Her death was confirmed by her son, Michael Quinn Martin.
Clever turns of expression were not grist for the comedy mill, that Mrs Davis, together with Bob Carroll Jr. and of producer Jess Oppenheimer, running back started in 1951 Office from a Studio. With Mrs Davis clatter away, at the typewriter and its partners, pace around them, which was the basic premise to come with ridiculous physical pressures for the display of the star, Lucille Ball, to in - to the eternal dismay of her husband, played by her real-life man, headed the bandleader Desi Arnaz, who was also one of the producers of the show. Lucy would in a bucket of cement, scurrying about a Bullring, coated with ice to have locked in the meat freezer be - that they escape with clownish glee.
In a famous scene of Lucy's oversized bread loaf of bread Springs out of the oven and supports them in their kitchen. In another she eats a 46-proof tonic, Vitameatavegamin, Mumbles in a trade, and soon and stumble.
The team, along with Bob Schiller and Bob Weiskopf 1n 1955, as their playful work is what Visual comedy. "We do joke jokes or funny Word jokes were not as much as we physical situations set up for them," said Mrs Davis in 1993 for the archive of American television in an interview. Often, it was Mrs Davis, which first drove the unicycle or tried to see if she would work for Mrs ball other stunts.
"" "To set, these stunts"Black Stuff", was known as da, this zany feats in capital letters on the script would enter Mrs Davis, so Lucy exactly what they are in would know was always" according to a profile of Ms Davis from the Paley Center for media (formerly the Museum of television and radio), which honored her in 2006.
"During the formative years of television, when only a few women behind the screen worked, Madelyn Pugh Davis wrote one of the most popular shows of all time," said the Paley Center. It "not only did she mark as a writer, but also opened the door for other women to follow in their footsteps."
Viewers certainly loved Lucy and still do. For four of the six seasons was "I Love Lucy" the most popular show on television. It place never lower than third in one of these seasons. It received two Emmy Awards for the best sitcom and two nominations for best comedy writing. The show episodes 179 - all of the Mrs Davis and Mr Carroll in writing involved were - regulars keep repetition.
"It is still hard for me to capture it when people tell me, 'I have dozens of times, each episode'" Mrs. Davis said in 1993.
Mrs Davis and Mr Carroll went on, for all Mrs ball later companies write television: "The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour" (1957-60), a series of specials, and the three series made it to them and Mr Arnaz divorced: "The Lucy Show" (1962-68), "Here's Lucy" (1968-74) and the short-lived "life with Lucy" (1986).
On 15 March 1921, Madelyn Pugh was born in Indianapolis, the youngest of three daughters of Isaac and Louise Hupp Pugh. Your career path set a play in three acts who wrote them, when she was 10. Shortridge high she wrote for the school newspaper and, with their classmates of Kurt Vonnegut, fiction Club joined the school. She graduated from Indiana University with a degree in journalism in 1942.
Their first job at professional writing was wire on the Indianapolis radio station. She moved to Los Angeles in 1943 and soon worked for CBS. There, Mr Carroll met it, with which they scripts for "my favorite man," a radio program a stupid woman and her banker husband wrote. Starring Lucille played ball.
From 1951, was "my favorite husband" developed to "I Love Lucy," Chronicle of the crazy life of Lucy and Ricky Ricardo. Her best friends, Ethel and Fred Mertz, were played by Vivian Vance and William Frawley.
Madelyn Pugh married Quinn Martin, one of the most successful television producers, 1955; They divorced six years later. Her second husband, Richard Davis, died in 2009. In addition to her son she is of four stepchildren from second wife, Charlotte, Brian and Lisa and Ned Davis survived; nine step-grandchildren; and a step great-grandson.
Mrs Davis and Mr Carroll, who died in 2007, wrote together for more than 50 years. Worked under the other shows they were "the mothers-in-law" and "Alice". She wrote the story for the 1968 "Your, mine & ours," film with Mrs ball and Henry Fonda. They worked together on memoirs, "Laughing with Lucy," in 2005.
In an interview last year for this obituary recalled for Mrs ball develop some of the many crazy situations Mrs Davis helped: standing on stilts, be ready with a House overrun of baby chicks, wear a beard and - overwhelmed a classic - by a conveyor belt of warp speed in a chocolate factory.
"Lucy would do nothing, we proposed", said Ms. Davis.
Really?
"The only time when that ever, that they do not want was told to do something, as they saw an elephant on the set and ran to their Office," Mrs Davis recalled.
The script called for them to get $500 under the elephant's foot.
"Then the phone rang and it was Vivian Vance," Mrs. Davis said. "" Vivian said,"is it OK, I told Lucy that if they do not want that fun to will the thing to do, I do it." "And Lucy said, ' OK, I'll do it." "As she said in the elephant trunk and got he lift the foot."
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