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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. He is generally credited as the inventor of the rerun.
Desi Arnaz was born Desiderio Alberto Arnaz y de Acha III in Santiago de Cuba to Desiderio Alberto Arnaz II (March 8, 1894 - May 31, 1973) and his wife Dolores de Acha (April 2, 1896 - October 24, 1988). His father was Santiago's youngest mayor and also served in the Cuban House of Representatives. His maternal grandfather was Alberto de Acha, one of the three founders of Bacardi Rum. According to Arnaz himself, in his autobiography A Book (1976), the family owned three ranches, a palatial home, and a vacation mansion on a private island in Santiago Bay, Cuba. Following the 1933 Cuban Revolution, led by Fulgencio Batista, which overthrew President Gerardo Machado, Alberto Arnaz was jailed and all of his property was confiscated. He was released after six months when U.S. officials, who believed him to be neutral, intervened on his behalf. The family then fled to Miami, Florida, where Desi attended St. Patrick Catholic High School. In the summer of 1934 he attended Saint Leo Prep (near Tampa) to help improve his English.
Actors: Neil Meron (producer), Ian Mune (actor), Glenn Jordan (director), Craig Zadan (producer), Glenn Jordan (producer), Bruce Broughton (composer), Ann Dowd (actress), David A. Simmons (editor), Jacobus Rose (producer), Madeline Zima (actress), Russell Newman (actor), Zoe Carides (actress), Jackie Sullivan (miscellaneous crew), Dave Mace (producer), Andrew Robertt (actor),
Plot: After her parents are financially ruined in a lawsuit over a shooting accident, Lucille 'Lucy' Ball pursues her dream of fame as actress. She succeeds in comical parts, often the girl who gets the cake in her face. Then she meets and soon marries the love of her life, Desiderio 'Desi' . Ricky, Latin band leader and aristocratic son of an exiled Cuban mayor. Desi proves a business genius, who gets a revolutionary method adopted to gain production control of the sitcom "I Love Lucy", a format devised for him and Lucy to star in. Despite offspring, their family life soon gets into stormy waters, mainly due to his infidelity, gambling and temper.
Keywords: abuse, character-name-in-title, dancing, face-slap, gambling, hugging, infidelity, jealousy, love, play-within-a-playActors: Don Keefer (actor), Rance Howard (actor), Jack E. Herman (miscellaneous crew), Matthew Faison (actor), Frances Fisher (actress), Alan Oppenheimer (actor), Roger Rose (actor), Larry A. Thompson (producer), Charles Jarrott (director), John Wheeler (actor), Kathleen Keller (miscellaneous crew), Diana Valentine (miscellaneous crew), Maurice Benard (actor), Bette Ford (actress), Joyce Blair (actress),
Genres: Biography, Drama, Romance,