It was sort of a Jekyll and Hyde sort of thing. He would have tantrums in front of friends and relatives, and we could have no social life for the last three to four years.
Ball remarried in to Gary Morton, yet her connection to Arnaz was still solid. Many believe their love for each other remained. I love you. They were the first couple of television in every way. Married in real life and in reel life, Ball and Arnaz graced the covers of magazines and formed a multi-million-dollar business partnership with the creation of Desilu Productions via Lucy-Desi.
But life off the set for this pair was not what you saw on screen. Lucy and Ricky Ricardo had their problems as Lucy tried to do anything to get in Ricky's show, enlisting her landlady and best friend, Ethel , in all of her schemes.
Behind the scenes, Ball and Arnaz had a volatile marriage that ended soon after all-new episodes "I Love Lucy" left the airwaves. By the end of the year, the pair eloped and formed a partnership that would bring them two children and worldwide fame.
However, there were problems from the start and within four years, Ball filed for divorce due to her husband's affairs and constant drinking. However, they soon reconciled and realized his travel schedule and her movie schedule wouldn't allow the marriage to work so they decided that they'd just have to work together. That's when the concept of "I Love Lucy" was born, although it didn't make it to air until , the same year daughter Lucie Arnaz was born via Biography.
By the time Desi Arnaz Jr. They fell in love anyway. From the start, friends say Lucy doted on Desi, eager to make him happy. If he wanted something, she'd get it. If they sat down together and he needed more space, she'd scoot over. After filming wrapped, Lucy embarked on a promotional tour and Desi went back to performing at nightclubs with his band.
During this time apart, Lucy got wind that Desi had met up with his former lover, Betty Grable. She showed up at the home he shared with his divorced mother, berating him and calling him a "Cuban sonofabitch.
In November , six months after they'd first met, the pair eloped. Desi continued to tour and the extended absences began to take a toll on the newlyweds. Even when he wasn't on the road, his schedule had him out until 3 or 4 in the morning, while hers demanded she be in the makeup chair by roughly the same time. Lucy's longtime publicist, Charles Pomerantz, told People , "She used to say, 'We just can't keep meeting in the Sepulveda tunnel.
She said she finally had him where she wanted him…for a couple of days. Lucy's friends have said the actress suffered several miscarriages before the couple conceived their firstborn. They separated for a period of time in after Lucy filed for divorce, allegedly because of Desi's infidelity and drinking problem. They later reconciled after talking and agreeing to pursue more projects where their professional lives would intersect. Executives weren't convinced when Lucy pitched her real-life husband to play the on-screen part, too—fearing Desi's heavy Cuban accent wouldn't jive with mainstream American viewers—but the Arnazes won them over by touring the country as a vaudeville act during the summer of Audiences loved it, and Lucy finally had her chance to keep Desi in one place.
She wanted him at home, where she felt the marriage would have a better chance of lasting, which of course it did," said Bob Weiskopf, who was one of Lucy and Desi's go-to writers back in the day. In preparation for the show, the pair formed Desilu, the first-ever independent television production company. Ever the savvy entrepreneur, Desi convinced CBS to produce the show on film—an unconventional move for a time when reruns were unheard of—and haggled for ownership of all episodes, presumably to share with the couple's future children.
He later sold them back to CBS for millions.
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