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Your exclusive backstage pass to the creation of I Love Lucy:

• I Love Lucy: Behind the Views, by Jess Oppenheimer with Gregg Oppenheimer - Victor, Listen Up Honours Best Pop Culture Audiobook of the Year
• Full-cast performance of Gregg Oppenheimer's play I Love Lucy: The Untold Storyline
• 15-minute Bonus Record: never-before-released 1961 interview with Jess Oppenheimer about the creation of I Love Lucy

All royalties from this edition profit the Motion Picture & Television Fund - caring for those in the entertainment community who are in need. "A true genius. I owe a whole lot to his creative imagination and camaraderie." (Lucille Ball) Jess Oppenheimer, "the brains" behind I Love Lucy, provides us an insider's view of this groundbreaking show, generously interspersed with recordings of basic Lucy radio and Tv set comedy shows - including her famous "Vitameatavegamin" regime. Oppenheimer weaves a wonderfully enjoyable tale of the creation of this landmark series and its progression from Lucy's strike radio sitcom, My Favorite Partner. Lucy aficionados will take pleasure in his personal accounts of superstars like Desi Arnaz, William Frawley, Vivian Vance, and undoubtedly, Lucille Ball. Narrated by three-time I Love Lucy veteran Larry Dobkin, and offering comedy shows by Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz, William Frawley, Vivian Vance, Gale Gordon, Bea Benaderet (Petticoat Junction, The Flintstones), Frank Nelson (The Jack Benny Program), plus more! Oppenheimer's reminiscences become more active in his boy Gregg's new radio play, I Love Lucy: The Untold Storyline. Registered on I Love Lucy's 60th wedding anniversary (10/15/11), starring such skills as Dick Truck Patten (Eight Is Enough), Phil Proctor (Firesign Theatre), Amy Pietz (Caroline in the City), Richard Herd (Seinfeld), and I Love Lucy veterans Janet Waldo ( "Peggy Dawson", the bobby-soxer with a crush on Ricky Ricardo) and Shirley Mitchell (Lucy Ricardo's girl "Marion Strong").