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He and Ball are the parents of actress Lucie Arnaz ( born 1951 ) and actor Desi Arnaz, Jr. ( born 1953 ).
To promote his autobiography, A Book, on February 21, 1976, Arnaz served as a guest host on Saturday Night Live, with his son, Desi, Jr., also appearing.
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.
* 1953 – Desi Arnaz, Jr., American actor
** Desi Arnaz Jr., American actor
Minnelli also had relationships with Desi Arnaz, Jr. ( the son of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz ), Peter Sellers, and Martin Scorsese.
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At the time, it was reported that Desi Arnaz, Jr. was his biological father.
During the second season, Lucy and Ricky have a son named Ricky Ricardo Jr. (" Little Ricky "), whose birth was timed to coincide with Ball's real-life delivery of her son Desi Arnaz Jr.
Later, during the second season, Lucy was pregnant again with second child Desi Arnaz, Jr., and this time the pregnancy was incorporated into the series ' storyline.
From left: Thibodeaux, Dinah Shore, Desi Arnaz, Jr. and Desi Arnaz, Sr., 1960.
L-R: Billy Hinsche, Desi Arnaz, Jr .; and Dean Paul Martin, on The Dean Martin Show, ( 1965 ).
The group featured Dean " Dino " Martin ( Dean Paul Martin, the son of traditional pop singer Dean Martin ), Desi Arnaz, Jr. ( Desiderio Arnaz IV, the son of television stars Desi Arnaz and Lucille Ball ), and their friend Billy Hinsche.
Dino Martin, Desi Arnaz Jr. and Billy Hinsche first met in grammar school.
* Desi Arnaz Jr. Website
* Joyride ( 1977 film ), a 1977 film starring Desi Arnaz, Jr., Robert Carradine and Melanie Griffith
In this new incarnation, she had two children named Kim and Craig, played by her real life children, Lucie Arnaz and Desi Arnaz, Jr. She was employed at ' Carter's Unique Employment Agency ' by her brother-in-law Harry, played by Gale Gordon in a role similar to his Mr. Mooney role from The Lucy Show.

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* 1986 – Desi Arnaz, Cuban-born actor and band leader ( b. 1917 )
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.
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.
When he moved to the United States, Desi Arnaz turned to show business to support himself.
Arnaz and Ball married on November 30, 1940.
Arnaz also played guitar for Xavier Cugat.
On October 15, 1951, Arnaz co-starred in the premiere of I Love Lucy, in which he played a fictitious version of himself, Cuban orchestra leader Enrique " Ricky " Ricardo.
Ball insisted on Arnaz playing her on-air spouse so the two would be able to spend more time together.
Initially, the idea of having Ball and the distinctly Latino Arnaz portray a married couple encountered resistance as they were told that Desi's Cuban accent and Latin style would not be agreeable to American viewers.
Karl Freund, Arnaz's cameraman, and even Arnaz himself have been credited with the development of the multiple-camera setup production style using adjacent sets that became the standard for all subsequent situation comedies to this day.
Arnaz was told that it would be impossible to allow an audience onto a sound stage, but he worked with Freund to design a set that would accommodate an audience, allow filming, and also adhere to fire and safety codes.
Arnaz convinced them to allow Desilu to cover all additional costs associated with the filming process, under the stipulation that Desilu owned and controlled all rights to the film.
Arnaz also pushed the network to allow them to show Lucille Ball while she was pregnant.
Arnaz consulted a priest, a rabbi, and a minister, all of whom told him that there would be nothing wrong with showing a pregnant Lucy or with using the word pregnant.
The network finally relented and let Arnaz and Ball weave the pregnancy into the story line, but remained adamant about eschewing use of pregnant, so Arnaz substituted expecting, pronouncing it ' spectin ' in his Cuban accent.
When Ball sold her share of Desilu to what became Paramount Television, Arnaz went on to form his own production company from the ashes of his share of Desilu, and with the newly formed Desi Arnaz Productions, he made The Mothers-In-Law ( at Desilu ) for United Artists Television and NBC, this ran for two seasons from 1967-68.
This material includes Here's Lucy and the aforementioned The Mothers-In-Law, as well as many programs and specials Ball and Arnaz made independently of each other.
Arnaz and Ball decided that the show would maintain what Arnaz termed " basic good taste ", and were therefore determined to avoid ethnic jokes as well as humor based on handicaps, mental disabilities, and so on.
Arnaz recalled that the only exception consisted of making fun of Ricky Ricardo's accent, and noted that even these jokes worked only when Lucy, as his wife, did the mimicking.
Arnaz was patriotic.

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Desi Arnaz also played a role in the popularization of conga drums.
In a 1976 episode of Saturday Night Live hosted by both Desi Arnaz and Desi Arnaz, Jr., the younger Arnaz played Ricky Ricardo and Gilda Radner played Lucy in spoofs of supposed ill-fated pilots for I Love Lucy.
For this one, it was established that Lucy McGillicuddy ( played by Lucille Ball ) and her best friend MacNamara were cruising Havana, where they encounter two tour guides, Lucy's future husband Ricky Ricardo ( Desi Arnaz ) and his pal, Carlos Garcia ( guest star Cesar Romero ).
In 1977, she starred in the film Joyride with Robert Carradine, Melanie Griffith and Desi Arnaz, Jr. She played the young Eunice St. Clair in the 1986 horror film Troll, with her mother playing the older version of her character.
Nestor's love ballad captures the interest of one of the customers, who turns out to be the Cuban bandleader and American television star Desi Arnaz ( played by his son, Desi Arnaz, Jr .).
Luminaries such as Lenny Bruce, Mary Martin, Katharine Hepburn, Rex Harrison, Richard Taylor, Ian McKellen, Florence Henderson, Angela Lansbury, Mae West, Dorothy Loudon, Richard Kiley, Sally Ann Howe, Keene Curtis, Victor Garber, Laurence Luckinbill, Lucie Arnaz, Patti LaBelle, Rob Marshall, Georgia Brown, Ben Harney, The Smothers Brothers, Jane Connell, Ricardo Montalban, Werner Klemperer, Ethel Waters, Jean Fenn, Agnes Moorehead, Herb Edelman, Matthew Broderick, Joyce Van Patten, Elizabeth Franz, Jonathan Silverman, Zeljko Ivanek, Marcel Marceau, Ann Miller, Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland, Joel Grey, Florence Lacey, Ron Holgate, Lee Roy Reams, Paxton Whitehead, Ann Jillian, Leslie Uggams, Andrea McArdle, Mary Alice, Jack Lemmon, Estelle Parsons, Stacey Keach, Maxwell Caulfield, James Earl Jones, Karen Valentine, Brian Dennehy, Al Pacino, Amanda Plummer, Elizabeth Ashley, Mercedes McCambridge, Stockard Channing, Judith Light and many other stars have played at the Curran.
On the TV series I Love Lucy, the character Ricky Ricardo ( played by Cuban-born Desi Arnaz ) was a singer and bandleader at Manhattan's fictional Tropicana nightclub, now recreated in reality in Jamestown, New York at the Lucille Ball-Desi Arnaz Center's Tropicana Room.
Also seen, as such, with the character of Ricky Ricardo ( played by Desi Arnaz ) on the classic TV comedy series I Love Lucy.
Opening scenes of the film were shot on Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's Stage 12, the same location that Arnaz played his first film scene in Bataan ( film ), eleven years before.
In 1971, she played the mother of teenage father Desi Arnaz Jr. in Mr. and Mrs. Bo Jo Jones.
is a 1973 made-for-television movie about a young couple, Andy and Pam ( played by Desi Arnaz, Jr. and Season Hubley ) who meet after Andy places a singles ad in his college newspaper.

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