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The Long, Long Trailer is a novel by Clinton Twiss from 1951. It is about a couple who buy a new travel trailer home and spend a year traveling across the United States. The novel was made into a movie in 1954 starring Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz. Genres FictionHumor. 238 pages, Hardcover.
The Long, Long Trailer is a 1954 American Anscocolor road comedy film based on a novel of the same name written by Clinton Twiss in 1951 about a couple who buy a new travel trailer home and spend a year traveling across the United States.
Although The Long, Long Trailer was Clinton Twiss's first full-length book, his entertaining style was know to hundreds of thousands of radio listeners. He was long associated with such programs as One Man's Family, I Love a Mystery, Mysteries by Morse, The Barry Fitzgerald Show, and many others.
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May 16, 2006 · People. EMBED (for wordpress.com hosted blogs and archive.org item <description> tags) THE LONG LONG TRAILER. by. CLINTON TWISS. Publication date. 1951. Publisher. THOMAS Y.CROWELL COMPANY.
Twiss, a well-known Los Angeles radio personality through the 1940s, did what many middle-aged men decided to do when burnt out in a job – downsize, sell belongings, and travel the open road.
Nicholas Collini (Desi Arnaz) has to travel for his job as an engineer -- so his fiancée, Tacy (Lucille Ball), suggests that rather than buy a house after their wedding, they invest in a...
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The Long, Long Trailer (1954) was based on a non-fiction book about a middle-aged couple who spent a year traveling cross-country in a mobile home. By making them honeymooners, and making the husband Latin and the wife wacky, the script was perfect for the king and queen of television.
