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Desi Arnaz

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An audience is so important. I would never have had the guts to dub in that big a laugh.


— Desi Arnaz


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At times we were criticized for doing too much slapstick. I don't believe in mild comedy, and neither does Lucy.


— Desi Arnaz


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I don't think anyone can tell you what it is that makes you a star.


— Desi Arnaz


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I had started calling her Lucy shortly after we met; I didn't like the name Lucille. That's how our television show was called I Love Lucy, not Lucille.


— Desi Arnaz


#called #calling #had #her #how

I learned a lot from Xavier Cugat.


— Desi Arnaz


#learned #lot

I went to high school with Al Capone.


— Desi Arnaz


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Joe McCarthy and his Senate hearings were like witch-hunts.


— Desi Arnaz


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Lucy and I would love furiously and fight furiously.


— Desi Arnaz


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Lucy is such a perfectionist.


— Desi Arnaz


#perfectionist #such

Motion-picture studio floors used to be all wooden and not smooth at all. This was difficult when moving a camera around on a dolly.


— Desi Arnaz


#camera #difficult #dolly #floors #moving






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Arnaz would make a guest appearance on the TV series Alice starring Linda Lavin and produced by I Love Lucy co-creators Madelyn Pugh (Madelyn Davis) and Bob Carroll Jr. The original Desilu company continued long after Arnaz's divorce from Ball both producing its own shows and providing production facilities to other producers.

He and Ball are generally credited as the inventors of the rerun in connection with the show. Desiderio Arnaz (better known as Desi Arnaz) (March 2 1917 – December 2 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 he is best known for his role as Ricky Ricardo on the American TV series I Love Lucy starring with Lucille Ball to whom he was married at the time.

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