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.

His co-star was his real-life wife, Lucille Ball, who played Ricky's wife, Lucy.

While awaiting their food at The Brown Derby, a Hollywood restaurant, Lucy ( Lucille Ball ) and Ethel ( Vivian Vance ) argue over whether a certain portrait on a nearby wall is Shelley Winters or Judy Holliday.

Lucille Ball's My Favorite Husband, the radio predecessor to TV's I Love Lucy, was another popular program sponsored by Jell-O for much of its 124-episode run.

Also, during the first few seasons of the first of Lucille Ball's two 1960s television series, The Lucy Show, cast members including Vivian Vance often did commercials for Jell-O.

* 1951 – The first episode of I Love Lucy, an American television sitcom starring Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz, Vivian Vance, and William Frawley, airs on the Columbia Broadcasting System ( CBS ).

Harpo himself did a reprise of this scene, dressed in his usual costume, with Lucille Ball also donning the fright wig and trench coat, in the I Love Lucy episode " Lucy and Harpo Marx ".

She sang and appeared in the music video ( as Lucille Ball ) for " Weird Al " Yankovic's song " Ricky " ( 1983 ), which was based on the I Love Lucy television show and parodied the song " Mickey " by Toni Basil.

I Love Lucy is an American television sitcom starring Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz, Vivian Vance, and William Frawley.

After the series ended in 1957, however, a modified version continued for three more seasons with 13 one-hour specials, running from 1957 to 1960, known first as The Lucille Ball-Desi Arnaz Show and later in reruns as The Lucy – Desi Comedy Hour.

Originally set in an apartment building in New York City, I Love Lucy centers on Lucy Ricardo ( Lucille Ball ) and her singer / bandleader husband Ricky Ricardo ( Desi Arnaz ), along with their best friends and landlords Fred Mertz ( William Frawley ) and Ethel Mertz ( Vivian Vance ).

An extended flashback segment in the 1957 episode " Lucy Takes a Cruise to Havana " of The Lucille Ball – Desi Arnaz Show filled in numerous details of how Lucy and Ricky met and how Ricky came to the United States.

* Lucille Ball as Lucille Esmeralda " Lucy " McGillicuddy Ricardo

Many of the characters ' names were after family members or close friends of Lucille Ball's ; for example, Marion Strong was one of her best friends and roommate for a time in New York, and also set Lucy and Ricky up on their first date.

In 1957, I Love Lucy was re-tailored into an hour-long show originally titled The Lucille Ball-Desi Arnaz Show that was to be part of an anthology series called the Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse.

From then on, no matter what the sex of Lucille Ball's real baby was, Lucy Ricardo would have a boy.

Frawley did appear once more with Lucille Ball — in an episode of The Lucy Show in 1965, which did not include Vance ( who by then had ceased to be a regular on that show ).

The Lucille Ball-Desi Arnaz Center in Jamestown, New York is a museum memorializing Lucy and I Love Lucy, including replicas of the NYC apartment set ( located in the Desilu Playhouse facility in the Rapaport Center ).

The next year he married Lucille's cousin, Lucy ( Kathy Lucille ) Anderson.

In 1951, the stars and producers of the Hollywood-based television series I Love Lucy, Desi Arnaz and Lucille Ball, decided to shoot their show directly onto 35 mm film using the three-camera system, instead of broadcasting it live.

For example, unless the algorithm has at its disposal an extensive list of family names, there is no way to decide if " Gillian Lucille van der Waal " is " van der Waal, Gillian Lucille ", " Waal, Gillian Lucille van der ", or even " Lucille van der Waal, Gillian ".

Buster Keaton, The Three Stooges, Laurel and Hardy, Lucille Ball, Martin Short, Don Knotts, Jerry Lewis, Ken Berry, Chevy Chase, Dick van Dyke's character " Rob Petrie " on The Dick Van Dyke Show, Ensign Charles " Chuck " Parker ( Tim Conway ) on McHale's Navy, John Ritter's character " Jack Tripper " on Three's Company, Jim Carrey's character " The Mask ", Michael Richards's character " Cosmo Kramer " on Seinfeld, Dustin Diamond's character " Samuel ' Screech ' Powers " on Saved by the Bell, Bernadette Withers ' character Ginger Farrell / Loomis / Mitchell

* The John van Geest Cancer Research Centre was established in 2008, as a new research centre within the School of Science and Technology, as a direct result of core funding from the John and Lucille van Geest Foundation.

The John van Geest Cancer Research Centre was established in 2008, as a new research centre within the School of Science and Technology, as a direct result of core funding from the John and Lucille van Geest Foundation.

Honest, kitten, that's all it is -- I don't even like Lucille much ''.

There is a Lucille Ball-Desi Arnaz Center museum in Jamestown, New York ( birthplace of Lucille Ball ) and a Desi Arnaz Bandshell in Lucille Ball Memorial Park in Celoron, New York ( childhood home of Lucille Ball ).

Meanwhile, Robert, the new member of the team, arrives at the theatre, is civilly received by the stage manager Arthur and quickly falls in love with Lucille, another newcomer.

C. L. Moore was Catherine Lucille Moore, who wrote in the 1930s male-dominated science fiction genre, and S. E. Hinton, ( author of The Outsiders ) is Susan Eloise Hinton.

Some family members are disputing Lucille Hester's claim to be related to Bob and are taking steps to ensure she is not part of the Hall of Fame ceremony.

Mr. Alonzo Smith ( Leon Ames ) and Mrs. Anna Smith ( Mary Astor ) have four daughters: Rose ( Lucille Bremer ), Esther, Agnes, and Tootie ; and a son, Lon Jr. ( Henry H. Daniels, Jr .) Esther, the second eldest daughter ( Judy Garland ), is in love with the boy next door, John Truett ( Tom Drake ), although he does not notice her at first.

At the ball, Esther fills up a visiting girl's ( Lucille Ballard, played by June Lockhart ) dance card with losers because she thinks Lucille is a rival of Rose's.

One of the series ' earliest successes and its single most popular episode is Lucille Fletcher's " Sorry, Wrong Number ," about a bedridden woman ( Agnes Moorehead ) who panics after overhearing a murder plot on a crossed telephone connection but is unable to persuade anyone to investigate.

and is represented by Democrat Lucille Roybal-Allard.

and is represented by Democrat Lucille Roybal-Allard.

Federally, Commerce is located in California's 34th congressional district, which has a Cook PVI of D + 23 and is represented by Democrat Lucille Roybal-Allard.

Federally, Cudahy is located in California's 34th congressional district, which has a Cook PVI of D + 23 and is represented by Democrat Lucille Roybal-Allard.

Federally, Walnut Park is located in California's 34th congressional district, which has a Cook PVI of D + 23 and is represented by Democrat Lucille Roybal-Allard.

There is a Lucille Ball-Desi Arnaz Center in nearby Jamestown ; for further information on the Center, see also the SaveLucyDesiCenter. org website.

The town began as a railroad station for the Santa Fe railroad, and was named Alfred, for the son of an attorney. The town is named after Zach Mulhall, father of Lucille Mulhall who was the first official ' cowgirl ' to actually compete against men in rodeo events and win.

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.

Ruth narrates the story of how she and her younger sister Lucille are raised by a succession of relatives in the fictional town of Fingerbone, Idaho ( some details are similar to Robinson's hometown, Sandpoint, Idaho ).