Extended interview: Lucie Arnaz on her parents, Lucy & Desi – CBS News Watch CBS News In this web exclusive, actress and singer Lucie Arnaz talks with correspondent Mo Rocca about growing up the daughter of comedy legends Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz; her father’s experience as a Cuban refugee and as a television pioneer,…
Desi Arnaz: Singer, husband, dad, and the man who “invented” TV – CBS News Watch CBS News Desi Arnaz, the Cuban-born entertainer, broke conventions when he co-starred with his wife Lucille Ball in the TV show “I Love Lucy,” playing a prototypical American sitcom dad. He also changed the rules of television by filming episodes,…
In the fall of 1951, television audiences were introduced to a show biz-obsessed redhead and her bandleader husband, played by the real-life couple Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz. While Lucy was undeniably the star on-camera, off-camera it was Desi, a refugee from Cuba with no connection to the world of entertainment, who would change the…
Simon & Schuster We may receive an affiliate commission from anything you buy from this article. In the new biography “Desi Arnaz: The Man Who Invented Television” (Simon & Schuster), Todd S. Purdum explores the impact on American culture by the Cuban-born entertainer who (as husband and business partner of Lucille Ball) changed the rules…
