Laughing with Lucy My Life with America's Leading Lady of Comedy

by Pugh Davis, Madelyn; Carroll, Bob

• ISBN13: 9781578603053
• ISBN10: 1578603056
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-09-28
• Publisher: Clerisy Press

Summary

I Love Lucy. You love Lucy. We all love Lucy. At any-time day or night, I Love Lucy is on TV somewhere in the world-which means that twenty-four hours a day, Lucille Ball is speaking the words that Madelyn Pugh Davis wrote. As Lucille Ball's staff writer for nearly fifty years-spanning I Love Lucy, The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour, The Lucy Show, Here's Lucy, and Life with Lucy-Madelyn was responsible for thousands of hours of classic TV. Many of the story elements used on the shows were, in fact, taken from Madelyn's own life and immortalized by Ball's comic genius-Mertz, for example, was the last name of her real-life neighbors.

Table of Contents

Don't You Have a Better Joke than That?	p. 13
But I Wanted to be a Foreign Correspondent	p. 22
Worse than Married	p. 39
The Cuban Arm	p. 54
Lucy Isn't Pregnant, She's Expecting	p. 72
California, Here We Come	p. 88
You Wouldn't Fit In, You're a Girl	p. 104
Bon Voyage	p. 116
Our Longest Laugh	p. 129
The Mertzes (Or As Desi Called Them, "The Merzes")	p. 149
What's New?	p. 160
Did You Really Try Out All Those Stunts?	p. 174
I'm Going Over to the Pope's House	p. 192
Your Show's Only Half an Hour; What Do You Do the Rest of the Week?	p. 203
Don't Step on the Children	p. 213
Who Am I?	p. 229
Who's the Pushy Broad at the End of the Table?	p. 247
Index	p. 267
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