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

Pugh Davis, Madelyn

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1578603056 ISBN 13: 9781578603053

Publisher: Clerisy Press, 2007

Synopsis

Lucille Ball's comic genius made them famous, but many of the unforgettable plot lines for I Love Lucy came from the life of their writer, Madelyn Pugh Davis. In Laughing with Lucy, Davis and her long-time 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. Lighthearted and witty, this book offers a trip back in time to the tumultuous early days of television.

About this title

From the Publisher:

Lucy fans will love: · How the writers dealt with Lucy’s real-life pregnancy without ever using the "p" word on-air · That elements of Desi and Lucy’s real life were mirrored in the scripts · Details from Davis’s own past and how they made their way into the show (Mertz was the last name of Davis’s neighbors growing up in Indiana) · Nearly 100 photos, from classic moments in Lucy’s TV shows to never-before-seen backstage shots

About the Author:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Clerisy Press
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1578603056
• ISBN 13: 9781578603053
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 272