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Portrait of Jess Oppenheimer

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Jess Oppenheimer

head writer and producer of sitcom ''I Love Lucy''

1913 – 1988aged 75

The producer and head writer who built I Love Lucy from the ground up, running its writers' room and production meetings as, in director William Asher's words, "the field general" of the show. Lucille Ball herself called him "the brains" behind the sitcom that popularized the multi-camera format still used in television comedy today.

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