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...Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz, who in their old movie days met and fell in love at the RKO Studios, were well on their way last week to owning a big memento of their pre-TV past: the RKO lot itself. As bosses of TV's thriving Desilu Productions (I Love Lucy, Our Miss Brooks, December Bride), the couple offered about $6,000,000 for RKO's 15-stage lot in Hollywood plus its eleven-stage studios in Culver City and its valuable stock footage library. The deal-perhaps the most dramatic example...
...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 agencies in U.S. show business, William Morris...
...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 can borrow anything from a solitary snicker to waves of mass hilarity...
...Near the end of its fifth year on TV, I Love Lucy, still one of the three most popular shows in the nation, has earned for its owners (Desilu Productions) and its network (CBS) $20 million...
...Sharpe, Frank Wisbar and Desilu have built their business from scratch to a $50-million industry...