
Happy I Love Lucy Day!
The History Chicks : A Women's History Podcast
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The Ground Breaking of Lucy and Lucy
LZ Granderson: Lucy and dessie had an agreement that either one of them could buy the other out first. LZ: So desie decided he wanted t out, and lucy did buy him out for three million dollars. Not only did that give her the ownership of the studio, but she became the first head of a major television studio who was a woman. She said later that she really missed having appeared abounce ideas of even the comfort of being able to defer to someone else's judgment. And i don't think he did it, you know, for the money or the fame or anything. I did think he truly loved her so much that she came first
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