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Rezny@gmail.com · 02-20-2011, 02:10 AM

Were any of the OTHER actresses -the late Kathleen Freeman and the late Mary Wickes ,who played in the first 3 seasons of "The Lucy Show"as Lucy and Viv's friends,featured in different roles in "The Lucy Show"when it moved from Back East to California?

LittleRickyII · 02-20-2011, 08:43 PM

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Originally Posted by rrezny@usnetizen

Were any of the OTHER actresses -the late Kathleen Freeman and the late Mary Wickes ,who played in the first 3 seasons of "The Lucy Show"as Lucy and Viv's friends,featured in different roles in "The Lucy Show"when it moved from Back East to California?

Kathleen Freeman didn't appear anymore, but Mary Wickes did quite a bit. She was Mary Jane's Aunt Gussie in the 4th season of TLS, played the owner of some chimps Lucy babysat in a 5th season episode, played Lucy's aunt and Robert Goulet's secretary in the 6th season, and went on to appear in various roles in every single season of Here's Lucy.

biffbronson · 02-21-2011, 06:52 AM

Edit -- OOPS! I missed part of the question singling out Mary Jane Croft before posting the following. Sorry

It's worth noting that in Seasons 1 and 2, Mary Jane Croft played "Audrey Simmons," while later becoming "Mary Jane Lewis" in Seasons 4 and on. Quite a few appearances as both characters...!

comedyfreak · 02-22-2011, 09:47 AM

How about Carole Cook? was she in any of Here's lucy or the Cali eps.

McGillicuddy · 02-22-2011, 08:56 PM

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Originally Posted by biffbronson

Edit -- OOPS! I missed part of the question singling out Mary Jane Croft before posting the following. Sorry

It's worth noting that in Seasons 1 and 2, Mary Jane Croft played "Audrey Simmons," while later becoming "Mary Jane Lewis" in Seasons 4 and on. Quite a few appearances as both characters...!

Its also interesting that the character of Mary Jane Lewis, continued on with the same name into Here's Lucy. Mary Jane Croft was the wife of ILL and TLS director/producer Elliott Lewis, so she was actually using her own (married) name.

LittleRickyII · 02-26-2011, 08:37 AM

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Originally Posted by comedyfreak

How about Carole Cook? was she in any of Here's lucy or the Cali eps.

Carole Cook was in the fifth season episode with Tennessee Ernie Ford. There may have been others, but I can't think of any. And she was in lots of Here's Lucy episodes, the last of which was "Lucy Carter Meets Lucille Ball" in the sixth season. And she also often dubbed Lucille Ball's voice in episodes where Lucy sang. She wasn't the only one who dubbed her voice, but I think she did it most of the time.

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