Lucy Book: Her Life in Television
- Book Review,
by Geoffrey Mark Mark Fidelman
Review
"Lucy fans and radio and television scholars for decades will be indebted to Geoffrey [Fidelman] for not only providing them with this wealth of comprehensive and detailed information, but also for making it such an enjoyable read."--Lucie Arnaz and Desi Arnaz Jr.
Review
"Lucy fans and radio and television scholars for decades will be indebted to Geoffrey [Fidelman] for not only providing them with this wealth of comprehensive and detailed information, but also for making it such an enjoyable read."--Lucie Arnaz and Desi Arnaz Jr.
Review
"Lucy fans and radio and television scholars for decades will be indebted to Geoffrey [Fidelman] for not only providing them with this wealth of comprehensive and detailed information, but also for making it such an enjoyable read."--Lucie Arnaz and Desi Arnaz Jr.
Book Description
Written with the cooperation of Lucie Arnaz and Desi Arnaz Jr., who both consented to rare interviews, The Lucy Book is an amazing retrospective of the five-decade television career of America's favorite redhead. Containing hundreds of original interviews with cast members, guest stars, production people, contemporaries, family, and friends, this book will tell you for the first time what it was really like to work with Lucy.
Year by year, episode by episode, television appearance by television appearance, you can follow the meteoric careers of this comedy legend. Her five series--I love Lucy
(1951-57), The Lucille Ball-Dezi Arnaz Show (1957-1960), The Lucy Show (1962-68), Here's Lucy (1968-74), and Life with Lucy (1986)--are thoroughly covered, as are her myriad guest appearances on other situation comedies, dramas, games shows, talks hows, variety shows, commercials, and specials. All told, more than 1,000 television appearances are extensively chronicles in this book. The Lucy Book contains:
--cast and crew information, along with background anecdotes and current interview quotes for each entry.
--particulars about several Lucy TV scripts that were never produced.
--a critical analysis of Lucy's enormous effect on the television industry.
About the Author
Geoffrey Mark Fidelman wrote The Lucy Book over a twenty-fiv year period. a freelance pop-culture writer, Grammy-nominated albumn-notes wrtier, and talk-show host, he is also the author of First Lady of Song: Ella Fitzgerald for the Record.
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