On October 1, 1962, The Lucy Show premiered on CBS—and it was a very different look for Lucille Ball.
No longer married to Desi Arnaz, and with no sign of little Ricky, the I Love Lucy legend was now Lucy Carmichael, a widowed mother of two kids, Chris (Candy Moore) and Jerry (Jimmy Garrett), who shared a house in a New York suburb with her divorced friend Vivian Bagley (Vivian Vance) and her son Sherman (Ralph Hart).
Ball’s real-life daughter, Lucie Arnaz, had a recurring role as Cynthia, the friend of Moore’s teen character Chris Carmichael.
“Candy Moore played my mother’s daughter on that show, and I was playing her friend,” Arnaz once recalled in an interview with Tony Maietta. “I was a girlfriend of Candy’s; Chris was her name.”
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With her pretty, blonde, all-American girl looks, Moore was popular from the jump and even landed her a record deal.
Weeks after The Lucy Show premiered, an Oct. 20, 1962 Billboard post teased, “Sable Records has signed Candy Moore. She’s featured as lucy’s daughter on Lucille Ball’s new TV stanza.”
One month later, Cashbox reviewed Moore’s single, “It’s Your Turn Now.” “Young (15) actress, featured on Lucy Ball’s new ‘TV’er, warbles a wistful ditty against a bouncy, organ-led setting. Can benefit some from her TV exposure.”
The Lucy Show aired for six seasons on CBS, but by Season 4 the kids were out. Moore’s Chris went away to college, while her little brother Jerry was sent off to military school. Ball’s Lucy Carmichael ultimately moved to California. And while Jerry made two cameos in Season 4, Chris was never seen or heard from again.
So what happened to Candy Moore?
Moore, who is now 79 years old, continued to act sporadically until 1980, appearing in The Donna Reed Show and the movies The Night of the Grizzly and Raging Bull. Her final acting role is listed on IMDb as a role in the 1981 movie Lunch Wagon.
Just before she stopped acting, Moore was confused as the cover model for the 1979 Cars album cover, Candy-O. The iconic album features a drawing of a young woman named Candy Moore, who was dating one of The Cars band members, lying atop a Ferrari. For years, there were rumors that it was the former Lucy Show star.
In 2020, The Cars lead guitarist Elliot Easton clarified things in a Facebook post, posting a photo of The Candy-O cover next to a photo of the model named Candy Moore posing for an ad for Pro-Trac tires.
“This is Candy Moore. Candy Moore is Candy-O,” he wrote.
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By the time The Cars album came out, the actress Moore was married to Paul Gleason, the prolific actor best known as Vice Principal Richard Vernon in the 1986 comedy classic The Breakfast Club, according to TV Line. Moore also shared a daughter with Gleason.
After she stopped acting, Moore became a writer and taught English in the East Los Angeles Performing Arts Academy Magnet at Esteban E. Torres High School, according to Everything Lucy.
Decades later, fans still look back fondly at Moore’s role as Lucy’s likeable teen daughter from The Lucy Show, a beloved character from television’s golden era.
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