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This pretested, well-flavored radio corn has been packaged for TV by a team of experts-the same Desilu Productions cameramen and crew who make I Love Lucy. The sponsors (Sanka and Swans Down cake mixes) are happy enough about the series to pay $32,000 for each film. Like the Lucille Ball show, Miss Brooks is filmed before a live audience and its laughter is cued into the final print. Like Lucy, it is played in short speedy scenes, and sight gags supply much of the humor. Like Lucille Ball, Eve Arden dominates her own show...
...encourage comparisons. Says Eve: "We aren't at all alike. She has a great show, and we don't even know what we've got yet." Lucille is more relaxed on the subject: "Don't forget that I'm vice president of Desilu Productions,* which means the better Miss Brooks does, the better off I am. That's not exactly competition, if you see what I mean...
...Desilu Productions hired a pair of veteran troupers, William Frawley and Vivian Vance, to play the family next door and serve as foils and friends for Desi and Lucille. Academy Award-winning Karl (The Good Earth) Freund supervises the three cameras, and Director Marc Daniels (soon to be replaced by Bill Asher) gives Lucy its rattling pace. The writers-Jess Oppenheimer, Bill Carroll and Madalyn Pugh-turn out scripts that do not impose too much on the audience's credulity and are reasonably free of cliches. The writers are held in an esteem not common in TV. Lucille bombards...
...dogs, is an amateur painter ("I use oils because it's easier to correct mistakes than with water colors"), and generally considers herself a lazy, lounging homebody. She is fascinated by Desi's boundless energy.' He spends weekends fishing on his 34-foot cabin cruiser, Desilu; plays violent tennis; likes to cook elaborate dishes. Says Lucille: "Everything is fine with him all the time. Wanta play cards? Fine. Play games? Fine. go for a swim? Great." There's only one problem: "Desi is a great thermostat sneaker-upper and I'm a thermostat sneaker-downer...
...Chic. Though life has grown noticeably more placid for Desi and Lucille, it promises more money than they ever made before. Desilu Productions has already branched out beyond I Love Lucy. It is filming TV commercials for Red Skelton, and is at work on a new TV series, Our.Miss Brooks, starring Eve Arden. Three of the best 30-minute Lucy shows are being put together in a package and will be experimentally released to movie theaters in the U.S. and Latin America. This year, / Love Lucy has grossed about $1,000,000, and Sponsor Philip Morris has signed a contract...