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<blockquote data-quote="ClassyCo" data-source="post: 232021" data-attributes="member: 7">Ann Sothern is a prime example of the &quot;Queen of the B&#039;s&quot;. She spent the majority of her early career starring in B-movies. Even when she found her niche with all the Maisie films, they were never above the B-grade, either. She did appear in some good A-movies before A Letter to Three Wives. But like Lucy, she did have success on television in the 1950s: Private Secretary and The Ann Sothern Show. Those shows were pretty popular in the Nielsen ratings, and she even won some Emmy awards if I&#039;m not badly mistaken. She and Lucy were actually very good friends, which dated back to their earliest days in the business. Ann was the one Lucy wanted to replace Vivian Vance on The Lucy Show in the mid-sixties. Ann wanted and deserved equal billing with Lucy in the show&#039;s opening credits, but Lucy rebuffed sharing her star billing with even such a close friend. Vance had always been listed as Co-starring Vivian Vance at the start of The Lucy Show. Lucy instead retreated to her other close friend, actress Mary Jane Croft, who was content with having her credit at the end in only the episode she&#039;d appear. Apparently Lucy and Ann still got along well because Ann continued to appear on her show. 
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[QUOTE="ClassyCo, post: 232021, member: 7"] Ann Sothern is a prime example of the "Queen of the B's". She spent the majority of her early career starring in B-movies. Even when she found her niche with all the [I]Maisie [/I]films, they were never above the B-grade, either. She did appear in some good A-movies before[I] A Letter to Three Wives[/I]. But like Lucy, she did have success on television in the 1950s:[I] Private Secretary[/I] and[I] The Ann Sothern Show[/I]. Those shows were pretty popular in the Nielsen ratings, and she even won some Emmy awards if I'm not badly mistaken. She and Lucy were actually very good friends, which dated back to their earliest days in the business. Ann was the one Lucy wanted to replace Vivian Vance on[I] The Lucy Show[/I] in the mid-sixties. Ann wanted and deserved equal billing with Lucy in the show's opening credits, but Lucy rebuffed sharing her star billing with even such a close friend. Vance had always been listed as[I] Co-starring Vivian Vance[/I] at the start of[I] The Lucy Show[/I]. Lucy instead retreated to her other close friend, actress Mary Jane Croft, who was content with having her credit at the end in only the episode she'd appear. Apparently Lucy and Ann still got along well because Ann continued to appear on her show. [CENTER] [URL='https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.viralsharebee.com%2Fann-sothern-net-worth%2F&psig=AOvVaw0gB2klqaxO4i4mfN6LJX-m&ust=1596826088915000&source=images&cd=vfe&ved=0CAIQjRxqFwoTCOis9fKeh-sCFQAAAAAdAAAAABBK'][IMG]https://www.viralsharebee.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Ann-Sothern.-Justrichest.jpg[/IMG][/URL][/CENTER] [/QUOTE]

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