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WOMEN’S RIGHTS ~ PART 1
March 5, 1950
“Women’s Rights – Part 1” (aka “Liz Promotes Equal Rights for Women”) is episode #78 of the radio series MY FAVORITE HUSBAND broadcast on March 5, 1950.
Synopsis ~ Liz and Iris start a campaign for equal rights, so George and Rudolph take them out to dinner but insist they pay their own check. With no choice but to do dishes, Liz plots to make the boys resent abandoning them – but even when everything is patched up they still want equal rights.
Note: This program was used as a basis for the “I Love Lucy” episodes “Equal Rights” (ILL S3;E4), filmed September 24, 1953 and first aired on October 26, 1953.
Starting this week, most stations moved “My Favorite Husband” from its usual Friday night time slot to Sunday afternoons. This accounts for differing broadcast dates for this episode, which was still heard on March 3rd in many markets.
Before the broadcast began, a CBS newscaster announced the delay of the schedule program to say that John L. Lewis (president of the United Mine Workers) had ordered all soft coal workers back to work immediately – in light of a new contract being signed. The end of the strike was headline news the next morning, March 6, 1950.
“My Favorite Husband” was based on the novels Mr. and Mrs. Cugat, the Record of a Happy Marriage (1940) and Outside Eden (1945) by Isabel Scott Rorick, which had previously been adapted into the film Are Husbands Necessary? (1942). “My Favorite Husband” was first broadcast as a one-time special on July 5, 1948. Lucille Ball and Lee Bowman played the characters of Liz and George Cugat, and a positive response to this broadcast convinced CBS to launch “My Favorite Husband” as a series. Bowman was not available Richard Denning was cast as George. On January 7, 1949, confusion with bandleader Xavier Cugat prompted a name change to Cooper. On this same episode Jell-O became its sponsor. A total of 124 episodes of the program aired from July 23, 1948 through March 31, 1951. After about ten episodes had been written, writers Fox and Davenport departed and three new writers took over – Bob Carroll, Jr., Madelyn Pugh, and head writer/producer Jess Oppenheimer. In March 1949 Gale Gordon took over the existing role of George’s boss, Rudolph Atterbury, and Bea Benadaret was added as his wife, Iris. CBS brought “My Favorite Husband” to television in 1953, starring Joan Caulfield and Barry Nelson as Liz and George Cooper. The television version ran two-and-a-half seasons, from September 1953 through December 1955, running concurrently with “I Love Lucy.” It was produced live at CBS Television City for most of its run, until switching to film for a truncated third season filmed (ironically) at Desilu and recasting Liz Cooper with Vanessa Brown.
MAIN CAST
Lucille Ball (Liz Cooper) was born on August 6, 1911 in Jamestown, New York. She began her screen career in 1933 and was known in Hollywood as ‘Queen of the B’s’ due to her many appearances in ‘B’ movies. With Richard Denning, she starred in a radio program titled “My Favorite Husband” which eventually led to the creation of “I Love Lucy,” a television situation comedy in which she co-starred with her real-life husband, Latin bandleader Desi Arnaz. The program was phenomenally successful, allowing the couple to purchase what was once RKO Studios, re-naming it Desilu. When the show ended in 1960 (in an hour-long format known as “The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour”) so did Lucy and Desi’s marriage. In 1962, hoping to keep Desilu financially solvent, Lucy returned to the sitcom format with “The Lucy Show,” which lasted six seasons. She followed that with a similar sitcom “Here’s Lucy” co-starring with her real-life children, Lucie and Desi Jr., as well as Gale Gordon, who had joined the cast of “The Lucy Show” during season two. Before her death in 1989, Lucy made one more attempt at a sitcom with “Life With Lucy,” also with Gordon.
Richard Denning (George Cooper) was born Louis Albert Heindrich Denninger Jr., in Poughkeepsie, New York. When he was 18 months old, his family moved to Los Angeles. Plans called for him to take over his father’s garment manufacturing business, but he developed an interest in acting. Denning enlisted in the US Navy during World War II. He is best known for his roles in various science fiction and horror films of the 1950s. Although he teamed with Lucille Ball on radio in “My Favorite Husband,” the two never acted together on screen. While “I Love Lucy” was on the air, he was seen on another CBS TV series, “Mr. & Mrs. North.” From 1968 to 1980 he played the Governor on “Hawaii 5-0″, his final role. He died in 1998 at age 84.
Gale Gordon (Rudolph Atterbury) had worked with Lucille Ball on “The Wonder Show” on radio in 1938. One of the front-runners to play Fred Mertz on “I Love Lucy,” he eventually played Alvin Littlefield, owner of the Tropicana, during two episodes in 1952. After playing a Judge in an episode of “The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour” in 1958, he would re-team with Lucy for all of her subsequent series’: as Theodore J. Mooney in ”The Lucy Show”; as Harrison Otis Carter in “Here’s Lucy”; and as Curtis McGibbon on “Life with Lucy.” Gordon died in 1995 at the age of 89.
Bea Benadaret (Iris Atterbury) was considered the front-runner to be cast as Ethel Mertz but when “I Love Lucy” was ready to start production she was already playing a similar role on TV’s “The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show” so Vivian Vance was cast instead. On “I Love Lucy” she was cast as Lucy Ricardo’s spinster neighbor, Miss Lewis, in “Lucy Plays Cupid” (ILL S1;E15) in early 1952. Later, she was a success in her own show, “Petticoat Junction” as Shady Rest Hotel proprietress Kate Bradley. She starred in the series until her death in 1968.
Ruth Perrott (Katie, the Maid) was also later seen on “I Love Lucy.” She first played Mrs. Pomerantz (above right), a member of the surprise investigating committee for the Society Matrons League in “Pioneer Women” (ILL S1;E25), as one of the member of the Wednesday Afternoon Fine Arts League in “Lucy and Ethel Buy the Same Dress” (ILL S3;E3), and also played a nurse when “Lucy Goes to the Hospital” (ILL S2;E16). She died in 1996 at the age of 96.
Bob LeMond (Announcer) also served as the announcer for the pilot episode of “I Love Lucy”. When the long-lost pilot was finally discovered in 1990, a few moments of the opening narration were damaged and lost, so LeMond – fifty years later – recreated the narration for the CBS special and subsequent DVD release.
GUEST CAST
Joe Forte (Waiter) was born in England in 1893. He spent his childhood in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He began his career in vaudeville, then movies playing an uncredited role in A Ten Minute Egg (1924) and Doctor Carroll in Reefer Madness (1936). He began his radio career in 1934. He did episodes of Desilu’s “December Bride” and “The Real McCoys”. His last movie was playing a concessionaire in Roustabout (1964).
EPISODE
ANNOUNCER: “As we look in on the Coopers, it’s Wednesday evening and they’re getting ready to go out to dinner with Mr. Atterbury and his wife Iris. As usual, George is dressed on time and is going in to see how Liz is doing…”
Katie the Maid and Liz are still picking out dresses. George is tired of her saying “I haven’t a thing to wear”. Katie urges Liz to tell George that Congress has passed a law giving women equal rights with men – the 22nd Amendment.
The Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) was a proposed amendment to the United States Constitution designed to guarantee equal legal rights for all American citizens regardless of sex. It seeks to end the legal distinctions between men and women in matters of divorce, property, employment, and other matters. The first version of an ERA was written in 1923. Twenty seven years and multiple revisions later, it had still not been passed. In 1950, the ERA was passed by the Senate with a provision known as “the Hayden rider”, which aimed to keep special protections for women only. Though opponents were marginally more in favor of the ERA with the Hayden rider, supporters believed it negated the amendment’s original purpose—causing it not to be passed in the House. If it had passed it would have been the 22nd Amendment, as Liz states – but in 1951 the 22nd Amendment instead became one that prescribed new presidential term limits.
LIZ: “You’d better enjoy your power while you’ve got it, Mister Man; it won’t be long now! The 22nd Amendment is going through if we have to fight it to the finish – and we will!”
Liz adds that in certain states she couldn’t work in a blast furnace or a bowling alley. Liz emphatically reads a message of support from a magazine as the doorbell rings. Katie reports that it is Mr. Atterbury and his whimpering slave!
Iris thinks Liz’s call to arms was the radio, but George says it was just “Pauline Revere.”
Paul Revere (1734-1818) was a silversmith, engraver, early industrialist, and Patriot in the American Revolution. He is best known for his midnight ride to alert the colonial militia in April 1775 to the approach of British forces before the battles of Lexington and Concord. On an October 1964 “The Jack Benny Program” Benny played Paul while Lucille played his wife, who was really the one responsible for warning the colonists!
Liz wants to get Iris on the ERA bandwagon, but it appears that she knows nothing about it. Mr. Atterbury keeps trying to change the subject and it becomes apparent that he has been cutting articles about the ERA out of their newspapers and magazines so Iris won’t see them! Iris is eager to known what new-found freedoms she is entitled to. George says she might be a pin girl at the bowling alley and Rudolph says she might work a blast furnace.
Liz declares a revolt!
IRIS: “You hear that, Rudolph? From now on I’m revolting! And get that smirk off your face.”
LUCY: “We’re revolting!”
RICKY: “No more than usual.”The same gag was used when Lucy and Ethel realize how many dishes they have washed in “Pioneer Women” (ILL S1;E25) on March 31, 1952. Coincidentally, Ruth Perrott also appeared in the episode, playing a member of the Society Matrons League.
The boys agree to equal treatment for Liz and Iris. Liz tells George her coat is in the closet.
GEORGE: “Well, go get it, buster! You’re a big boy now!”
Rudolph starts to tell an off-color story, but when Iris asks if it is for mixed company, he insists that there are no ladies present. Liz asks George to put on her coat, but he refuses based on equality. The boys don’t hold the door for their wives – in fact that zoom off in the car without them!
End of Part One
Announcer Bob LeMond does a live Jell-O commercial, providing a recipe for Orange Scotch Pudding, made with Jell-O butterscotch pudding.
ANNOUNCER: “As we return to our little experiment in equal rights for women, we find Liz and Iris, who have demanded these rights, have caught up with their husbands and have, in fact, just finished a bountiful dinner.”
After dinner, Mr. Atterbury is offering cigars to everyone and surprisingly Liz takes him up on the offer. George instructs her how to smoke a cigar. Liz accidentally swallows the tip and chokes on the smoke!
LIZ: “They are a little stronger than the chocolate ones I learned on.”
Mr. Atterbury calls the waiter (Joe Forte) over and asks for four separate checks, claiming equal rights. George isn’t paying for Liz, either, even though she has ordered Lobster Thermidor instead of hamburger. Liz has no cash, and neither does Liz, so she asks George for a loan. He refers her to the bank president, Mr. Atterbury.
IRIS: “We’re dead!”
Rudolph tells her to come down and see them first thing in the morning. Liz and Iris volunteer to wash dishes to work off their bill.
Back at home, Rudolph and George are worried about the girls, who are still not home after marching into the kitchen to wash dishes.
Back at the restaurant, Liz and Iris have finished washing the dishes and received car fare from the waiter – but they decide not to rush right home. For revenge, Liz schemes to scare the boys by phoning them up and telling them there’s a big party going on in the restaurant. In the background, Iris laughs and pretends to be the subject of male attention.
LIZ: “I’ve gotta go now, the sinks are loaded.”
GEORGE: “Sounds like the dishwashers are, too!”When George insists they come down and get them, Liz lies and says they met a nice man and are washing his dishes. Meanwhile, the waiter has ushered Iris out claiming she was drunk. He saw her hugging a palm tree saying “You’re gorgeous”!
Mr. Atterbury is quite sure Liz and Iris are just making up a story, so he is not in a rush to rescue them. The phone rings and Rudolph picks it up. This time it is Liz making party noises in the background. Rudolph demands she return home at once. Iris hangs up and the waiter ejects them both from the restaurant for being drunk!
The girls finally get home and George and Rudolph are indignant. They insist that Liz and Iris go out an earn a living if they insist on being equal with men. Liz accepts the offer, saying that in return the boys have to stay at home and do the cooking and cleaning. They agree to the terms starting tomorrow – but Liz breaks it to them that tomorrow is Thursday – maids day off!
End of Episode
In the live Jell-O commercial, Lucille Ball and Bob LeMond travel to England. The orchestra plays a fanfare of “Rule Britannia”. LeMond plays an American tourist asking Lucille (a local) what town he is in.
BOB: “What town is this? Is this Stratford-on-Avon?”
LUCILLE: “No, it is Pudding-on-Jello!”Bob asks Lucille a riddle involving a picture. In return, Lucille tries the riddle on his pal Clement (Gale Gordon). Clement then asks “What puddings are a trio of treats?” Bob answers Jell-O puddings: chocolate, butterscotch and vanilla.”
LUCILLE: “These Americans known everything!”
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THE PASSPORTS
March 3, 1951
“The Passports” (aka “Passport Trouble”) is episode #121 of the radio series MY FAVORITE HUSBAND broadcast on March 3, 1951.
Synopsis ~
Liz is all set to get her passport and join George on a trip to Paris, until she discovers that the Hall of Records has no record of her birth!
Note: This program was a basis for the “I Love Lucy” episode “The Passports” (ILL S5;E11) filmed on November 17, 1955 and first aired on December 19, 1955.
“My Favorite Husband” was based on the novels Mr. and Mrs. Cugat, the Record of a Happy Marriage (1940) and Outside Eden (1945) by Isabel Scott Rorick, which had previously been adapted into the film Are Husbands Necessary? (1942). “My Favorite Husband” was first broadcast as a one-time special on July 5, 1948. Lucille Ball and Lee Bowman played the characters of Liz and George Cugat, and a positive response to this broadcast convinced CBS to launch “My Favorite Husband” as a series. Bowman was not available Richard Denning was cast as George. On January 7, 1949, confusion with bandleader Xavier Cugat prompted a name change to Cooper. On this same episode Jell-O became its sponsor. A total of 124 episodes of the program aired from July 23, 1948 through March 31, 1951. After about ten episodes had been written, writers Fox and Davenport departed and three new writers took over – Bob Carroll, Jr., Madelyn Pugh, and head writer/producer Jess Oppenheimer. In March 1949 Gale Gordon took over the existing role of George’s boss, Rudolph Atterbury, and Bea Benaderet was added as his wife, Iris. CBS brought “My Favorite Husband” to television in 1953, starring Joan Caulfield and Barry Nelson as Liz and George Cooper. The television version ran two-and-a-half seasons, from September 1953 through December 1955, running concurrently with “I Love Lucy.” It was produced live at CBS Television City for most of its run, until switching to film for a truncated third season filmed (ironically) at Desilu and recasting Liz Cooper with Vanessa Brown.
MAIN CAST
Lucille Ball (Liz Cooper) was born on August 6, 1911 in Jamestown, New York. She began her screen career in 1933 and was known in Hollywood as ‘Queen of the B’s’ due to her many appearances in ‘B’ movies. With Richard Denning, she starred in a radio program titled “My Favorite Husband” which eventually led to the creation of “I Love Lucy,” a television situation comedy in which she co-starred with her real-life husband, Latin bandleader Desi Arnaz. The program was phenomenally successful, allowing the couple to purchase what was once RKO Studios, re-naming it Desilu. When the show ended in 1960 (in an hour-long format known as “The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour”) so did Lucy and Desi’s marriage. In 1962, hoping to keep Desilu financially solvent, Lucy returned to the sitcom format with “The Lucy Show,” which lasted six seasons. She followed that with a similar sitcom “Here’s Lucy” co-starring with her real-life children, Lucie and Desi Jr., as well as Gale Gordon, who had joined the cast of “The Lucy Show” during season two. Before her death in 1989, Lucy made one more attempt at a sitcom with “Life With Lucy,” also with Gordon.
Richard Denning (George Cooper) was born Louis Albert Heindrich Denninger Jr., in Poughkeepsie, New York. When he was 18 months old, his family moved to Los Angeles. Plans called for him to take over his father’s garment manufacturing business, but he developed an interest in acting. Denning enlisted in the US Navy during World War II. He is best known for his roles in various science fiction and horror films of the 1950s. Although he teamed with Lucille Ball on radio in “My Favorite Husband,” the two never acted together on screen. While “I Love Lucy” was on the air, he was seen on another CBS TV series, “Mr. & Mrs. North.” From 1968 to 1980 he played the Governor on “Hawaii 5-0″, his final role. He died in 1998 at age 84.
Gale Gordon (Rudolph Atterbury) had worked with Lucille Ball on “The Wonder Show” on radio in 1938. One of the front-runners to play Fred Mertz on “I Love Lucy,” he eventually played Alvin Littlefield, owner of the Tropicana, during two episodes in 1952. After playing a Judge in an episode of “The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour” in 1958, he would re-team with Lucy for all of her subsequent series’: as Theodore J. Mooney in ”The Lucy Show”; as Harrison Otis Carter in “Here’s Lucy”; and as Curtis McGibbon on “Life with Lucy.” Gordon died in 1995 at the age of 89.
Bea Benadaret (Iris Atterbury / Long Distance Operator) was considered the front-runner to be cast as Ethel Mertz but when “I Love Lucy” was ready to start production she was already playing a similar role on TV’s “The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show” so Vivian Vance was cast instead. On “I Love Lucy” she was cast as Lucy Ricardo’s spinster neighbor, Miss Lewis, in “Lucy Plays Cupid” (ILL S1;E15) in early 1952. Later, she was a success in her own show, “Petticoat Junction” as Shady Rest Hotel proprietress Kate Bradley. She starred in the series until her death in 1968.
Bob LeMond (Announcer) also served as the announcer for the pilot episode of “I Love Lucy”. When the long-lost pilot was finally discovered in 1990, a few moments of the opening narration were damaged and lost, so LeMond – fifty years later – recreated the narration for the CBS special and subsequent DVD release.
Ruth Perrott (Katie, the Maid) does not appear in this episode.
GUEST CAST
Sarah Selby (Mrs. Elliott, Liz’s Mother) started as a radio actress and made her screen debut voicing Prissy the Elephant in Walt Disney’s Dumbo (1941). When “My Favorite Husband” transferred to television (without Ball, who was then two years into “I Love Lucy”), Selby appeared in an episode as a maid (above right). She also appeared on “I Love Lucy” as Dorothy Cook in “The Matchmaker” (ILL S4;E4) – the trapped ‘fly’ to Sam Carter’s ‘spider’. She is perhaps best known for her recurring role as a storekeeper on TV’s “Gunsmoke” from 1961 to 1972.
Although her first name is not stated here, in the past it has been both Adele and Louise.
Jerry Hausner (Hall of Records Clerk) was a radio and television actor, best known as Ricky Ricardo’s agent in “I Love Lucy” and as the voice of Waldo in “Mr. Magoo” and several characters such as Hemlock Holmes, The Mole, Broodles and Itchy in “The Dick Tracy Show.” On Broadway, Hausner had the role of Sammy Schmaltz in Queer People (1934). On radio, he was a regular on such shows as “Blondie”, “The Jim Backus Show”, “The Judy Canova Show”, “Too Many Cooks”, and “Young Love”. Hausner died of heart failure on April 1, 1993. He was 83 years old.
EPISODE
ANNOUNCER: “As we look in on the Coopers tonight, they are at the Atterbury’s. Dinner is over and Iris and Liz are upstairs powdering their noses.”
Iris wants to warn Liz that there is another bankers convention coming up. They decide they are not going and march downstairs to tell their favorite husbands.Before they can speak, Rudolph says that they’ve decided not to take them to the annual bankers convention this year. The girls immediately change their tune – they want to go! Liz is suspicious about why they don’t want them there – until they learn it will be held in Paris!
Liz and Iris get dreamy about visiting gay Paree and Liz starts spouting French, which Iris pretends to understand. Rudolph calls Iris “Mademoiselle From Sheridan Falls”. Iris admits she doesn’t understand French and Liz doesn’t even know what she said!
“Mademoiselle from Sheridan Falls” is a joke based on the song “Mademoiselle from Armentières” (aka “Hinky-Dinky Parlez-Vous”), a song sung by soldiers during World War One. On “I Love Lucy” it was heard in “The French Revue” (ILL S3;E7), “Equal Rights” (ILL S3;E4), “Paris at Last” (ILL S5;E18) and again in “The Passports” (ILL S5;E11), on which this radio show was based
The boys say that the reason they cannot take them is because of the expense account only allows for two. Liz reasons those two should be her and Iris! The husbands give in and agree to take them along. George tells them the first step is to get their passports. Liz and Iris say they don’t have a birth certificate, the proof needed to obtain a passport. George says the Hall of Records may have duplicates. Liz says they will go down there first thing in the morning – half an hour apart so neither one learns the other’s age!
Next morning at the Hall of Records, Iris is first to retrieve her birth certificate and shows it to Liz:
LIZ (reads): “Iris Ditbenner, born May twelfth, nineteen thumbnail.”
The surname ‘Ditbenner’ will be repeated in “Kim Cuts You-Know-Whose Apron Strings” (HL S4;E24) in 1972, more than 20 years later! Both episodes were written by Bob Weiskopf and Madelyn Davis. In real-life, Bea Benaderet was born on April 4, 1906.
Iris reluctantly moves her thumb and allows Liz to see her birth year.LIZ: “You get around pretty well for a woman of your age.”
To even the score, Iris insists they both go in together to get hers.
In the office, Liz gives her name to the Clerk (Jerry Hausner).
LIZ: “Elizabeth Cooper…I mean Elliott. I wasn’t married when I was born.”
He wants to know what year she was born. Liz whispers it in his ear. The clerk says there’s no record of an Elizabeth Elliott being born in 1917, although there was a Ralph Elliott. Iris knows that Liz’s mother is absentminded, and and wonders if she wrote Ralph and meant Elizabeth. The clerk looks again but returns empty-handed. There is no record of her birth.
The first name ‘Ralph’ was later assigned to the Ricardos’ Westport neighbor and also given to Vivian Bagley’s unseen husband on “The Lucy Show.”
CLERK: “I’ve checked and double checked. There 579,432 names in my file and I have never lost a baby! Good day!”
TRIVIA: There are several tidbits of information revealed here, in the the last episodes of the series: Liz was born in 1917, meaning she was 34 years old at the time, six years younger than Lucille Ball. Iris calls Liz’s mother absentminded, a trait that also was ascribed to Liz herself and held true for Lucy Ricardo’s mother on “I Love Lucy”. The population of fictional Sheridan Falls as of March 3, 1951 was 579,432 (not including Liz)!
Weeping, Liz says that this can only mean one thing: she’s never been born!
End of Part One
Announcer Bob LeMond does a commercial for fruit-flavored Jell-O.ANNOUNCER: “As we look in on the Coopers once again they are getting ready to take a trip to Paris and Liz, who is trying to get a passport, has just found out there isn’t any record of her birth!”
Liz is upset as she tells George about her predicament. If she’s never been born they’ve never been married. George teases her saying he has always had his eye on the blonde secretary at the bank. As she starts to tear up, he tells her the simple solution: call her mother and get a notarized statement about where and when she was born. After George cracks a few jokes about her mother being a bit ‘squirrelly’, she picks up the phone to call long distance: Smithfield-493J.
TRIVIA: There are 20 locations in the USA named Smithfield. Using a letter in the final digit of a phone number was rare, but ‘J’ would represent ‘5′ on a rotary telephone. As per usual with Lucille Ball, Liz’s father remains unnamed and barely mentioned.
Mrs. Elliott picks up the phone but even after a few moments of conversation with Liz calling her ‘mother’, she wants to know “Who is this?” George was right – squirrelly! Liz tells her that George is taking her to Paris. Mrs. Elliott is glad George has stopped being such a tightwad. Liz asks about her birth. Mother recalls that she married Liz’s father in 1912 – so it must have been some time after that.
MOTHER: “I remember we were in Cedar Rapids when something was born. Which one are you?”
LIZ: “I’m Liz!”
MOTHER: “Oh, then that must have been Bill. He was a boy.”
LIZ: “I’m the redheaded one.”
MOTHER: “None of my children had red hair!”
LIZ: “Alright, mousey brown!”Liz tells her that she needs to write an affidavit stating that she was born – in 1923. After all, as long she has her choice of birthdates why not legally be the age she’s been socially for the last six years. Mother reasons that if Liz is six years younger, then she must be too! Mother promises to sign the affidavit, have it notarized, and mail it to the Sheridan Falls Hall of Records.
A few days later, the Atterburys and the Coopers have had their passport photos taken and are at the Hall of Records to get their passports. Iris admits that Liz looks a little ‘haunted’ in her photo.
LIZ: “Haunted? I look wanted!”
The clerk opens the affidavit from Mrs. Cooper and instead of 1923, it says Liz was born in 1933! They will never make their sailing on time if Mother Cooper has to re-do the affidavit. Rudolph phones his secretary delay the sailing. He learns he made a little mistake – the convention is in Paris, alright – Paris, Illinois!
There are actually 23 locations named ‘Paris’ in the United States, including Illinois. Actress Barbara Stewart, who did many television shows for Desilu, was born there.
End of Part Two
LUCILLE BALL: “Bob LeMond! Oh, Bob LeMond!”
The live Jell-O commercial is set in a courtroom. Gale Gordon plays a judge, Bob LeMond the defendant, and Lucille Ball is his lawyer. LeMond claims amnesia when he stole a million dollars – he passed up a box of Jell-O. Lucille claims insanity!
Newspaper ad from March 3, 1951, the date this episode aired.
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TWELVE CROWDED HOURS
March 3, 1939
- Directed by Lew Landers
- Produced by Robert Sisk for RKO Radio Pictures
- Screenplay by John Twist, story by Peter Rorick and Garrett Fort, with contributions by Joe Bigelow
Filmed in November 1938 at RKO Studios, Hollywood
World Premiere February 23, 1939 in New York City
Opened Wide Nationally on March 3, 1939
Synopsis ~ Twelve hours in the life of a newspaper investigative reporter out to get the goods on the master-minds who operate the profitable Numbers Racket in a big city. His quest is somewhat hampered by a romantic redhead, her less-than-stellar brother, a fat police detective, and henchmen with bad intentions.
CAST
Lucille Ball (Paula Sanders) this is Lucille Ball’s 44th feature film since coming to Hollywood in 1933.
Richard Dix (Nick Green) was nominated for an Oscar in 1931 for Cimarron. He also appeared with Lucille Ball in The Marines Fly High (1940).
Allan Lane (Dave Sanders) is best remembered as the voice of Mr. Ed, the horse. He appeared with Lucille Ball in Having Wonderful Time (1938) and Panama Lady (1939).
Donald MacBride (Detective Sergeant Joe Keller) appeared with Lucille Ball in six films from 1938 to 1946.
Cyrus W. Kendall (George Costain) also appeared with Lucille Ball in Next Time I Marry (1938).
John Arledge (Red) also appeared with Lucille Ball in Old Man Rhythm (1935).
Granville Bates (James McEwen) appeared in six films with Lucille Ball from 1936 to 1939.
Bradley Page (Tom Miller) appeared in seven films with Lucille Ball from 1933 to 1939.
Dorothy Lee (Thelma) makes her only appearance with Lucille Ball.
Addison Richards (Berquist) played the American Consul in “Lucy Goes To Mexico” (1958) and did four films with Lucille Ball between 1939 and 1960.
Murray Alper (Louie Allen) was seen with Lucille Ball in Winterset (1936) and Next Time I Marry (1938).
John Gallaudet (Jimmy) appeared on “I Love Lucy” in “Lucy Goes to a Rodeo” (ILL S5;E8) and “The Ricardos are Interviewed” (ILL S5;E7) both in 1955.
Joseph de Stephani (Rovitch) appeared with Lucille Ball in Joy of Living (1938).
UNCREDITED CAST
Stanley Blystone…Patrolman
Richard Clarke…Police Driver
Edmund Cobb…Pool Hall Proprietor
George Davis…Gus – French Waiter
Edgar Dearing…Second Bartender
Frank Faylen…Henchman
Eleanor Hansen…Mary – Hatcheck Girl
Mike Lally…Henchman
Dorothy Lovett…Cigarette Girl
Greta Meyer...Mrs. Rovitch
Jack O’Shea…Townsman
Emory Parnell…Doorkeeper
Jack Rice…Professor Busby
Bruce Sidney…Headwaiter
Kay Sutton…Miss Martin
Ray Turner…Redcap
Lee Van Atta…Copyboy
Anthony Warde…Jerry Miller
Blue Washington…First BartenderTHE STORY
TWELVE CROWDED HOURS begins with a shot of a street shutting down for the night – apartment blinds being pulled shut, lights turning off, and a milk bottle put out on a porch. In between that scene and the final shots of the the shades coming up and the milk bottle being brought in the next morning, newspaperman Nick Green (Richard Dix) experiences an eventful night dealing with mobster George Costain (Cy Kendall). Costain runs a numbers racket and leaves a trail of bodies in his wake.
TRIVIA
Lucille Ball also played a dance instructor in “K.O. Kitty” (1958), part of the “Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse”.
The world of journalism was the subject of “Lucy Becomes a Reporter” (TLS S1;E17) in 1963.
The numbers racket (aka running numbers) was also the subject of “Meanwhile Back at the Office” (HL S6;E16) in 1974.
In about 18 years, Lucille Ball and her husband Desi Arnaz would own the studio where this film was made – RKO.
Swedish film poster. The film opened in Sweden on November 20, 1939.
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MARGIE LISZT
March 2, 1909
Margie Liszt was born on March 2, 1909 in New York City, New York. She was sometimes billed as Marjorie Liszt.
She made her screen debut as an uncredited background performer in Life With Blondie (1945). She followed up with Blondie’s Lucky Day in 1946.
She made 37 television and movie appearances in all, including many of The Three Stooges shorts.
Liszt made her television debut as Carol (above standing), the recording secretary of The Beverly Hills Uplift Society on “The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show”, doing two episodes in 1951. The second episode aired in January 1952 and had Blanche (Bea Benaderet) running for Society President.
The Society was undoubtedly one of the inspirations for also casting Liszt as one of the original members of the Wednesday Afternoon Fine Arts League on “I Love Lucy.”
Liszt originated the role of Marion Strong on “I Love Lucy” appearing in “The Club Election” (ILL S2;E19) filmed on September 12, 1952 and first aired on February 16, 1953. The next time we hear about Marion in Season 3, she is being played by Shirley Mitchell.
Before that, Liszt had played one of the women on Lucy’s party line in “Redecorating” (ILL S2;E8), filmed on August 15, 1952 and first aired on November 24, 1952. She teamed with Florence Halop (left) for the brief but memorable scene, where she is referred to as Agnes.
In “No Children Allowed” (ILL S2;E22) Liszt plays a member of Lucy and Ethel’s bridge club, but is not given a character name. Technically, since Mitchell had not yet been introduced as Marion Strong, this may well have been the second appearance of Marion. The episode was filmed on March 20, 1953 and first aired on April 20, 1953.
Although that was her final appearance with Lucille Ball, she returned to Desilu to film two episodes of their “December Bride” in 1958 and 1959.
Her final screen appearance was the first episode of “Many Happy Returns” on CBS on September 21, 1964, at which point she retired from screen acting.
She died of colon cancer at the age of 83 on August 24, 1992.
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SELLING ‘FOREVER’
March 2, 1956
Linn and Scruggs was located at 161 North Main Street in Decatur, Illinois. They opened in 1924 and closed in 1970. The marquee of the Lincoln Theatre (mentioned in the ad) can be seen on the left, with an illuminated sign saying “It’s Cool Inside” to promote their air conditioning.
Although Forever Darling had premiered on February 2, 1956, it was slowly rolled out to theatres across the country over the ensuing months. Ball and Arnaz had promoted the film via a cross-country train tour with stops in Chicago, Detroit, Dallas, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, New York City, and Ball’s hometown of Jamestown, New York. The film opened at the Loew’s State Theatre in Manhattan, where the newlywed couple had performed their first vaudeville act in 1941. Programmers at Radio City Music Hall, where their Long, Long Trailer had premiered, refused to let the film open there because they found it sub-standard.
The film received mixed critical reception.
In addition to fashions, Lucy and Forever Darling also pitched a jewelry line…
…and even sold automobiles!
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CESARE DANOVA
March 1, 1926
Cesare Danova was born as Cesare Deitinger in Rome, Italy, although some reports say he was born in Bergamo, Italy. He adopted Danova as his stage name after becoming an actor in Rome at the end of World War II. In 1955 he immigrated to the United States and was contracted to MGM in 1956.
Danova loved the theater and appeared onstage in Rome, Venice, Spain, New York, and Los Angeles.
His film debut came in 1947 in Italy in The Captain’s Daughter (La figlia del capitano).
His television debut was in May 1960 on an episode of “Tales of Wells Fargo” titled “Vasquez” where he played the title role.
He appeared opposite Elizabeth Taylor in Cleopatra, but much of his role was cut to highlight the romance between Taylor and Richard Burton. Danova was on the short list to play the lead in Ben-Hur (1959) but Charleton Heston was cast instead.
He played a handsome Italian millionaire named Umberto Fabriani on “Lucy Meets a Millionaire” (TLS S2;E24) first aired on March 16, 1964.
In 1978, he played the Mayor (above left) in National Lampoon’s Animal House.
His final role was on a May 1992 episode of “In the Heat of the Night” titled “The Law on Trial”.
Cesare Danova died of a heart attack on March 19, 1992, shortly after his 66th birthday. He was married twice and had two children.
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BELTED!
March 1, 1936
Nothing determines a season to Hollywood, but the weather. Residents of other climes are still swathing themselves in mufflers and making a beeline from the front door to the fireplace. But here it’s different. Hollywood has already shed its flannels.
The sure way to set the season is to watch the tennis courts. Last Sunday afternoon, at a country club, Jean Parker and Mary Carlisle played a brisk set – clad in sun suits.
Then there are other indications. Joan Crawford has filled her swimming pool for the first time since last September. Last week Dolores Del Rio received a truck load of white sand from Monterey for the front yard of her beach home. And one only has to glance at the stars at play in their favorite Hollywood rendezvous to recognize the metamorphosis.
The other night the ballroom of a popular hotel was filled to the rafters with new gowns. Kay Francis was there, wearing a beautiful dress of king’s blue crepe with a huge sash of printed satin. Myrna Loy was there, too, in gray satin with a huge chiffon rose on either shoulder. Jeanette MacDonald appeared in sea-blue net trimmed with silver ribbon.
But it was little Peggy Conklin who completely stole the show. Peggy wore an exquisite gown on which organdie flowers were appliqued with gold thread. The gown was fashioned simply, with a full, trailing skirt, high waist and modest neck. On each shoulder were starched wings of the same material.
Ida Lupino’s wrap for spring evenings is a full-length affair of ivory-colored, brocaded satin. The full shoulders amply accommodate the puffed sleeves and frail trimmings which are so common to spring dance frocks.
Gail Patrick wears a stunning ensemble of blue and white. The tailored dress is of heavy white crepe. The accompanying sweater is fashioned like a jacket and is of sea-blue angora trimmed with white bone buttons.
Lucille Ball has a passion for wide belts. Her latest spring frock, a silk print in a red, white and blue design, features a red suede belt exactly six inches wide.
~MARCH 1, 1936~
~MARCH 1, 1936~
~MARCH 1, 1936~
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A FOREIGN AFFAIR
March 1, 1951
Screen Directors Playhouse was a radio anthology series which brought leading Hollywood actors to the NBC microphones beginning in 1949. The radio program broadcast adaptations of films, and original directors of the films were sometimes involved, although their participation was usually limited to introducing the radio adaptations, and a brief “curtain call” with the cast and host at the end of the program. The series later had a brief run on television.
The radio version ran for 122 episodes and aired on NBC from January 9, 1949 to September 28, 1951 under several different titles: NBC Theater, Screen Director’s Guild Assignment, Screen Director’s Assignment and, as of July 1, 1949, Screen Director’s Playhouse.“A Foreign Affair” was sponsored by Chesterfield, Anacin, RCA. The story was originally broadcast March 6, 1949 in which Rosalind Russell played the role here taken by Lucille Ball. Produced by Howard Wiley. Directed by Bill Cairn. Written by Charles Brackett, adapted by Richard Allen Simmons based on the screenplay by Billy Wilder.
The Paramount film “A Foreign Affair” premiered on June 30, 1948, and opened wide across America in August 1948. It starred Marlene Dietrich and John Lund, who recreate their roles for this radio broadcast. Lucille Ball takes the role played on screen by Jean Arthur. The film was nominated for two 1949 Oscars. Background performers Leon Alton, Bert Stevens, and Norman Leavitt later were featured on Lucille Ball’s sitcoms.
“The Screen Guild Theater” broadcast a 30 minute radio adaptation of the movie on March 9, 1950 with John Lund reprising his film role.
“Theater Guild on the Air” broadcast a 60 minute radio adaptation of the movie on November 4, 1951 with Marlene Dietrich reprising her film role.
Synopsis ~ In occupied Berlin, an army captain is torn between an ex-Nazi café singer and the U.S. congresswoman investigating her.
CAST
Marlene Dietrich (Erika Von Schluetow) recreates the role she played in the 1948 film. She was born in Berlin, but came to Hollywood to make films in 1930. She was nominated for an Oscar in 1931.
Lucille Ball (Congresswoman Phoebe Frost, 9th District of Iowa) previously appeared on Screen Directors Playhouse in “Her Husband’s Affairs” (May 22, 1949) and “Miss Grant Takes Richmond” (May 19, 1950), both films she had appeared in on screen. The week after “A Foreign Affair” Ball starred in “Bachelor Mother” (March 8, 1951), taking the screen role originated by her friend Ginger Rogers in 1939.
John Lund (Captain John Pringle) recreates the role he played in the 1948 film.
Herb Vigran (GI) made several appearances on Lucille Ball’s radio show “My Favorite Husband.” He would later play Jule, Ricky’s music union agent on two episodes of “I Love Lucy” as well as Joe, the washing machine repairman in “Never Do Business With Friends” (S2;E31) and Al Sparks, the publicity man who hires Lucy and Ethel to play Martians in “Lucy is Envious” (S3;E23). Of his 350 screen roles, he also made six appearances on “The Lucy Show.”
Featuring Wally Mahe, John Riss, Henry Roland, and Gil Stratton Jr.
Jimmy Wallington (Announcer)
Billy Wilder (Guest Director)
Bob Hope & Bing Crosby do Chesterfield commercials
EPISODE
Before the program begins, announcer Jimmy Wallington tells listeners that due to the illness of Miss Joan Crawford, the originally scheduled broadcast of “The Damned Don’t Cry” has been postponed.
After acknowledging their sponsors, Wallington introduces “A Foreign Affair”.
ACT ONE
Congresswoman Phoebe Frost (Lucille Ball) is traveling to Berlin by air. She is traveling to investigate the morale of US troops. Her traveling companion looks out the window at the wreckage and ruins from the war, but Phoebe has only work on her mind.
PHOEBE: “Phoebe Frost is a relentless foe of fraternization.”
In Berlin, Colonel Plummer meets Captain Pringle (John Lund). Plummer is despondent because he has lost his German sweetheart. Pringle has nylons for his girl, Erika. The troops are readied for the Congresswoman’s visit. She is not impressed by the military band and the festive welcome.
Frost has a box to deliver to Captain Pringle. It is a cake from Murdoch, Iowa.
PRINGLE: “How is old Iowa?”
FROST: “Sixty seven percent Republican, thank you.”The cake is from the daughter of one of her constituents and says ‘Love from Dusty’ in pink and white icing. Frost notices a nylon stocking peaking out of his pocket.
FROST: “Colonel Plummer, do your officers normally go around looking like the hosiery counter of Macy’s?”
Pringle lies and says it is for Dusty. Once Frost has gone, he tells Plummer he is going to parlay the cake into something more useful – a new mattress.
Pringle immediately takes the cake to his paramour, Erika Von Schluetow, a nightclub singer. He honks the horn and she drops down the key from her window. He gives her the nylons and the new mattress. The kiss.
PRINGLE: “Your mother was a volcano and your father was a blowtorch.”
Erika has been protected from being accused of being a Nazi by Pringle. They make use of the new mattress, ending the first act.
Jimmy Wallington does a live Anacin commercial. He then introduces the second act.
ACT TWO
The Congressional Committee finish a ceremonial luncheon and they are offered a guided tour of Berlin.
FROST: “For an Iowa woman, a guided tour is like a man with an apartment. They both want to take you were you don’t want to go.”
Frost is outraged that she has seen American soldiers speak to German women without an introduction! She says that she is deliberately going to go out and try to get picked up! Not one, but two American GIs approach her, thinking she is a German
Fraulein. She tells them her name is Gretchen – Gretchen
Gesundheit!
GI: “How do you like that? We’re fraternizing with a sneeze!”
The GIs take ‘Gretchen’ to the Lorelei, a dive bar that charges them five packs of cigarettes for a bottle of wine. To hid that she is American, Frost limits her replies to ‘Ja’.
GI: “With a vocabulary like that you could run for Congress yourself!”
The floorshow begins. It is Erika singing “Illusions”. After her song, Pringle spots Frost in the audience and warns Erika to stay away from her. Meanwhile, the GIs are gossiping about Erika, saying she avoids trouble by hooking up with Army brass.
The GIs try to get ‘Gretchen’ to dance when she spots the cake she brought for Pringle! She drops her German accent and the GIs flee. Pringle swoops in to explain, but Frost wants to know all about Erika.
Frost and Colonel Plummer hold a conference. Frost wants to know what they know about Erika and the Lorelei. Plummer shuts her down – and tells her to drop it.
FROST: “The last time someone tried to gag me, Colonel, he tried it with a mink coat in the middle of winter. He got five years and I got pneumonia.”
Frost privately asks Pringle for some data about Erika. He tells her to forget the whole thing, but she has two incriminating photos of Erika with a Nazi officer. Pringle starts to get jealous although he tries not to show it. A photo of Hitler kissing her hands is the last straw. Frost declares her mission is to find the officer protecting Erika. She wants to expose him, no matter how high she has to go – even the president.
FROST: “And if he doesn’t do it, I’ll see Margaret!”
Margaret Truman was the only daughter of President Harry S. Truman. She was very popular with the public – and with her father.
End of Act Two.
Jimmy Wallington does a live RCA commercial, touting their new 19 inch television screens. He then introduces the third act.
ACT THREE
Pringle and Frost stake out Erika’s flat to discover the officer protecting her. Falling asleep, Frost accidentally leans on the car horn. A key drops from an above window. Erika calls for Johnny. Pringle says it is a very common name.
FROST: “This eliminates all the Jims, Bobs, and Georges.”
Frost confronts Erika as Pringle pretends to be a stranger. Erika claims the key was for the milkman and says that Frost could use some make-up before she goes back inside. Frost realizes that if they find the signature on her papers, they will find their man.
Back at the office, they cannot locate any papers for Erika until she realizes they have been looking under ‘S’ but should be looking for ‘V’ for Von Schluetow. Pringle says that Frost should be more empathetic. Frost says she was in love once, but he tried to sway her vote, so she filibustered until he lost interest – and she was very hoarse.
FROST: “He was a Southern Democrat.”
To distract Frost from finding the file, Pringle decides to kiss her.
PRINGLE: “Since when has it been subversive to kiss a Republican.”
She tries to filibuster, but he kisses her anyway. She is carried away with his passion and forgets about the files.
Later, Pringle visits Erika and tells him he has distracted Frost – by getting engaged to her. He confronts her about her Nazi past. She says she is in love with him and wants to go to America with him – and climb the Statue of Liberty.
PRINGLE: “You wanna get down in that basement at Fort Knox.”
He says he has to go but will return tomorrow night.
Erika is performing at the club and Pringle and Frost are in the audience, celebrating their last night together. She is drunk on champagne. Erika approaches their table and wants to know about her progress. Pringle’s friend Lee runs in and says Colonel Plummer wants to see him at once!
At Plummer’s office, the Colonel is angry. He knows about his relationship with Erika and now – Congresswoman Frost. He orders him to stay away from Frost. Plummer insists that he stick with Erika. Her old Nazi boyfriend is not dead, but alive and knows all about them. He wants them dead. Plummer will protect them.
Erika asks Frost to her apartment and says she wants her man. She truly loves him and doesn’t want to love him. She reveals that they want the same man. The jeep horn sounds and Erika drops down the key. Frost sits in the corner and observes as Pringle comes in and romances her. Frost comes out of the shadows and says he’ll be sorry, running out. Colonel Plummer tells Pringle that Erika’s Nazi boyfriend is due to get his revenge tonight!
At the Lorelei Club, Erika says she has a new act – one performed completely in the dark. In the darkness, she sings as a gun is stuck in Pringle’s back by the Nazi. Gunfire rings out!
At Colonel Plummer’s office, she tells Frost that Pringle is being forced to be a decoy – he isn’t in love with Erika at all. The phone rings. They race to the Lorelei Club.
At the club, Plummer lifts the sheet and Frost faints. Pringle enters. It was the Nazi under the sheet, taken out by a military marksman. They arrest Erika, who convinces the Colonel to let her go home first to change. Frost revives and Pringle is there. She says she loves him. He tries to filibuster but she kisses him anyway.
PRINGLE: “Congresswoman, you’re elected!”
FROST (German Accent) “Don’t be silly, John. These are just the primaries.”The End
Announcer Jimmy Wallington reminds viewers to tune in next week for “Bachelor Mother” with Lucille Ball and Robert Cummings. He introduces the stars of tonight’s story. Lucille, Marlena, and John Lund introduce the original director, Academy Award winner for “Lost Weekend” and nominee for “Sunset Boulevard”, Billy Wilder. Wilder credits Charles Brackett, original writer and producer, who helped him create the original film, as well as “Sunset Boulevard”.
Wallington reads the credits:
- “A Foreign Affair” was presented courtesy of Paramount Pictures, whose current release is “The Redhead and the Cowboy” starring Glenn Ford, Edmund O’Brien, and Rhonda Fleming (the redhead)
- John Lund will soon be seen with Gene Tierney in Paramount’s “The Mating Season”
- Lucille Ball can be currently seen in Columbia’s “The Fuller Brush Girl”
- Marlene Dietrich will soon be seen in the 20th Century Fox picture “No Highway” [later known as “No Highway In The Sky”]
- Billy Wilder’s latest picture for Paramount is “Ace in the Hole” starring Jan Sterling and Kirk Douglas
‘FOREIGN’ TRIVIA
Lucille Ball did an impersonation of Marlene Dietrich on a 1971 episode of “Here’s Lucy.” as well as on “The Danny Kaye Show” (November 11, 1962).
The song “Illusions” was written by Friedrich Hollander and sung in the the film version of “A Foreign Affair” by Dietrich, who also released it on Decca Records that same year. In the film, Dietrich also sings two other songs by Hollander that are not heard here: “Black Market” and “The Ruins of Berlin.”
Lucille Ball was one of many who were in attendance for “AFI Achievement Award: A Tribute to Billy Wilder” televised on March 6, 1986, despite this radio show being their only (brief) interaction.
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TV GUIDE: LUCY’S KIDS
March 1, 1969
For its March 1st, 1969 cover, TV Guide (volume 17, #9) ran a color photo of Lucy with her children, Desi Arnaz Jr. and Lucie Arnaz. The cover photo is by John Engstead.
John Engstead (1909-1983) was an was born in California, and began his career in 1926 when he was hired as an office boy by Paramount Pictures. He photographed Lucille Ball for the cover of Time in 1952. Engstead closed his studio in 1970 but continued to accept assignments until his death at age 72.
The inside article is titled “Just Like The Kids Next Door…If Your Neighbor is an Orang-Haired Millionairess Whose Offspring are Television Stars” by Leslie Raddatz. In the table of contents, the article is more modestly titled “Lucy’s Kids”.
On the same date this TV Guide was dated, a Pottsville Pennsylvania newspaper excerpted information from Raddatz’s article as column filler. The byline says Radnor (PA) because that is where TV Guide’s national headquarters was located.
This magazine hit the newsstands the week that “Lucy’s Safari” (HL S1;E22) premiered on March 3, 1969. At this time CBS was airing reruns of “The Lucy Show” at 10am Monday through Friday.
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IDA MOORE
March 1, 1882
Ida Moore was born in Altoona, Kansas.
Moore’s first professional work was singing to accompany silent films. She then toured England and South Africa entertaining with a partner. After she returned to the United States, she performed in road companies of plays.
She made her screen debut in 1925, doing background work in three silent films: Lightnin’, The Merry Widow, and Thank You. She then left Hollywood to return home to take care of her ailing mother and did not return until 1943.
She continued acting from 1943 to 1951 (doing two films with William Frawley) and in 1950 appearing with Lucille Ball and Bob Hope in Fancy Pants.
Her television debut came in a 1951 episode of “Front Page Detective” titled “Napoleon’s Obituary” co-starring Byron Foulger, who also appeared on “I Love Lucy.”
In her cameo on “I Love Lucy” in “The Club Election” (ILL S2;E19) filmed on September 12, 1952 and first aired on February 16, 1953, she is known as “Ruth Knickerbocker”- as she was assumed to be in the story line. As she reveals in the end scene, she is indeed Ruth Knickerbocker’s mother-in-law. Her real name is never revealed.
Her final role was playing a Little Old Lady from Pasadena on a 1959 episode of “The Jack Benny Program”.
She died on September 26, 1964 at age 82.
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