George’s Old Flame (audition, 1948)

It's time for my favorite husband starring Lucille Ball. Yes, it's the new gay family series starring Lucille Ball with Richard Denning as Liz and George Cooper. Two people who live together and like it. We look in on the Cooper household, it's a bright, sunshiny morning.

Outside the birds are singing. And inside Liz Cooper is singing too. Here comes the bride. Here comes the bride. Now you may think this is an odd song to sing in the morning, but this isn't just any morning It's the Cooper's tenth wedding anniversary and just thinking of being married to George for ten whole years makes Liz be a like singing

Good morning Katie. Come on and mrs. Cooper. What are you so happy about? Don't you know what day this is Katie? Yes, it's Friday. No, it's something much more special than that. Oh, of course. This is the day they collect the garbage Oh, Katie.

Today is my wedding anniversary. George has been my favorite husband for ten years. Oh, Mrs. Kubrick hasn't been ten years. Well, not exactly. It's really been nine years, eleven months, twenty-nine days, twenty-two hours and forty-five minutes.

I knew it wasn't ten years. Just think, Katie, ten years ago I was an eager young bride of twenty-one. And today I'm an old married woman of 25. I'm flies. I wonder what George will give me.

What is the 10th anniversary Katie? The 50th is gold and the 25th is silver. Is the 10th diamond or China? It's tin. Tin? Tin? Try it like in C-A-N. Oh, George probably doesn't know anything about it being tin, so let's not tell him.

What he doesn't know won't hurt me. Oh, oh, you'll be lucky if Mr. a cooper remembers at your anniversary why katie of course you'll remember i don't know how to have strange memories i can't remember the day they were married but they can tell you tight cob's baton average in nineteen twenty two