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In new biography “Desi Arnz: The Man who invented television” (Simon and Shoister), Tod S. Purdum influenced the impact on American culture by Cuba -born entertainer, who changed TV rules (as husband and business partner of Lucil Ball).
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“Desi Arnz: The Man who invented television”
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Preface
He loved Lucy as a man who loved Lucy, softened the man’s frustration directly on the comic antics of his crazy wife of Spanish and long -suffering a person suffering from his crazy wife’s comic antagonism. But Desi Arnz Ricky was much higher than Ricardo. If the brilliant clown of the ball – her beauty, her imitation, her flexible face and fearless skill in physical comedy – was an artistic spark which is animated I love LucyArnz’s leading show-business acumen was the necessary driving force- Hinde. He was as NPR Planetary currency Once inserting it, the man who “invented television.”
“A misconception that we – that was not all important for that desi show,” Madeline Pugh Davis, Founder Cowatter Founder Pugh Davis I love LucyWill be remembered after years of his death. “And Desi ran the show.
Today, nearly four decades after his death, Arnaz artist remains a widely identifiable figure- “One of the great personalities of all time,” was once kept by dancer N Miller as his friend. It is very well understood that it is a seminal role that he played in the newborn years of television, helped change its production methods, and helped change themselves, a successful but second -tier Latin bandlader, and his wife, a traveling actress in mostly forgetable B films, in a cultural icon.
It was arranged (and I love LucyThe lead writer and producer of Jess Openhaimer), who gathered the world class team of Hollywood technicians, who discovered how to light and film the show in front of the live studio audience, with three cameras at a time-one-one-then pathbreaking method that soon became an industry standard for the situation that ends till date. This was his ability to preserve the episodes on the Crystalline Black-And-White 35-Miliimeter film Stock, which led to Rerun’s invention and later syndication in secondary markets of the long-running series. This innovation also made it possible for the center of network television production to go from New York to Los Angeles and made a business model that was unpublished for a better part of seven decades, until the streaming era established a competitive pattern.
,I love Lucy An important part of entertainment in this country was, “Norman Lear, the manufacturer of the landmark status Comedy, said In all families And many other shows. “Lucy and Desi -I think it can be said that they opened a lot of Hollywood door to America, and the situation for comedy. There was only one Lucy and a desi, and between them, they knew what it was taken. He was a great businessman in a wonderful entertainment personality.”
Tod S. Excerpt from “Desi Arnaz” by Purdum. Copyright © 2025 Todd S. By Pardum. Simon and Shuster, Inc. All rights rescued by permission of
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