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 ).

* Lucille Ball-Desi Arnaz Center

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

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.

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.

They renamed the show The Lucille Ball-Desi Arnaz Show, also known as The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour.

Thibodeaux's role in I Love Lucy is featured in the Lucille Ball-Desi Arnaz Center in Jamestown, New York.

( The Lucille Ball-Desi Arnaz Show, 1958 )

The series was broadcast for six years as half-hour episodes, later changing to hour-long specials from 1957 to 1960 titled The Lucille Ball-Desi Arnaz Show ( later retitled The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour ).

Frawley is memorialized in the Lucille Ball-Desi Arnaz Center in Jamestown, New York, which also contains his " Hop-Along the Frog " costume from an episode of I Love Lucy.

* The Lucille Ball-Desi Arnaz Show ( 1957 – 1960 )

It is not known if Desilu, Too has interests in the Lucille Ball-Desi Arnaz Center in Jamestown, New York.

In 1957, after the highly successful half-hour I Love Lucy episodes had ended, Vance continued playing Ethel Mertz on a series of hour-long specials titled The Lucille Ball-Desi Arnaz Show ( later retitled The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour ).

Vance is memorialized in the Lucille Ball-Desi Arnaz Center in Jamestown, New York.

Oppenheimer is memorialized in the Lucille Ball-Desi Arnaz Center in Jamestown, New York.

From about 2002 to 2007, he was vice-president of the board of Directors of the Lucille Ball-Desi Arnaz Center in Jamestown, New York.

In 1957, Ann Sothern reprised the character of Susie MacNamara from Private Secretary ( which ran from 1953 to 1957, when she left the series in a contract dispute ) for the premiere episode of The Lucille Ball-Desi Arnaz Show ( later shown in repeats as The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour ) in the installment " Lucy Takes a Cruise To Havana " ( which was originally a 75-minute episode ).

Jamestown is also home to the Lucille Ball-Desi Arnaz Museum.

Scott was one of the original board members of the Lucille Ball-Desi Arnaz Center in

The pair also wrote episodes for The Lucy Show, Here's Lucy, The Lucille Ball-Desi Arnaz Show ( aka The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour ) and Ball's final series, the unsuccessful Life With Lucy ( 1986 ).

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.

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.

Arnaz also pushed the network to allow them to show Lucille Ball while she was pregnant.

Both Desilu, Too and Lucille Ball Productions work hand-in-hand with MPI Home Video in the home video re-issues of the Ball / Arnaz material not currently owned by CBS ( successor-in-interest to Paramount Television, which in turn succeeded the original Desilu company ).

* 1994: Desilu: The Story of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz By Coyne Stephen Sanders and Tom Gilbert ( author ) ( Whole life, and focuses prominently on the Business affairs of Desilu Productions )( PNT )

* 1940 – Lucille Ball marries Desi Arnaz in Greenwich, Connecticut.

* 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 ).

Lucille Ball was offered Gloria Grahame's role in the picture by DeMille, but dropped out when she discovered she was pregnant with her first child, Lucie Arnaz.

Minnelli also had relationships with Desi Arnaz, Jr. ( the son of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz ), Peter Sellers, and Martin Scorsese.

* Forever, Darling ( with Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz ) ( 1956 )

Twiss's book became the basis for the popular 1954 MGM film of the same name, directed by Vincente Minnelli, and starring Desi Arnaz and Lucille Ball.

Instead, CBS used the science fiction script for a new show produced by Desi Arnaz and Lucille Ball, The Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse, in 1958.

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

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 ).

His death came just five days before Lucille Ball received the Kennedy Center Honors.

Morehead, long known for its patronage of the arts in Kentucky with such organizations as the Kentucky Folk Art Center and the Kentucky Center for Traditional Music, was the childhood home of philanthropist Lucille Caudill Little.

It was designed by Luca Cardelli, James Donahue, Lucille Glassman, Mick Jordan ( before at the Olivetti Software Technology Laboratory ), Bill Kalsow and Greg Nelson at the Digital Equipment Corporation ( DEC ) Systems Research Center ( SRC ) and the Olivetti Research Center ( ORC ) in the late 1980s.

Union organizer, Zilphia Horton, who was the wife of the co-founder of the Highlander Folk School ( later Highlander Research and Education Center ), learned it from Lucille Simmons.

The production became a hit and spawned a 1974 film with Lucille Ball in the title role and Arthur reprising her supporting role, as well as a London production, a Broadway revival, and a 40th anniversary revival at the Kennedy Center in 2006.

Blue Man Group's popularity continued to snowball, resulting in a performance at Lincoln Center titled " Serious Fun ", and eventually an Obie Award and a Lucille Lortel Award, which led producers to take the show to off-Broadway.

" Collected Stories " has had three New York productions: its premiere at Manhattan Theatre Club's City Center Stage I, in 1997, with Maria Tucci and Debra Messing, directed by Lisa Peterson ; the following year at the Lucille Lortel Theatre with Uta Hagen and Lorca Simons, directed by William Carden ; and, on Broadway, in 2010, at Manhattan Theatre Club's Friedman ( formerly Biltmore ) Theatre, starring Linda Lavin and Sarah Paulson, directed by Lynne Meadow.