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...Matinee Theater, hires 2,400 actors a year for speaking parts-50% more than the players used by Warner and Paramount combined in all their 1956 movies. The show uses as many scripts-250 a year-as all the studios put together. ¶A single TV film producer, Desi Arnaz' and Lucille Ball's Desilu, which turns out I Love Lucy and 14 other shows, spends $21 million a year, employs up to 1,000 at peak periods, and produces more film footage than the combined output of the five major movie studios. ¶The two biggest talent...
When the cameras stopped grinding recently on an installment of I Love Lucy, Co-Star Desi Arnaz turned to thank the studio audience for its laughter during the filming of the show. Slipping up from behind, Lucille Ball crowned her husband with a pizza and the audience exploded. "That was the best laugh of the evening," chirped one spectator. "It should have been on the show." Chances are that it was-or will be. The laugh was captured on tape for Desilu Productions' library of canned laughter, from which the sound tracks of the company's shows...
...Birds and the Bees (Paramount] abet the growing suspicion that Hollywood is engaged in a Machiavellian plot to destroy television by sabotaging TV's best comics. Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz were the victims in last month's Forever Darling. This time, George Gobel walks the plank. Since the essence of Gobel's comedy is intellectual, The Birds and the Bees cunningly makes its jokes as physical as possible: Gobel takes pratfalls on land and sea, at home and abroad. When he isn't getting pie in the face, he is compelled to read limp double...
...yourself cult are such bigwigs as U.S. Steel Vice President David Austin, who has a two-room, $5,000 woodworking workshop packed into his Pittsburgh apartment; former Secretary of State Dean Acheson, who makes his own furniture; TV and Radio Luminaries Desi Arnaz, Edgar Bergen and Fibber McGee, who spend their spare time puttering around with shelves and kitchen cabinets; Movie and Recording Stars George Montgomery, Perry Como, Dan Duryea and Jane Russell, who do their own handiwork, build boats and furniture; the Strategic Air Command's General Curtis LeMay, who is currently helping fellow airmen rebuild a private...
...huge Hollywood sound stage one night last week, after the day's work was done, TV's most popular comedienne stood before a twelve-layer cake and read the words on the icing: "The first 100 shows are the hardest." But for Lucille Ball and Husband Desi Arnaz, the first 100 shows have also been rewarding: approximately 50 million people-one out of every three Americans-tune in to I Love Lucy every Monday night (CBS, 9 p.m.). No other regular TV show has ever claimed such an audience...