Desi Arnaz, here with Vivian Vance, left, and Lucille Ball each toting an Emmy for "I Love Lucy," was a driving force behind the pioneering show co-starring his wife, but struggled with alcoholism, as ...

Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz were a serious it couple in the 1950s, and they’re in the spotlight again in the new Amazon Prime Video documentary, Lucy and Desi. The documentary, directed by Amy Poehler ...

Once a second banana, always a second banana when in the shadow of a brighter star. For musician and actor Desi Arnaz, that shadow belonged to Lucille Ball, his wife and co-star on the ground-breaking ...

We may receive an affiliate commission from anything you buy from this article. In the new biography "Desi Arnaz: The Man Who Invented Television" (Simon & Schuster), Todd S. Purdum explores the ...

Like just about everyone who grew up at a time when a few networks decided what Americans watched on their television sets, author Todd S. Purdum knew all of the antics of Lucy and Ricky Ricardo, the ...

NORWICH, U.K. - NORWICH, U.K. — It has been over 70 years since Lucille Ball changed the TV landscape, and her long road to stardom is now being told to a new, pint-sized audience. Aimed at ...

'Lucy and Desi' Amy Poehler — who knows a thing or two about making funny TV in male-dominated rooms — makes her directing debut with this affectionate documentary portrait of Lucille Ball and Desi ...

One of America’s most beloved redheads, Lucille Ball, the adored comic actress, was born on this day in history, Aug. 6, 1911, in Jamestown, New York, as Biography.com and other sources have noted.