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 ...

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 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 ...

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 the newly-published biography Desi Arnaz: The Man Who Invented Television, author Todd S ... work on what would ultimately become their legacy, groundbreaking CBS sitcom I Love Lucy, which ...

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 ...

“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.