Desi Arnaz Cuban bandleader and singer-turned savvy TV mogul who, after his marriage to comedienne Lucille Ball in 1940, parlayed their successful "I Love Lucy" series into the Desilu TV production empire, which in its heyday also produced the successful and highly lucrative "The Untouchables" and "Star Trek" series. *p*Desiderio Alberto Arnaz y de Acha III was born in 1917 to wealthy Cuban landowners. His father was also the mayor of the town they lived in, but that soon changed. At the age of
American culture, she was poor, making her more of an outcast. As she was growing up in the United States, most people related her to the only Latin people they had ever seen, who were Desi Arnaz from "I Love Lucy" and Rita Moreno from "West Side Story". She hated those assumptions; they were inaccurate. Desi Arnaz played to role of a Cuban musician who was married to an American and was always put as the dumb, ignorant Hispanic who was sometimes lost in the ideas of the American. Some of that is
We see politics everywhere, we are bombarded in our everyday lives with politics. Politics start at home with hierarchies of the house, then follow us to the office or place of employment, our communities, governments, and even world politics. Truly there is no getting away from it, even our entertainment is filled with politics. We see it all the time in movies like Forrest Gump, or series like Bomb Girls, sitcoms such as All in the Family, Roseanne and countless others; even the music to our
buying a house, having children, etc. Out of the evolution of the “American Dream”, came the evolution of the sitcom into a sub-genre that was referred to as the “domestic comedy.” The front runner of this sub-genre, created by Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz, was called I Love Lucy and it was a game changer. Not only did it change the genre of sitcom as a whole, but also aesthetically and directionally set the bar for generations and generations of shows to come. I Love Lucy has made its mark in television
I Love Lucy is a 1950’s sitcom centered around the lives of Lucy and Ricky Ricardo played by Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz. The Andy Griffith Show was a sitcom based on the lives of several citizens of Mayberry, a fictional town in North Carolina. The main character, a sheriff named Andy Taylor, and his son Opie are focused on for the majority of the show’s running time. While both of these shows were similar in various ways, they also had a number of important differences. I Love Lucy and The Andy
reason they did not want to air it. The sitcom stared Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz as an all American couple. Co-starring Vivian Vance and William Frawley as their next door neighbors and friends. Together they set a stage for family related sitcoms to come. The show centered around marital issues, women in the workplace, and suburban living. I Love Lucy dominated television at the time and paved the way for future
people only know her for her tv show “I Love Lucy.” The spunky redhead put a smile on many faces with her silly faces and crazy adventures. Ball was also one of the first women to become an entrepreneur by creating a studio with former husband, Desi Arnaz. Lucille Ball was a wonderful woman of her time. She was a strong-willed woman, not caring what the rest of the world thought about her. She was one of the first women to not hide her pregnancy on television. She wore what she wanted to wear while
Gender Roles: I Love Lucy Mark MacIntosh California State University Long Beach Gender Roles: I Love Lucy Description I Love Lucy is an American television sitcom that stars Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz, Vivian Vance, and William Frawley. Produced by Desi Arnaz, Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh, and Bob Carroll Jr., the television show was a black-and-white series that originally ran from October 15, 1951, to May 6, 1957, on the CBS channel. After the series ended in 1957, a modified version
Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz were a married couple on the hit television show I Love Lucy that aired in the 1950’s. The couple met in 1940 on the set of a movie called Too Many Girls. Lucille and Desi fell in love and married after only dating for 6 months. No one believed that their marriage would last they even took bets to how long it would last. In 1950 CBS introduced a new idea to Lucille for a new TV show, she insisted that Desi play the part of her husband Ricky Ricardo. The two of them made
Lucille Ball 	Lucille Ball has made significant and positive contributions to the country with her comedy. Many consider her America's best female actress. Kathleen Brady, in fact, says, "Lucille Ball is one of the greatest performing artists America has produced" (ix). Throughout her career, Ball has not only been a comedienne, but also a superb businesswoman, an excellent role model, and has won numerous awards. 	Lucille Ball's major contribution has been as a comedienne. Not only was she
model business for a while and then she moved to Hollywood to get her career in radio and television started. She moved back to New York in 1932 to work on her radio show with CBS. She married Desi Arnaz in 1940 and made her hit television “I Love Lucy” based off of her radio show “My Favorite Husband” with Arnaz starring in the show with her. Lucille Ball’s bold lifestyle influenced the
determination, Lucille not only changed the face of television, she also paved the way for a lot of other female actresses. In 1940, Lucille Balled married her Cuban born husband Desi Arnaz. Together they developed the I Love Lucy show, which became one of the most popular sitcoms of all time. Although Lucille and Desi were set on doing the program, they had to overcome a few obstacles first. For instance, a woman had never had the starring role in a television sitcom and the networks were not
The song Linus and Lucy was written by Vince Guaraldi, It was released on December of 1964, on the album “A Boy Named Charlie”, but it wasn’t heard by the public until the next year. This could be considered as Vince Guaraldi’s most recognizable song, and is featured on almost every Charlie Brown Special made since it was first broadcasted on the television special, “A Charlie Brown Christmas”. This song has been heard all around the world, but very few people actually know the name of the song.
boys, no girls. Rifleman had one boy, one rifle, no girls. Lassie had one boy, one dog (supposedly a girl, but played by a boy), and no girls. My Three Sons had—well, that one's obvious. Bonanza had three grown-up boys. Although Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz in real life had one boy and one girl, on I Love Lucy they had one boy. The only shows with daughters were The Donna Reed Show (one boy, one girl) and that lighthouse to womanhood—despite its title—Father Knows Best (one boy, two girls). Grown to
include Lucy’s desire to enter show business, division of the sexes, Lucy’s jealousy, elaborate plans (and their undoing), traditional husband/wife conflicts, and the use of trickery The show starred real-life husband and wife, Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz. It takes place in New York. Lucille played Lucy Ricardo, a housewife that wants nothing more than to be a star. She shows how women were not valued for their intelligence and how they were not encouraged to have a career. She goes to great
entertainment industry explored America’s moral conscience. This was apparent because the themes always had a lesson or moral in each story. I Love Lucy has an unusual cast, with Lucille Ball playing the part of Lucy Ricardo, and her husband in real life, Desi Arnaz,, Jr. playing the part of Lucy’s husband, Ricky Ricardo. Lucy is Caucasian, while Ricky is Cuban. Lucy insisted her real-life husband, Deszi, play Ricky “whose Cuban ethnicity dismayed the network…” (Mittell 171) Lucy and Ricky lived in an apartment
Lucy’s TV husband, Ricky, was played by her real-life husband, Desi Arnaz. The Mertzes were played by Vivian Vance and William Frawley. The couples lived next door to each other in Manhattan at the fictional address of 623 East 68th St., which would put their building in the East River. In the last season of the show
That is how I discovered Mickey and Judy, Fred and Ginger, Gene, and so many others. I didn 't realize it at the time but I was learning all about comedy and comedic timing by watching Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz (He was hilarious and I don 't think he was ever given enough credit. Aaron loves him and always points out how funny he is on the show.), Carol Burnett, and Judy Garland. Yup. She was a funny lady. Judy 's performance in Easter Parade is one
stereotypes is to question their validity usually by providing examples that counter the stereotype and show’s like I Love Lucy have stereotypical characters for the sole purpose of challenging them and breaking the tension about certain stereotypes. Desi Arnaz plays Ricky Ricardo, Lucille Ball's husband on I Love Lucy. On the show he was a Cuban nightclub owner and Lucille Ball played the wife that stayed at home and always wanted to be in Ricky's world. The two stereotypes that are imbedded in I Love
In the year 1930, the Queen of Musical Comedy Ethel Merman made her debut in Broadway. Who knew Merman, born as Ethel Agnes Zimmerman, walking on that Broadway stage 88 years ago, would see her to this day being a legendary figure, which she truly was. The bold, brassy, clarion-voiced superstar has an endless history of success and has made more hits among Broadway Musical Comedies that does not compare to other people now or in the past. Merman's career was nothing less than impressive, first