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(Or for the location of the nearest See's to you.)
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From ILoveLucy-Sender@bolis.com Mon Jul 28 21:22:12 1997
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 97 22:10:38 EDT
From: (Eve Diana)
To: ilovelucy@bolis.com
Subject: ILoveLucy: job switching
Sender: ILoveLucy-sender@bolis.com

Breck wrote:
> The name of the woman you're referring to in "Job Switching" is
> Amanda Milligan.  I agree she does bear some resemblance to Nancy
> Walker, but I'm sure it's not her.  I recall hearing that she was a
> real-life candy-dipper that Bob and Madelyn, I believe, discovered on 
> the job at some location in L.A.  I remember someone on the list 
> discussing this.  Does anyone remember the details?

Here's the story as written by Douglas McGrath:

There were no known chocolate dippers in the Screen Actors Guild in 1952 
and Jess Oppenheimer, producer and Head Writer of I Love Lucy, needed 
one for "Job Switching".  So he looked elsewhere, at Mrs. C's Kitchen, 
in fact, and found stone-faced Amanda Milligan, who would let Lucy have 
it with a famous fistful in the show.  Since Ms. Milligan was not a 
professional actress, Lucy set out to put her at ease in the alien 
environment of a television set.  According to Mr. Oppenheimer, Lucy 
went up to her to have a friendly chat.  "Do you ever watch the show?" 
she asked.

-"What show?"
-"I Love Lucy".
-Ms. Milligan thought about it, but wasn't sure.  "When's it on?"
-"Monday's at 9 o'clock."
-Then she was sure.  "Oh no," she told Lucy.  "I watch wrestling."

Eve
evediana@mit.edu


P.P.S.  I just checked Bart Andrews' book.  It was indeed SEE's CANDY 
factory.  He includes more interesting trivia on this scene: Amanda, who 
had been putting swirls on top of chocolate 8 hours a day for years, was 
bored watching television rehearsals.  Also, during dress rehearsal, she 
was reluctant to slap Lucy as hard as the script directed.  So during 
the filming, Lucy hit her first, much harder than she'd done in 
rehearsals.  In retaliation, Amanda hauled off and slugged Lucy in 
earnest, nearly knocking her off her stool.