Market research indicated, however, that this scenario would not be popular, so Jess Oppenheimer changed it to make Ricky Ricardo a struggling young orchestra leader and Lucy an ordinary housewife who had show business fantasies but no talent.

** Jess Oppenheimer, American radio and television producer ( b. 1913 )

* Jess Oppenheimer ( 1913 – 1988 ), American television writer

* Producers: Jess Oppenheimer ( 153 episodes, 1951 – 56 ); Desi Arnaz ( exec.

* Writers: Madelyn Pugh Davis, Bob Carroll, Jr. ( All Seasons including Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour ), Jess Oppenheimer ( Seasons 1 – 5 ), Bob Schiller, Bob Weiskopf ( Seasons 5 – 6 and Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour )

Based on the novel Mr. and Mrs. Cugat by Isabel Scott Rorick, My Favorite Husband was produced by Jess Oppenheimer, written by Oppenheimer, plus scribes Madelyn Pugh and Bob Carroll, Jr .. Premiering on July 23, 1948 and sponsored by General Foods, Husband became a hit for CBS.

Arnaz and Jess Oppenheimer decided, however, that Lucy needed to work in front of an audience to create the kind of comic energy she had displayed on radio.

Not being able to fulfill the show's 39-episode commitment, both Desi and Jess Oppenheimer decided to rebroadcast popular episodes of the series's first season to help give Lucy the necessary rest she needed after she gave birth, effectively allowing fewer episodes to be filmed that season.

Arnaz and Jess Oppenheimer went to see her in the play and hired her on the spot.

Jess Oppenheimer stated in his autobiography that deciding the sex of the Ricardo child was initially problematic.

One of the longer-running police dramas of the day, the series featured appearances by a number of actors, familiar and unfamiliar, among whom were Lynn Borden, Kim Darby, Antonio Fargas, Tiny Tim ( in the pilot TV-movie ), Randolph Mantooth, Cal Bellini, Sharon Gless, Dabbs Greer, Bernie Kopell, Frank Gorshin, Jess Walton, Pernell Roberts, Alan Oppenheimer, Dan Kemp, E. G. Marshall, Harrison Ford, John Schuck, Ingrid Pitt, Susan Saint James, Ivan Dixon, Harry Townes, Pat Hingle, Norman Alden, Anne Francis, David Carradine, Charo, Joseph Campanella, Bill Quinn, Bernard Fox, Tyler McVey, Robert Webber, Alan Hale, Jr., Marion Ross, Marcia Strassman, Susan Sullivan, Suzanne Pleshette, Bo Hopkins, James Hong, Jeanne Cooper, Paul Winfield, Harold Gould, James Farentino, Robert Reed, Bill Bixby, David Cassidy, David Hartman, Dana Elcar, Tina Louise, Lincoln Kilpatrick, Robert Karnes, Tyler MacDuff, Greg Mullavy, Rod Serling, Gene Raymond, Francine York, Peter Mark Richman, Jennifer Gan, Clu Gulager, Joel Grey, Van Williams, John Hoyt, Scott Glenn, William Windom, Joshua Bryant, Dorothy Malone, Robert Alda, Barbara Rush, Jack Kelly, Jason Wingreen, George Takei, George Wallace, John M. Pickard, Diana Muldaur, Jodie Foster, William Katt, Lee Grant, Steve Forrest, Susan Olsen, Michael Lerner, Edward Asner, Eddie Garrett, Darwin Joston, John Rubinstein, Jack Lord, Scott Marlowe, Norman Fell, Gavin MacLeod, Gary Collins, Johnny Seven, William Shatner, Bobby Darin, Martin Sheen, Cheryl Ladd, William Daniels, William Schallert, Burgess Meredith, Vic Tayback, Arch Johnson, James Drury, Ed Flanders, Bruce Lee and Ellen Corby ( Grandma Walton of TV fame ).

Daniels took Arnaz to the La Jolla Playhouse, along with producer Jess Oppenheimer, to see Vance in the John Van Druten play The Voice of the Turtle.

Jess Oppenheimer ( November 11, 1913 – December 27, 1988 ) a radio and television writer, producer, and director, was producer and head writer of the CBS sitcom I Love Lucy.

Upon his death in 1988, Lucille Ball called Jess Oppenheimer " a true genius ," adding, " I owe so much to his creativity and his friendship.

* Jess Oppenheimer ( 1913 – 1988 ), screenwriter who wrote for Lucille Ball

Under the supervision of head writer Jess Oppenheimer, the pair wrote Ball's radio program for its 2½ years.

Bob Carroll Jr. ( August 12, 1918 – January 27, 2007 ) was a television writer notable for his creative role in the series I Love Lucy, the first four seasons of which he wrote with his professional partner Madelyn Pugh, and collaborator Jess Oppenheimer.

The company was founded in 1955 and licensed its first teleprompter, based on a patent by Jess Oppenheimer, in 1962.

Prompting began with Jess Oppenheimer, a writer, producer and director on the TV show " I Love Lucy " in the early 1950s.

* 1982 – Jess Manafort, American director and writer

* Jess Hartley ( born 1967 ), American writer

* Jess Row ( born 1974 ), American writer

* Jess Winfield ( born 1961 ), American writer

As series creator, producer, and head writer, “ Jess was the creative force behind the ‘ Lucy ’ show ,” according to I Love Lucy director William Asher.

" Pitchfork Media writer Jess Harvell described his rapping as " authoritative, burnished, possessing an unflappable sense of rhythm ".

Jesús " Jess " Franco ( born 12 May 1930 as Jesús Franco Manera ) is a Spanish film director, writer, cinematographer and actor.

* Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit ... Jess ; 10 – 24 January 1990 ( writer: Jeanette Winterson ; director: Beeban Kidron )

* Jess Hartley ( born 1967 ), American author and writer

`` You and I have a little talking to do, Jess.

`` I ain't drawin' against you '', Jess said thickly.

Most characters in the series, from the dominatrix schoolmistress Rosa Coote to minor characters such as Inspector Dick Donovan, are either an established character from an existing work of fiction or an ancestor of the same, to the extent that individuals depicted in crowd scenes in Volume I have been said ( both by Moore, and in annotations by Jess Nevins ) to be visually designed as the ancestors of the cast of EastEnders.

The school also has competitive MIAA Division I athletics, having won several state titles in different sports and given rise to former major league pitcher Brian Rose and former North Carolina Tar Heel basketball player Jess Gaspar along with UCONN Football star Jordan Todman and Georgia's Arthur Lynch.

Traditionally centred around core members Deron Miller ( vocals, guitar ), Chad I Ginsburg ( guitar, vocals ) and Jess Margera ( drums ), the band shares its name with a skateboarding and stunt video series produced by Bam Margera, brother of drummer Jess.

Sections of Jess ' paintings ' Arkadia Last Resort ' were used by Faithless in 2004 for the front covers to their single " I Want More.

* TOKYOPOP's Rising Stars of Manga I: Jess Stoncius on Work Bites

* New York Daily News article dated Monday, June 4 2007, 4: 00 AM on the JFK Terror Plot titled: " I was so close to evil & didn't know "; subtitled: " Brooklyn waitress digests shock of serving alleged mastermind " By Jess Wisloski, Xana O ' Neill and Dave Goldiner, DAILY NEWS Writers

", Jess replies, " I am.

She asserts herself in his car as a mugger ( holding the tape in her jacket pocket as though concealing a gun ) and makes him listen to a recording of Jess ' " Love on the Rocks ".

Photek has done a number of remixes himself in 2011, for the likes of Moby, Distance, Karin Park and Jess Mills.

According to Congressional testimony, Daugherty allegedly arranged for Jess Smith and Howard Mannington to sell these permits to drug company agents who in actuality represented bootleggers.

Their friendship cools for three weeks until the two have a heated argument during Jess and Marie's wedding dinner.

Jess is a rule engine for the Java platform that was developed by Ernest Friedman-Hill of Sandia National Labs.

When the sheriff, Jess Sarber, asked for their credentials, Pierpont shot him dead, then released Dillinger from his cell.

Jess Nevins has produced a series of annotations for each volume which are available online ( see links ) and have also been expanded into book form:

A record album of the Red Sox's 1967 season, aptly titled " The Impossible Dream ", featured a song by DJ Jess Cain of praise for " The man they call Yaz ", which included the line " Although ' Yastrzemski ' is a lengthy name / It fits quite nicely in our Hall of Fame.

An EP of remixes of Incunabulas " Basscadet " was released the following year, with a video for the song created by Jess Scott-Hunter.

* Jess Hartley — author, blogger and game designer for White Wolf Games.

In the 1950s Jess and Elva Brinkerhoff were picnicking in this small town after coming from nearby Richland and put a can in a tree for some birds.

In 1990 he dropped decisions to Tyrell Biggs and Bruce Seldon, then travelled to the UK for two fights losing an 8 round decision to Lennox Lewis and scoring an upset when stopping Jess Harding in 8 rounds.

On July 4, 1919, he and World Heavyweight Champion Jess Willard met at Toledo, Ohio, for the world title.

While Yates was fighting for custody of Tiger, it was reported in the media that Jess Yates had not been Yates's natural father.

Rete has become the basis for many popular rule engines and expert system shells, including Tibco Business Events, CLIPS, Jess, Drools, JRules, OPSJ, Blaze Advisor, BizTalk Rules Engine and Soar.

The replacement producer for Opportunity Knocks after the failure of The Sky's the Limit was Jess Yates.

After Green's death from lung cancer, Botham wrote the exposé story, also in the News of the World, of Green being the biological father of Jess Yates's daughter, TV presenter Paula Yates, a fact she had first learned after the tabloids printed the story ( although Green being her father had been an " urban legend " for many years ).

When Jules discovers Jess ' skills, she invites Jess to try out for her local team, the Hounslow Harriers, coached by Joe ( Jonathan Rhys Meyers ), an Irishman.

Jules and Mrs. Paxton arrive at the wedding, for Jules to celebrate the scholarship offers with Jess.

Again mistaking the girls ' mutual affection for something more, Mrs. Paxton accuses Jess of being a hypocrite, and calls her a ' lesbian '.

As the two are about to board the plane, Joe arrives and confesses his love for Jess.

Jess agrees to sort out their relationship ( and her parents ) when she returns for Christmas.

** Otto Gerdes ( producer ), Herbert von Karajan ( conductor ), Helga Dernesch, Thomas Stolze, Jess Thomas & the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra for Wagner: Siegfried

Rory and Dean break up again after Rory falls for the troubled Jess Mariano ( Milo Ventimiglia ), Luke's nephew, whom Luke has taken in.