Lucille Ball and Richard Denning

“My Favorite Husband”, starring Lucille Ball and Richard Denning, was the initial
basis for what would become the most beloved groundbreaking TV sitcom of all
time, I Love Lucy. The CBS program aired 124 episodes from July 23, 1948,
through March 31, 1951. 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 main sponsor was General Foods‘ Jell-O.