Desi Arnaz played comic foil to his off-screen wife on 'I Love Lucy.' Behind the scenes, he revolutionized the TV business, ...

The flame-haired funnywoman was so excited about becoming a mother that she picked her favorite baby names in 1943, but she ...

The 73-year-old still has a bone to pick about some of the plotlines in the film despite her and her younger brother, Desi ...

In an interview, Purdum talked about why he thinks of Arnaz as “a great businessman in the persona of a wonderful entertainer ...

Once a second banana, always a second banana when in the shadow of a brighter star. For musician and actor Desi Arnaz, that shadow belonged to Lucille Ball, his wife and co-star on the ground-breaking ...

In his new book, Desi Arnaz: The Man Who Invented Television, Purdum chronicles Arnaz's contributions to the early days of TV and his relationship, both on- and off-camera, with Ball. I Love Lucy ...

Todd S. Purdum, a former Times correspondent and Los Angeles bureau chief, is the author of the forthcoming biography “Desi Arnaz: The Man Who Invented Television.” ...

With the episode that aired on Monday, April 7, I Love Lucy became the first program in the history of television to reach ... s—but “above all to Desi Arnaz, the crazy Cuban whom Oppenheimer ...

In many ways, Desi Arnaz was Ricky Ricardo, the character he played on television—creative, hardworking, excitable, lovable, an embracing personality, a natural entertainer. But there was one ...