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Desi Arnaz
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Executive Producer, Actor Born: March 2, 1917 in Santiago, Cuba Death: December 2, 1986 Biography:A musican, singer, songwriter, actor and television producer, Arnaz came to the US from Cuba when he was sixteen and became a professional bandleader of popular Latin music. He married actress "Lucille Ball" in 1940 and, in 1951, costarred with her in their long-running and successful television series, "I Love Lucy", in which he played the charming but long-suffering husband/straightman, Ricky Ricardo, a successful nightclub owner and entertainer. Arnaz insisted that the series be photographed on 35mm film at a time when syndicated reruns were a thing of the future and a TV show was lucky to even be preserved as a 16mm kinescope. He hired top Hollywood cinematographer "Karl Freund" for the job and supervised the entire making of the series through his and Ball's company, Desilu Productions. Arnaz appeared in several films with and without Ball up until 1960 when they were divorced and she bought out... Full Biography
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