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In 1913, upon the advice of Anna Roosevelt Cowles, Lucy Mercer was hired as a social secretary to Eleanor Roosevelt, Cowles's niece. In September 1918, Eleanor discovered the affair Lucy had with Eleanor's husband Franklin. The relationship ended and soon, Mercer then became the governess for Rutherfurd's six children. [38]
Lucy Page Mercer was born on April 26, 1891, in Washington, D.C., to Carroll Mercer, a member of Theodore Roosevelt's "Rough Riders" cavalry military unit in the campaigns in Cuba, on the south shore of the island near Santiago during the brief Spanish–American War in 1898, and Minna Leigh (Minnie) Tunis, an independent woman of "Bohemian" exotic, free-spirited tastes. [1]
Life with Lucy ' s premiere episode on September 20 made the Nielsen's Top 25 (#23 for the week) for its week; however, subsequent episodes dropped steadily in viewership; Life with Lucy went against NBC's The Facts of Life in the same Saturday night lead off timeslot and never gained ground against it. It ranked only 73rd out of 79 shows for ...
We don’t like being left hanging — and it turns out you don’t, either. Earlier this month, we here at TVLine published a list of 27 cancelled TV shows that ended on a cliffhanger, leaving us ...
Robert Gordon Carroll Jr. (August 12, 1918 [1] – January 27, 2007) was an American television writer notable for his creative role in the series I Love Lucy, the first four seasons of which he wrote with his professional partner Madelyn Pugh, and collaborator Jess Oppenheimer.
If there’s one thing 2023 has taught us, it’s not to get too emotionally attached to any TV shows. (We still did that. But it’s not advised!) With another year now behind us, TVLine is ...
Hoping to bring her and Arnaz closer together, Ball agrees on the condition that he plays her on-screen husband; the executives initially refuse to have an "all-American" star with a Cuban husband, but are forced to concede. By 1951, the show is renamed I Love Lucy and becomes a smash hit with nearly 60 million viewers each week.
The Tell Me Lies explosive second season premiere has everything fans asked for: chaos, toxicity and the continued messiness of Stephen and Lucy. Hulu dropped the first two episodes of season 2 on ...