Laughs, luck-- and Lucy
Subtitle: how I came to create the most popular sitcom of all time
By: Jess Oppenheimer with Gregg Oppenheimer.
Contributors: Oppenheimer, Gregg.
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: The television series
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 290
Subjects: Oppenheimer, Jess; I love Lucy (Television program); Television producers and directors -- United States -- Biography
Description: The man Lucille Ball once called "the brains" of I Love Lucy gives us an inside view of television history as it was being made. Jess Oppenheimer's famous sitcom was the most popular and influential television phenomenon in the history of the medium. Forty-five years after its debut, it remains a favorite the world over.

Oppenheimer's book, written with his son, Gregg, is not only a reliable record of how this groundbreaking comedy was conceived and executed but also an amusing insider's account of the broadcasting industry's development from the early days of radio to television's "golden age.".

Reading much like an episode of Lucy itself, Oppenheimer's comic genius shines through page after page. Hollywood aficionados will delight in his entertaining stories of stars such as Douglas Fairbanks, Edgar Bergen, Fred Astaire, and, of course, Lucille Ball.

Lucy lovers will relish more than fifty rare photos, never-before-published scripts (including the only I Love Lucy script that Lucy or Desi ever refused to perform), and an audio compact disc full of Lucy's previously unreleased radio comedy performances.
Notes: Includes index.