Lucy and Eva Gabor – Here’s Lucy season 1 – originally aired November 11, 1968
In Lucy and Eva Gabor, authoress Eva Von Gronyitz (Eva Gabor) needs to write the screenplay for her novel. And so, she hires the Carter Unique Employment Agency to find her a quiet spot where she can work uninterrupted. So, he decides to have her stay at Lucy’s house! Lucy needs to keep the press away from the secluded writer. Tightwad Harry gets paid $500/week for it. And he “generously” offers to pay Lucy $50! Minus his 10% commission, of course.
Eva is turning her “torrid” novel, Valley of the Puppets, into a screenplay. But asking Lucy to keep a secret is like asking water to be dry! Lucy blabs the secret to her bridge club, then a reporter sneaks in, then she tells her bowling team!
Cast of characters
- Lucille Ball (I Love Lucy, The Big Street) … Lucy Carter
- Gale Gordon (The Lucy Show, Our Miss Brooks)… Harry Carter
- Lucie Arnaz (Here’s Lucy) … Kim Carter
- Desi Arnaz Jr. (House of the Long Shadows) … Craig Carter
- Eva Gabor (The Rescuers) … Eva Von Gronyitz
- Gail Bonney … Dolores
- Robert Carson (The Ten Commandments) … Martin Phillips
- Kay Elliot … Nelly
- Sid Gould (Advise and Consent) … Delivery Man
- Mickey Martin … Photographer
- Earl Parker … Newspaper Reporter
- Peggy Rea (The Red Skelton Hour) … Maude
Trivia
- Eva Gabor also used the name Graunitz as her maiden name in “Green Acres.”
- When a reporter pretends to be Eva’s brother, she tells Lucy she has no brothers. Lucy asks about sisters. Eva rolls her eyes and says “Boy, oh, boy, oh, boy! Do I have sisters!” A reference to Eva Gabor’s famous siblings Zsa-Zsa and Magda.
- Harry says he hasn’t read anything like “Valley of the Puppets” since “Captain Billy’s Whiz Bang.” This was one of the most popular and notorious humor magazines of the 1920s. It was created by Wilford Hamilton Fawcett, who had been a captain in the US Army during World War I and gained the nickname Captain Billy. Oddly, he went on to create Captain Marvel – alias Billy Batson.
- The fictitious novel, “Valley of the Puppets”, is a parodied title of the 1966 best selling novel, “The Valley of the Dolls“.