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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The duo created the iconic sitcom I Love Lucy in 1951, which revolutionized television ... and Arnaz remained connected through their children, Lucie and Desi Jr., and their shared legacy.

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.” ...

The duo created the iconic sitcom I Love Lucy in 1951, which revolutionized television and made ... Ball and Arnaz remained connected through their children, Lucie and Desi Jr., and their shared ...

“Desi Arnaz: The Man Who Invented Television,” Todd S ... some business interests and a unique professional legacy. Their undying affection for each other needs no ‘splainin’ at all.

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 ...