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 ...

Once a second banana, always a second banana when in the shadow of a brighter star, like Lucille Ball. “Desi Arnaz: The Man ...

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

But it was comedy that secured his legacy ... of television content and eventually spawned the “Mission: Impossible” and “Star Trek” franchises. The themes in “Desi Arnaz” are familiar ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...