Satirical commentary of I Love Lucy every Friday! Here’s all the WTFacts for this week. 

This Week’s Episode:

“The Young Fans”

Original Air Date:

February 25, 1952

This Week’s WTFacts:

Janet Waldo, who plays the teenage girl with the crush on Ricky, was actually 28 at the time of filming. Oh yeah and she was pregnant. 

Waldo is a fascinating person. A descendant of Ralph Waldo Emerson, she was married to playwright Robert Edwin Lee, who wrote Inherit the Wind.

Waldo was well-known for 2 things: playing a swooning, melodramatic teenager and having a great speaking voice. Waldo went on to achieve voice acting fame as Judy Jetson and played countless Hanna-Barbara roles through the years. She played Judy Jetson until well after she turned 70.

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