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I Love Lucy: The Classic Moments
by Tom Watson Value Priced at: $15.98 October 1999 |
This title is a collection of facts and pictures about the best-remembered moments from I Love Lucy, gathered together by Lucy expert Tom Watson. It would be especially interesting to new Lucy fans, who don't know everything already -- but it will also be a great hit with Lucy fans of all shapes and sizes! | ||||||||||||
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Meet the Mertzes: The Life Stories of I Love Lucy's Other Couple by Rob Edelman and Audrey Kupferberg Our Price: $15.25 You Save: $1.70 (10%) Paperback (September 1999) Recommended! |
This is a brand new book about the lives of William Frawley and Vivian Vance, who played Fred and Ethel Mertz on I Love Lucy. Both on-stage and off-stage, these were two very interesting people, and Frawley's life has never before been documented. | ||||||||||||
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The
Lucy Book: A Complete Guide to Her Five Decades in Television by Geoffrey Mark Fidelman Our Price: $17.95 You Save: $2.00 (10%) Paperback (May 1999) Recommended! |
This is a wonderful new tome from the author of the well- known jazz book First Lady of Song: Ella Fitzgerald for the Record. His research is always well-done, and this book is no exception. Read more... | ||||||||||||
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Laughs, Luck and Lucy: How I Came to Create the Most Popular Sitcom of All Time by Jess Oppenehimer, with Gregg Oppenheimer Our Price: $17.95 You Save: $2.00 (10%) Paperback with 72-minute CD (April 1999) Recommended! |
This fantastic book -- now in paperback form, with an expanded compact disc -- is the autobiography of I Love Lucy producer/head writer Jess Oppenehimer. It features the full behind-the-scenes story of ILL, and a 72-minute CD of "lost scenes". Also see the original 1996 hardcover edition. | ||||||||||||
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The
Other Side of Ethel Mertz: The Life Story of Vivian Vance by Frank Castelluccio and Alvin Walker Our Price: $19.96 You Save: $4.99 (20%) Hardcover (October 1998) |
This book is the first biography of Vivian Vance (Ethel Mertz) that has ever been published. Booklist called it "a notable addition to American cultural documentation" and Reviewer's Bookwatch said it "is must reading for every fan of the I Love Lucy series." | ||||||||||||
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The 100 Greatest TV Shows of All Time
by Alison Gwin (editor) and the Editors of Entertainment Weekly Our Price: $23.96 You Save: $5.99 (20%) Hardcover (October 1998) |
This book from the editors of the Entertainment Weekly magazine ranks the 100 greatest TV shows of all time (a little more than fifty years, of course). Lucille is prominently featured, though I won't say where. A very nice edition. | ||||||||||||
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The 100 Most Important Women of the 20th Century
by Kevin Markey, Lorraine Glennon, Ladies' Home Journal Books Our Price: $27.96 You Save: $6.99 (20%) Hardcover (October 1998) |
A gift book with pictures and short essays on whom Ladies Home Journal's editors consider the 100 most important women of the 20th century. Lucille is one of them. | ||||||||||||
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The
I Love Lucy Guide to Life: Wisdom from Lucy and the Gang by Lucie Arnaz with Elisabeth Edwards Our Price: $3.96 You Save: $0.99 (20%) Hardcover (September 1998) |
A little gift book of knowledge culled from the I Love Lucy series, sure to brighten your day and -- perhaps -- help guide you through life. | ||||||||||||
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CBS: The First 50 Years
by Tony Chiu Our Price: $24.50 You Save: $10.50 (30%) Hardcover (May 1998) |
CBS: The First 50 Years is a nice look at the network's television history, with lots of pictures and information throughout. | ||||||||||||
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I Love Lucy: The Complete Picture History of the Most Popular TV Show Ever by Michael McClay Our Price: $17.99 You Save: $2.00 (10%) Paperback (March 1998) |
A well-illustrated and informative look at the making of I Love Lucy and The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour, featuring many photos never before seen. Originally published in a hardcover edition (1995, see below). | ||||||||||||
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Classic Sitcoms: A Celebration of the Best in Prime-Time Comedy
by Vince Waldron Our Price: $17.05 You Save: $1.90 (10%) Paperback (March 1998) |
Classic Sitcoms is a book about the all-time classic sitcoms of prime-time television, with essays on many different series. | ||||||||||||
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Love,
Lucy
by Lucille Ball with Betty Hannah Hoffman Our Price: $24.95 Large Print Hardcover (January 1998) |
Large-print hardcover edition of Lucy's autobiography (originally published as a hardcover in February 1997, below). Definitley a must-read for Lucy's fans, although it ends in 1965, mid-way through The Lucy Show and a few years after her marriage to Gary Morton. | ||||||||||||
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A
Book
by Desi Arnaz Our Price: $35.95 You Save: $4.00 (10%) Library Binding (October 1997) |
Desi Arnaz's own autobiography, filled with great anecdotes about his life in show business. Some of the words and situations would give it a PG-13 rating. | ||||||||||||
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Love,
Lucy
by Lucille Ball with Betty Hannah Hoffman Foreward by Lucie Arnaz Our Price: $6.29 You Save: $0.70 (10%) Paperback (October 1997) Lucy's autobiography! Recommended! |
Mass market paperback edition of Lucy's autobiography (originally published as a hardcover in February 1997, below). Definitely a must-read for Lucy's fans, although it ends in 1965, mid-way through The Lucy Show and a few years after her marriage to Gary Morton. Her narrative of the end of her marriage to Desi is heartbreaking. | ||||||||||||
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Queens of Comedy: Lucille Ball, Phyllis Diller, Carol Burnett, Joan Rivers and the New Generation of Funny Women (Studies in Humor and Gender) by Susan Horowitz Our Price: $49.95 Hardcover (April 1997) |
This is one of the first feminist works to study the effect of comediennes on society. In the words of one reviewer, "When masses of people laugh at a joke that reflects a woman's point of view, that laugh breeds enlightenment and social revolution." | ||||||||||||
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Laughs,
Luck...and Lucy: How I Came to Create the Most Popular Sitcom of All Time by Jess Oppenheimer with Gregg Oppenehimer Our Price: $31.96 You Save: $7.99 Hardcover and CD (December 1996) http://www.lucynet.com/ Recommended! |
This fantastic book -- which comes with a compact disc featuring Lucy's selected radio and television performances -- is the autobiography of I Love Lucy producer/head writer Jess Oppenehimer. It features many wonderful anecdotes about Hollywood's Golden Age. It also features the complete behind-the-scenes story of I Love Lucy, often at odds with Desi Arnaz' A Book (reissued in 1997, see above), published twenty years before.
 Lucy:
A Life in Pictures
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by Tim Frew Our Value Price: $13.98 Hardcover (November 1996) http://www.webcom.com/friedman/lucy/lucy.html This book features a nice selection of pictures from throughout Lucy's career -- some not found in too many other places. However, it is hampered by it's short text and many factual errors.
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 The Brown Derby Restaurant: A Hollywood Legend
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by Mark Willems and Sarah Wright Cobb Our Price: $24.00 You Save: $6.00 (20%) Hardcover (November 1996) This book features the history of the stars' "watering hole," the Brown Derby restaurant, forever immortalized by the I Love Lucy episode "L.A. at Last." It was the place to eat during Hollywood's Golden Age, always being mentioned on radio shows, in magazines and even in the movies themselves! Features Brown Dereby recipes -- including some featured in "L.A. at Last" -- as well as pictures and profiles of the stars!
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The Complete Picture History of the Most Popular TV Show Ever by Michael McClay with Deanna Gaffner-McClay Foreward by Lucie Arnaz Our Price: $27.96 You Save: $6.99 (20%) Hardcover (October 1995) Recommended! A well-illustrated and informative look at the making of I Love Lucy and The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour, featuring many photos never before seen. Recently reissued as a paperback (March 1998, see above). |
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For
the Love of Lucy: The Complete Guide for Collectors and Fans by Ric B. Wyman Our Price: $28.00 You Save: $7.00 (20%) Hardcover (June 1995) Recommended! |
This book is a godsend to collectors of Lucy collectibles. It covers just about every piece of memorabilia featuring Lucille or Desi prior to it's publication. Every page is full color, and all memorabilia is separated into categories and chapters. This was also the first book to feature episode guides to all of Lucille's television series. | |||
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The
I Love Lucy Cookbook
by Sarah Key and Vicki Wells Our Price: $7.16 You Save: $1.79 (20%) Hardcover (October 1994) |
Cuban recipes abound in this fairly short (64 pages) book from Hollywood Hotplates, as well as black-and-white stills from the show, and trivia from the ten funniest food-related episodes. Includes Desi's favorite, Arroz con Pollo. | ||||||||||||
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After Lucy: The True Story of I Love Lucy's Little Ricky by Keith Thibodeaux with Audrey T. Hingley Our Price: $9.85 You Save: $1.10 (10%) Paperback (May 1994) Keith Thibodeaux's (I Love Lucy's Little Ricky) autobiography! |
The autobiography of Keith Thibodeaux, who played Little Ricky for Desilu from 1956-60. It features his life story, from I Love Lucy on, including his bouts with drugs, and his intense conversion to Christianity. | |||||||||||||
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Desilu:
The Story of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz
by Coyne Steven Sanders and Tom Gilbert
Our Price: $12.60 You Save: $1.40 (10%) Paperback (May 1994) Recommended! |
At the time this was released, it was revolutionary -- the first major, in-depth work studying Lucille and Desi Arnaz's marriage and lives together (and apart) from 1940 to 1960, and beyond. Researched to the smallest detail and highly informative, this book has everything going for it. Only downsides are that Lucy and Desi's lives prior to 1940 are condensed to the first ten or so pages, and so therefore this is not a complete biography of either. Beyond that, however, this is a must have. | ||||||||||||
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Lucille
Ball: Pioneer of Comedy
by Katherine E. Krohn Our Price: $4.45 You Save: $0.50 (10%) Recommended Reading Level: Ages 9-12 Paperback Reprint edition (May 1992) |
A good introductory volume for young readers, this book is by no means essential. For the most part, the text is "simplistic" and "flat," and it contains "some major omissions" according to Horn Book. | ||||||||||||
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The I Love Lucy Book
by Bart Andrews Our Price: $13.45 You Save: $1.50 (10%) Paperback (September 1, 1985) Recommended! |
This book was the first major study of a television series, and opened up a whole new world of pop culture books. But the original is marvelous, with a narrative of the entire series, an episode-by-episode guide, and interviews with all Lucy's co-stars. An absolute must have. No Lucy fan's library is without this book! | ||||||||||||
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Loving
Lucy: An Illustrated Tribute to Lucille Ball by Bart Andrews and Thomas J. Watson Our Price: $13.45 You Save: $1.50 (10%) Paperback (January 1982) Recommended! |
A wonderful book, entirely in black-and-white, covering Lucy's career up to 1980. Although it covers her career in television, there are other books (such as the new Lucy Book, 1999, see above) which do a better job on that. The book's real strength is her film career, which it covers with more detail than any other work before or since. Definitely something for the major fan. | ||||||||||||