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"Lucy's Lost Scenes"
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by Jess Oppenheimer with Gregg Oppenheimer
© 1996 by Gregg Oppenheimer. All Rights Reserved
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| In "Lucy Hires an English Tutor," we had Lucy arrange for an elocution expert (Hans Conried, center), to teach the Ricardos and the Mertzes correct English, so that her baby would be raised in the proper vocal environment. | ||||
| As producer and head writer of "I Love Lucy," I was well acquainted with the public's great fascination for all things "Lucy." But I was totally unprepared for the overwhelming reaction that met the new arrivals in the Ricardo and Arnaz households. The TV birth of Little Ricky on CBS was watched by an incredible forty-four million viewers -- fifteen million more than would tune in President Eisenhower's inauguration the next day on all three networks. And when Lucy delivered Desiderio Alberto Arnaz y de Acha IV by Caesarean section at 8:15 on that Monday morning, the news was immediately flashed over every news service. Programs were interrupted. It was announced in schools. Seven minutes after Lucy had her baby, it was announced over the radio in Japan -- and in many other countries where they had never even seen "I Love Lucy." Somehow, they were interested. | ||||
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| Laughs, Luck...and Lucy: How I Came to Create the Most Popular Sitcom of All Time by Jess Oppenheimer with Gregg Oppenheimer © 1996 by Gregg Oppenheimer. All Rights Reserved | ||||