The Kitty Packard Pictorial

The Pictorial loves Lucy, and so does True Classics: the venerable classic film blog has dedicated today, Lucille Ball’s centennial, to a Blogathon named in her honor.

I Love Lucy was born on a hot Saturday afternoon in August, 1948. It would be three years until the title and faces would become familiar, but the genesis had its birth at that precise moment: when comedy radio writer Jess Oppenheimer received a phone call from CBS asking him to substitute …. for their new radio program My Favorite Husband. Read more ►