. You don't get to pick and choose with the bible
One gets married if one is single or a widower. If one does it while being divorced or outside of wedlock , it is adultery. God=Lord Jesus Christ revealed this to His prophets in the Holy Bible as it was being written in the ancient times.
LUCY AN DESI ARE TOGETHER AGAIN
Gary Morton will be known as the 'second' husband of Lucille Ball. But as I see it, should be Desi Arnaz and Lucille Ball forever.
No. Desi was an alcoholic. That is no way to live. As Lucy put it herself. With Desi they had several houses but with Gary they had a home! Big difference.
Desi brought pain into their marriage by cheating on Lucy & drinking.
Houses meaning a building & home meaning a family lived there & made it a home. Gary gave Lucy a loving marriage by being faithful & loving to Lucy.
😂he was “doing great, terrific” but he lost his wife 2 years prior?!😂😂😂😩
Lets correct things the reason the IRS comes in when you die is if you owe money. Lucy supposedly had alot of money so why Garry is saying the IRS came in when Lucy died I can't figure that out.
Omg at 16.57 Lucy blinks
I didnt see it what part of the screen was it on
What do you mean Lucy blinks at 16:57? It’s the end of the clip and I can’t see Lucy on the screen anywhere. At 16:57 Gary is talking about listening out for the phone to ring…
Poor Sammy wife died.. due to drugs..
I READ ALTOVISE WAS "CLEAN" AT THE TIME OF HER PASSING,,, AMEN🙏🙌🙏!!!
BUT I SUPPOSE ALL THE DECADES OF ALCOHOL AND DRUG ABUSE WOULD CAUSE OTHER PROBLEMS?!
SHE PASSED ON JUST A YEAR OLDER THAN HER LATE HUSBAND SAMMY DID...
GOD BLESS HER SOUL,,, AMEN AMEN AMEN🙏🙌🙏!!!
SHE WAS QUITE A LADY!!!
Something not honest about him. Smooth talker.
What I wonder why Gary didn't give the big house that Lucille lived in to her oldest daughter? And the golfing B took the house and everything and tried to sell everything away, like man cold hearted
Mr. Morton died in 1995.
He died in 1999.
So what are you doing Joan ? Are you seeing anybody? Hmm that's A little STRANGE!!
He was a comedian..it lightened the heavy moment discussing death.
@@imike8252 agreed Mike.x
It was a JOKE. Get it.
Anything that has to do with Gary Morton was a fairy tail she took him and cared for him like she wanted to do for Desi
He looks good here......I believe ball grew to love Gary.....but i don't believe for a sec that she was ever in love with him....there is an interview here where ball is interviewed by Barbara at her BH's home n Gary sat in.....Ball begins 2 reflect on her time with Desi....I am don't know if she was pissed with Gary or just became nostalgic but This is the most candid she had ever spoken about their marriage......n it was clear (to me anyway)that she remained deeply in love with Desi n resented him for throwing their love away......At a point Gary interjected to change the subject n give lucy a hint that it was highly inappropriate for her 2 be discussing her ex-husband while sitting next to her current husband....
That interview was with Barbara Walters from 1977
WHO IS BALL? Wasn’t her name LUCILLE BALL????
@@dddddadadad1796 to ridiculous to even go back n forth about!!!!!!
She was never really "married " to him.
She performed on the Bob Hope special in 86 seemed very healthy.
He esembles William Holden?
Joan was trying to pull the negative out of him, instead of Respecting Lucy 🙄 .... Thankfully her husband blocked the questions and answers with grace..... I Love Lucy ✨💜✨🤍✨💜
However, I don't like how he's flirting with Joan.... He seem like he was worse than Desi!!! Lucy was gone only 2yrs at this point, also he act like he didn't want to look at the video of Lucy either ( he's eyes told his truth)... I didn't like what I seen, yes he honored Lucy name, but disrespected her by trying to date Joan imo.... Ugh🙄
It was a joke. Don’t you get it ? He didn’t want to date Joan. 🙄
He was hitting on her
Lucy only one Dr Madusa.
idk something off with him
Wonder if joan thought that she had lost her chance with gary? Too bad, he looks fun
Paint off my car sounds like euphemism.
It's not.
Yes, it is a saying
Jesus these men sure replace their ‘beloved’ wives pretty fast
That’s not fair... and probably what Lucy wanted... Lucy married Gary less than a year after divorcing Desi and her daughter felt that was too fast... hey it is what it is
Most men cannot be alone.
@@m.e.d.7997 Or women for that matter.
Traditionally there was a 1 year grieving period so two doesn’t seem so strange.