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'I Love Lucy' Writer Madelyn Pugh Davis Dies

1:39 PM PDT 4/21/2011 by Mike Barnes

The TV scribe worked with Lucille Ball for decades on projects like "The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour," "Here's Lucy" and CBS Radio's "My Favorite Husband."

Madelyn Pugh Davis, the TV scribe whose 50-year collaboration with Bob Carroll Jr. included decades of work writing for comic legend Lucille Ball, died Wednesday at her home in Bel-Air after a brief illness. She was 90.

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