I Love Lucy: The Untold Story by Oppenheimer Jess & Oppenheimer Gregg

Author:Oppenheimer, Jess & Oppenheimer, Gregg [Oppenheimer, Jess]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Gregg Oppenheimer
Published: 2012-09-23T00:00:00+00:00

In writing I Love Lucy we tried never to get too far away from basic human behavior. We composed a list of common problems that most viewers face: diet, money, noisy neighbors, business competition, and so on. And sometimes we would go through that list until one of the topics provided a springboard for a script.

Other story ideas would come from our personal experiences, including the “Passports” show, based on my mother’s passport troubles, and “Ricky Thinks He’s Getting Bald,” which grew out of my own experiments with baldness cures.

My wife, Es, used to hate the sloppy old clothes that I wore around the house. There was one particularly awful-looking pair of beat-up old tennis shoes that she kept asking me to throw away, and I just couldn’t bring myself to get rid of them. She finally found a way to stop me from wearing them. She took one of the shoes from the closet and had it bronzed.

We never actually had Lucy bronze Ricky’s shoes on I Love Lucy. But we did do a show called “Changing the Boys’ Wardrobe,” in which Lucy and Ethel get so fed up with Ricky’s and Fred’s worn-out old clothes that they sell them to a used clothing store.

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