‘60s Child Star Recalls Backstage Prank He Pulled on ‘I Love Lucy’ Legend ...Saudi Arabia

In a recent interview with Woman’s World, Livingston, now 72, recalled working with William Frawley, the curmudgeonly actor best known as Fred Mertz on I Love Lucy. Frawley played “Bub" O'Casey on My Three Sons from 1960 to 1965, but he had some leftover beef with his I Love Lucy co-star Vivian Vance (Ethel Mertz)—and that’s where Livingston came in.

“We would collect these big metal cylindrical film canisters back in the day,” Livingston recalled to the magazine. “Bill would get Stan and I to be co-criminals with him. We’d hear Vivian’s voice coming from the stage next door and he’d go, ‘Okay, it’s time,’ and we’d Frisbee these big old metal film cans in there and you’d hear, ‘Bang! Boom! Bang! Bang! Bang!’ And then you’d hear, ‘Cut!’ And Bill would go, ‘Let’s get the hell out of here. Come on!’ So yeah, we were little criminals in his organized crime.”

Barry Livingston, Stanley Livingston, and Don Grady of 'My Three Sons.'

Photo by ABC Photo Archives on Getty Images

Frawley’s feud with Vance was well known during their I Love Lucy days in the 1950s. While they played nicely on camera, behind the scenes, Vance was put off by the fact that Frawley, 22 years her senior, was cast to play her husband.

Oppenheimer added that Frawley overheard her complaints and “was insulted.”

My Three Sons alum Tim Considine (Mike Douglas on the series) told Page Sixthat Frawley once referred to Vance as a “miserable c–t” when asked what she was like.

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