REGISTERED
No. 48522
Screen Writers Guild, Inc.
Affiliated with the Authors' League of America
I LOVE LUCY
Created by Jess Oppenheimer
This is a title of an idea for a radio and/or television program,
incorporating characters named Lucy and Ricky Ricardo. He is a
Latin-
American orchestra leader and singer. She is his wife. They are
happily
married and very much in love. The only bone of contention between
them
is her desire to get into show business, and his equally strong
desire
to keep her out of it. To Lucy, who was brought up in the humdrum
sphere of a moderate, well-to-do middle western, mercantile family,
show business is the most glamorous field in the world. But Ricky,
who
was raised in show business, sees none of its glamour, only its
deficiencies, and yearns to be an ordinary citizen, keeping regular
hours
and living a normal life. As show business is the only way he
knows to
make a living, and he makes a very good one, the closest he can
get to
this dream is having a wife who’s out of show business and devotes
herself
to keeping as nearly a normal life as possible for him.
The first story concerns a TV audition for Ricky, where Pepito,
the
clown, due to an accident, fails to appear and Lucy takes his
place for
the show. Although she does a bang-up job, she foregoes the chance
at a
career that is offered to her in order to keep Ricky happy and
closer to
his dream of normalcy.