Laughing with Lucy

My Life with America's Leading Lady of Comedy

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by Madelyn Pugh Davis and Bob Carroll Jr.

Type

Stories

Subject

Actress > Lucille Ball

Keywords

Lucille Ball

Publishing date

2005

Publisher

Emmis Books

Language

English

Relative size

Physical desc.

Hardcover • 288 pages
5 ¾ x 8 ½ inches (14.5 x 21.5 cm)

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ISBN-13

1-57860-247-5
978-1-57860-247-6

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Book Presentation:
At any time, night or day, I Love Lucy is being broadcast somewhere in the world. Four generations have grown up watching I Love Lucy, and Lucille Ball’s is the most recognized face in the world. Madelyn Pugh Davis was Lucy’s staff writer for nearly half a century. Davis was the first female writer in television and was responsible for thousands of hours of memorable programming. Many of the plot lines used on I Love Lucy were taken from Davis’s own life and immortalized by Ball’s comic genius. In Laughing with Lucy, Davis and her long-term writing partner, Bob Carroll Jr., recount her rise in television and her many years working on the set and behind the scenes with Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz. She recounts her experiences as a pioneer in the entertainment industry, one of the first women writers in Hollywood. Lighthearted and witty, this book fondly remembers Lucy and the early days of television.

About the authors:
Madelyn Pugh Davis and her writing partner, Bob Carroll, Jr., started out in radio where they wrote almost 300 hundred shows. Since moving to television, they have written more than 400 television shows including all the episodes of I Love Lucy, The Lucy Show and The Mothers-in-Law and have produced more than 200 television shows. They were the Executive Producers on the Private Benjamin and Alice TV series (for which they won a Golden Globe Award) and wrote for many others including Debbie Reynolds, Steve Allen and Dinah Shore. Davis and Carroll are two-time Emmy nominees for their work on I Love Lucy. In 2001, UCLA Film School honored Davis with a Lifetime Achievement in Television Writing.

See the complete filmography of Lucille Ball on the website: IMDB ...