Episode

Lucy Writes a Play

by Jess Oppenheimer, William Asher, Ricky Ricardo, Desi Arnaz, Richard Crenna and 30 others

Lucy is busily writing the script for the play that her women's club is going to put on, a little something called ""A Tree Grows in Havana,"" and she needs Ricky to appear in it. When Ricky sees the script, he immediately declines. So Lucy is then left w

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Characters

Jess Oppenheimer (2)Lucille Ball (1)Desi Arnaz (1)Ricky Ricardo (1)Lucy Ricardo (1)

“Ricky Ricardo: Excuse me, Mrs. Shakespeare, but would you mind telling me what this is all about? Lucy Ricardo: Well, you see, all the women's clubs in town are having a big play-writing contest. Ricky Ricardo: I knew it, I knew it. This had to do with the Wednesday Afternoon Fang and Claw Society.…”

— Jess Oppenheimer, Lucy Ricardo, Lucille Ball, imdb.com

Tagged: play-writing, shakespeare, Tennessee Williams, Tennessee Ernie Ford

“Ricky Ricardo: [Ethel enters in a flowing black outfit bedecked with veils and gaudy jewelry] Who are you supposed to be? Lucy Ricardo: Well, what do you think? Ricky Ricardo: The Bride of Frankenstein? Ethel Mertz: Well! Lucy Ricardo: She's a Spanish senora. Ricky Ricardo: She suffers in the transl…”

— Jess Oppenheimer, Ricky Ricardo, Desi Arnaz, imdb.com

Tagged: Bride of Frankenstein, Senora, lost in translation