Eddie Bracken

Merv Griffin is here.

Colonel Larry McPhail, Lee Bill McPhail, Mr. and Mrs. George Weiss, former Commissioner Ford Frick, Herman Badillo, the President of the Borough of the Bronx is here, Ms. Lee Remick, Skitch Henderson, Jill Hayworth, Julie Stein, Superintendent of West Point, Major General Donald V. Bennett is here, Patrick O'Neill, Leonard Bernstein, Barry Nelson, Eddie Bracken, Sam Levine, Mr. and Mrs. Martin Gable, Arlene Francis is here, Billy Talbot, Sidney Wood, Many from city and state government and theater, culture, all here to watch Whitey Ford deliver the first pitch.

And here it is to Reggie Smith.

Swung on a foul ball.

It's the story of John Kent, who is this rugged American college football player who unexpectedly inherits an elite high fashion dress shop in Paris from his Aunt Minnie.

It stars Eddie Bracken as the comic relief, Jan Clayton as the Russian princess working in the shop, and Gordon MacRae as John.

But wait, I have to stop you here.

Roberta is famous for its massive, elaborate onstage fashion show sequence.

Come here! Crab in my act, you jealous little pig!

Where they ripped each other's clothes and hit each other in the head, and so Lucille Ball had a black eye from makeup and didn't look very... sophisticated but there was this attraction and very soon after a couple days later they went to a party given by Eddie Bracken who also had a big role in this film Too Many Girls and people could see that there was a real attraction between these two which was interesting because they were each engaged to somebody else at the time Lucille Ball to her director Al Hall and Desi to a dancer that he had worked with on Broadway and And Eddie Bracken told me they made a bet how long it would last.

And he said, I won the bet because I said six months.

And of course, the relationship was significantly longer lasting and more impactful than anyone knew.