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.

The spoofs of I Love Lucy were supposed to be earlier concepts of the show that never made it on the air, such as " I Love Louie ", where Desi lived with Louis Armstrong.

Arnaz, Jr. played the drums and, supported by the SNL band, Desi sang both " Babalu " and another favorite from his dance band days, " Cuban Pete "; the arrangements were similar to the ones used on I Love Lucy.

Desilu Productions, jointly owned by Desi Arnaz and Ball during their marriage, was the production company for the Our Miss Brooks television show, which filmed during the same years as I Love Lucy.

* 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 ).

* Desi Arnaz – Actor and producer, known for I Love Lucy

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 ).

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.

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.

Lucy and Desi had a business manager by the name of Mr. Andrew Hickox, and in the first episode of season 4, called the " The Business Manager " Lucy and Ricky hire a man named Mr. Hickox.

In 1940, Lucy met Desi Arnaz, a Cuban bandleader who had just come off a successful run in the 1939 – 40 Broadway show Too Many Girls.

Lucy insisted that Desi play her husband, much to the dismay of CBS.

Owing to the impending birth of their first child, both Lucy and Desi insisted on staying in Hollywood and producing the show on film, something a few Hollywood-based series had begun doing.

In exchange, Lucy and Desi demanded, and were given, the majority ownership in the I Love Lucy films.

Putting the show on film, however, would require that Lucy and Desi become responsible for producing the series themselves.

Lucy and Desi enlisted the services of Karl Freund, an Academy Award-winning cinematographer of such films as Metropolis ( 1927 ), Dracula ( 1931 ), and The Good Earth ( 1937 ), as well as director of The Mummy ( 1932 ), to be the series cinematographer.

Although at first Freund did not want anything to do with television, it was the personal plea of both Lucy and Desi that convinced Freund to take the job.

Not being able to fulfill the show's 39-episode commitment, both Desi and Jess Oppenheimer decided to rebroadcast popular episodes of the series's first season to help give Lucy the necessary rest she needed after she gave birth, effectively allowing fewer episodes to be filmed that season.

There is clear evidence that Lucy from childhood had an unusual mind.

Also Lucy and Winslow had a private contest to see which one could make the most words from the letters in `` importunately ''.

There is reason to suppose that Lucy would have made a record as publicly distinguished as her brother had it not been that her mother's death occurred just as she was about to enter college.

Lucy had an idea that Myra loved it.

It seemed to Lucy that all their married life, she and Jim had been doing nothing but rescue his sister from the constant crises that were her way of life.

whenever Lucy saw her, she tried, without noise or fuss, to give her the warmth she had never had from Myra.

His voice had sharp edges, as though he knew very well Lucy and he were not friends at the moment.

She had better stay there, Lucy thought ; ;

since Myra had always put most of Greg's money on her own back, Lucy suspected that no more than a few of that long row would be needed.

For Lucy, the day's nagging to-and-fro had come to an abrupt end.

Market research indicated, however, that this scenario would not be popular, so Jess Oppenheimer changed it to make Ricky Ricardo a struggling young orchestra leader and Lucy an ordinary housewife who had show business fantasies but no talent.

Arden had a very brief guest role in a 1955 I Love Lucy episode entitled " L. A. at Last " in which she played herself.

Dolley's sister, Lucy Payne, had recently married George Steptoe Washington, a nephew of President Washington.

They had two sons: Victor Gifford ( 1809 – 1860 ) and John Woodhouse Audubon ( 1812 – 1862 ); and two daughters who died while young: Lucy at two years ( 1815 – 1817 ) and Rose at nine months ( 1819 – 1820 ).

He had a total of fifteen Carson children: five by Lucy Bradley, his first wife, and ten by Kit Carson's mother, Rebecca Robinson.

According to investigative journalist Lucy Komisar, Mehmet Ali Ağca had worked with Abdullah Çatlı in the 1979 assassination, who " then reportedly helped organize Ağca's escape from an Istanbul military prison, and some have suggested Çatlı was even involved in the Pope's assassination attempt ".

In 1963, Cook married Wendy Snowden ; the couple had two daughters, Lucy and Daisy, but the marriage ended in 1970.

* A nine-month run in 1976 had a new translation by Ralph Manheim and John Willett for the New York Shakespeare Festival at the Vivian Beaumont Theatre at Lincoln Center, with Raúl Juliá as Macheath, Blair Brown as Lucy, and Ellen Greene as Jenny.

Malthus married his cousin Harriet on 12 April 1804 and had three children: Henry, Emily and Lucy.

As well, several female actors had major roles in action films, such as Michelle Yeoh, Lucy Liu and ex-model Milla Jovovich.

He married Matilda Elizabeth Griswold and had three daughters and three sons, including: Frederick Frelinghuysen, George Griswold Frelinghuysen ( 1851-1936 ), Theodore Frelinghuysen (?- 1931 ), Matilda Griswold Frelinghuysen who married Henry Winthrop Gray, a daughter who married Charles L. McCauley, and Lucy Frelinghuysen.

At The Hague, Charles had a brief affair with Lucy Walter, who later falsely claimed that they had secretly married.

The group had a minor hit in 1968 with " Lucy Brown is Back in Town ".