The series ended in Arnaz's marriage to Ball ended in He sold his share of Desilu Productions to Ball in After that, Arnaz made a few forays into television, working largely behind the scenes. He served as a producer on such shows as The Mothers-In-Law in the late s. With his second wife, Edith, he lived in Del Mar, California.
He died of cancer at his home there in at the age of We strive for accuracy and fairness. If you see something that doesn't look right, contact us!
Though we are not together anymore, I still love her. I always will. Lucy is my soulmate, my world. I can't imagine my life without her. I Love Lucy was never just a title. They were gorgeous. Her eyes very blue. One of the many things I absolutely love about her. She was mine and I was hers. The way it should have been. She's Lucille Ball a wonderful mother to our daughter, Lucie Desiree.
In spite of a busy schedule, she arranges to have three days a week with Lucie. They took me along with the deal and I went to Hollywood. Working as the star of that picture was the most beautiful, wonderful, bright, happy person I'd ever met in my life, Lucille Ball. And how you said it. It was love at first sight. The first time I saw Lucy was in Hollywood studio lunchroom.
I was eager to meet her. Then she walked in. She had a black eye, frowzy hair and was wearing a too tight dress with a rip in it. She had been playing a dance hall floozy in a free for all fight scene.
I groaned 'oh no. She was a dream. I took one look and fell in love. She Lucille Ball was a very shy girl. She hated when you stared at her. So I did. The most important thing of all was that, we now had our daughter, our son, and two people couldn't have been more in love and happier than we were.
Another key difference with the show was that it was shot using three cameras, as opposed to using a one-camera setup. This process eliminated the need for an audience to view and react to a scene three or four times for all necessary angles to be filmed. It also allowed scenes to be performed in sequence, plus retakes were rare and dialogue mistakes were often played off for the sake of continuity. This meant fewer episodes had to be filmed. It seems like a moral obligation to modern audiences now, but early on Ball and Arnaz were determined to avoid jokes that centered on ethinic stereotypes and humor based on physical handicaps or mental disabilities.
After the conclusion of the sixth season, Arnaz and Ball decided to cut down the number of episodes that were filmed. Instead, they extended I Love Lucy to 60 minutes, with a guest star each episode. It saw the production of 13 one hour-long episodes that aired from to Eventually it reached breaking point. But he also frightened me, he was so wild. I knew I shouldn't marry him, but that was one of the biggest attractions.
Mindful of the practice of naming their residence after themselves as actors Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford had done, the couple decided on Desilu after eliminating such other possibilities as Arnaball, Ballarnaz, and Ludesi. Because of an injury, however, he saw only non-combat duty at Birmingham Hospital, 15 minutes away from Desilu. Convinced that Arnaz was being unfaithful to her, Ball filed for divorce in September of The divorce, though, was voided by a quick reconciliation.
Arnaz' officially shortened his name during his stint in the service from Desiderio Alberto Arnaz y de Acha to Desi Arnaz. When his military service concluded, he returned to Hollywood, only to find his opportunities limited by his heavy accent. Despite critical acclaim for his performance in the movie Bataan and gossip columnist Louella Parson's prediction that he'd be the next Rudolph Valentino, Arnaz found it difficult to secure significant parts.
The new piece Arnaz Orchestra, though, was getting favorable reviews, and Arnaz eventually landed a role in the movie Cuban Pete, in which he was touted as "The Rhumba-Rhythm King. In , Arnaz and Ball formed Desilu Productions to coordinate their various stage, screen, and radio activities. A year later, Arnaz asked Ball to marry him again—this time in an official Catholic ceremony. The ceremony was later played out again, albeit in a more fanciful manner, in an episode of I Love Lucy.
By , Arnaz and Ball had both established themselves in the medium of radio. Arnaz first served as the bandleader for Bob Hope's radio show, then as host of the musical quiz show Your Tropical Trip ; Ball portrayed the scatterbrained housewife on the radio serial My Favorite Husband. As the show's producer as well as its leading man, Arnaz helped bring movie-quality techniques to live television and negotiated a deal whereby Desilu retained full ownership of the show.
Ball gave birth to the couple's first child, Lucie Desiree, on July 17, , just as scriptwriters were putting the finishing touches on I Love Lucy for the show's October 15, premiere. The principal characters were Ricky Ricardo, a struggling Latin bandleader who would burst into Spanish whenever he got particularly exasperated, and his wife Lucy, a wacky housewife with showbiz aspirations but no real talent. Before long, I Love Lucy was a smash hit, televised around the world.
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