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"Mama Mia, What a Mess!" Everyone remembers Lucy's famous "grape-stomping" scene in "Lucy's Italian Movie." But what did Lucille Ball have to go through to film that classic scene?      "It wasn't in the original script," I Love Lucy creator Jess Oppenheimer recalled in his best-selling memoir, Laughs, Luck...and Lucy. "It was developed on the set during rehearsals. The only real problem we had was that Lucy kept getting her hair under the water in the grape vat. Because she colored it so much, the prop and makeup people had to find something that wasn’t going to leave her with purple hair. They finally came up with a food coloring at the very last minute." Photo taken 3/8/56  More Photos  Laughs, Luck...and Lucy