Description
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
Author: Rob Edelman, Audrey Kupferberg
Publisher: Renaissance Books
Published: 09/18/1999
Pages: 272
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 9.00h x 5.90w x 1.00d
ISBN13: 9781580630955
ISBN10: 1580630952
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Entertainment & Performing Arts
- Performing Arts | Television | History & Criticism
About the Author
Rob Edelman and Audrey Kupferberg authored Angela Lansbury and The John Travolta Scrapbook. Edelman wrote Baseball on the Web and Great Baseball Films. He is also a contributing editor to Leonard Maltin's Movie & Video Guide annual and Movie Encyclopedia, and is a freelance writer. Kupferberg is a film archivist, consultant, and researcher. They reside in Amersterdam, New York.
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