Ethel Mertz
Ethel Roberta Louise Mae Mertz (née Potter) is one of the four main fictional characters in the highly popular 1950s American television sitcom I Love Lucy, played by Vivian Vance. Ethel is the main character, Lucy's, middle-aged landlady. Ethel was most likely born about 1905, and was raised in New Mexico. She is married to Fred Mertz, played by William Frawley, with whom she had a career in vaudeville. The two female characters are close friends, habitually scheming together, Ethel being generally the voice of reason as a counterpart to Lucy's hare-brained ideas.
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“The very “in” had babies the same time Ethel [Kennedy] did, in the same hospital, with the same obstetrician ...”
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