Gregg Oppenheimer
GREGG OPPENHEIMER, son of "I Love Lucy" creator-producer-head writer Jess Oppenheimer, left a successful law career in order to complete his late father’s humorous memoir, "Laughs, Luck…and Lucy: How I Came to Create the Most Popular Sitcom of All Time" (Syracuse University Press). The book’s success led to Gregg’s hit comedy play, "I Love Lucy: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Sitcom," which aired on public radio in 2018 (now available at LATW.org). From 2000 to 2007, Gregg produced the multi-award-winning "I Love Lucy" DVD Series for CBS. Starting in 2014 Gregg co-wrote and directed the annual Palm Springs benefit show "ON THE AIR: An Evening of Live Radio Classics!" for the award-winning Dezart Performs theatre company, directing such performers as Gary Beach, Carole Cook, Joyce Bulifant, Mariette Hartley, Hal Linden, Gavin MacLeod, Millicent Martin, Lee Meriwether, Phil Proctor, Marion Ross, and Fred Willard. Gregg is a member of ASCAP and The Dramatists Guild of America.
LUCY LOVES DESI IN NASHVILLE!
Lucille Ball rehearses the very first episode of "I Love Lucy"
The Inside Story: How I Love Lucy Broke TV's Pregnancy Taboo
Cyril Ritchard - "Mutual Admiration Society" - General Motors 50th Anniversary Show NBC Nov 17, 1957
THE GULF SCREEN GUILD SHOW January 8 1939 with Jack Benny, Joan Crawford and Judy Garland
GROUCHO ON THE RADIO starring Frank Ferrante as Groucho Marx
THE JACK BENNY PROGRAM directed by Gregg Oppenheimer, starring Brad Zinn & Beverly Washburn
"Lucy Loves Desi" Promo Video
THE BICKERSONS, starring ALISON ARNGRIM & BRAD ZINN (+ post-credit BONUS)
PLAYING BOTH SIDES: Jack Benny vs. Fred Allen
Radio's Golden Age - with Rosalind Russell, Kate Smith, Shirley Mitchell, and Mason Adams
Rosalind Russell and Arthur O'Connell in "Picnic" on NBC's "Ford Startime" - Oct 6, 1959
Bob Fosse, Larry Gelbart depict "The American Western" through dance - 1959
Carol Burnett, Steve Lawrence, Dan Dailey, Chita Rivera, Kirk Douglas & Ernest Borgnine - NBC 1957
Shari Lewis's Unseen 1958 NBC Screen Test
Dinah Shore, Dan Dailey, Howard Keel, Doretta Morrow, Bambi Linn, Jacques D'Amboise, Chita Rivera…
June Allyson's TV dramatic debut - "Our Town" - Nov 17, 1957
Eddie Bracken / Alice Ghostley Comedy Sketch - GM 50th Anniversary Show, NBC-TV - Nov 17, 1957
Cyril Ritchard - "Mutual Admiration Society" - Nov 17, 1957
Carol Burnett, Steve Lawrence and Dan Dailey sing "The Bullfrog Patrol" - 1957
Rebecca Kilgore, Nicki Parrott sing "Like the Brightest Star" (m. Harry Allen, w. Gregg Oppenheimer)
MY FAVORITE HUSBAND: The show that inspired "I LOVE LUCY"
"Yve Evans Presents Coachella Valley Jazz" (UN International Jazz Day 2021)
Yve Evans performs "Happy You Happened to Me" by Harry Allen & Gregg Oppenheimer
Burns & Allen: "Gracie Does the Income Tax" (starring Brad Zinn & Alison Arngrim)
Outtakes - Dean Martin + Carol Lawrence
Gregg Oppenheimer discusses "Online Radio Theatre"
"The Lives of Harry Lime" (The Third Man) starring Orson Welles (Ed French) + The Firesign Theatre
Diana Canova Sings "A Dream Will Have to Do" by Harry Allen & Gregg Oppenheimer