My Favorite Husband
Vintage Radio: Comedy
 My Favorite Husband was a domestic situation comedy series broadcast from 1948 to 1951 on CBS. Lucille Ball starred with Richard Denning in this radio comedy before her role in I Love Lucy. In fact, I Love Lucy owed its legacy to My Favorite Husband by reworking the latter's concept and even many of its scripts. Ball and Denning played Liz and George Cooper, "two people who live together and like it." Also featured in the show was the banker Gale Gordon, who was the overbearing boss, Mr. Rudolph Atterbury. He's also known to OTR fans as principal Conklin in Our Miss Brooks. Bea Benaderet starred as Iris, Rudolph's wife and Liz's best friend. Ruth Perrott portrayed the Coppers' maid Katie. The show enjoyed its immense success and popularity through its superb depiction of the battles between the sexes. |
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Based on the popular novel "Mr. and Mrs. Cugat" by Isabel Scott Rorick, the show deals with stereotypical male and female behaviors. Lucille Ball excellently portrays Liz as a funny, oddball, and very lovable wife while Richard Denning plays George as a strait-laced yet loving husband. Although formulaic, the plots are never short of the comical drama between sexes that will make the listener laugh till the cows come home. Indeed, filled with lots of humor and endearing caricatures of men and women in their unions, this comedy is many OTR fans' favorite and still is as refreshing and resonating today as in the 50s. |
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