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The Long, Long Trailer was a novel by Clinton Twiss from the 1950s about a couple who buy a new travel trailer home and spend a year traveling the United States.

It was filmed in 1954, with Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz, Marjorie Main, Keenan Wynn, Bert Freed, Moroni Olsen, Gladys Hurlbut, Madge Blake, and Walter Baldwin, directed by Vincente Minnelli working from a screenplay by Albert Hackett and Frances Goodrich.

Plot

Nicky (Arnaz) and Tacy Collini (Ball) are going to be married. Nicky wants to save up money for a house, but Tacy dreams of starting off with their own home on wheels--a trailer. After the two are hitched, they hitch up their trailer and begin their honeymoon. The humor comes from several disastrous adventures the couple has while traveling including Tacy's awkward attempt to cook dinner in a moving trailer, and a cliffhanging ride through the mountains that nearly destroys their marriage.

Trivia

The trailer in the film was a 32-foot (9.8m) 1953 New Moon, which sold new for $5,345. The car was a 1953 Mercury Monterey convertible with a flathead V8.

According to Turner Classic Movies' host, Robert Osbourne, the studio was not sure if this film would be a success because they thought that people would not pay money to see Lucille Ball & Desi Arnaz in a movie when they could watch Lucy & Desi on television for free (I Love Lucy). So Desi made a bet with the studio that if the movie made more money than the current highest grossing comedy at that time (Father of the Bride, also directed by Vincente Minnelli), the studio would have to pay Desi a couple thousand dollars and if the movie didn't do so well, then Desi would have to pay the studio the amount. Desi won the bet.

A young Liza Minnelli
had a scene as a guest at the Collini's wedding, but it ended up on the cutting room floor.

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