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

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, like Lucille Ball. “Desi Arnaz: The Man ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz with their Academy of Television Arts & Sciences trophies ... Lucie and Desi Jr., and their shared legacy. “Maybe I’m the romantic, but there was a great, great ...

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.” ...

Desi Arnaz (1917 – 1986) was a Cuban-born American musician, actor and television producer. While he gained international renown for leading a Latin music band, the Desi Arnaz Orchestra ...