when lucille ball be an acclaimed and but not very widely know b picture actress and joan davis be win a lot more acclaim for her own brand of goofy physical humor on radio and on film . she be a mainstay of support to a lot of the glamor girl and guy at 20th century fox . a long term extra marital affair with eddie cantor help push her career along a cantor feature her on radio and have her co star in two of his film . like so many player when the motion picture studio start cut down production and leave people out of work and davis turn to television . unfortunately one year too late to get credit for originality . lucille ball and her real life husband beat her to the tube by a year . they put on a very successful situation comedy about a wacky wife with an exasperated husband that we all know about . so when joan davis debut i marry joan in 1952 she be accuse of copy lucy . not so a any viewing of her film will so demonstrate . but lucy be there first and get the deserve credit . i marry joan be a very funny show that trail in the wake of i love lucy . it end in 1955 because her tv husband jim backus quit the show . a judge bradley j. stevens and he be her exasperate straight man of a husband . he would get to show his comic flair later on in gilligan island . sad that joan davis be never able to develop another television show to show her talent before she die . a very funny lady and with a very funny show .