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Lucille and Desi got divorced in 1960, 20 years after they eloped after just six months of dating in 1940. They welcomed Lucie in 1951 and their son, Desi Jr., in 1953.
From the start, Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz’s relationship was a whirlwind romance straight out of a Hollywood movie. After meeting on the set of the film Too Many Girls in 1940, Ball and Arnaz ...
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Lucy & Desi: Before the Laughter is a 1991 television movie from CBS about the lives of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz. The movie begins when the two actors met in the 1940s and ends with their divorce in 1960. The movie covers how their careers developed, their often rocky marriage, and how they came to develop the I Love Lucy show.
In 1960, Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz divorced, and the final episode of The Lucy–Desi Comedy Hour aired (using the I Love Lucy format). Later that year, Ball moved to New York to try the Broadway stage in an unsuccessful musical, Wildcat. During the show's run, Ball was plagued by illness and fatigue and in early 1961, the show closed when ...
Maurice Benard portrayed Desi Arnaz in the 1991 television film Lucy & Desi: Before the Laughter. [61] In the 2003 television film Lucy, Desi Arnaz was portrayed by Danny Pino. [62] Arnaz was portrayed by Oscar Nuñez in I Love Lucy: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Sitcom, a comedy about how Arnaz and Ball battled to get their sitcom ...
Ball and Arnaz divorced in May, 1960. After the final Lucy-Desi program the two never worked together onscreen again, although Arnaz executive produced the first 15 of The Lucy Show episodes before leaving Desilu Productions in 1962. Ratings for each episode broadcast (including reruns) during the 1957–58 and 1958–59 seasons were all good.
The couple had long been divorced, but what he said was still significant. Here’s How Desi Arnaz Really Died & What the Last Words He Told Lucille Ball Were Skip to main content