In the fall of 1951, the television audience was played by a show Bis-Obesed Redhead and her bandelder husband, real-life doubles lucil ball and Desi Arnaz. While Lucy was undeniably the star on-camera, the off-camera was this desi, a refugee from Cuba, with no relation with the entertainment world, which would change the way television work.
The most important thing about Arnz that people do not know, according to biographical writer Tod Purdum, it is that he and his colleagues decided to do the film “I Love Lucy” on the 35 mm Black-And-White film, “making its conservation possible, and essentially the invention of Rarun, and then the syndication cells, and then work in a complete modern way.”
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Pardum’s book, “Desi Arnz: The Man Hu Inventored Television, is one of the most striking revelations, so the show was also made. “It was partially designed to save their marriage,” he said. “Desi was on the road, who enabled her to Philander, and she bothered Lucy a lot. She reached her career limits in films, and she received a radio show called ‘My Favorite Husband’, in which she played a kind of Zani Housewife, married the fifth vice -president of a bank. And said, ‘Okay, I want to play my husband and I want to play my husband only if I want to do my husband and I want to do my husband’s role. Can. ‘ ,
CBS and sponsors were worried that the audience would not accept them as a couple. (Never mind that they have been married for ten years.) Desi and Lucy also wanted to shoot the show in Los Angeles, where they put the roots down. Subsequently, New York City was the center of television production.
“Everything was about the family,” daughter Lucy Arnz said, who was born just six weeks before shooting her parents in the first episode of “I Love Lucy”. “It was always about, ‘No, no, no. We have a plan. We want to live together. We want to live in California.” When you were not a big star, he is crazy.
But Desi and Lucy were ready to play gambling. CBS agreed to its terms only after the stars agreed to cut the salary. But in turn, Arnz demanded that the couple owned the show’s rights. The Gamble paid: With the first episode, the US fell in love with Lucy and Desi.
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Lucy was 39 years old. Desiderio Arnz was born 33 years old, and a world away from his upbringing as a single child for a prominent family in Santiago, Cuba. His father was the mayor of the city; His mother, daughter of a cofounder of Bacardi rum. During the 1933 Cuba Revolution, the family lost everything. Kishore Desi and his father Miami fled, and lived in a rat -infected warehouse.
He referred to himself as a refugee, not an immigrant. “He was disorganized; he was not a voluntary arrival on our shores,” said Pardum. “He came here as a result of the tragedy, really. And I think he never reached him.”
But he could play the guitar. The bandelider was rented by Xavier Kugat, desi introduced the Night Club audience to the Afro-Kubebon Kangga, and his signature became the song “Babalu”.
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In 1940, Arnz jumped on the big screen at “Two Lars Girls”, where he met his match in co-stagger Lucil Ball. Both of them got married after six months.
“I love Lucy” will make the couple very rich. Desi was the idea of buying the RKO studio, which he and Lucy renamed Desilu’s name, which became a television, producing MGM, the 20th -century Fox or Warner Brothers produced jugronotes with more sound stages than the Warner Brothers. “It was his peak,” said Pardum. “And then, it went down from there due to desi drinking, really.”
But drinking was not his only addiction. “People say they had cases,” Lucy said. “He was never CaseHe did not even know the names of these dams, you know? He was a hooker.
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“He was in love with my mother. He loved his family. It was a very unique, strange problem, and I think that is why she lived with her for so long, she understood this. I don’t think I could not think what she could do.
In 1960, when Lucy Arnz was eight years old and his brother, Desi Junior, Saat, the most famous couple of America announced the end of their show – and their wedding.
“We were at his home in Palm Springs,” Lucy remembered. “And they said, ‘We love each other, but the person-husband-wife-wife is broken. And we can no longer live together.” And I remember that my brother said, ‘But if it is broken, can’t you fix it? And he said, ‘I don’t think so.’
Lucy said, “Its truth is that Mo, he was happy after getting divorced. Shouting and arguing and that everything stopped,” Lucy said.
I asked, “And when you were told, did you easily become your younger brother’s protective?”
“I wish you are my doctor older, Mo!” Lucy laughed. “I think most of me was very protective for my father, as if I felt really regret for my father.”
Why? “I don’t know. I think because I feel that it was that it was out.,
Both the ball and Arnaz remarried, they remarried to the family friend Edith Hirsi. Lucy went to act in several TV shows. Desi built the series “The Mother-in-Sasur” series, wrote an autobiography, and eventually sobber with the help of her son, who herself was a recovered drug abuser.
“It was fantastic,” Lucy said. “This, like, till date my greatest memory, near him, the man who said, ‘I do not do washing my dirty clothes in front of other people,’ and then when he finally decided after his wife, Eddie, Darling, AD, he said, he said, ‘I can’t do it.” And he got up and said, ‘My name is desi and I am an alcoholic.’ And this is my glorious moment that he stood next to me and I saw him doing this, to take responsibility and try to solve it. ,
After less than a year, Arnaz was detected by lung cancer. Lucy said, “My mother Dale came to meet my father in March when she was ill.” “And I ran away and got as many VHS tapes as I could find, and they were sitting there for a few hours and watching the old ‘I Love Lucy’ shows and laughing and missing.”
On November 30, 1986, what will be their wedding anniversary, Desi and Lucy spoke for the last time.
“He was very, very sick,” said Lucy. “And I said, ‘I am going to keep it on the phone now, so say what you want to say.” And I just put the phone in his ear. And then he said, ‘Best wishes with your show. ,
Two days later, Desi Arnz died at 69.
We finish ourselves with the man, during the 1954 tribute organized by Ed Sulivan, reflecting his extraordinary journey: “We came to this country and we did not have one percent in our pockets. From the cleaning of the canary cage to the cleaning of this night in this night in New York, it is a long way. And I don’t think there is any other country in the world that wants to thank you.
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