Word: desilu
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Real Plumbing. Long years in the practical business of orchestra leading had given Desi considerable organizing ability and business sense. He set up Desilu Productions (Desi president, Lucille vice president), and leased a sound stage from an independent Los Angeles studio. Because Lucille was "dead" without an audience, a side wall of the studio was knocked out to make a street entrance, and seats installed for an audience of 300. When a show is ready for the cameras, the audience laughter is picked up on overhead microphones and used in the final print...
...make I Love Lucy, Lucille and Desi set up a family corporation called Desilu Productions. Leasing a Los Angeles sound stage from an independent studio, they knocked out a street wall, put up a marquee labeled "Desilu Playhouse." When a show is ready for the cameras, a real audience files into the playhouse and the laughter is picked up on overhead microphones for use in the final print...
Sponsor Philip Morris pays $30,000 a week for I Love Lucy, which gives Lucille and Desi a weekly income of $5,000 to $7,000. And Desilu is branching out to do TV commercials. "After all," observes Desi, "when we get too old or too fat to get in front of the cameras, we can always be producers...