LUCY’S WORKING DAUGHTER

S1;E10 ~ December 2, 1968

Directed
by Jack Donohue ~ Written by Robert O’Brien

Synopsis

When
Kim gets a part-time job in a dress shop, Lucy becomes her biggest
customer.

Regular
Cast

Lucille
Ball (Lucy
Carter), Gale
Gordon (Harrison
Otis Carter), Lucie
Arnaz (Kim
Carter), Desi
Arnaz Jr. (Craig
Carter)

Guest
Cast

Barbara
Morrison
(Mrs. Murdock) also
played an irate shopper in “Lucy Bags a Bargain” (TLS S4;E17).
She also was in one other episode. Morrison was an English-born
actress making the first of her three appearances on “Here’s Lucy.”

Karen
Norris
(Miss Simpson) made half a dozen appearances on
“The Lucy Show.” This is her only appearance on “Here’s
Lucy.”

Miss
Simpson is the manager of Lady Bow’s dress shop. She has a daughter
who works in a decorator’s shop selling lamps.

Joan
Swift (Joanie)
made
six appearances on “The Lucy Show.” This is the second and
last episode of “Here’s Lucy.” Her final screen credit was
1975’s “Lucy Gets Lucky” with Lucille Ball and Dean Martin.

Although
listed in the credits as “Joan”, on screen she is referred to as “Joanie.”

Lola
Fisher
(First Customer, above left) understudied and replaced Julie Andrews on Broadway
in the musical My
Fair Lady.
It was the third and last of her Broadway shows. Fisher makes the
first of her three “Here’s Lucy” appearances.

Although
called “First Customer” in the final credits, Vanda Barra is
actually the first to speak on camera.

Vanda
Barra
(Second Customer, above right) was
married to Sid Gould so is Lucille Ball’s cousin-in-law. She makes
the second of her 23 appearances on “Here’s Lucy” as well as
appearing in Ball’s two 1975 TV movies “Lucy Gets Lucky” (with
Dean Martin) and “Three for Two” (with Jackie Gleason). She
was seen in half a dozen episodes of “The Lucy Show.”

This
is the first (but not the last) time Barra and her real-life husband
Sid Gould appear in the same episode.

Joan Carey (Restaurant Patron, uncredited, above center) was born Joan Somerville Norbury in Yorkshire, UK. She carved out a brief career as an actress and dancer before moving to small roles in front of and behind the camera. In 1952, she became a regular fixture as a “Lucy” background artist through 1974. She served as Lucille Ball’s stand-in from the fourth season of “The Lucy Show” until at least the penultimate season of “Here’s Lucy.”

Carey is the woman in the brown coat seated between Fisher and Barra.

Jerry
Rush (Maitre
D’, above right) made
nine (mostly uncredited) appearances on “The Lucy Show.” This is
the first of his two episodes of “Here’s Lucy.”

Sid
Gould
(Waiter, above center) made
more than 45 appearances on “The Lucy Show,” all as background
characters. This is the third of his 40 episodes of “Here’s
Lucy.” Between both series’ he played a waiter eleven times!
Gould (born Sydney Greenfader) was Lucille Ball’s cousin by
marriage to Gary Morton.

Kathryn Janssen (Restaurant Patron, uncredited) began doing background work in 1966. She was often spotted on “The Lucy Show” and “Here’s Lucy.”

James Gonzales (Restaurant Patron, uncredited) was a popular Hollywood extra who first acted with Lucille Ball in the 1953 The Long, Long Trailer. He was previously seen on “The Lucy Show” as Stan Williams in “Lucy Digs Up a Date” (TLS S1;E2). He was seen in more than 20 episodes of “The Lucy Show” and 3 episodes of “Here’s Lucy.”

The
other dress shop and restaurant patrons are played by uncredited
background performers.

Kim’s starting wage at Lady Bow’s dress shop is $18 a week plus 15%
commission on sales two afternoons a week after school and Saturdays.
Harry forfeits his commission for getting her the job.

Harry
says that sending Lucy on an errand is like releasing a swallow from
Capistrano. This
is a reference to San
Juan Mission in Capistrano,
southern California. It is there that the American cliff
swallow migrates every year from its winters in Argentina,
making the 6,000-mile trek in springtime. The expression “when
the swallows return to Capistrano” has
entered common usage. Capistrano was previously mentioned in “Lucy
Gets the Bird” (TLS S3;E12).

Kim
Carter’s Social Security number is 554-60-0676. Lucy confuses it
with a Zip Code. The nation’s first Social
Security card
was issued in 1936 with benefits first paid out in 1940. The US Post
Office introduced Zip
Codes
on July 1, 1963.

As
a Girl Scout, Lucie says she once sold 52 boxes cookies, which which
her mother sold on her behalf – to Harry!

Craig:
“I’ll
buy that!”
Lucy:
“I’m
not trying to sell you!”

Ironically,
the title of the previous episode was “Lucy Sells Craig to Wayne
Newton” (S1;E9).

Lucy
and Craig play RSVP, a vertical word game similar to Scrabble.
RSVP was introduced
by Selchow
and Righter in 1958 and
promoted as
“3-D Scrabble.” Lucille Ball loved games, and
promoted Milton Bradley’s Cross Up, a similar game which had her
picture on the box.

The
studio audience applauds Kim when showing off her new dress for work.
Craig compares his sister to Audrey
Hepburn.
Born Audrey Kathleen Ruston
(1929-1993),
she was a British actress, model, dancer and humanitarian who was
also recognized as a fashion icon. She won an Oscar in 1954 for
Roman
Holiday.

Craig
says if Lucie’s heels were any higher she’d be the Flying Nun. “The
Flying Nun”
was a sitcom about a nun (Sally Field) whose habit helped her defy
the laws of gravity in her breeze-filled Puerto Rico convent. The
show aired on ABC from 1967 to 1970.

Lucy
mentions Craig’s girlfriend Elsie. Just three weeks earlier, in
“Lucy and Eva Gabor” (S1;E7), Craig was said to be dating Lori
Wilson, the most popular girl in school.

Lucy
meets Harry and Craig at Pierre’s Restaurant for lunch.

Across the street from Lady Bow’s dress shop is Modern Miss Boutique, who are sponsoring a future fashion show at Pierre’s Restaurant. Lucy decides to get the jump on the competition and help Kim earn commissions.

The
multi-function black and white dress that Lucy models at Pierre’s
was designed by Edward Stevenson (inset), the show’s costume designer.

When
Lucy does her impromptu fashion show, the soundtrack plays “A
Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody,” written
by Irving
Berlin in
1919 which became the theme song of The Ziegfeld Follies. Lucille Ball was in the 1945 film Ziegfeld Follies, although the song was not!

Despite
a serious sunburn, Lucy Ricardo participated in “The Fashion Show”
(ILL S4;E19) promoting Don Loper’s new line in 1955. Lucy Carmichael gives an impromptu fashion show in a fancy restaurant on “Lucy Meets Danny Kaye” (TLS S3;E15).

Speaking
of working in a dress shop, Lucy and Ethel took over running Hansen’s
Dress Shop in “The Girls Go Into Business” (ILL S3;E2).

Barbara
Morrison (Mrs. Murdock) also played a dissatisfied customer in “Lucy
Bags a Bargain” (TLS S4;E17) at Stacey’s Department Store in which
Lucy Carmichael took a job as a salesgirl.

Morrison would wear the same green dress and hat when she appeared in “The Mothers-In-Law” in October 1968, a show produced by Desi Arnaz.

As Kim sorts clothes, we can see a number of garments that were previously worn by Lucille Ball on-screen in both “Here’s Lucy” and “The Lucy Show”.

The blue and white dress is from “Lucy Meets the Berles” (TLS S6;E1).

The light blue lace-trimmed garment on the table is from “LUCY VISITS JACK BENNY” (HL S1;E2).

The green and yellow polka dot pajamas was seen in a number of episodes, including Lucy’s Mystery Guest.

THANKS TO THE LUCY LOUNGE FOR THESE EAGLE-EYED FASHION TIPS!

Props! The
box for the game RSVP has no cover art or even a name on it.

Editing Room! There
is an obvious edit in the scene where Craig role plays to help Lucie
prepare for her first day as a salesgirl. The soundtrack noticeably
jumps mid-laugh.

Consistency! Lucy
coaches Kim to greet her customer’s with “Good
Morning!”
despite the fact that Kim will only be working afternoons after
school.