This is Let's Talk to Lucy starring Lucille Ball.

A very warm welcome to you all.

I'm Gary Morton, and now let's talk to Lucy.

Hi, this is Lucy, and again today my guest is Mr. Donald O'Connor.

A young man I'm very, very fond of.

Yesterday we talked about Donald's house in Brentwood, California,

a home formerly owned by Joan Crawford.

And we talked about an average day at home.

This is something that Donald doesn't get very much of.

Donald, hi.

Hi, I don't know if you told me all about a day at home.

You said sometimes you wrote music, sometimes you wrote short stories.

Let's just go back now to a day at home for a second.

You don't sleep late because the children are kind of at you.

They're so happy to see you when you get home, I know,

that they don't like to have you sleeping.

Most children don't like to see their parents sleeping.

Did you know that?

No, I didn't.

That's true.

At a certain age, they cannot see you just lying there, inert,

you know, eyes closed, because you're out of,

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