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''My Favorite Husband'' is the name of an American radio program and network television series. The original radio show, starring Lucille Ball, was the initial basis for what evolved into the groundbreaking TV sitcom ''I Love Lucy''. The series was based on the novels ''Mr. and Mrs. Cugat, the Record of a Happy Marriage'' (1940) and ''Outside Eden'' (1945) written by Isabel Scott Rorick, which had previously been adapted into the Paramount Pictures feature film ''Are Husbands Necessary?'' (1942), co-starring Ray Milland and Betty Field. ==Radio== ''My Favorite Husband'' was first broadcast as a one-time special on CBS Radio on July 5, 1948. CBS's new series ''Our Miss Brooks'' had been delayed coming to the air, so to fill in the gap that week CBS aired the "audition" program that it had just produced for a proposed ''My Favorite Husband'' series. Lucille Ball and Lee Bowman played the characters of Liz and George Cugat, and a positive response to this broadcast (nowadays called a pilot) convinced CBS to launch ''My Favorite Husband'' as a series. Bowman was not available to do the series, so when it debuted later that month it starred Lucille Ball and Richard Denning as Liz and George Cugat. The cheerful couple lived at 321 Bundy Drive in the fictitious city of Sheridan Falls and were billed as "two people who live together and like it." Beginning with the 26th episode on January 7, 1949, confusion with bandleader Xavier Cugat prompted a name change to Liz and George Cooper. At that same time the show, which was initially unsponsored,〔 (referred to as "sustaining") gained General Foods' Jell-O as its main sponsor.〔 An average of three "plugs" for Jell-O were made in each episode, including Lucille Ball's usual sign-on, "Jell-O, everybody!" The show opened with: :''Bob LeMond'': It's time for ''My Favorite Husband'' starring Lucille Ball! :''Lucille Ball'': Jell-O, everybody! :''Theme music'' (by Marlin Skiles, conducted by Wilbur Hatch ) :''LeMond'': Yes, it's the gay family series starring Lucille Ball with Richard Denning and is brought to you by the Jell-O family of Red-Letter Desserts: :''Singers'': ::J-E-L-L- ::O! The big red letters stand for the Jell-O family, ::Oh, the big red letters stand for the Jell-O family, ::That's Jell-O! ::Yum, yum, yum! ::Jell-O pudding! ::Yum, yum, yum! ::Jell-O tapioca pudding, yes sir-ee! :''LeMond'': Now, let's take a look at the Cooper family, two people who live together and ''like'' it. The program, which aired 124 episodes from July 23, 1948 through March 31, 1951, was initially written by Frank Fox and Bill Davenport, who were the writers for radio's ''Ozzie and Harriet''.〔 The show portrayed the Cugats as a well-to-do banker and his socially prominent wife. That fall, after ten episodes had been written, Fox and Davenport departed and three new writers took over—Bob Carroll, Jr., Madelyn Pugh, and head writer/producer Jess Oppenheimer.〔 They changed the couple's name to Cooper, and remade them into a middle-class couple, which they thought average listeners would find more accessible. In March 1949 Gale Gordon took over the role of George's boss, Rudolph Atterbury, and Bea Benederet was added as his wife, Iris Atterbury.〔 One discovery made during the run of the show was that Lucille Ball performed comedy far better when she played to an audience.〔Sanders, Gilbert, p. 40〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「My Favorite Husband」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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