Tag: Charles Winninger
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TV GUIDE: BACKSTAGE TOUR
October 9, 1954 Lucille Ball appeared on the cover of the October 9 -15, 1954 TV Guide (#80). This was Lucille Ball’s fifth cover of the National Edition of TV Guide. She would appear on a total of 39 covers, more than any other person, including the very first National Edition in 1953. An ad…
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Domestic Drama!
You can’t get good help these days! Lucy pretends to be a maid to impress Fred’s old vaudeville partner in “Mertz and Kurtz” (I LOVE LUCY S4;E2). Ethel pretends to be a maid to impress Tallulah Bankhead in “The Celebrity Next Door” (THE LUCY-DESI COMEDY HOUR S1;E2) Lucy gets a maid of her own: Mrs. Porter…
Michael T. Mooney
1953, 1964, CBS, Charles Winninger, Ethel Mertz, Fred Mertz, I love lucy, Julie Andrews, Kathleen Freeman, Lucille Ball, Lucy, Lucy Carmichael, Lucy Gets Her Maid, Lucy Hires a Maid, Lucy Ricardo, Maid, Mertz and Kurtz, Norma Varden, Tallulah Bankhead, The Celebrity Next Door, The Lucy Show, The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour, The Ricardos Switch Apartments, The Sound of Music, tv, Verna Felton, Vivian Bagley, Vivian Vance, William Frawley -
“Mertz and Kurtz”
(S4;E2 ~ October 11, 1954) Directed by William Asher. Written by Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh and Bob Carroll, Jr. Filmed July 1, 1954 at Ren-Mar Studios. Rating: 47.1/65 Synopsis ~ Fred’s old vaudeville partner is in town, so the Mertzes pretend to be wealthier than they really are to impress him. But it turns out that…
Michael T. Mooney
1954, Abel Frake, Atlantic City, Barney Kurtz, Broadway, Cap’n Andy, CBS, Charles Winninger, Desi Arnaz, Ethel Mertz, Fred Mertz, I love lucy, I Want a Girl Just Like The Girl, Lucille Ball, Lucy, Maid, musicals, No No Nanette, Oh By Jingo, On the Boardwalk in Atlantic City, Peach on the Beach, Ricky Ricardo, Show Boat, State Fair, Stephen Wootton, Tallulah Bankhead, tv, Vaudeville, Vivian Vance, William Frawley