In the US Desi Arnaz turned to show business to support himself. In , he starred on Broadway in the musical Too Many Girls. Arnaz and Ball married on November 30, Arnaz also played guitar for Xavier Cugat. Around The Web Provided by Taboola. Create a list ». Television Hall of Fame Inductees Part 1. Trapeze Premiere. People not recognized with an emmy nom for a particular role. They may have been for a role but not this one.
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Show all 80 episodes. Show all 56 episodes. Show all 15 episodes. Show all 77 episodes. Kate Desi Arnaz is best known for the popular s television show I Love Lucy, a situation comedy that he helped create along with his wife Lucille Ball, to whom he was married from to Arnaz played "Ricky Ricardo," a struggling Cuban-born bandleader whose high-spirited wife Lucy played by Ball was forever engaged in some sort of comedic mischief.
Behind the scenes, Arnaz was known as a savvy businessman and producer and a trailblazer in the early years of television. The comedy quickly emerged as one of the most popular shows of the decade. As Scholastic Update noted in , Arnaz's role on the show helped Americans to "accept Hispanic immigrants not just as exotic outsiders, but as Hispanic-Americans.
His father Desiderio was mayor of Santiago and a wealthy property owner whose holdings included a cattle ranch, two dairy farms, and a villa on a small island in Santiago Bay. Desi's mother, the former Dolores de Acha, was the daughter of one of the founders of the Bacardi rum company. As a teenager, Arnaz was expected to attend college before embarking on a career in law and politics. However, political unrest in Cuba dramatically changed the direction of Arnaz's life. In August , the Arnaz home in Santiago was burned and ransacked.
While Arnaz and his mother managed to escape to safety, his father, a newly elected congressman, was put in prison. While there, he was advised by the new chief of state, Fulgencio Batista, that he would be freed if he left the country. Promising to send for his wife whom he'd later divorce and son, Arnaz's father set out for Miami. In June , the year-old Desi arrived in America and was greeted by his father, who had established an import-export company with two other refugees in Miami.
To save money, father and son lived in the company warehouse and ate cans of pork-and-beans. They used baseball bats to ward off the rats that scurried through the building. After school, young Arnaz worked cleaning bird cages for a man who sold canaries on consignment in area drug stores.
During this time, Arnaz was recommended to a band-leader by a girlfriend's grandfather. Xavier Cugat, the "king" of Latin dance music soon discovered the young musician. In , Arnaz turned his efforts to developing the hit television series I Love Lucy , which ran for six years and became the most successful television program in history. Arnaz and Ball had a clear goal in mind when the series began development.
Not only did they request the the show be shot on film as opposed to the cheaper kinescope, but they also retained full ownership of the program under their production company, Desilu Productions. The show aired in The show touched on many personal and taboo issues of the time, including marriage and pregnancy. And as a couple both on and off camera, Arnaz and Ball's show had parallels to their actual marriage, giving birth to their son on the show on the same day that Ball gave birth to their son in real life.
The novelty of the series, coupled with Arnaz and Ball's strong chemistry, proved to be a success. I Love Lucy became the No. The series ended in
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