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Lucille Ball: Desi Arnaz
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Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz are a laugh riot in this comic lark directed by Vincente Minnelli. They're off on their honeymoon with an expensive, unwieldy trailer, and laughs aplenty are in store. Marjorie Main and Keenan Wynn ... star. 96 min. Standard; Soundtracks: English Dolby Digital mono, French Dolby Digital mono; Subtitles: English, Spanish, French; bonus shorts "Ain't It Aggravatin'" (1954), "Dixieland Droopy" (1954); theatrical trailer.
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Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz are a laugh riot in this comic lark directed by Vincente Minnelli. They're off on their honeymoon with an expensive, unwieldy trailer, and laughs aplenty are in store. Marjorie Main and Keenan Wynn ... star.
Lucille Ball met her husband and future show-business partner, Desi Arnaz, on the set of an RKO picture in 1940. She continued pursuing film stardom for the next several years, trading in on her sex appeal as well as her sharp wit. Not achieving the kind of success she desired, Ball decided to try her hand at radio. Beginning in 1948, she played the daffy wife on the three-year series "My Favorite Husband." It was here that she developed a broader style of humor, something she would use to great advantage on her next project, the television series "I Love Lucy." After her 25 years in the business, this vehicle made Ball a household name.
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It was a major national event when, on Jan. 19, 1953, Lucy Ricardo gave birth to Little Ricky on the air the same night Lucille Ball gave birth to her second child, Desiderio Alberto Arnaz y de Acha 4th. The audience for the episode was estimated at 44 million, a record at the time, and CBS said 1 million viewers responded with congratulatory telephone calls, telegrams, letters or gifts. Miss Ball's first child, Lucie Desiree Arnaz, was born July 17, 1951, three months before the show went on the air.
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Lucille Ball (Lucy) was born into a Protestant family (apparently Baptist) and she identified herself as a Protestant throughout her life. Her father died and her mother married a man from a devout Swedish Protestant (Lutheran) family. In a civil ceremony, Lucy married Desi Arnaz, a musician from a devout Cuban Catholic family. In addition to being Catholic, Arnaz was ... at least partially an adherent of the Afro-Carribean religion Osha, which was practiced by a large proportion of Cubans. The couple later had a Catholic religious wedding ceremony, and Lucy studied Catholicism for a time, planning to convert. She never did.
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Lucille Ball was born in the small town of Celoron, a suburb of Jamestown, New York to Henry Durrell Ball and Desiree "DeDe" Eve Hunt. Her family was Baptist; her father was related to George Washington and her mother was of French, Irish and English descent.
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