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Isabel Scott Rorick's delightful 'Mr. and Mrs. Cugat: The Record of a Happy Marriage' was the inspiration for My Favorite Husband.
Isabel Scott Rorick's delightful 'Mr. and Mrs. Cugat: The Record of a Happy Marriage' was the inspiration for My Favorite Husband.

'Mr. and Mrs. Cugat' became the basis for1942's Paramount Film, 'Are Husbands Necessary?'
'Mr. and Mrs. Cugat' became the basis for1942's Paramount Film, 'Are Husbands Necessary?'

My Favorite Husband spot ad from July 30 1948
My Favorite Husband spot ad from July 30 1948

''Idea Girl'' article from October 27 1949
''Idea Girl'' article from October 27 1949





My Favorite Husband spot ad from December 22 1949
My Favorite Husband spot ad from December 22 1949

Background

Isabel Scott Rorick was born in Toledo in 1900, a daughter of one of the city's most prominent families. She married Ceilan Rorick, a banker with the Spitzer-Rorick Trust and Savings Bank of Toledo. Between 1937 and 1940 Isabel Scott Rorick wrote ten delightful and engaging short stories recounting the married life of the fictional 'Elizabeth and George Cugat,' as follows:

  • 1 “Forsaking All Others”
  • 2 “For Better, for Worse”
  • 3 “In Sickness and in Health”
  • 4 “For Richer, for Poorer”
  • 5 “And to Obey?”
  • 6 “Let no Man Put Asunder”
  • 7 “Worldly Goods”
  • 8 “By Joining Hands”
  • 9 “Just Cause”
  • 10 “To Have and to Hold”

Appearing in newspaper supplements and popular magazines of the era, Ms. Rorick compiled the ten short stories with added material into her 1942 book, "Mr. and Mrs. Cugat: The Record of A Happy Marriage." Quickly becoming a critically acclaimed and highly popular distraction from the World War II and Homefront stresses of the era, the book formed the basis for the 1942 Paramount film, "Are Husbands Necessary?" starring Ray Milland as George Cugat and Betty Field as Mary Elizabeth Cugat. Also appearing were Charles Dingle as Duncan Atterbury and Kathleen Lockhart as Duncan Atterbury's wife, Laura. In addition to Mr. and Mrs. Cugat, Rorick also wrote another collection of short stories called Outside Eden.

Mr. and Mrs. Cugat later became a successful situation comedy over Radio called My Favorite Husband, starring Lucille Ball and Richard Denning. In a later effort to take Mr. and Mrs. Cugat to Television, CBS had hoped to base the show on the Radio program with the original radio cast. Lucille Ball hoped to add her husband Desi Arnaz to the cast. Believing Desi Arnaz to be an inapproprite choice as the Midwestern banker featured in the radio program, CBS changed the premise and "I Love Lucy" was was the result. Isabel Rorick's thrice retooled literary work thus became an important, though often overlooked, footnote in the history of one of Television's all-time favorite--and influential--situatioin comedies. Isabel Scott Rorick passed away in 1967.

Mr. and Mrs. Cugat make the logical jump to Radio

The continuing popularity of Mr. and Mrs. Cugat, combined with the success of Are Husbands Necessary? made the Mr. and Mrs. Cugat franchise a natural choice for Radio. Between 1942 and 1948, several popular Radio programs of the era had seized on the enduring popularity of Mr. and Mrs. Cugat to launch several domestic situation comedies over the medium.

Caustic, curmudgeonly critic, John Crosby, damns My Favorite Husband with faint praise, from the June 24, 1949 Portsmouth Times:

Radio In Review

By JOHN CROSBY
 Good Wife, But Not Much Else
 
     "MY GOOD WIFE", an added starter on NBC (8:30 p.m. Fridays), is another comedy about a young married couple, as if we needed another one.
     I must admit this one is a little different.  This married couple, Steve and Kay Emerson, are not so nearly so fast with a wisecrack as say, Lucille Ball and her husband on "My Favorite Husband" one hour earlier the same night on CBS.
     Great night for matrimony, Fridays, and if those two programs don't provide enough for you tune in Dorothy Dix at 1:45 in the afternoon.  She'll tell you how to win back an erring husband. 
     I haven't yet made up my mind whether the Emerson's ineptness at repartee is deliberate--after all, not every young wife talks like Groucho Marx--or whether the script writer isn't very good at it either.
     Any how, whether by accident or design, the Emersons are a very restful young couple, possibly a little too restful to get anywhere in the entertainment world.  In radio, they're a real novelty.
   AS A WIFE, Arlene Francis who plays Kay Emerson wins out on points over Lucille Ball.  In other regards--talent and looks, for example--Miss Ball is way out front.
      But how long could you live with a girl who says:  "Oh, we don't miss television.  I climb in the Bendix and sing and George looks at me through the little window."
     Imagine having a girl around the house who said things like that before breakfast!  It'd curdle the milk.
     "MY GOOD WIFE" started out at a gallup two weeks ago.  NBC deciding to set the stage and get everything out of the way all at once.  The first program resembled one of those synopses of previous installments in the popular magazines.
     Steve met Kay, quarreled with her, married her, taught her how to drive, learned he was about to become a father, and became one--all in fifteen minutes.  One minute later, the dialog went like this:
     "It doesn't seem like we've been married 12 years."
     "We've been married 10 years."
     "Well, that's why it doesn't seem like 12."
     THAT, INCIDENTALLY, is a little brighter than the conversation around the Emerson household generally gets. 
     On the second show of the series, the pace settled down to a walk.  During the first few minutes the Emerson's and their neighbors lay around lazily on the grass, not even talking very much.
     This may be taking realism too far.  I mean there ought to be some crickets chirping or something.  Things quickened a bit later when Mrs. Emerson decided she was going to help her husband out with his law practice and, of course, messed things up.
     THE EMERSON'S are quite upper middlebrow as radio's young married folk go.  He went to Yale for heaven's sake, and she not only went to Vassar, but led the daisy chain or whatever they do with that daisy chain.
     What is this--counter revolution?  Oh, yes, they live in Larchmont.  Up to their ears in other upper middlebrows.  I don't know what else to tell you about the Emerson's except they sound like a nice couple to have over for a drink some time but conceivably a little mild to entertain you much on the air.
     My favorite young married couple is still Ozzie and Harriet Nelson--I put Goodman and Jane Ace off in another category entirely--and, while we're chatting about this sort of thing, I ought to point out that Ricky and David Nelson, Ozzie and Harriet's children, now are playing themselves on that program which solves a lot of problems.
     I HAVE A SPY in the Nelson household, named--in case any congressional ears are pricking--Harriet Nelson, nee Harriet Hillard and she is not now and has never been a Communist nor worked on the atom bomb nor designed the B-26.
     Anyhow, my spy informed me the Nelsons had a little trouble with the kids.  The real Ricky and David listened to the radio Ricky and David discovered them doing things they weren't allowed to do or wouldn't do voluntarily if they were allowed.  Being children, they got confused over their own identities.
     Well, now the real Ricky and David are also the radio Ricky and David and the danger of split personalities in the kids has been averted.  You run into a lot of funny problems in radio.
(Copyright, 1949, New York Tribune)

Given John Crosby's critical track record for the era, the producers and stars of My Favorite Husband should have been overjoyed to recieve the above review from Mr. Crosby.

Ticket for the December 1st 1950 performance of 'My Favorite Husband' at CBS' Columbia Square Playhouse
Ticket for the December 1st 1950 performance of 'My Favorite Husband' at CBS' Columbia Square Playhouse

Caption reads, 'I'm Evelyn Ankers,' says the lady at the right, 'and he's my husband.' Richard Denning, who plays George Cooper, stands divided--but happy.'

By the time the My Favorite Husband franchise had made the transition to Television [with a different cast for Television], John Crosby made the following observations, from the October 5, 1953 edition of the Portsmouth Times:

Radio And Television

By John Crosby
 Wedded Bliss
 
     "My Favorite Husband" is a pretty sweeping title.  The avocation--I think that's what it is--of husband is the most widely practised thing anywhere on television these days. 
     In fact, if all the professional TV husbands were gathered together in one room, it might be a very good thing.
     The husband and wife domestic comedy teams, who are growing rapidly into one of the world's largest industries, include Lucy and Desi, George and Gracie, the Erwins, William Bendix and Marjorie Reynolds, Pam and Jerry North, Joan Davis and Jim Backus, Ozzie and Harriet, Ray Milland and Phyllis Avery, Peg Lynch and Alan Bunce, Paul Hartman and Fay Wray, and -- well, I tell you, kid, it's big business.  The Arnaz's are being paid something like 8,000,000 for it, just to give you an idea.
     I'M DELIGHTED that domestic felicity is such a huge commercial success.  I'm not sure that you find so much of it in the amateur ranks as you do among the pros.  In fact, professional marriage does not in any way resemble marriage among the amateurs I know.
     Domestic life with the Erwins and the Burnses and the Norths is a succession of calamities, ranging from murder in the case of the Norths to chronic amnesia in the case of the McNutleys.
     Not all these wires and all these husbands are exactly alike but one thing is constant, so far as I know, in all of these shows.  The husbands always lose.
     THE WIVES invariably outwit them, though in the case of the feather-brained ones like Gracie or Joan Davis you might more properly say they unwit them.  In any case, outwit or unwit, the husbands always lose.
     I don't think this is especially healthy propaganda to spread out ever so many hours over ever so many networks. 
     "You've got to stop thinking of George as a man," says one character to Joan Caulfield in "My Favorite Husband."  "Maybe he was a man when you married him but you've worked hard on him for five years and now he's only a husband."
     THIS MIGHT be held up as the philosophy of every one of these programs and I'm not sure it's a proper one.
     "My Favorite Husband" started out life as Isabel Scott Rerick's amusing "Mr. and Mrs. Cugat" stories.  Since then it's been a movie and undergone a great many mutations to satisfy the requirements of television.  Actually, this is a very slick production as these things go.
     Miss Caulfield is a cute chick who looks as if she might outwit a reasonably stupid husband.  Barry Nelson is reasonably stupid as the husband and a little heavy for my taste.
     The minor roles, a gold mine of good comedy in this sort of series, are very aptly played.
     BUT WHAT they're up to is another matter.  The most recent one concerned a bit of blackmail aimed at procuring a new dress for Miss Caulfield in exchange for letting her husband go off duck shooting a couple of days.  This, we're told, is standard operating procedure in suburban circles and maybe it is.
     The blackmail plan"  the wife volunteers to go along.
     Husbands--we're told--will pay any amount of money to keep a woman out of a duck blind.  My own experience contradicts this considerably.  Women, I've found will pay almost any amount of money to stay out of duck blinds.  They don't understand duck blinds.
     Anyhow, Mr. Nelson and his companions, intent on relaxation, are stuck with a woman in the woods which leads to any number of comical situations.
     ONE OF THEM, a woman in a poker game, has been done before on "I Love Lucy" and, for all I know, on all the others.
     Come to think of it, there isn't a situation you can think of that all these shows is not going to exploit some time or other.
     Wedded bliss is a splendid thing to promulgate on television but too much of it is going to wear.  Sooner or later it'll drive the rest of us to the divorce courts out of sheer ennui with all this bliss.
     Whatever happened to my favorite married couple, the Bicker?  They loathed each other and, I thought, they were terribly funny.

Between those two, somewhat contradictory critiques, My Favorite Husband progressed from a one-off trial balloon by Lucile Ball and CBS, to an award-winning, first-season situation comedy that left the majority of its competitors in the dust for three highly successful seasons.

My Favorite Husband's ensemble cast was one of it's major assets.

Series Derivatives:

 AFRTS [AFN] END-145 'My Favorite Husband'
Genre: Anthology of Golden Age Radio Situation Comedies
Network(s): CBS, The AFRTS [AFN].
Audition Date(s) and Title(s): 48-07-05 01 The Cugats' Tenth Wedding Anniversary
Premiere Date(s) and Title(s): 48-07-23 01 Literary Club's Speaker Comes to Dinner
Run Dates(s)/ Time(s): 48-07-23 to 51-03-31; CBS; One Hundred Twenty-Five, 30-minute programs; Fridays, 7 p.m.
Syndication: CBS Pacific Network Transcriptions; The AFRTS
Sponsors: General Foods [Jell-O]
Director(s): Gordon T. Hughes, Jess Oppenheimer [Producer/Directors]

Isabel Scott Rorick [Creator]

Harry Ackerman [Director]
Bob Carroll Jr. [Producer/Director]
SSgt. Dave Scofield [AFN Producer]
Principal Actors: Lucille Ball, Richard Denning, Hal March, Doris Singleton, John 'Bud' Hiestand, Joseph Kearns, Bea Benadaret, Hans Conried, Florence Halop, Herb Vigran, Barbara Eiler, Gil Stratton, Erwin Lee, Ruth Perrot, Frank Nelson, Ted de Corsia, Gale Gordon, Shirley Mitchell, Gerald Mohr, Jack Edwards, Jerry Hausner, John McGovern, Wally Maher, Milton Stark, Peter Leeds, William Johnstone, Elvia Allman, Jay Novello, Anne Whitfield, Rolfe Sedan, Hal March, Norma Zimmer, Sam Edwards, Leone LeDoux, Richard Crenna, GeGe Pearson, Arthur Q. Bryan, Jack Moyles, Eleanor Audley, Sandra Gould, Harry Bartell, Shimon Ruskin, Bob Jellison, Mary Shipp, Ken Christy, Alan Reed, Sarah Selby, Sheldon Leonard
Recurring Character(s): The former Elizabeth Elliott, now Liz [Cugat] Cooper [Lucille Ball]; George [Cugat] Cooper [Richard Denning]; Katie, the Coopers' maid [Ruth Perrot]; Rudolph Atterbury [Gale Gordon]; Iris Atterbury [Bea Benaderet]; Adele Elliott, Liz's Mother;
Protagonist(s): None
Author(s): None
Writer(s) Madelyn Pugh, Bob Carroll Jr., Jess Oppenheimer, Phil Cole, Jack Crutcher, Frank Fox, John Michael Hayes, Madelyn Pugh, Martin Weinter
Music Direction: Lud Gluskin, Wilbur Hatch
Marlin Skiles [Composer]
Ray Lithgow, Clark Casey [Sound Effects]

The Talking People [Jello commerical singers]
Musical Theme(s): Unknown
Announcer(s): Bob Lemond, Bud Hiestand [Announcers]
Brad Scott, Bob Lemond [AFRS and AFN Announcers]
Estimated Scripts or
Broadcasts:		 127
Episodes in Circulation: 112
Total Episodes in Collection: 113
Provenances:

The Billboard reviewed the My Favorite Husband episode of March 18th 1949
The Billboard reviewed the My Favorite Husband episode of March 18th 1949
 Hickerson Guide; The KNX Collection of the Thousand Oaks Library; Isabel Scott Rorick, Mr. and Mrs. Cugat Typescripts from The University of Toledo Library.

Notes on Provenances:

The most helpful provenances were newspaper listings and the Thousand Oaks Library.

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The My Favorite Husband Radio Program Log
Date Episode Title Avail. Notes
48-07-05
Spcl.
Preview
 The Cugats' Tenth Wedding Anniversary
N
 July 4, 1948 Bridgeport Telegram
. . . Replacing the CBS Radio Theater tomorrow are "My Favorite Husband" with Lucille Ball at p.m, followed by "The Amazing Mr. Tutt" with William Wright at 9:30.
48-07-13
Spcl.
Preview
 The Cugats' Tenth Wedding Anniversary
N
 48-07-13 Mason City Globe Gazette
CBS—8:00 My Favorite Husband; 8:30 The Amazilng Mr. Tutt;
48-07-23
1
 Literary Club's Speaker Comes to Dinner
N
 48-07-20 Wisconsin State Journal
"My Favorite Husband," situation , comedy series starring Lucille Ball, debuts on CBS at 7 p. m, Friday.

48-07-23 Morning Herald
 New shows for the summer still are coming a long, in fact two of them being listed for Friday. On CBS at 9 is to appear Lucille Ball in My Favorite Husband in a weekly series. This program, a family comedy, previously had been given a one-time tryout.

48-07-23 Mason City Globe-Gazette
(8 p.m. KGLO & KGLO-FM) " My Favorite Husband" follows the comedy adventures of a happily married couple with Lucille Ball as the scatter-brained better half.
48-07-30
2
 The Magazine Photographer
N
 48-07-30 Mason City Globe-Gazette
(8 p.m., KGLO & KGLO-FM) Lucille Ball stars as Liz, and her favorite husband, George is played by movie star Richard Denning in "My Favorite Husband."
48-08-06
3
 The Portrait Artist
N
 [AFRTS Only]

48-08-06 Long Beach Press-Telegram - 6:00--KNX--Pretty Liz Cugat has another brainstorm and decides to have her portrait painted during the airing of "My Favorite Husband." Lucille Ball plays Liz, Richard Demming is George.
48-08-13
4
 The Charity Bazaar Kissing Booth
N
 [AFRTS Only]

48-08-13 Wisconsin State Journal
WBBM 7:00 Fav. Husband
48-08-20
5
 Liz Teaches the Samba
N
 48-08-20 Long Beach Press-Telegram
6:00--KNX--Lucille Ball reveals another facet of Mrs. Cugat's sparkling personality in a new comedy episode of "My Favorite Husband." Richard Denning plays George Cugat.
48-08-27
6
 Is Your Ship of Matrimony on the Rocks
N
 48-08-27 Wisconsin State Journal
WBBM 7:00 My Favorite Husband
48-09-03
7
 Liz's Mother Has Second Thoughts
N
 [AFRTS Only]

48-09-05 Amarillo News
Lucille Ball, who once worked! as a chorus girl at Columbia for) $50 a week, goes back to the studio at a six-figure salary for "Miss Grant Took Richmond." Just before Columbia fired her, she was the foil for the Three Stooges. Lucille says today: "Columbia fired me because there wasn't anything left for the Three Stooges to hit me with."
Her new airshow, "My Favorite Husband." based on the Mr. and Mrs. George Cugat characters, is one of Hollywood's best fall prospects. Richard Denning plays the husband. When someone asked Lucille's husband, Desi Arnaz why he wasn't doing the show with her, he cracked: "I guess I'm not the type'"
48-09-10
8
 Liz Has Her Fortune Told
N
 48-09-10 Mason City Globe Gazette

Favorite Husband

. . . (8 p.m.) When your favorite redhead, Lucille Ball, goes on the air to tell about her "Favorite Husband," the result is your favorite Friday night show.
48-09-17
9
 Liz and the General
N
 [AFRTS Only]

48-09-17 Long Beach Press-Telegram
6 P.M. KNX--My Favorite Husband
48-09-24
10
 Knitting Baby Booties
N
 [AFRTS Only]

48-09-24 Long Beach Press-Telegram
6:00--KNX--George Cugat finds his household in a definitely confused state when his wife Liz decides that their marriage isn't legal.
48-10-02
11
 Young Matron League Tryouts
Y
48-10-03
12
 George's Old Flame
N
 48-10-03 Wisconsin State Journal
WBBM 6:30 My Favorite Husband

48-10-03 Chicago Daily Tribune
6:30-WBBM-My Favorite Husband
48-10-09
13
 George and the Young Matrons League Play
N
 [AFRTS Only]
48-10-16
14
 Liz Sells Dresses
N
 [AFRTS Only]
48-10-23
15
 The Quiz Show
N
 [AFRTS Only]

48-10-23 Chicago Daily Tribune
6:00-WBBM-My Favorite Husband.
48-10-30
16
 The Election
N
 48-10-30 Wisconsin State Journal
6 p.m.--My Favorite Husband (WBBM): Liz and George run for council seat--same one, that is.
48-11-06
17
 Katy and Roscoe
N
 [AFRTS Only]
48-11-13
18
 Liz Learns to Drive
Y
48-11-20
19
 George Attends a Teenage Dance
N
 [AFRTS Only]
48-11-27
20
 There's a Baby in the House
N
 [AFRTS Only]
48-12-04
21
 Be A Pal to Your Husband
N
 [AFRTS Only]
48-12-11
22
 Respective Mustaches
N
48-12-18
23
 Liz's New Dress
N
 [AFRTS Only]
48-12-25
24
 Numerology
N
 48-12-29 Chester Times
 On CBS, "Winner Take All" will be heard Saturdays at 7 p. m. Beginning Jan. 8. replacing "My Favorite Husband" which moves to Friday at 8:30 p. m. Beginning Jan. 7.
49-01-07
1
 Beans for Three Weeks
Y
 [Moves to Fridays; The Cugats become The Coopers; Sponsored by Jell-O; Announces it's date as January 7th]

49-01-07 Morning Herald
The Aces, Mr. and Jane having parted company with their Friday sponsor at 8:30 on CBS, he (the sponsor) has taken on a new CBS show. That will be the one titled My Favorite Husband which the network first originated as a
summer replacement. It has Lucille Ball as the central character.

49-01-07 Mason City Globe Gazette
My Favorite Husband
. . . (7:30 p.m.) Starting this Friday, you'll be hearing "My Favorite Husband" — starring Lucille Ball — every Friday night. Life with "My Favorite Husband" is happy, hectic and hilarious. It's a happy half-hour of the adventures of a young married couple.
49-01-14
2
 Professor Krausmeier's Talent Scouts
N
 [AFRTS Only]

49-01-14 Wisconsin State Journal
6:30 p.m.--My Favorite Husband (WBBM): Liz and George take music lessons.
49-01-21
3
 The Marriage License Error
Y
 [AFRTS version also; Speed and pitch issues]
49-01-28
4
 The Absolute Truth
Y
49-02-04
5
 Liz Debates Alaska in Town Forum
Y
 49-02-04 Mason City Globe Gazette
My Favorite Husband
. . . (7:30 p.m.) Lucille Ball stars as Liz Cooper, who constantly amazes her adoring spouse by being simultaneously bright and scatter-brained.
49-02-11
6
 Valentine's Day Mischief
Y
 [Valentine's Day Program; AFRTS version also]

49-02-11 Wisconsin State Journal
7:30 p. m. — My Favorite Husband (WBBM): with Lucille Ball; Liz gets heart-shaped cutlets from her butcher. 8
49-02-18
7
 Liz Attends Claremont Business School
Y
 [AFRTS Only; Speed and pitch issues]

49-02-11 Wisconsin State Journal
7:30 p. m. — My Favorite Husband (WBBM): Liz studies for business career.

. .Columbia is talking about buying the film rights to Lucille Ball's alrshow, "My Favorite Husband. "
49-02-25
8
 Liz's Absent-mindedness
Y
 [Heavily edited recording]

49-02-25 Long Beach Press-Telegram - 9:00--KNX--Absent-minded Liz decides to take a memory course. It works in reverse and she ends up with amnesia. While she is "out of this world," "My Favorite Husband" George, finds himself in jail.
49-03-04
9
 Mother Cooper Visits
Y
49-03-11
10
 Red Cross Benefit Revue
N
 [AFRTS Only; Speed and pitch issues]
49-03-18
11
 The Johnny Odell Program
Y
49-03-25
12
 Old Jokes and Old Stories
N
 49-03-25 Wisconsin State Journal - 7:30 p.m.--My Favorite Husband (WBBM): Liz gives George the "Yes" treatment.
49-04-01
13
 April Fool's Day
Y

'[April Fools Day program]

'Lucille Ball is really confused about television. "CBS says I can appear in it," says the star of "My Favorite Husband." "At Columbia Pictures they say no. Paramount adds maybe. I'm still waiting to hear from RKO."''
49-04-08
14
 The Principle of the Thing
Y
49-04-15
15
 Liz Takes Horseback Riding Lessons
Y
 49-04-15 Long Beach Press-Telegram
Lucille Ball, in the role of "Liz Cooper," accepts an invitation to join a hunt breakfast ride during the airing of "My Favorite Husband" broadcast.
49-04-22
16
 George and His Trained Seals
Y
 [AFRTS version also;Poor recording]
49-04-29
17
 A Trailer Vacation to Goosegrease Lake
N
 [AFRTS Only]

49-04-29 Mason City Globe Gazette
My Favorite Husband
. . . (7:30 p.m.) Liz Cooper Is one woman who can do two things at once—keep her "Favorite Husband" in hot water and you in stitches!
49-05-06
18
 The Five-Dollar-A-Pound Diet
Y
 49-05-06 Mason City Globe Gazette
My Favorite Husband
. . . (7:30 p.m.) The trials and tribulations of married life are turned into nuggets of whimsical humor on this gay family series, starring Lucille Ball.
49-05-13
19
 Tenth Anniversary Presents
Y
49-05-20
20
 Liz Is Feeling Her Age
Y

'[Also AFRTS version]

['Lucille Ball, of the movies and CBS' "My Favorite Husband," may be a glamorous- star to other people, but to ber bandleader huband Desi Arnaz, she's "Johnny." He gave her the nickname because around their ranch, she looks like a tomboy. Her favorite "at home" togs are dungarees and an old sweater and straw hat.']

49-05-20 Long Beach Press-Telegram
9:00-KNX--Husband "George" tries to convince Lucille Ball, as "Liz Cooper," that she is not getting along in years and that she's as glamourous as ever. His tactics misfire and are construed as a guilty conscience, so George is forced to hire a psychiatrist, on tonight's "My Favorite Husband" show.

Features Gerald Mohr as the psychiatrist
49-05-27
21
 Liz Goes to the Hospital
Y
 49-05-27 Mason City Globe Gazette
My Favorite Husband
. . . (7.30 p.m.) Lucille Ball knows more ways to get her Favorite Husband into trouble but she's also got a few tricks up her sleeve about saving the day, too!
49-06-03
22
 Budget -- Mr Atterbury
N
 49-06-03 Mason City Globe Gazette
My Favorite Husband
. . . (7:30 p. m.) Lucille Ball, in the role of "Liz Cooper," blames the bank when husband "George" chastises her for her elastic checkwriting methods.
49-06-10
23
 Liz Gets Her Hair Dyed
N
 [AFRTS Only (FEN)]

49-06-10 Long Beach Press-Telegram
9:00--KNX--George would like to die when he sees Liz with her newly dyed raven tresses. In fact he is about to make a play for a lovely stranger when he discovers his "black" mistake in "My Favorite Husband."
49-06-17
24
 The Television Suit
N
 [AFRTS Only]

49-06-17 Mason City Globe Gazette
Lucille Ball
. . . (7:30 p. m.) Television throws "My Favorite Husband" for a loss, and the whole neighborhood into night courts.
49-06-24
25
 Liz Can't Make Up Her Mind
Y
 [AFRTS version also]

49-06-23 Cedar Rapids Tribune
Friday, June 24. Liz Cooper's habit of always changing her mind and never terminating anything precipitates a domestic crisis when she completes a newlyfound unfinished letter, written to hubby George during their first year of marriage, and mails it to his office, during "My Favorlte Husband" (7:30-8 p.m.)
49-07-01
26
 Reminiscing
Y
 [End first season under sponsorship]

49-06-30 Cedar Rapids Tribune
Friday, July 1: Lucille Ball as Liz Cooper and "My Favorite Husband" glance at the family scrapbook and fund themselves reliving Ihe past year as the gay CBS domestic comedy completes its first season on the air (7:30-8 p.m.).
49-07-08
--
--
 49-07-08 Wisconsin State Journal
WBBM 6:30 To Be Announced
49-08-26
--
--
49-09-02
1
 Elves and Fairies
Y
 [AFRTS versioin also]

49-09-02 Charleston Daily Mail
 Coming back Friday night: CBS 8:30. My Favorite Husband with Lucille Ball, opening its second season after an eight weeks absence.
49-09-09
2
 Auctions Anonymous
N
 49-09-08 Cedar Rapids Tribune
Friday, Sept. 9 — Lucille Ball as "Liz Cooper," has such a weakness for bidding on antiques that her husband "George" thinks she should join "Auctions Anonymous," during the "My Favorite " Husband" comedy broadcast (7:30-8 p.m.).
49-09-16
3
 The Bank Outing Baseball Game
Y
 '[Also AFRTS version]

49-09-16 Long Beach Press-Telegram
9 P.M. KNX--Favorite Husband
49-09-23
4
 Trapped in The Attic
N
 [AFRTS Only]

49-09-22 Cedar Rapids Tribune
Lucille Ball and Richard Denning as Liz and George Cooper find themselves locked in their own attic when they try a little housecleaning on "My Favorite Husband- (7:30-8 p.m.).
49-09-30
5
 Liz Elected Women's Club Treasurer
Y
 49-09-29 Cedar Rapids Tribune
George Cooper has cause far alarm when Liz is elected treasurer of the local women's club because he knows how much trouble she has with figures. But Liz has a surprise for him on "My Fayorite Husband" (7:30-8 p.m.).
49-10-07
6
 George Needs A Raise
Y
 '[Also AFRTS version]

49-10-07 Wisconsin State Journal - 7:30 p.m.--My Favorite Husband (WBBM): Liz's idea for promotion backfires.

49-10-07 Long Beach Press-Telegram
9:00--KNX--Lucille Ball as Liz Cooper, decides to get husband George a raise during the "My Favorite Husband" show. . . To get quick results she sells apples in front of the bank where he is employed . . . the plan backfires and the fun starts.
49-10-14
7
 Too Many Television Sets
N
 [AFRTS Only]

49-10-14 Long Beach Press-Telegram
9:00--KNX--When "Liz" expresses a wish for a television set because they make the house look so smart on the outside . . . George says, no! But when he relents and the maid orders one, too, along with the boss . . . the house is well filled with television sets on "My Favorite Husband."
49-10-21
8
 Liz's Superstitions
Y
 49-10-21 Long Beach Press-Telegram - 9:00--KNX--When Liz maintains it isn't cricket to banish a cricket that has invaded their hearth she arouses George's ire. The ensuing battle over the disposal of the poor insect marks another amusing situation in the "My Favorite Husband" series.
49-10-28
9
 The Surprise HalloweenParty
Y
 [Halloween Program]

9:00--KNX—When Lucille Ball finds that she and George have not been invited to the neighborhood Halloween party she decides they are social spooks ... the joke is on her when she plans a party of her own ... no acceptances ... the party is in honor of the principals of "My Favorite Husband."
49-11-04
10
 George's Mother Visits
N
 [AFRTS Only]

49-11-04 Long Beach Press-Telegram
9 P.M. KNX--Favorite Husband
49-11-11
11
 Liz Takes Up Baby-Sitting
Y
 49-11-11 Wisconsin State Journal
7:30 p.m.--My Favorite Husband (WBBM): Liz takes up babysitting to balance her financial books.
49-11-18
12
 Liz the Matchmaker
N
 [AFRTS Only]

49-11-18 San Antonio Express
LUCILLE BALL, AS "LIZ COOPER," IS worried about her maid's romance with the mailman, because he always takes her to a drive-in theater on a motorcycle, during the "My Favorite -Husband" broadcast, Friday, November 18, at 7:30 p.m., over CBS. Liz finally solves the problem by turning over the house to the maid for a complete evening. But she doesn't tell her hubby "George," and the mix-up that follows finds the Coopers in jail. Lucille Ball is heard in the starring role, with Richard Denning as her "favorite husband." Ruth Perrott is the maid. Bob Lemond announces, and Wilbur Hatch's orchestra supplies the musical background. KTSA—7;30 p.m.
49-11-25
13
 The His and Hers Quiz Show
Y
 [Thanksgiving Program]

49-11-25 San Antonio Express
LIZ COOPER PARTICIPATES IN A RADIO QUIZ SHOW and comes a cropper after she gets a tip-off on the answers, during KTSA-CBS' "My Favorite Husband," family comedy starring Lucille Ball at 7:30 p.m. Friday. Richard Denning is featured as hubby George. Ruth Perrott is their maid, Katy. Jess Oppenheimer produces. Wilbur Hatch conducts the music. KTSA—7:30 P.M
49-12-02
14
 College Homecoming
N
 [AFRTS Only]

49-12-02 San Antonio Express
LUCILLE BALL, AS "LIZ COOPER," DOESNT KNOW A TOUCHDOWN FROM A RUBdown, but she insists upon tagging along when husband "George" returns to his alma mater to witness the annual football classic, during the "My Favorite Husband" broadcast, Friday, 7:30 p.m., over CBS. Tired of waiting for George while he visits with his former classmates, Liz mee ts a nice student only to discover he's a collegiate wolf in racoon's clothing. Before the lad tries another "pass" on fourth down, George comes to Liz's rescue and blocks the play. Lucille Ball is starred as "Liz" with Richard Denning as hubby "George." Others in the cast are Ruth Perrott, Gale Gordon and Bea Benadaret. Music is supplied by Wilbur Hatch's orchestra, and Bob Lemond announces. KTSA—7:30 P.M.
49-12-09
15
 Evesdropping On French Lessons
Y
 [AFRTS version also]

49-12-08 Cedar Rapids Tribune
Lucille Ball, As Liz Cooper, is faced with the prospect of a duel between her suspicious hubby George and her sizzling French teacher as a part of tlie fun on "My Favorite Husband" {7:30-p.m.
49-12-16
16
 The Christmas Present Switch
Y
 49-12-15 Cedar Rapids Tribune
Lucille Ball makes her own trouble during "My Favorite Husband" when she "innocently" finds George's Christmas presents for her and exchanges it too early 7:30-8 p.m.).
49-12-23
17
 Christmas Caroling In A Stolen Sleigh
Y
 [Christmas program]

49-12-23 San Antonio Express
LIZ COOPER IS TAKEN FOR A SLEIGH
ride, figuratively and literally, when she and her neighbors borrow a milkman's horse and make a jingle bell trip to the countryside for a yule log, on CBS' "My Favorite Husband," starring Lucille Ball, Friday. The party
bogs down when old Dobbin insists upon making all the stops on his milk route. KTSA—7:30 P.M.
49-12-30
18
 Handcuffed for A Day
Y
 [New Years Eve program]

49-12-29 Cedar Rapids Tribune
And both Liz and George Cooper are in pretty bad shape too, when they accidentally be come handcuffed during the fun with "My Favorite Husband" [7:30-8 p.m.).

49-12-30 Long Beach Press-Telegram
9:00—KNX—It's turn about for Lucille Ball and hubby George when they become accidentally handcuffed together during the "My Favorite Husband" broadcast tonight. During the time the Coopers are linked George finds himself under the hair dryer and "Liz" later has to stand by at the barber's while her husband gets a shave.
50-01-06
19
 The Other Woman
Y
 50-01-06 Long Beach Press-Telegram - 9:00--KNX--Lucille Ball as "Liz Cooper," manages to square a romantic triangle when she finds herself innocently coupled with her husband's boss . . . It is a merry mix-up for all involved on "My Favorite Husband.
50-01-13
20
 Liz Teaches Iris to Drive
Y
 50-01-13 Wisconsin State Journal
7:30 p.m.--My Favorite Husband (WBBM): Liz tries something new in driving lessons.
50-01-20
21
 Liz and the Green Wig
Y
 50-01-20 Wisconsin State Journal
7:30 p.m.--My Favorite Husband (WBBM): Liz has a home beauty treatment.
50-01-27
22
 Liz Writes a Song
Y
 50-01-27 Long Beach Press-Telegram
9 P.M.KNX--Lucille Ball
50-02-03
23
 The Country Club Dance
Y
 50-02-03 Wisconsin State Journal
WBBM 7:30 My Favorite Husband
50-02-10
24
 Mrs Coopers Boyfriend
Y
 [Valentine Day program]

50-02-10 Wisconsin State Journal
7:30 p.m.--My Favorite Husband (WBBM): Liz seeks a husband for her mother-in-law.
50-02-17
25
 Liz Teaches Wally the Samba
Y
 50-02-17 Wisconsin State Journal
WBBM 7:30 My Favorite Husband

Features Jim Backus as Mr. Forsythe
50-02-24
26
 Liz Redecorates the House
Y
 50-02-24 Long Beach Press-Telegram
9:00--KNX--Lucille Ball starts a campaign for equal rights . . . So George takes her to dinner and splits the check, makes her repair the car and even remove her hat in an elevator . . . Fine . . . but George rebels when his aid is enlisted to help with the housework.

50-02-24 San Antonio Express
7:30 Favorite Husband

50-02-24 Wisconsin State Journal
WBBM 7:30 My Favorite Husband
50-03-05
27
 Liz Promotes Equal Rights for Women
Y
 [Moves from Fridays to Sundays]

50-03-05 Wisconsin State Journal
5 p.m.--My Favorite Husband (WBBM): at new time; Lucille Ball, as Liz Cooper, starts equal rights campaign.

50-03-05 Long Beach Press-Telegram
3:00--KNX--Lucille Ball moves up with the big boys . . . and as a fitting program for her introduction to the Sunday line-up she puts in a pitch for equal rights . . . for whom? . . . why women, of course!
50-03-12
28
 Equal Rights Role Reversal
Y
 50-03-12 Wisconsin State Journal
5 p.m.--My Favorite Husband (WBBM): Liz wins a job.
50-03-19
29
 The Coopers Make Their Wills
Y
 50-03-19 Long Beach Press-Telegram
3:00--KNX--There's trickery afoot in the "Cooper" household . . . Liz is puzzled when her "Favorite Husband" wants to check her will, but she is downright startled to find a receipt for some arsenic and rope in his pocket . . . but the payoff comes with George suggests a trip to the country with a one-way ticket for Liz.
50-03-26
30
 Liz's Writes A Radio Play
Y
 50-03-26 Wisconsin State Journal
5 p.m.--My Favorite Husband (WBBM): Liz writes a play.
50-04-02
31
 April's Fool
N
 [Aprils Fools Day program]

50-04-02 Wisconsin State Journal
5 p.m.--My Favorite Husband (WBBM): Liz meets real gangsters.
50-04-09
32
 Hobbies Have Consequences
N
 [AFRTS Only]

50-04-09 Wisconsin State Journal
WBBM 5:00 My Favorite Husband
50-04-16
33
 Anniversary
N
 50-04-16 Wisconsin State Journal
WBBM 5:00 My Favorite Husband
50-04-23
34
 Friendship Week
Y
 50-04-23 Wisconsin State Journal
5 p.m.--My Favorite Husband (WBBM): Friendship Week takes a beating.
50-04-30
35
 Spring Cleaning
Y
 50-04-30 Wisconsin State Journal
4 p.m.--My Favorite Husband (WBBM): golf vs. spring cleaning.
50-05-07
36
 The Health Farm
N
 50-05-07 Wisconsin State Journal
4 p.m.--My Favorite Husband (WBBM): economy vs. spring wardrobe.
50-05-14
37
 Numerology
N
 [AFRTS Only]

50-05-14 Wisconsin State Journal
WBBM 4:00 My Favorite Husband
50-05-21
38
 Mrs Cooper Thinks Liz Is Pregnant
Y
 50-05-21 Wisconsin State Journal
4 p.m.--My Favorite Husband (WBBM): denies stork rumors.
50-05-28
39
 Liz Sells Dresses
Y
 [Same plot as 48-10-16, with different script]

50-05-28 Wisconsin State Journal
4 p.m.--My Favorite Husband (WBBM): "Liz" works up a department-store racket.
50-06-04
40
 The Cooper Pig Pen
Y
 50-06-04 Wisconsin State Journal
4 p.m.--My Favorite Husband (WBBM): Liz teaches tidiness.
50-06-11
41
 Liz Learns to Swim
Y
 [Much the same plot as 49-04-29 with script changes; AFRTS version also]

50-06-11 Wisconsin State Journal
4 p.m.--My Favorite Husband (WBBM): Liz and George disagree on vacation plans.
50-06-18
42
 Be a Pal to Your Husband
Y
 [Same plot as 48-12-04]

50-06-18 Wisconsin State Journal
WBBM 4:00 My Favorite Husband
50-06-25
43
 George Takes Dancing Lessons
N
 [End second season]

50-06-25 Wisconsin State Journal
4 p.m.--My Favorite Husband (WBBM): Liz enrolls George in dancing school.
50-07-02
--
--
 50-07-02 Wisconsin State Journal
WBBM 4:00 Earn Your Vacation
50-08-26
--
--
 50-08-26 Wisconsin State Journal
WBBM 7:30 Dance Orchestra
50-09-02
1
 The Best Dressed Men in Town
Y
 [Begin third season]

50-09-02 Wisconsin State Journal
8:30 p.m.- My Favorite Husband (WBBM): returns to the air at a new time with Liz attempting to reform George's dress habits.
50-09-09
2
 Gossip
N
 50-09-09 Long Beach Press-Telegram
6:30--KNX--Lucille Ball as Liz Cooper makes a wager with "My Favorite Husband" that men gossip as much as women. Trying to fool her, George reveals some fake gossip . . . it turns out to be too true.
50-09-16
3
 Movies
N
 50-09-16 Wisconsin State Journal
8:30 p.m.- My Favorite Husband (WBBM): Liz and George in movie mixup with the Atterburys.
50-09-23
4
 The Fuller Brush Show
N
 50-09-23 Wisconsin State Journal
8:30 p.m.- My Favorite Husband (WBBM): Liz becomes a brush salesgirl.
50-09-30
5
 Liz Changes Her Mind
N
 50-09-30 Wisconsin State Journal
8:30 p.m.- My Favorite Husband (WBBM): dinnertime mixup.
50-10-07
6
 Liz the Sculptress
Y
 50-10-07 Wisconsin State Journal
8:30 p.m.- My Favorite Husband (WBBM): Lucille Ball turns sculptress.
50-10-14
7
 Dinner for Twelve
Y
 50-10-14 Wisconsin State Journal
8:30 p.m.- My Favorite Husband (WBBM): Liz and friends help entertain George's clients.

Features Richard Crenna as the delivery boy
50-10-21
8
 Safe Driving Week
N
 [AFRTS Only]

50-10-21 Wisconsin State Journal
8:30 p.m.- My Favorite Husband (WBBM): Liz borrows the family car--and trouble.

Features Sheldon Leonard as the traffic cop and Elvia Allman as Marge
50-10-28
9
 The Homecoming Football Game
N
 [AFRTS Only]

50-10-28 Wisconsin State Journal
8:30 p.m.- My Favorite Husband (WBBM): Liz demands football ticket.
50-11-04
10
 The Two Mrs Coopers
N
 50-11-04 Wisconsin State Journal
8:30 p.m.- My Favorite Husband (WBBM): Lucille Ball, as Liz, suspects bigamy.
50-11-11
11
 Vacation from Marriage
N
 50-11-11 Wisconsin State Journal
8:30 p.m.- My Favorite Husband (WBBM): Lucille Ball promotes "vacation from Marriage."
50-11-18
12
 Liz Goes to Night School
N
 [AFRTS Only]

50-11-18 Wisconsin State Journal
8:30 p.m.- My Favorite Husband (WBBM): a course in checkbook balancing.
50-11-25
13
 Liz's Birthday
N
 [AFRTS Only]

50-11-25 Wisconsin State Journal
8:30 p.m.- Favorite Husband (WBBM): Liz and George mess up a birthday.
50-12-02
14
 Marrying Off Peggy Martin
Y
 '[Also AFRTS version]

50-12-02 Wisconsin State Journal
8:30 p.m.- My Favorite Husband (WBBM): Liz plays Cupid.
50-12-09
15
 The 'Everybody Wins' Prize Check
Y
 50-12-09 Wisconsin State Journal
8:30 p.m.- My Favorite Husband (WBBM): Liz tries to win a radio quiz.
50-12-16
16
 The Christmas Card Pictures
Y
 [Poor recording]

50-12-16 Wisconsin State Journal
8:30 p.m.- My Favorite Husband (WBBM): family disagreement over Christmas cards.
50-12-23
17
 The Jolly Rovers Christmas Stag
Y
 [Christmas program]

50-12-23 Wisconsin State Journal
8:30 p.m.- My Favorite Husband (WBBM): Lucille Ball crashes stag party.
50-12-30
18
 A Severe Case of The Flimjabs
Y
 [New Years program]

50-12-30 Wisconsin State Journal
WBBM 8:30 My Favorite Husband
51-01-06
19
 The Young Matrons League Play
N
 [AFRTS Only; Poor recording]

51-01-06 Wisconsin State Journal
8:30 p.m.- My Favorite Husband (WBBM): Liz Cooper tries out for part in woman's club play.

Features Jim Backus as Cory
51-01-13
20
 The Cuckoo Clock Conspiracy
Y
 51-01-13 Wisconsin State Journal
8:30 p.m.- My Favorite Husband (WBBM): Lucille Ball has check trouble.
51-01-20
21
 Liz Exaggerates
N
 [AFRTS Only]

51-01-20 Long Beach Press-Telegram
6:30--KNX--When "My Favorite Husband," George, begs Liz to stop exaggerating and stick to the truth, he finds her promise is kept . . . not wisely but too well.
51-01-27
22
 Liz Thinks George Is Being Drafted
Y
 51-01-27 Wisconsin State Journal
8:30 p.m.- My Favorite Husband (WBBM): Lucille Ball finds "greetings" for George.
51-02-03
23
 Liz's Inferiority Complex
N
 [AFRTS Only]

51-02-03 Wisconsin State Journal
WBBM 8:30 My Favorite Husband
51-02-10
24
 Liz's Black Eye
N
 [AFRTS Only]

51-02-10 Wisconsin State Journal
8:30 p.m.- My Favorite Husband (WBBM): Liz's black eye causes neighborhood furore.
51-02-17
25
 Renewal of Driver's License
N
 51-02-17 Wisconsin State Journal
8:30 p.m.- My Favorite Husband (WBBM): Liz's driver's license expires.
51-02-24
26
 The Two Mothers-In-Law
N
 51-02-24 Wisconsin State Journal
WBBM 8:30 My Favorite Husband
51-03-03
27
 Passport Trouble
Y
 51-03-03 Wisconsin State Journal
8:30 p.m.- My Favorite Husband (WBBM): Liz changes her mind about a trip.
51-03-10
28
 The Surprise Party
N
 [AFRTS Only]

51-03-10 Wisconsin State Journal
8:30 p.m.- My Favorite Husband (WBBM): Liz tries to wangle an invitation to neighborhood party.
51-03-17
30
 Liz Hires a New Secretary for George
N
 51-03-17 Wisconsin State Journal - 8:30 p.m.- My Favorite Husband (WBBM): Lucille Ball scares George's new secretary.
51-03-24
31
 Diet for Easter Dresses
Y
 [Easter program]

51-03-24 Wisconsin State Journal
WBBM 8:30 My Favorite Husband
51-03-31
32
 April Fool Joke
N
 [End third season]

51-03-31 Wisconsin State Journal
8:30 p.m.- My Favorite Husband (WBBM): Liz finds silk stocking in George's pocket.
51-04-07
--
--
 51-04-07 Wisconsin State Journal
WBBM 8:30 Broadway's My Beat

AFRS 'My Favorite Husband' Program Log
Date Episode Title Avail. Notes
48-08-06
3
 The Portrait Artist
Y
48-08-13
4
 The Charity Bazaar Kissing Booth
Y
48-09-03
7
 Liz's Mother Has Second Thoughts
Y
48-09-17
9
 Liz and the General
Y
48-09-24
10
 Knitting Baby Booties
Y
48-10-09
13
 George and the Young Matrons League Play
Y
48-10-16
14
 Liz Sells Dresses
Y
48-10-23
15
 The Quiz Show
Y
48-11-06
17
 Liz the Maid
Y
48-11-20
19
 George Attends a Teenage Dance
Y
48-11-27
20
 There's a Baby in the House
Y
48-12-04
21
 Be A Pal to Your Husband
Y
48-12-18
23
 Liz's New Dress
Y
49-01-14
2
 Professor Krausmeier's Talent Scouts
Y
49-01-21
3
 The Marriage License Error
Y
49-02-11
6
 Valentine's Day Mischief
Y
49-02-18
7
 Liz Attends Claremont Business School
Y
49-03-11
10
 Red Cross Benefit Revue
Y
49-04-08
14
 The Principle of the Thing
Y
49-04-22
16
 George and His Trained Seals
Y
49-04-29
17
 A Trailer Vacation to Goosegrease Lake
Y
49-05-20
20
 Liz Is Feeling Her Age
Y
49-06-10
23
 Liz Gets Her Hair Dyed
Y
49-06-17
24
 The Television Suit
Y
49-06-24
25
 Liz Can't Make Up Her Mind
Y
49-09-02
1
 Elves and Fairies
Y
49-09-16
3
 Baseball
Y
49-09-23
4
 Trapped in The Attic
Y
49-10-07
6
 George Needs A Raise
Y
49-10-14
7
 Too Many Television Sets
Y
49-10-14
7
 Liz Wants A Television Set
Y
49-11-04
10
 George's Mother Visits
Y
49-11-18
12
 Liz the Matchmaker
Y
49-12-02
14
 College Homecoming
Y
49-12-09
15
 Evesdropping On French Lessons
Y
50-01-13
20
 Liz Teaches Iris to Drive
Y
50-01-27
73
 Liz Writes a Song
Y
50-02-03
23
 The Country Club Dance
Y
50-02-10
24
 Mrs Cooper's Boyfriend
Y
 [AFRS]
50-02-10
24
 Mrs Cooper's Boyfriend
Y
 [AFN]
50-02-24
26
 Liz Redecorates the House
Y
50-04-09
32
 Hobbies Have Consequences
Y
50-05-14
37
 Numerology
Y
50-06-11
41
 Liz Learns to Swim
Y
50-10-21
8
 Safe Driving Week
Y
50-10-28
9
 The Homecoming Football Game
Y
50-11-18
12
 Liz Goes to Night School
Y
50-12-02
14
 Marrying Off Peggy Martin
Y
51-01-06
19
 The Young Matrons League Play
Y
51-01-20
21
 Liz Exaggerates
Y
51-02-03
23
 Liz's Inferiority Complex
Y
51-02-10
24
 Liz's Black Eye
Y
51-03-10
28
 The Surprise Party
Y

The My Favorite Husband Radio Program Biographies
Lucille Desiree Ball
(Liz Cugat/Cooper)

(1911-1989)

Birthplace: Jamestown, New York, U.S.A.

Education: John Murray Anderson Drama School

Radiography:

1938 The Wonder Show
1940 Good News
1940 Campbell Playhouse
1941 Orson Welles Theater
1942 Gulf Screen Guild Theater
1942 The Abbott and Costello Show
1943 Kraft Music Hall
1943 Lady Esther Screen Guild Theater
1943 Duffy's Tavern
1943 Mail Call
1944 Suspense
1944 Radio Almanac
1944 The Star and the Story
1944 G.I. Journal
1944 Lux Radio Theatre
1944 Chesterfield Music Shop
1944 Hollywood Democratic Committee
1945 Tonight In Hollywood
1945 Comedy Theater
1945 Command Performance
1945 Music America Loves Best
1946 Bill Stern Colgate Sports Newsreel
1946 The Dunninger Show
1946 Radio Reader's Digest
1946 The Victor Borge Show
1946 The Pepsodent Show
1647 The Smith's Of Hollywood
1947 Hollywood Fights Back
1947 The Jimmy Durante Show
1948 The Charlie McCarthy Show
1948 Bond Sign Unveiling
1948 Cavalcade Of America
1948 Hollywood Story
1948 My Favorite Husband
1948 The Martin and Lewis Show
1949 The Bob Hope Show
1949 Screen Director's Playhouse
1950 Hollywood Byline
1951 Family Theater
1952 I LOve Lucy
1954 Stagestruck
1969 Special Delivery: Vietnam
Hollywood's Open House






W
José Ferrer
Stage, Radio, Television and Film Actor
(1912-1992)
Birthplace: San Juan, Puerto Rico

Radiography:

José Ferrer's deep, booming voice was tailor-made for the second voice behind Philo Vance. Anyone who's listened to the Philo Vance series can't help but notice the similarity between the three actors who assumed this radio role. From John Emery's commanding voice presence, to Jackson Beck's powerfully deep voice, all three actors sound uncannily similar.

But it's that cocky, arrogant, projected air that so perfectly channels the embodiment of Philo Vance to his audience.

Puerto Rico born José Ferrer was clearly the most highly accomplished and acclaimed actor of the three to portray Philo Vance on the radio. Ferrer's accomplishments on the stage, behind a radio microphone, in film, and even on television are the fabric of Hollywood legend.

But Ferrer's accomplishments in radio weren't limited to Philo Vance. He was equally as busy in Radio as he was in all the other Arts venues he pursued. His son Miguel Ferrer has carved out his own acting career in the steps of his father, producing a notable independent film "Where's Marlowe?", satirically patterned after the radio and film noir detective dramas of the 1940s, not to mention a distinguished career as a supporting actor on stage, screen and film.
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