Desiderio Alberto Arnaz y de Acha III was a Cuban-American actor, musician, bandleader, comedian and film, television producer. He is best known for his role as Ricky Ricardo on the American television sitcom I Love Lucy. He and Lucille Ball co-founded and ran the television production company called Desilu Productions. He was also renowned for leading his Latin music band, the Desi Arnaz Orchestra.
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Desiderio Alberto Arnaz y de Acha III was a Cuban-American actor, musician, bandleader, comedian and film, television producer. He is best known for his role as Ricky Ricardo on the American television sitcom I Love Lucy. Arnaz and Lucille Ball co-founded and ran the television production company called Desilu Productions. He was also renowned for leading his Latin music band, the Desi Arnaz Orchestra. He and Ball are generally credited as the innovators of the syndicated rerun, which they pioneered with the I LoveLucy series. In 1951, Arnaz was given a game show on CBS Radio, Your Tropical Trip, to entice Ball to stay at CBS and keep Arnaz on his payroll. The show, hosted by Arnaz, had members competing for a Caribbean vacation and also featured Arnaz’s orchestra. The program aired from January 1951 until September 1951, shortly before the premiere of I love Lucy in October 1951. He died of a heart attack at the age of 69 in Los Angeles, California, on November 25, 1973. He had a son, Desiderio Arnaz II, who was born in Santiago de Cuba, Cuba, and died in New York City on November 26, 1978. He also had a daughter, Dolores Arnaz. He appeared in several movies in the 1940s such as Bataan, starring Robert Taylor. Many consider his portrayal of the jive-loving California National Guardsman Felix Ramirez to be his best early role. He played the role in the movie version of Too Many Girls, which also starredLucille Ball.
He married Ball on November 30, 1940, and the couple eloped in 1940. He went on to produce several other television series, at first with DesilU Productions, and later independently, including The Ann Sothern Show and The Untouchables. He served in the U.S. Army during World War II. He sang for troops in Birmingham Hospital with John Macchia and hired his childhood friend Marco Rizo to play and arrange for Bob Hope’s radio show for the 1946–47 season, Desi. Hope’s orchestra was the orchestra for the radio show. He later formed another orchestra, which was successful in live appearances and recordings and recordings. In the summer of 1934, he attended Saint Leo Prep to help improve his English. He then went into the tile business with his father before turning to show business full-time. He came to the attention of Rodgers and Hart who, in 1939, cast him in their Broadway musical Too Many girls. He next appeared in the show’s movie version at RKO, which he also starred in. He fell in love during the film’s production and eloped with Ball in November 1940. After finishing high school, he began making a name for himself in Miami, where he began playing the conga drum and singing. His first job was working at Woolworths in Miami. He introduced the concept of conga line dancing city.
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