While “I Love Lucy” showcased the fun-loving, madcap couple, behind the scenes, there were extramarital affairs and plenty of scandal.īall - born Aug. Lucille Ball met Desi Arnaz in 1940 at RKO Pictures. Volume II is set for release later this year. The book, which is Volume 1 of the authors’ Ball/Arnaz bio, is 576 pages long and covers the years until the end of their marriage, documenting their careers, hardships, and many, many lovers in all their gossipy glory. “He didn’t deny that, but claimed, ‘It doesn’t mean a thing, my fooling around with some hookers. She accused him of having sex with two prostitutes the night before,” writes Porter in his new book with Danforth Price, “Lucille Ball & Desi Arnaz: They Weren’t Lucy & Ricky Ricardo,” (Blood Moon Productions, out now). “She shouted denunciations at him, at one point calling him. In the late 1950s, Darwin Porter, student body president at the University of Miami, arranged “Lucy & Desi” Day at the school, a celebration of the country’s most popular entertainers and favorite couple, Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz.īut when he arrived to take them to the event, the snide and bickering couple he found resembled anything but America’s sweethearts. Javier Bardem is quite the actor, but not much of a singer in ‘Being the Ricardos’ ‘I Dream of Jeannie’ star Barbara Eden: I was ‘careful’ around ‘playboy’ Desi Arnaz The 12 hottest celebrity redheads according to their zodiac signĬarole Cook, Lucille Ball protégé and ‘Sixteen Candles’ star, dead at 98
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