The Other Side of Ethel Mertz

The Other Side of Ethel Mertz
Author: Frank Castelluccio
Publisher:
Total Pages: 336
Release: 1998
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781879198265

"Fascinating." -Hollywood Reporter "Good stuff." -New York Daily News The entertaining, complex, and surprising true story of the funniest -and most instantly recognizable -sidekick in TV history: Vivian Vance.

The Other Side of Ethel Mertz

The Other Side of Ethel Mertz
Author: Frank Castelluccio
Publisher: Berkley
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2000
Genre: Entertainers
ISBN: 9780425176092

The only biography of Vivian Vance is now in paperback, with dozens of rare photographs and handwritten correspondence. Drawn from exclusive interviews with the actress's friends and acquaintances, as well as her own unpublished memoirs, this book tells the whole story about the former glamor girl, including her struggle with a violent depression, her failed love affairs, and her tumultuous friendship with Lucille Ball.

Meet the Mertzes

Meet the Mertzes
Author: Rob Edelman
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Total Pages: 344
Release: 2013-08-27
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1466850469

Meet the Mertzes is an expansive dual biography chronicling the lives of two of America's most popular situation-comedy actors, William Frawley and Vivian Vance, who portrayed Fred and Ethel Mertz on I Love Lucy. This meticulously researched book contains interviews with Frawley's and Vance's colleagues, friends, and relatives, and explores their personal and professional lives before, during, and after I Love Lucy. With a complete filmography and videography of each, Meet the Mertzes finally sets the record straight on the lives and legacies of these compelling stars who detested one another. You'll learn about: -Vance's successful Broadway career prior to I Love Lucy -Frawley's vaudevillian roots and his passion for baseball -Vance's nervous breakdown after the collapse of her first marriage -Frawley's drinking and carousing -Lucille Ball's caustic relationship with both of her costars -Vance's hatred of being known to the world as Ethel Mertz

A Book

A Book
Author: Desi Arnaz
Publisher: William Morrow &Company
Total Pages: 322
Release: 1976
Genre: Actors
ISBN: 9780688003425

I Loved Lucy

I Loved Lucy
Author: Lee Tannen
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2002-10-25
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780312302740

Few people knew Lucille Ball the way Lee Tannen did. Lee first met Lucy as a child, but their close and enduring relationship began almost twenty-five years later. Now, Tannen gives us an intimate portrait of the "lost" Lucy years: from what life was like in her Beverly Hills and Palm Springs hideaways to how she traveled, what she ate, and how she entertained. I Loved Lucy reveals for the first time the private face of a beloved star whose public persona is the most famous in television history.

Don't Drink the Water

Don't Drink the Water
Author: Woody Allen
Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.
Total Pages: 90
Release: 2010-07
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780573608179

Farce / 12m, 4f / Int. A cascade of comedy and a solid hit on Broadway, this affair takes place inside an American embassy behind the Iron Curtain. An American tourist, a caterer by trade, and his wife and daughter rush into the embassy two steps ahead of the police who suspect them of spying and picture taking. It's not much of a refuge, for the ambassador is absent and his son, now in charge, has been expelled from a dozen countries and the continent of Africa. Nevertheless, they carefully

Morbid Curiosity

Morbid Curiosity
Author: Alan W. Petrucelli
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 230
Release: 2009-09-29
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1101140496

"It's shocking and sinful, and I couldn't put it down!" -Joan Rivers The strange, startling, and utterly fascinating stories behind the world's most notorious celebrity deaths. Was Jayne Mansfield really decapitated? Which manly appendage of Napoleon's was cut off during his autopsy? (And where did it go?) What went to the grave (literally) with River Phoenix, Frank Sinatra, and Princess Diana? Death is fascinating. Just think about the last time you slowed down as you passed the scene of a car accident. When a public figure bites the dust, the curiosity only increases. From Attila the Hun to Marie Antoinette, from Heath Ledger to Anna Nicole Smith, the deaths of the rich and famous spark endless speculation and tabloid fodder. Their lives-and deaths-are grave matters.

Spying in High Heels

Spying in High Heels
Author: Gemma Halliday
Publisher: Gemma Halliday Publishing
Total Pages: 148
Release: 2010-10-24
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0984857400

L.A. shoe designer, Maddie Springer, lives her life by three rules: Fashion. Fashion. Fashion. But when she stumbles upon the work of a brutal killer, her life takes an unexpected turn from Manolos to murder. And things only get worse when her boyfriend disappears - along with $20 million in embezzled funds - and her every move is suddenly under scrutiny by the LAPD's sexiest cop. With the help of her post-menopausal bridezilla of a mother, a 300 pound psychic and one seriously oversexed best friend, Maddie finds herself stepping out of her stilettos and onto the trail of a murderer. But can she catch a killer before the killer catches up to her.

Sidekicked

Sidekicked
Author: Kim Powers
Publisher: Steele Spring Stage Rights
Total Pages: 36
Release: 2021-09-14
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9781647230401

Full-Length Script | After years of playing Ethel Mertz, the housecoat-wearing sidekick to America's favorite sit-com star on I Love Lucy, Vivian Vance has a lot she needs to get off her chest. In her dressing room on the night of the show's final filming, she issues an SOS to her long-time analyst: help me understand who I really am before I'm stuck being Ethel forever. And she relives it all: the Good, the Bad, and the Lucy. (1F, 1 Offstage Voice)

Ball of Fire

Ball of Fire
Author: Stefan Kanfer
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 386
Release: 2007-12-18
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 030742491X

As a movie actress Lucille Ball was, in her own words, “queen of the B-pluses.” But on the small screen she was a superstar–arguably the funniest and most enduring in the history of TV. In this exemplary biography, Stefan Kanfer explores the roots of Lucy’s genius and places it in the context of her conflicted and sometimes bitter personal life. Ball of Fire gives us Lucy in all her contradictions. Here is the beauty who became a master of knock-down slapstick; the control freak whose comic alter ego thrived on chaos, the worshipful TV housewife whose real marriage ended in public disaster. Here, too, is an intimate view of the dawn of television and of the America that embraced it. Charming, informative, touching. and laugh-out-loud funny, this is the book Lucy’s fans have been waiting for.