Madelyn Pugh

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Madelyn Pugh Davis, Madelyn Davis, Madelyn Davis, or Madelyn Martin, was a television writer who became well-known in the 1950s for her role on the I Love Lucy television series.

Early life and education

Pugh was born in Indianapolis, Indiana, to I. Watt Pugh, a bank treasurer, and Louise Huff. Audrey and Rosalind were two older sisters.

She and her classmates Kurt Vonnegut were co-editors of the High School newspaper during her senior year at Shortridge High School. She left in 1938, two years before Vonnegut.

She graduated from the Indiana University's School of Journalism in 1942.

Private life and death

Pugh was married twice, first to television producer Quinn Martin on December 24, 1955 in Los Angeles, before their 1960 divorce. Michael Quinn Martin was their son. She married Dr. Richard Merrill Davis in 1964 and then married him in 2009 and died shortly after.

Pugh Davis died on April 20, 2011, aged 90, in Bel Air, California, and her ashes were on display in the Chapel columbarium at Hollywood Forever Cemetery.

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Career

While serving as the Friday editor of the Shortridge High School daily newspaper in Indianapolis, Indiana, Pugh became interested in writing alongside classmate Kurt Vonnegut. She served as vice president of her senior class at Shortridge. She began writing short radio spots for WIRE, an Indianapolis radio station, in her first professional writing position.

When her family moved to California, she began working as a radio journalist, first for NBC and then CBS, where she first encountered Bob Carroll. Pugh attributes some of her writing as "the girl writer" in the war effort, which restricted the pool of eligible male writers; she was often the only female writer on staff.

Pugh began writing for CBS Radio in Hollywood early in her career as a staff writer. The partnership with Bob Carroll Jr. lasted more than 50 years. They produced over 400 television shows and 500 radio shows together. When the team was writing for The Steve Allen Show, they became involved in writing for Lucille Ball's latest radio program, My Favorite Husband. Allen was paid to write their own show for a week so they could concentrate on making a script submission for My Favorite Husband. The pair developed Ball's radio program for the first 212 years under the direction of head writer Jess Oppenheimer.

Lucille Ball and her partner Desi Arnaz were assimilated in a vain act by Pugh and Carroll, which became the basis for the pilot episode of I Love Lucy. The team tackled 39 episodes per season for the fifth year in collaboration with Oppenheimer and/or Bob Schiller and Bob Weiskopf, who joined the show at the start of the fifth year. Despite the fact that Pugh and Carroll were not commended for three Emmy Awards for their work on the series, they were still nominated.

Pugh and Carroll are credited with helping to develop the 'Lucy' role, which Ball portrayed in one way or another for more than 40 years. The pair also wrote episodes for The Lucy Show, Here's Lucy, The Lucille Ball-Desi Comedy Hour, and Ball's last series, Life with Lucy (1986).

The pair's other writing credits include work on The Paul Lynde Show, Dorothy, Many Whiting Girls, Kocham Klane (an I Love Lucy series reimagined in Poland) and The Tom Ewell Exhibition. They also appeared on Forever, Darling and Yours, Mine and Ours, starring Ball. Desi Arnaz Productions' series The Mothers-in-Law (filmed in Desilu), starring actresses Kaye Ballard and Eve Arden, was created and written by the actors. The two co-executors of Alice's long-running television show Alice and occasionally wrote scripts, one of which was given a Golden Globe Award.

Madelyn Pugh Davis, a California girl who lived in California, published her memoir titled Laughing with Lucy, which was written with Bob Carroll Jr. in September 2005.

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