In 1955 Confidential Magazine, a Hollywood scandal rag, reported on Desi Arnaz’s supposed philandering. Dartmouth Film and TV professor Mary Desjardins explores the less desirable side effect of being a celebrity couple. â?? Read about Lucy and Desi in Confidential Magazine (1955)
It set the model for the hit family sitcom. Lucy was a bad girl trapped in the life of a ?50s housewife; her slapstick quest for fame and fortune ended in abject failure weekly. Both the antics and the humiliation entered the DNA of TV comedy, from Desperate Housewives to 30 Rock ? writers can’t […]
This is where television invented itself. It set the model for the hit family sitcom. Lucy was a bad girl trapped in the life of a ’50s housewife; her slapstick quest for fame and fortune ended in abject failure weekly. Both the antics and the humiliation entered the DNA of TV comedy, from Desperate Housewives […]