The Long, Long Trailer (1954)

A newlywed couple (Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz) decide to invest in a trailer home and spend their honeymoon traveling through various states to the engineering projects that he is employed on.  Directed by Vincente Minnelli (DESIGNING WOMAN), this movie was capitalizing on the success of the I LOVE LUCY television series. MGM assigned their top director Vincente Minnelli to the project and took a chance that their popularity would transition to the big screen. Their personas for the film depart from their Ricky/Lucy Ricardo characters on the TV show but they were obviously playing it safe and didn’t wander far enough to not make it seem on some level like a Technicolor (actually Ansco color), bigger budgeted episode of I LOVE LUCY. There is a darker side to the relationship, namely her passive/aggressive tendencies toward her husband and his naiveté in indulging her like a spoiled brat , that’s never fully explored. With Marjorie Main and Keenan Wynn.