Just an honorable mention of Eve Arden's classic gunging scene on her sitcom "Our Miss Brooks". Everyone knows the more famous Lucy gunging scene on "I Love Lucy" and few remember the earlier gunging Eve Arden did on her show.

The 2 shows were both owned and produced by Desilu but the first gunging scene happened in Eve's show in 1953. Lucy did her gunging scene scene 1 year later in 1954. IMHO the Eve Arden scene is better because there is no protective clothing and her scene features 2 messy women.

FYI, the Our Miss Brooks scene has been available for many years on low quality VHS recordings, which is where Rob Blaine and I got our old clips from.....but recently CBS have restored the series on high quality dvd and the restored version was playing until recently on the Decades retro tv channel. Unfortunately I missed recording the newly restored version and they are currently not airing the series....but if anyone has the restored version perhaps they can post the clip. These caps are from my old low quality version.

MK

From some searching it looks like this is Season 1 Episode 14 titled "Aunt Mattie Boynton" https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0837706/ and the other actress is Mary Jane Croft. Found a couple of rad pics too.

They aired the newly remastered HD version of this scene on the Decades TV channel 18 months ago.....but I missed it.

Currently only the Season 1 episodes are online. CBS have offiicially released new masters of Seasons 1 and 2, but not Seasons 3 and 4. But seasons 1 to 4 are available on Ebay frm private tv recordings. As far as I know, we have only ever seen/checked Season 1 episodes and the other 89 episodes in Seasons 2, 3, 4 have never been checked for wam scenes so far. There is likely more stuff in those later seasons because Eve Arden often did slapstick scenes.

MK

How's this?

https://archive.org/details/OurMissBrooksS1e31SuzyPrentissscolorizedFullEpisode/Our+Miss+Brooks+s1e14+Aunt+Mattie+Boynton+(colorized)+full+episode.mp4

You'll have to cut-and-paste all of the text as the hyperlink doesn't work properly here in the forum.

This was a recycled script from the radio sitcom.

I heard it on WDCB-FM in Chicago, on "Those Were the Days."

Then I got smart an listened to classic rock or the Met Opera.

This is really good.

Thanks, Ruegger, for finding that archive version.

The link worked fine for me.

No cutting or pasting necessary.

Good scene.

Eve Arden and Lucille Ball were very good friends. Mary Jane Croft was also on "I Love Lucy". She played the neighbor when they moved to the country in later seasons.

Yeah I realized this after I posted that it did indeed work. It looked like it wouldn't because it cut off the end. Glad that people appreciate it.

Wow--that's a great vintage messy scene, MK! I had no idea that Eve Arden ever got it so good on "Our Miss Brooks" or anywhere else--it's fortunate for us that she was the target, and not Gale Gordon!

By the way, I'm really enjoying some of the classic messy stuff people have been sharing over the past couple of weeks. When I get a chance I'll post a few pie in the face discoveries I've made recently involving some beautiful women (and good sports) from Hollywood's golden age, including Betty Grable, Shirley MacLaine, and Barbara Nichols...stay posted!

Excellent link
Classic oldies
Many thanks for sharing