My Favorite Husband
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My Favorite Husband was an American radio comedy starring Lucille Ball before it became a television series. The radio show helped shape the format and character dynamics that later influenced I Love Lucy.
My Favorite Husband is an American radio program and network television show. The original radio show, starring Lucille Ball, shaped into the famous sitcom I Love Lucy. The series was based on the novels Mr. and Mrs. Cugat, the Record of a Happy Marriage (1940) and Outside Eden (1945) written by Isabel Scott Rorick, the earlier of which had previously been adapted into the Paramount Pictures feature film Are Husbands Necessary? (1942), co-starring Ray Milland and Betty Field.
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