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Lucille Ball on the Radio:
My Favorite Husband
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Lucy and her radio costar, Richard Denning
 
Lucy's First Sitcom
by Gregg Oppenheimer

LONG BEFORE LUCY MET RICKY, American audiences fell in love with Lucy's crazy antics -- on the radio. Her character's name was Liz, not Lucy. Lucille Ball and Richard DenningAnd her husband George (played by Richard Denning) was a smalltown banker, not an entertainer. But between 1948 and 1951 My Favorite Husband delighted Lucy's loyal listeners each week with many of the same scatterbrained schemes that would later come to be TV classics on "I Love Lucy."
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Mr. & Mrs. Cugat
The book that launched Lucy's sitcom career dealt with a "society couple." But Lucy's radio writers would soon change all that.
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Lucy Becomes "Liz Cooper"
Producer Jess Oppenheimer decides that the series needs a few alterations.
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Lucy Loosens Up
Lucy's greatest strength was working in front of a studio audience. But that wasn't always the case.
Gale Gordon
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As "Rudolph" and "Iris," Gale Gordon and Bea Benaderet played "Fred and Ethel" (sort of) on Lucy's radio show.
    


 

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