@@Mynnia No,I mean as in what I said Dezi was a criollo like myself and many others ..Please keep your victimhood to yourself . Stop conflating historic periods and people born 100s of years apart. The majority of Cubans are and were of Spanish descent. Please don't make this about your personal issues . I'm discussing my own people
@@tickles5289 You are absolutely right. Non-Cuban latinos make it about their own personal issues. Many Latin American countries are in deed the products of colonization. Cuba on the other hand was the product of settlers. The indigneous people have been killed off, so there wasn't this enormous mestizaje between a handful of colonizers and "raped" indigenous masses. Someone like Desi Arnaz was not an mestizo like you find in Mexico or Central or South America, but rather a criollo which means a European born in the Caribbean.
She actually didn't. She actually filed for a divorce about 9 years into their marriage because she was so tired of the philandering. She with the court documents, and went on to have 2 children with him. I think see tolerated it because she did want children.
@@irshgrl500 I would have agreed with you about motherhood, until I watched some interviews with her children. It may have been she just wanted Desi, a sucker for his charisma and romantic side. As a mother she was described as a control freak, emotionally distant, temperamental...pretty much the opposite of her tv character. I bet it would be tough having a parent 'seen' as one way, but really be another. One of Nelson Mandela's kids has reported similar ironies.
cheatings and sexual activities are two different things. if you can accept the fact that no one owns your body not even your spouse; then you might have abettor chance at a long marriage. desi had manly appetites and lucy wanted to boss him around so he took his yearning to be a man to AHEM. be on top . in other ways. and in other bedrooms. many of Lucy's co workers and employees knew what his off screen life was like. she only minded when he became sloppy. bar girls hat check girls meant nothing to her. her only rule was "NOT WITH ANY OF MY FRIENDS"
That's great for you. I think it's different for every person and every marriage and I also would guess that a famous person might have a higher level of temptation than you do.
In I Love Lucy there were several episodes where "Lucy Ricardo" was jealous of other women being around Ricky and also afraid that Ricky was cheating on her. But in real life during that same time period Desi was actually cheating on "Lucille Ball" with other women. I always wondered how that made Lucille Ball feel having to act that out on camera while it was actually happening in real life at the same time.
She knew he cheated - the whole reason she put a TV show together was to keep him home instead of touring with his band, since he couldn’t keep his pants zipped. She later said she married a loser.
@@chadkincham yet she stayed with that.loser for 20 years when she didnt HAVE to. I will NEVER excuse cheating no matter if it s the man OR woman doing the cheating. I am simply saying she loved him LIVING with him was hard. She did put up with it because she chose to but they did find a way to stay riends after the divorce so he couldnt have been ALL bad
She didn't HAVE to do anything - she owned the show, she helped write the show, and she produced the show. If it is IN the show - SHE greenlighted it and it was intentional on her end.
This was my mom's favorite show. I remember coming home from high school and she'd have it on while cooking. Beautiful memories. Rest in Peace mom, Lucy and Desi ❤ Thanks for making us laugh.
They were NOT interracial. They were inter-ethnic. Many Cubans are Caucasian originating from Spain. Desi's family was one of them. Lucy and Desi were different ethnically. Yes, they were considered mixed in the 1940-50's. Actually, there were other famous mixed couples at the time, but they got the most attention. Very few people fussed about Ricardo Montelban being married to Georgiana Young (Loretta Young's sister) or Brazilian singer/star Carmen Miranda who was married to her Texan American husband David Sebastian until her death.
Thank you. My father came from a small town in Cuba that was founded in the mid 1700's where 90% of the population was of Spanish descent. After the slave revolt in Haiti, Spain gave land grants to Spanish families -not single men- to settle the island, and European immigration was encouraged up to the 1930's and 40's. Pre Castro, 75% of Cubans were of European descent. This is not to belittle or disrespect Cuba's amazing Afro Cuban culture and music which ALL Cubans are proud of, but to call Desi and Lucy's marriage interracial is incorrect.
Thank you for reruns! With Lucille Ball being a great comedian, and Desi Arnaz as the straight guy, and musical talent, is what made this show a big hit.
Little white boys' joke back in the day: Little White Boy 1 to Little White Boy 2: "What 's the name of that tv show? With the Mexican guy with the bongos? And always going 'BABA LOO!' You know. And the wife with the red hair?" Little White Boy 2: "I Love Lucy." Little White Boy 1: (Pointing, mocking, loudly:) "EEEWWW - you said YOU LOVE LUCY!" Little White Boy 2: (Extremely humiliated, angry) "No! No! No! I HATE Lucy!" And we all did. Everything about her was ugly and in bad taste and unattractive to us. We were normal, hetero, young white boys. Not getting paid to be with her and F her once in a few dozen blue moons, like DA and Gary Morton were. Back in those days in the Northeastern USA, long before lasers and light pulse machines, there were many, many, many females as hairy as Robin Williams as Mrs. Doubtfire but without all that bothersome hair removal, calling us all homosexuals because we weren't attracted to females with thick, thick thick forearm (and who knew where else) hair and thick, thick, thick mustaches. You got used to it. To their non-stop lying to themselves and to each other, I mean. You'd even feel sorry for them, if they weren't too ugly on the inside, also.
@@carrieheffernan1685 yes. even now years after both parents s death, both their children talk with a lot of love about BOTH parents, that s the way it SHOULD be and often it is not
Yes, you divorce your spouse, never your kids!!!! and yes, he was a handsome man, that was Lucy's headache!!! It's a well know fact that he cheated on her a lot!!! Maybe he didn't really love her, if you love your spouse, girlfriend, boyfriend, etc., you don't really love that person, period!!! Regardless of how rich or famous you are.
@@samuelm.5752 It's American capitalism (i.e., BOTH the dema and the repubs) that stoke the race thing ... and the gender thing, and the immigrant thing, and the religion thing. Capitalism LIKES division.
I never even thought about it. I just loved Lucy and Ricky and never gave anything else another thought. Kids aren't born racist, they're taught to be that way.
They wanted to start a family together, and back then, you got married in order to do that, which I agree with. The way things are done today is backwards and willy nilly.
Lucille said that Desi was an incredibly smart and talented man, yet there was something inside of him that said he didn’t deserve any of the success he built for himself and so he destroyed things in his life, such as his marriage by having affairs and drinking heavily during their marriage. It’s sad, yet there are people like that. They’re so successful, built something from the ground up, perhaps has a great family and yet something tells them they don’t deserve any of it and so they wreck a good thing they have going.
There are some people who have an equal amount of constructive and destructive impulses. They build amazing things themselves and then destroy the things they build.
It might be a cultural thing, my father had a hispanic co-worker who always cheated on his wife, though he said if he ever caught his wife cheating on him he'd kill her, I guess a lot of hispanic men back in those days were like that I'm not sure if it's still that way now?
@@sherri419 They are. Hispanic men (and Desi was one) have an ingrained desire to mess around on their wives. It isn't a love thing, it is strictly a sex thing. I have a few hispanic friends, and cheating on their wives is just the way they are. Same with Filipinos. Desi & Lucy genuinely loved each other. But his affairs ruined their marriage.
Love the show and them as a couple. Don't like knowing that he was constantly cheating on her. Beautiful woman that helped him in many ways, great comedian. Don't like men that can't be loyal to one woman. One thing I can't tolerate.
@@forpetessake3532 known many decent people that are capable of loyalty, love, and commitment to one person. Should be more people like that. Called humanity, and not devoid of feelings for other people.
For all those wanting to jump on the negative bandwagon, go look up the 1986 Kennedy Center Honors with Ray Charles AND Lucille Ball. 5 days prior to the taping, Desi Arnaz passed away. Lucille not only attended his funeral, but flew right over to Washington, DC to be honored at the Center. When Robert Stack comes on stage, he reads a note Desi wrote about Lucy right before his death. Watch her reaction. I dare you to conclude she stopped loving him...
Many women think "With me it will be different" when faced with a man they love who has a reputation as a womaniser. Lucy was so shattered by her divorce she got married again 11 months later!!!! I feel so sorry for her. She has it all, money, fame, a fabulous career, beauty but could not cope with a husband who cheated on her. How Desi must have hurt her over the years and why? She adored him.
I've watched nearly every episode and not once have I ever detected even the slightest hint of racism in the show's writing. Sure, it had its fair share of Hispanic stereotypes but that show serves as a perfect model where stereotypes are tastefully and lightheartedly incorporated for a few laughs. And honestly, it's brilliant. You go away being able to laugh at a different culture but never once get the sense it is inferior or undesirable. If anything, Ricky Ricardo's charm, wit, and portrayal as a normal person who happens to have an accent is to date one of the most progressive and groundbreaking representations of the Hispanic community on TV because it's the closest to the truth. Other shows and films always portrayed Hispanics in a very demeaning manner as people of low intelligence, one-dimensional, and harping on tired stereotypes designed to make us look bad as a community. The fact Ricky Ricardo was a household character name of a Hispanic that people of all backgrounds loved and could relate to is remarkable for its time.
I agree. By today's thin skinned standards of "racism" the show could be called that but as a Mexican American kind growing up it was fun to have somebody with an accent similar to my own father on TV. We could relate to Ricky's "unique English but also to the fact that he was a smart, talented hard working person. Ricky was a great role model. It's a shame that Lucy and Desi had those marital problems but i don't make judgements on private marital situations. It always takes two.
I think it’s a mistake to describe their marriage as “interracial.” Ball and Arnaz were of the same race but of different ethnic backgrounds. Arnaz was responsible for the success of “I Love Lucy” far more than most people realize because of his many talents including as a producer and head of Desilu. I admire him for that, but I would admire him far more had he been a faithful husband and a better example to his children, especially to his son who has had a very troubled life.
I've been a huge fan of Desi and Lucy for half a century. I never thought of them as interracial or heard them described that way until 2021. I really despise the race obsessed time that we are living in. They were two different nationalities, so what?? Why does that suddenly have to matter?
TV networks were very scared of things like that back then, they even made them sleep in 2 separate beds and not use the word pregnant, etc, but the public didn't seem to mind just the TV networks were worried.
@@sherri419EVERY married couple on TV slept in separate beds up until they didn't. It was the 70s before TV admitted that people had toilets. I think it was All In The Family who made the perfectly timed flushing noises.
I wrote to Lucie Arnaz when she was in town opening a play ..And Gosh darn it I got a Autographed picture of her the next day in the mail with this long personal letter ..Thats class
I love Lucy! They worked well together. They never stopped loving each other. They brought joy in many homes. One of our favorite show. That’s Hispanic Celebrities for you.
Cheating on your wife is not love! It's selfish and so destructive to the spouse and no one enters the kingdom of God with that unrepented sin! 1 Corinthians 6 9 Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, 10 Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God
@@Pisces3139 they weren’t even talking to you so why be rude? Btw just because you don’t believe in God doesn’t mean no one else does. Show some respect.
Arnaz' autobiography goes into this (a fascinating read), and the cultural background, for lack of a better word, 'stepping out' on his marriage (woman did/do it too) was ingrained into his childhood through his culture. Marriage transgressions obviously did not translate in 1940s America and with Lucille, and that's where I find fault in Arnaz. But I suppose falling in love does not always mean intimate communication about how each culture approaches the bonds and limitations of marriage. Doomed from the start if you ask me.
@ S.L.P. I also read Desi Arnaz’ autobiography ( titled “ A Book “) back in 1979. He admitted that he cheated on Lucy, but he was adamant in his assertion that she also did her share of cheating on him. His side of the story doesn’t get nearly enough publicity as hers.
@@DH-ve5bl well, of course he'd say that. There's no information out there that anyone else knew about her so called "cheating". Perhaps it's true but I don't believe it.
And Desi was super jealous : during the shooting of The Big Street in 1942, Desi was afraid of letting Lucille alone with her partner Henry Fonda. Lucille and Henry dated once in the 30s, but no romance between them. Still, they like each other very much and Desi felt very insecure when Henry was around... So, during the shooting of the movie, he stayed on the set to keep an eye on his wife. But Desi was so paranoid that the director asked him to leave the set! Almost 25 years later, Lucille and Henry made Yours, Mine and Ours and you really feel this chemistry between the 2 actors.
Yes, I understand how Lucy must have felt, and how she maybe thought that he didn't deserve respect or privacy, but debating it or her talking about in videos, or the rest of us debating it when it's not our place, I agree. They were both so talented.
Correction: This was not the first TV interracial couple. Desi was a decedent of Spaniards. Spain is in Europe. Lucy's lineage is from Europe as well. They may have been born on different land masses(the USA and Cuba) and speak two different European languages(English and Spanish) but they were not an interracial couple!
Thank you for stating that. I was going to say the same. People do not seem to understand that Nationality is not Race. The term here would have been inter-cultural, NOT interracial. Unless Desi had some Black ancestry, which some Cubans have, this would not have been interracial. And even if he had, it doesn't make any difference.
You're thinking of it in today's standards. At the time, their marriage was indeed considered a mixed marriage. Desi was a foreigner and of Latin descent. Lucy's family were of English and Scotch descent. Even today, many people from those Islands would rankle at being referred to as European. Brexit anyone? Desi was even denied membership in country clubs because of his Cuban background, even after the success of I Love Lucy.
According to their children, Lucy knew that Desi was whoring the whole time, and she really didn't care. She knew that it was SHE that he loved. The other stuff was just sex. When this all came out in the tabloids in the late fifties, Lucy was embarrassed and felt that she HAD to divorce him to save face. She regretted that decision for the rest of her life. Lucie Arnaz says that one of the last people that Desi talked to before he died was Lucy. They both expressed their regrets and undying love.
I don’t think she regretted divorcing but regretted that the marriage had soured and could not be what she had wanted. She was tired of his lifestyle and had enough. His drinking caused him to be belligerent. Keith who played little Ricky was invited to their home to play a lot and confirmed that there was fighting.
Ok here we go again. If you watch the last show of Desi Lucy Comedy Hour and take a look at Desi. His dark hair lighter but his face looked like someone whose coming off a good bender, he looked old. So I don’t believe she wasn’t bothered by being with multiple women but you cannot discount the trouble he caused her with his drinking and the fighting. I know first hand he was a nasty mean drunk and after years she was plain over it and the fighting. Two things Keith(Little Ricky) was invited by Lucy to spend weekends at their home, as a young boy he was sad to see & hear the fighting and said she often felt uncomfortable. So their marriage was not the picture or what we saw on TV and Keith said that was sad to him. What Lucy once had was destroyed. Desi went down even father a couple years after so he was asked to relinquish his part in the Co.
They were Not an interracial couple. Desi Arnaz had European ancestry. He was Caucasian. It should not matter if Desi was of another race. But you should get your facts straight.
You are absolutely correct. To label them as an interracial couple is either for the benefit of sensationalism or just plain ignorance. It is obvious that Desi was almost entirely if not entirely European genetically. Many Spaniards arrived in Cuba in the late 19th and early 20th century. Offsprings of marriages between them would simply produce Europeans. Colonial white Cubans, on the other hand, may have had a dash of this or that but hardly enough to label them another race. I’m not sure if Desi is a product of one or the other but his appearance is strictly Southern European.
Exactly! My father was Cuban and also 100% Spanish as Cuba encouraged immigration from Spain. Also, Desi was from the Cuban upper crust, and they are mostly of Spanish -and a little Irish- descent.
@@BlackbirdArtandDesign Ottomans?? When exactly was Spain part of the Ottoman Empire? I have a MA in Spanish history and Spain was never part of the Ottoman Empire. Spain was invaded by the Arabs (not the Ottomans) from 711-1492, but they never went North of the Picos de Europa. And during the Reconquista, the areas of Spain that were reconquered from the Arabs were resettled by people from France and sometimes what is now Germany. The region of Spain where there is more mixture with Arabs is Andalucía and parts of Valencia and Alicante. Most Spanish immigrants to Cuba came from the Canary Islands and northern Spain. Regardless, do not tell any Spaniard they are Ottomans!
I think the fact she knew is WHY they were able to be friends later on. LIke it's a weird way of thinking I'm sure but the fact she knew going into things that he was a cad, that their marriage didn't stop him and that he probibly continued after....means it was never her fault. It hurt no doubt that he couldn't keep it in his pants and the divorce was more than justified/warrented but at least she knew it WASN'T BECAUSE OF HER. It was a character flaw like being a gambler or an alcoholic, and sometimes love just isn't enough.
And he was both of those TOO. But his 2nd wife was like that as well. So that is what he needed: a wife who did mind the partying wild, unsettled life. And she looked like Lucy too, but she had dark hair.
It must have been so difficult for Gary, Lucy's second husband to cope with all that media footage of Lucy with Desi. Even when Lucy died he said "Lucy will be happy now as she is reunited with Desi"! WOW a very understanding man.
I was thinking the same thing. They're both of the white race. Race and culture/ethnicity are not the same thing. I think intercultural couple is a proper description of the two. People need to know the difference.
I grew up watching the "I love Lucy show" That was my mother's Favorite show,After my dad passed away,She watched it faithfully everyday and that's because my father and Desi (Ricky) resembled each other,When company used to come over and see my dad's pictures on the mantel,They used to say" Hey that's Ricky Ricardo" I use to reply"That's my dad"
Desi Arnaz was born in Cuba so he was not "Cuban American" like this video says. He was, indeed Cuban. Cuban American is when you are born in the USA from Cuban parents.
When they started Desi Lew production co, I believe they were the first company to film with multiple cameras 🎥 He had a horse ranch in Corona California
They started DesiLu, a combination of both their names. Yes, Desi Arnaz started the 3 camera filming method to record, I Love Lucy so they wouldn't have to move to New York and they put some of their own money up to record I Love Lucy, so they owned the films of I Love Lucy. With Desi Arnaz and Lucille Ball owning the films they were able sell the films back to CBS for 5 Million Dollars, this also started reruns. They were also the first television show not to use "canned" laughter and record the TV show in front of a live audience. Also, I have read in my books about Lucille Ball and I Love Lucy that Dezi Arnaz is responsible for starting the "Conga Line" here in the US, pretty cool to say the least. Lucille Ball is an American treasure, her Desi Arnaz, Vivian Vance and William Frawley continue to bless us with the gift of laughter. In my opinion I Love Lucy is the best show ever made.
Lucille was beautiful, charming and witty. She knew how was Dessi from the very beginning and she managed their relationship accordingly. I love Lucy ♥️❤️🌹🌷
Probably continued to love him for the rest of her days. Nothing you can do when the person you want doesn’t want you. Wonderful show that gave you a sense of loyalty and family. I. Feel for Lucy, being humiliated and broken hearted.
Lucy and Desi were not an interracial couple. Just because they were born in different countries and Desi was Hispanic, this alone does not qualify as "interracial". Being Hispanic is not a race, it is a cultural background. Desi was not Afro-cuban, nor Chinese-cuban, or any other race-Cuban. Desi was a white Cuban guy and Lucy was a very pretty blond American girl. She wasn't even a redhead. That's it. Would you call this marriage interacial if Desi had been born in Italy? Or Spain? or Puerto Rico? Seriously, I couldn't believe you said that in the video.
If the fan's knew that Desi was cheating on Lucy when their TV show "I Love Lucy" was so populer there would be no "I Love Lucy" show for long. That scandel would have ruined the show for good. The public loved this happy married couple. The stars had to keep their reputations clean because the public did not like emoral , disgusting extra-marital affairs. We had morals back-in-the-day. So the TV studio's and the movie studio's such as MGM probably had to pay a LOT of money out to prevent a scandel. Today when I watch Entertainment and hear & see how these so-called stars carry on having babies out of wedlock living together without the benefit of getting married, and cheating on their partners, I cannot possibly have any respect for them.
Actually, according to Lucy's autobiography, the public was VERY aware of their tempestuous relationship and breakups long before "I Love Lucy" ever premiered. It was the failures in their marriage that made the public love and root for them all the more when they became the Ricardos on tv.
@@mrsx7944 you know that back in the 50’s people cheated all the time. Hollywood stars like Clarke gable for example were notorious for that. Scandals happened all the time back in the day you just don’t hear about it as often as now because of they don’t have social media/ star magazine etc. Cheating was as common as it is today it was just a thing not talked about and people put up with horrible marriages as now people don’t stay and leave more often. There was a lot of suffering behind closed doors in 50s.
Everyone knew, even then. Nothing to do with their excellent work in television. Desi introduced all types of new techniques in televising shows. Lucy had been a model before acting, she knew what went on in the business.
@@dbj1852 Reminds me that I was saying to someone recently that there were actually more school shootings back in the day than there ard now, but there were no national, 24/7 TV news networks, no national radio networks, no national newspapers, no internet etc., so you'd only hear and read about the very, very occasional shootings in your immediate part of not even the country, but of the state.
She's just like my mom who loves her husband forever mostly because she says that at their wedding the priest said "Till death Do depart." My mom took this as a commitment or even a covenant. Although my dad was a womanizer.
Who invented the three camera, Television studio Recording in front of a Live audience, production system? Desi Arnaz. Who insisted that Star Trek TOS get a second, Color premier and 13 episode, network television season? Lucile Ball!
CBS execs didn't like the pilot, but bought the show to appease Lucy (who owned Paramount at the time, where the show was produced as a "Desilu' production). It was cancelled on CBS after one season. NBC then picked it up and it ran for two seasons there as a Paramount/Desilu production.
The studio did not accept Desi as Lucy's tv husband. After going on the road with the I Love Lucy concept, they put up their own money for the I Love Lucy show.
It was sad to see their relationship suffer from his infidelity. What Desi did was played out in public, because of their fame. Perhaps they stayed friends because Lucy understood that infidelity did not mean he did not love her, but that monogamy was not in his nature. If someone like Hugh Hefner did this, it was part of a playboy lifestyle, if someone like Desi did this, it was an affront to the image portrayed in the 50’s. What can’t be denied is they still respected each other and that meant Lucy would not take his infidelity personally, as humiliating as it was. While they failed as a couple, they wildly succeeded at everything else. Lucy was a workaholic, and perhaps Desi was addicted to sex. Ultimately, she still must have believed in his essential goodness as a person, despite his philandering.
You can be good friends with your ex. She didn't want to stay married to him, sure, she even called him a loser, but that doesn't mean she wouldn't want to stay close. They shared kids, a business empire, and a brand together.
Interracial?! He was white too! Being Cuban is not a race; there are chinese cubans, black cubans etc... also. It's like saying being American is a certain race.
He loved her. But he felt inferior to her. He saw her as way above her. I saw an interview where he said this. This will spur this type of person to keep going towards other woman who will look up to him etc.
She knew he cheated - the whole reason she put a TV show together was to keep him home instead of touring with his band, since he couldn’t keep his pants zipped. She later said she married a loser.
@@balyszamalaitis7527 lol no denying that after hearing this. The cheating for one but he basically said that hookers weren't even people if you listen to the quote again. He was good looking though. Their kids, grandkids and great grandkids look so much like Lucy ❤ including the great granddaughter who just passed away from breast cancer at 29.
As a child. I sat and watched. Who knew then. . Today I sit and watch knowing their problems. I don't care. Because it makes me feel good. Yet hearing about all their problems. I cry. Because that love they had for each other...is awesome. They put aside their problems. Pursued on their professional life, just to give us the Greatest storytime episodes. Love you Lucy and Ricky.
My husband is of German and English decent, (a white man),and I’m black or African American. We consider ourselves an interracial couple. Race is a social construct anyway, but that’s a lot to deconstruct on this platform.
nancysrios @ I agree. They were not an interracial couple. They were an intercultural couple. Desi was a Cuban of European ancestry. That's why they were able to get a marriage license in 1940 and when you look at their children, Lucie and Desi Jr., they are perfectly white. The level of ignorance out there is disheartening.
Desi not only cheated on Lucy with women but also with men. Yes that's right. He was bisexual and was reportedly involved in homosexual relationships with other men including actor Cesar Romero. Sad.
I love Lucy and Oesi they loved each other peoples not perfect I would loved to know them I hope their in heaven I love both of them they were wonderful
1 Corinthians 6 9 Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, 10 Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God
How was their relationship interracial? Lucille Ball was of English ancestry and Desi Arnaz's family came from Spain. They are both descendant from Europeans. The only difference is that they were raised speaking different languages!
2:27 in the 1950s they weren't considered an interracial couple, back then Cubans were considered white, even on the US census, they were classified as white. The contention was that he was an immigrant with an accent.
He’s Latin and Machismo is really a thing and certainly was back then. She knew.... she’s a smart woman. You can love someone unconditionally yet know that you can no longer live with that person.
Even if you're not a male celebrity, as soon as you get a girlfriend or, even more, married, females who showed zero interest in you when you were single and available and looking for love or companionship, start flirting with, to throwing themselves at, you, sexually, subtly to blatantly. One reason many females hate other females, I suppose.
They will go down in history as a classic show and a couple that will always be remembered as classic as their show i feel the two did love each other very much I think his lifestyle growing up in Cuba and seeing what he saw growing up it seemed to be acceptable behavior to be with other women and thats the way he lived never hiding it from her for she knew of his womanizing behavior even before she married him I felt bad for her she was a tough lady but loved him so much she was putty in his hands reguardless these two people will always live on as a couple and talented duo a class a act r.i.p. you guys will never be forgotten
Lucy still loved Desi as much as he loved her, It wasnt all known to be true that he cheated on her completely the whole time, he may have had girlfriends multiple times but less likely 20 yrs. I love them both, may God bless them and make them happy!
Scripture differs with who God can bless! 1 Corinthians 6 9 Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, 10 Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God
Hmm, everyone saying they still "loved" each other "madly" even after they divorced...and married other people? I give you...George Burns, another legend, who was widowed and NEVER remarried...and lived to 100, as I'm sure most know. For a more sophisticated comedy duo (not physical), I give you "The Goerge Burns and Gracie Allen Show". Their show preceded and outlasted "I Love Lucy", but not widely syndicated like ILL. Gracie was underrated.
OH MY! the picture of Lucy and Desi head to head with the pink background.....we have this on our mantle! A man in New York had all kinds of painted pictures of them and we chose this one!!!! We love the show. I don't care what's in their personal lives. They all brought such joy to me. NO one is perfect and we all have skeletons in our closets. I'll always love Lucy....
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HOW can you say they were "INTERRACIAL" he, like most Cubans at the time was of Spanish decent....Spain is in Europe right???
@@tickles5289 Spanish as in speaking Spanish due to colonization, Cubans are ethnically mixed and varied. Like USA Americans and with overlaps.
@@Mynnia No,I mean as in what I said
Dezi was a criollo like myself and many others ..Please keep your victimhood to yourself . Stop conflating historic periods and people born 100s of years apart.
The majority of Cubans are and were of Spanish descent. Please don't make this about your personal issues . I'm discussing my own people
@@tickles5289 You are absolutely right. Non-Cuban latinos make it about their own personal issues. Many Latin American countries are in deed the products of colonization. Cuba on the other hand was the product of settlers. The indigneous people have been killed off, so there wasn't this enormous mestizaje between a handful of colonizers and "raped" indigenous masses. Someone like Desi Arnaz was not an mestizo like you find in Mexico or Central or South America, but rather a criollo which means a European born in the Caribbean.
@@rayarena879 good points
It’s so hurtful when a partner cheats. How Lucy tolerated it for 20 years is beyond me.
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And with hookers!!! Yuck!!!
She actually didn't. She actually filed for a divorce about 9 years into their marriage because she was so tired of the philandering. She with the court documents, and went on to have 2 children with him. I think see tolerated it because she did want children.
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I would have agreed with you about motherhood, until I watched some interviews with her children. It may have been she just wanted Desi, a sucker for his charisma and romantic side.
As a mother she was described as a control freak, emotionally distant, temperamental...pretty much the opposite of her tv character.
I bet it would be tough having a parent 'seen' as one way, but really be another.
One of Nelson Mandela's kids has reported similar ironies.
Me too. That is usually a deal breaker.
I couldn’t even imagine cheating my wife. She’s too damn good to me. I love her more and more every second of the day.
cheatings and sexual activities are two different things. if you can accept the fact that no one owns your body not even your spouse; then you might have abettor chance at a long marriage. desi had manly appetites and lucy wanted to boss him around so he took his yearning to be a man to AHEM. be on top . in other ways. and in other bedrooms. many of Lucy's co workers and employees knew what his off screen life was like. she only minded when he became sloppy. bar girls hat check girls meant nothing to her. her only rule was "NOT WITH ANY OF MY FRIENDS"
Say it brutha!!!!
@@thomasdelvin3683 how do you know????
@@thomasdelvin3683 o
That's great for you. I think it's different for every person and every marriage and I also would guess that a famous person might have a higher level of temptation than you do.
Lucille Ball never stopped loving Desi, it's sad how hurt she was over him.
You knew her?
Wow
@@siemonjf ... yes, Rita was bedded by Desi as well.
True but she kept taking him back over and over again
She knew of his philandering that is why she wanted to work with him so she could actually spend time with him.
In I Love Lucy there were several episodes where "Lucy Ricardo" was jealous of other women being around Ricky and also afraid that Ricky was cheating on her. But in real life during that same time period Desi was actually cheating on "Lucille Ball" with other women. I always wondered how that made Lucille Ball feel having to act that out on camera while it was actually happening in real life at the same time.
She knew he cheated - the whole reason she put a TV show together was to keep him home instead of touring with his band, since he couldn’t keep his pants zipped. She later said she married a loser.
She didn't have to act.
@@mjohnson1741 - LOL yea I guess not.
@@chadkincham yet she stayed with that.loser for 20 years when she didnt HAVE to. I will NEVER excuse cheating no matter if it s the man OR woman doing the cheating. I am simply saying she loved him LIVING with him was hard. She did put up with it because she chose to but they did find a way to stay riends after the divorce so he couldnt have been ALL bad
She didn't HAVE to do anything - she owned the show, she helped write the show, and she produced the show. If it is IN the show - SHE greenlighted it and it was intentional on her end.
This was my mom's favorite show. I remember coming home from high school and she'd have it on while cooking. Beautiful memories. Rest in Peace mom, Lucy and Desi ❤ Thanks for making us laugh.
They were NOT interracial. They were inter-ethnic. Many Cubans are Caucasian originating from Spain. Desi's family was one of them. Lucy and Desi were different ethnically. Yes, they were considered mixed in the 1940-50's. Actually, there were other famous mixed couples at the time, but they got the most attention. Very few people fussed about Ricardo Montelban being married to Georgiana Young (Loretta Young's sister) or Brazilian singer/star Carmen Miranda who was married to her Texan American husband David Sebastian until her death.
Thank you. My father came from a small town in Cuba that was founded in the mid 1700's where 90% of the population was of Spanish descent. After the slave revolt in Haiti, Spain gave land grants to Spanish families -not single men- to settle the island, and European immigration was encouraged up to the 1930's and 40's. Pre Castro, 75% of Cubans were of European descent. This is not to belittle or disrespect Cuba's amazing Afro Cuban culture and music which ALL Cubans are proud of, but to call Desi and Lucy's marriage interracial is incorrect.
What is "race," though?
Yall want to be white so bad
Also Esther Williams and Fernando Lamas (I guess they were married back then too).
I know, who ever wrote this is showing their stupidity - Desi Arnaz and Lucille Ball are both Caucasians.
Some Americans are so incredibly ignorant🤯
Thank you for reruns! With Lucille Ball being a great comedian, and Desi Arnaz as the straight guy, and musical talent, is what made this show a big hit.
Lucy was absolutely beautiful!
Nah….
Dude...
Yes she was
Blue eyes and red hair, she was beautiful, especially in color photos.
Little white boys' joke back in the day: Little White Boy 1 to Little White Boy 2: "What 's the name of that tv show? With the Mexican guy with the bongos? And always going 'BABA LOO!' You know. And the wife with the red hair?" Little White Boy 2: "I Love Lucy." Little White Boy 1: (Pointing, mocking, loudly:) "EEEWWW - you said YOU LOVE LUCY!" Little White Boy 2: (Extremely humiliated, angry) "No! No! No! I HATE Lucy!" And we all did. Everything about her was ugly and in bad taste and unattractive to us. We were normal, hetero, young white boys. Not getting paid to be with her and F her once in a few dozen blue moons, like DA and Gary Morton were. Back in those days in the Northeastern USA, long before lasers and light pulse machines, there were many, many, many females as hairy as Robin Williams as Mrs. Doubtfire but without all that bothersome hair removal, calling us all homosexuals because we weren't attracted to females with thick, thick thick forearm (and who knew where else) hair and thick, thick, thick mustaches. You got used to it. To their non-stop lying to themselves and to each other, I mean. You'd even feel sorry for them, if they weren't too ugly on the inside, also.
I’m glad they were able to remain friends after the divorce. I’ know that helped their children.
What does that help???
The children didn't have to choose sides.
@@carrieheffernan1685 yes. even now years after both parents s death, both their children talk with a lot of love about BOTH parents, that s the way it SHOULD be and often it is not
Yes, you divorce your spouse, never your kids!!!! and yes, he was a handsome man, that was Lucy's headache!!! It's a well know fact that he cheated on her a lot!!! Maybe he didn't really love her, if you love your spouse, girlfriend, boyfriend, etc., you don't really love that person, period!!! Regardless of how rich or famous you are.
@@rosaestela1000 many people are different, I know you can love your spouse even if you cheat. Some don’t but many do. No period.
Watching I love Lucy when I was a kid I never not once thought of Lucy and Desi so-called race or ethnicity. I just laughed my ass off.
@@samuelm.5752 It's American capitalism (i.e., BOTH the dema and the repubs) that stoke the race thing ... and the gender thing, and the immigrant thing, and the religion thing. Capitalism LIKES division.
@@samuelm.5752 And Democrats aren't socialists.
Lately that’s where they are trending.
I never even thought about it. I just loved Lucy and Ricky and never gave anything else another thought. Kids aren't born racist, they're taught to be that way.
Me too! I never looked at it that way, just a funny couple. I still love this show!
What’s the point of marriage if you’re gonna cheat the whole time?! Simple… stay single.
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Exactly. Cheating can do serious damage, especially when the couple has kids.
They wanted to start a family together, and back then, you got married in order to do that, which I agree with. The way things are done today is backwards and willy nilly.
@@ahill4642 IF you cheat on your spouse , you are cheating on your own children just as much ! So much destruction !
I still love these two. They contributed so much to our lives.
Lucille said that Desi was an incredibly smart and talented man, yet there was something inside of him that said he didn’t deserve any of the success he built for himself and so he destroyed things in his life, such as his marriage by having affairs and drinking heavily during their marriage. It’s sad, yet there are people like that. They’re so successful, built something from the ground up, perhaps has a great family and yet something tells them they don’t deserve any of it and so they wreck a good thing they have going.
There are some people who have an equal amount of constructive and destructive impulses. They build amazing things themselves and then destroy the things they build.
It might be a cultural thing, my father had a hispanic co-worker who always cheated on his wife, though he said if he ever caught his wife cheating on him he'd kill her, I guess a lot of hispanic men back in those days were like that
I'm not sure if it's still that way now?
@@sherri419 They are. Hispanic men (and Desi was one) have an ingrained desire to mess around on their wives. It isn't a love thing, it is strictly a sex thing. I have a few hispanic friends, and cheating on their wives is just the way they are. Same with Filipinos. Desi & Lucy genuinely loved each other. But his affairs ruined their marriage.
Love the show and them as a couple. Don't like knowing that he was constantly cheating on her. Beautiful woman that helped him in many ways, great comedian. Don't like men that can't be loyal to one woman. One thing I can't tolerate.
takes some GODLINESS to pull that off.
@@forpetessake3532 known many decent people that are capable of loyalty, love, and commitment to one person. Should be more people like that. Called humanity, and not devoid of feelings for other people.
For all those wanting to jump on the negative bandwagon, go look up the 1986 Kennedy Center Honors with Ray Charles AND Lucille Ball. 5 days prior to the taping, Desi Arnaz passed away. Lucille not only attended his funeral, but flew right over to Washington, DC to be honored at the Center. When Robert Stack comes on stage, he reads a note Desi wrote about Lucy right before his death. Watch her reaction. I dare you to conclude she stopped loving him...
Robert Stack. Dreamy.
Many women think "With me it will be different" when faced with a man they love who has a reputation as a womaniser. Lucy was so shattered by her divorce she got married again 11 months later!!!! I feel so sorry for her. She has it all, money, fame, a fabulous career, beauty but could not cope with a husband who cheated on her. How Desi must have hurt her over the years and why? She adored him.
He passed away 26 years after they divorced. By then it was water under the bridge and they were friends.
I've watched nearly every episode and not once have I ever detected even the slightest hint of racism in the show's writing. Sure, it had its fair share of Hispanic stereotypes but that show serves as a perfect model where stereotypes are tastefully and lightheartedly incorporated for a few laughs. And honestly, it's brilliant. You go away being able to laugh at a different culture but never once get the sense it is inferior or undesirable. If anything, Ricky Ricardo's charm, wit, and portrayal as a normal person who happens to have an accent is to date one of the most progressive and groundbreaking representations of the Hispanic community on TV because it's the closest to the truth.
Other shows and films always portrayed Hispanics in a very demeaning manner as people of low intelligence, one-dimensional, and harping on tired stereotypes designed to make us look bad as a community. The fact Ricky Ricardo was a household character name of a Hispanic that people of all backgrounds loved and could relate to is remarkable for its time.
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I agree. By today's thin skinned standards of "racism" the show could be called that but as a Mexican American kind growing up it was fun to have somebody with an accent similar to my own father on TV. We could relate to Ricky's "unique English but also to the fact that he was a smart, talented hard working person. Ricky was a great role model.
It's a shame that Lucy and Desi had those marital problems but i don't make judgements on private marital situations. It always takes two.
Well stated.
I think it’s a mistake to describe their marriage as “interracial.” Ball and Arnaz were of the same race but of different ethnic backgrounds. Arnaz was responsible for the success of “I Love Lucy” far more than most people realize because of his many talents including as a producer and head of Desilu. I admire him for that, but I would admire him far more had he been a faithful husband and a better example to his children, especially to his son who has had a very troubled life.
Makes me happy they stayed friends. Good for the kids also.
If you can name a dozen celebrities who arent/havent cheated on their wives, I'll give you a solid thumbs up
I think it was common in those days to have a bunch of women at their beck and call
What about Freddie Prince Jr and Sarah Michelle Gellar
@My Medicare University MMU My first thought, too
Danny Di Vito?
@My Medicare University MMU Paul Newman was the man tbh, seemed like a great guy
Comments Lucy made about Desi long after the divorce doesn't indicate she thought much of him.
Lucy is living proof men are not unfaithful because their wives let themselves go!!!!
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I've been a huge fan of Desi and Lucy for half a century. I never thought of them as interracial or heard them described that way until 2021. I really despise the race obsessed time that we are living in. They were two different nationalities, so what?? Why does that suddenly have to matter?
Exactly!!it is getting Insane! It causes racism I think
Liberals obsess about it
TV networks were very scared of things like that back then, they even made them sleep in 2 separate beds and not use the word pregnant, etc, but the public didn't seem to mind just the TV networks were worried.
@@sherri419EVERY married couple on TV slept in separate beds up until they didn't. It was the 70s before TV admitted that people had toilets. I think it was All In The Family who made the perfectly timed flushing noises.
I wrote to Lucie Arnaz when she was in town opening a play ..And Gosh darn it I got a Autographed picture of her the next day in the mail with this long personal letter ..Thats class
Really? What did it say? I hope you have it safe somewhere !
Yes he cheated on her for years. I remember my mother telling me this.
Same here. My mother was always confused about how could she cheat on him when the two were on set together most of the time.
@@kittyythecat The reverse!!!!!
She cheated on him as well with Mr. T.
@@larrylegend8653 I guess he pitied himself for being a fool..... Sorry bad joke. I'll go hide now
That was a funny rumor about her having affair with mr. T. Desi was the one who cheated on her and hurt her physically and emotionally
Sad that 😢Lucy was hurt by Desi.
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I love Lucy! They worked well together. They never stopped loving each other. They brought joy in many homes. One of our favorite show. That’s Hispanic Celebrities for you.
Cheating on your wife is not love! It's selfish and so destructive to the spouse and no one enters the kingdom of God with that unrepented sin!
1 Corinthians 6
9 Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,
10 Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God
@@kellyanneree3252 that’s between God and them! However, I loved their show. Love the sinner hate ALL sin!!
@@kellyanneree3252 oh pllleeease……. I don’t need or want a bible lesson. Give me a damn break. No bible crap for me. Thx.
@@Pisces3139 they weren’t even talking to you so why be rude? Btw just because you don’t believe in God doesn’t mean no one else does. Show some respect.
Arnaz' autobiography goes into this (a fascinating read), and the cultural background, for lack of a better word, 'stepping out' on his marriage (woman did/do it too) was ingrained into his childhood through his culture. Marriage transgressions obviously did not translate in 1940s America and with Lucille, and that's where I find fault in Arnaz. But I suppose falling in love does not always mean intimate communication about how each culture approaches the bonds and limitations of marriage. Doomed from the start if you ask me.
@ S.L.P. I also read Desi Arnaz’ autobiography ( titled “ A Book “) back in 1979. He admitted that he cheated on Lucy, but he was adamant in his assertion that she also did her share of cheating on him. His side of the story doesn’t get nearly enough publicity as hers.
Stepping out is a black term made to sound ok. Its adultery
@@hawaiigirl8089 Exactly.. adultery... infidelity.. Let's call 'em as we see 'em.
@@LAorBust2011 why do you think i did ANY THING OTHERWISE Dinandrea?
@@DH-ve5bl well, of course he'd say that. There's no information out there that anyone else knew about her so called "cheating". Perhaps it's true but I don't believe it.
And Desi was super jealous : during the shooting of The Big Street in 1942, Desi was afraid of letting Lucille alone with her partner Henry Fonda. Lucille and Henry dated once in the 30s, but no romance between them. Still, they like each other very much and Desi felt very insecure when Henry was around... So, during the shooting of the movie, he stayed on the set to keep an eye on his wife. But Desi was so paranoid that the director asked him to leave the set!
Almost 25 years later, Lucille and Henry made Yours, Mine and Ours and you really feel this chemistry between the 2 actors.
Henry was a great actor. Seems like a good Man.
Wow! Interesting!
I liked Lucille Ball and Henry Fonda in Yours, Mine, and Hours
it was a movie made in 1960s
I still love them both!!! Their personal relationship was and always will be PRIVATE!!! Love does conquer all!!! God love them both!!!
Yes, I understand how Lucy must have felt, and how she maybe thought that he didn't deserve respect or privacy, but debating it or her talking about in videos, or the rest of us debating it when it's not our place, I agree. They were both so talented.
Agreed, none of our business .
Good point. Private indeed.
I don't see the point of this video. They've both been dead 30+ years. None of anyone's business anyway.
Well it wasn’t private but public. The floundering was one thing but the boozing is what brought him down, also gambling.
Desi loved her, no doubt about that!! No matter what he did, he really loved her, you can see it in his eyes❤
Then, I don’t want that kind of love
You don't manifest love through feelings, it's your actions towards that person that count. You don't show love when you lie and cheat on a spouse.
Correction: This was not the first TV interracial couple. Desi was a decedent of Spaniards. Spain is in Europe. Lucy's lineage is from Europe as well. They may have been born on different land masses(the USA and Cuba) and speak two different European languages(English and Spanish) but they were not an interracial couple!
Thank you for stating that. I was going to say the same. People do not seem to understand that Nationality is not Race. The term here would have been inter-cultural, NOT interracial. Unless Desi had some Black ancestry, which some Cubans have, this would not have been interracial. And even if he had, it doesn't make any difference.
You're thinking of it in today's standards. At the time, their marriage was indeed considered a mixed marriage. Desi was a foreigner and of Latin descent. Lucy's family were of English and Scotch descent. Even today, many people from those Islands would rankle at being referred to as European. Brexit anyone? Desi was even denied membership in country clubs because of his Cuban background, even after the success of I Love Lucy.
PREACH!!!!
That’s right! 👍
All Latinos whether from the U.S..or other Latin countries are the white race.
According to their children, Lucy knew that Desi was whoring the whole time, and she really didn't care. She knew that it was SHE that he loved. The other stuff was just sex. When this all came out in the tabloids in the late fifties, Lucy was embarrassed and felt that she HAD to divorce him to save face. She regretted that decision for the rest of her life. Lucie Arnaz says that one of the last people that Desi talked to before he died was Lucy. They both expressed their regrets and undying love.
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I don’t think she regretted divorcing but regretted that the marriage had soured and could not be what she had wanted. She was tired of his lifestyle and had enough. His drinking caused him to be belligerent. Keith who played little Ricky was invited to their home to play a lot and confirmed that there was fighting.
@@suestephan3255 she wrote a letter to one of her closet friends saying that he was the love of her life, but she just could not take it anymore.
Ok here we go again. If you watch the last show of Desi Lucy Comedy Hour and take a look at Desi. His dark hair lighter but his face looked like someone whose coming off a good bender, he looked old. So I don’t believe she wasn’t bothered by being with multiple women but you cannot discount the trouble he caused her with his drinking and the fighting. I know first hand he was a nasty mean drunk and after years she was plain over it and the fighting. Two things Keith(Little Ricky) was invited by Lucy to spend weekends at their home, as a young boy he was sad to see & hear the fighting and said she often felt uncomfortable. So their marriage was not the picture or what we saw on TV and Keith said that was sad to him. What Lucy once had was destroyed. Desi went down even father a couple years after so he was asked to relinquish his part in the Co.
@@suestephan3255 how do you know "first hand"?
They were Not an interracial couple. Desi Arnaz had European ancestry. He was Caucasian. It should not matter if Desi was of another race. But you should get your facts straight.
You are absolutely correct. To label them as an interracial couple is either for the benefit of sensationalism or just plain ignorance. It is obvious that Desi was almost entirely if not entirely European genetically. Many Spaniards arrived in Cuba in the late 19th and early 20th century. Offsprings of marriages between them would simply produce Europeans. Colonial white Cubans, on the other hand, may have had a dash of this or that but hardly enough to label them another race. I’m not sure if Desi is a product of one or the other but his appearance is strictly Southern European.
I believe they still loved each other even after the divorce. I loved them both.
I believe the same that Lucy and Desi always loved each other, and I loved them both, too!!!
Desi & Lucy had great chemistry on screen.
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There was nothing interracial about them as a couple. If you read Desi's autobiography, his family originally came from Spain to Cuba.
Exactly! My father was Cuban and also 100% Spanish as Cuba encouraged immigration from Spain. Also, Desi was from the Cuban upper crust, and they are mostly of Spanish -and a little Irish- descent.
Yup, they were both Caucasian. Intercultural is the proper word.
Lot of Spanish are mixed, they were invaded by Ottomans after all. Desi is definitely one of them.
@@Im_so_Retro85 If Desi was white, the kids would have resembled Lucy a bit. As it is they don't.
@@BlackbirdArtandDesign Ottomans?? When exactly was Spain part of the Ottoman Empire? I have a MA in Spanish history and Spain was never part of the Ottoman Empire. Spain was invaded by the Arabs (not the Ottomans) from 711-1492, but they never went North of the Picos de Europa. And during the Reconquista, the areas of Spain that were reconquered from the Arabs were resettled by people from France and sometimes what is now Germany. The region of Spain where there is more mixture with Arabs is Andalucía and parts of Valencia and Alicante. Most Spanish immigrants to Cuba came from the Canary Islands and northern Spain. Regardless, do not tell any Spaniard they are Ottomans!
Neither. What most surprised me was the fact that they were separated when the show opened.
I think the fact she knew is WHY they were able to be friends later on.
LIke it's a weird way of thinking I'm sure but the fact she knew going into things that he was a cad, that their marriage didn't stop him and that he probibly continued after....means it was never her fault.
It hurt no doubt that he couldn't keep it in his pants and the divorce was more than justified/warrented but at least she knew it WASN'T BECAUSE OF HER. It was a character flaw like being a gambler or an alcoholic, and sometimes love just isn't enough.
And he was both of those TOO. But his 2nd wife was like that as well. So that is what he needed: a wife who did mind the partying wild, unsettled life. And she looked like Lucy too, but she had dark hair.
That’s wat I call a beautiful life till the end regardless of the divorce
They were not interracial. They were intercultural. If you haven’t noticed Desi was white.
More surprised that they stayed friends. True love.
It must have been so difficult for Gary, Lucy's second husband to cope with all that media footage of Lucy with Desi. Even when Lucy died he said "Lucy will be happy now as she is reunited with Desi"! WOW a very understanding man.
@@ritaheilig6671 same thing for Desi's wife.
I don't know how their marriage is considered interracial. They're both of the same race, just from different countries.
It's not interracial. They were the same race smh. It's intercultural !
I was thinking the same thing. They're both of the white race. Race and culture/ethnicity are not the same thing. I think intercultural couple is a proper description of the two. People need to know the difference.
@@destinymagic7694 Exactly! Intercultural is the right description.
Hahahaha
@@Im_so_Retro85 The first inter racial couple on television was Lenny Kravitz s mom, Roxie Roker, on the Jeffersons.
I grew up watching the "I love Lucy show" That was my mother's Favorite show,After my dad passed away,She watched it faithfully everyday and that's because my father and Desi (Ricky) resembled each other,When company used to come over and see my dad's pictures on the mantel,They used to say" Hey that's Ricky Ricardo" I use to reply"That's my dad"
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Your dad must have been very handsome!! :)
Oh nice warm memories for u!🥰💕💜💙🙏🙏
Desi Arnaz was born in Cuba so he was not "Cuban American" like this video says. He was, indeed Cuban. Cuban American is when you are born in the USA from Cuban parents.
i cannot believe he would cheat on her. she was so gorgeous inside and out, it baffles me. she was the ideal woman and she was funny?!
When they started Desi Lew production co, I believe they were the first company to film with multiple cameras 🎥
He had a horse ranch in Corona California
They started DesiLu, a combination of both their names. Yes, Desi Arnaz started the 3 camera filming method to record, I Love Lucy so they wouldn't have to move to New York and they put some of their own money up to record I Love Lucy, so they owned the films of I Love Lucy. With Desi Arnaz and Lucille Ball owning the films they were able sell the films back to CBS for 5 Million Dollars, this also started reruns. They were also the first television show not to use "canned" laughter and record the TV show in front of a live audience. Also, I have read in my books about Lucille Ball and I Love Lucy that Dezi Arnaz is responsible for starting the "Conga Line" here in the US, pretty cool to say the least. Lucille Ball is an American treasure, her Desi Arnaz, Vivian Vance and William Frawley continue to bless us with the gift of laughter. In my opinion I Love Lucy is the best show ever made.
I LOVED THAT SHOW.. SHE WAS SUCH A BEAUTIFUL WOMAN. GREAT ACTRESS..
When I first heard they got divorced I couldn't believe it.
We were so surprised as well, Carrie
@@FactsVerse i would have never thought it would happen to them.
Desi had a lot of early unresolved family trauma in his youth. That in of itself contributes to 99% of addiction.
What type of trauma?
I wonder if Lucy ever cheated on Desi. I also wonder what she said to herself and how she could still lay with him after he was with other women.
Lucille was beautiful, charming and witty. She knew how was Dessi from the very beginning and she managed their relationship accordingly.
I love Lucy ♥️❤️🌹🌷
Desi never deserved Luci.
Probably continued to love him for the rest of her days. Nothing you can do when the person you want doesn’t want you.
Wonderful show that gave you a sense of loyalty and family. I. Feel for Lucy, being humiliated and broken hearted.
I don’t think he didn’t want or love her I think he had a lack of integrity.
@@truly3743 it was not that EITHER. Based on his cultural upbringing, he did not see himself as doing anything wrong.
Lucy and Desi were not an interracial couple. Just because they were born in different countries and Desi was Hispanic, this alone does not qualify as "interracial". Being Hispanic is not a race, it is a cultural background. Desi was not Afro-cuban, nor Chinese-cuban, or any other race-Cuban. Desi was a white Cuban guy and Lucy was a very pretty blond American girl. She wasn't even a redhead. That's it. Would you call this marriage interacial if Desi had been born in Italy? Or Spain? or Puerto Rico? Seriously, I couldn't believe you said that in the video.
Totally agree. It was very annoying.
At 2:32: “Cuban” is not a race. It’s a nationality. Desi and Lucille were not an interracial couple.
It's amazing that two strong personalities like that would last two decades. I believe she adored him.
"Cuban" is a nationality, not a race.
True, but most of the people in Cuba are not white
That really could have been said much kinder
05:57 TO HER OWN SURPRISE SHE SAID YES
I don’t know if Desi was part Indian, but being Hispanic is not another race.
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I love them both RIP together forever
If the fan's knew that Desi was cheating on Lucy when their TV show "I Love Lucy" was so populer there would be no "I Love Lucy" show for long. That scandel would have ruined the show for good. The public loved this happy married couple. The stars had to keep their reputations clean because the public did not like emoral , disgusting extra-marital affairs. We had morals back-in-the-day. So the TV studio's and the movie studio's such as MGM probably had to pay a LOT of money out to prevent a scandel. Today when I watch Entertainment and hear & see how these so-called stars carry on having babies out of wedlock living together without the benefit of getting married, and cheating on their partners, I cannot possibly have any respect for them.
Agree . if the public knew that DA was a serial philanderer the show wouldn't have lasted. Ppl has respect for the institution of marriage back then.
Actually, according to Lucy's autobiography, the public was VERY aware of their tempestuous relationship and breakups long before "I Love Lucy" ever premiered. It was the failures in their marriage that made the public love and root for them all the more when they became the Ricardos on tv.
@@mrsx7944 you know that back in the 50’s people cheated all the time. Hollywood stars like Clarke gable for example were notorious for that. Scandals happened all the time back in the day you just don’t hear about it as often as now because of they don’t have social media/ star magazine etc. Cheating was as common as it is today it was just a thing not talked about and people put up with horrible marriages as now people don’t stay and leave more often. There was a lot of suffering behind closed doors in 50s.
Everyone knew, even then. Nothing to do with their excellent work in television. Desi introduced all types of new techniques in televising shows. Lucy had been a model before acting, she knew what went on in the business.
@@dbj1852 Reminds me that I was saying to someone recently that there were actually more school shootings back in the day than there ard now, but there were no national, 24/7 TV news networks, no national radio networks, no national newspapers, no internet etc., so you'd only hear and read about the very, very occasional shootings in your immediate part of not even the country, but of the state.
More that she knew , but married him anyway . undoubtedly thinking she could change him .
Desi seemed like a self sabotager.
She's just like my mom who loves her husband forever mostly because she says that at their wedding the priest said "Till death Do depart." My mom took this as a commitment or even a covenant.
Although my dad was a womanizer.
Who invented the three camera, Television studio Recording in front of a Live audience, production system?
Desi Arnaz.
Who insisted that Star Trek TOS get a second, Color premier and 13 episode, network television season?
Lucile Ball!
CBS execs didn't like the pilot, but bought the show to appease Lucy (who owned Paramount at the time, where the show was produced as a "Desilu' production). It was cancelled on CBS after one season. NBC then picked it up and it ran for two seasons there as a Paramount/Desilu production.
Once a cheater, always a cheater
Grow up
Ain't that the truth
As a little girl watching this show I always pictured myself marring a guy like Ricky. I use to love that man.
She was soo beautiful!
She truly was.
An absolutely gorgeous redhead🥇🤩🤩😎👍🏻😍😍😍
Yes she was, and Desi was extremely handsome! They were a beautiful couple!
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Your angel is saying to you; "Stay strong and believe in miracles.Your blessings are coming. Claim it with faith,"Amen.💕
AMEN
I claim my miracle in the name of Jesus. Amen
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@pat cole so did I.
The studio did not accept Desi as Lucy's tv husband. After going on the road with the I Love Lucy concept, they put up their own money for the I Love Lucy show.
Thanks for pointing this out. This video is riddled with inaccuracies, boasting, and trigger words.
It was sad to see their relationship suffer from his infidelity. What Desi did was played out in public, because of their fame. Perhaps they stayed friends because Lucy understood that infidelity did not mean he did not love her, but that monogamy was not in his nature. If someone like Hugh Hefner did this, it was part of a playboy lifestyle, if someone like Desi did this, it was an affront to the image portrayed in the 50’s. What can’t be denied is they still respected each other and that meant Lucy would not take his infidelity personally, as humiliating as it was. While they failed as a couple, they wildly succeeded at everything else. Lucy was a workaholic, and perhaps Desi was addicted to sex. Ultimately, she still must have believed in his essential goodness as a person, despite his philandering.
You can be good friends with your ex. She didn't want to stay married to him, sure, she even called him a loser, but that doesn't mean she wouldn't want to stay close. They shared kids, a business empire, and a brand together.
She did, and attributed his genius and business acumen to the success of ILL and DesiLu studioes.
And that's hollywood for ya🤷🏻♂️
Interracial?! He was white too! Being Cuban is not a race; there are chinese cubans, black cubans etc... also. It's like saying being American is a certain race.
Monogamy is not for everyone. It's okay as long as you are honest with your other half. Let's get real.
Smdh ..Lucille ball truly did love Desi
He loved her. But he felt inferior to her. He saw her as way above her. I saw an interview where he said this. This will spur this type of person to keep going towards other woman who will look up to him etc.
She knew he cheated - the whole reason she put a TV show together was to keep him home instead of touring with his band, since he couldn’t keep his pants zipped. She later said she married a loser.
He sure was handsome and she sure was beautiful ❤
And he sure was an asshole
@@balyszamalaitis7527 lol no denying that after hearing this. The cheating for one but he basically said that hookers weren't even people if you listen to the quote again. He was good looking though. Their kids, grandkids and great grandkids look so much like Lucy ❤ including the great granddaughter who just passed away from breast cancer at 29.
Hookers are disgusting.
As a child. I sat and watched. Who knew then. . Today I sit and watch knowing their problems. I don't care. Because it makes me feel good. Yet hearing about all their problems. I cry. Because that love they had for each other...is awesome. They put aside their problems. Pursued on their professional life, just to give us the Greatest storytime episodes. Love you Lucy and Ricky.
Couldn't have said it better myself
She made him. He was nothing before her.
I disagree about them being an interracial couple. It’s was an ethnically mixed couple.
My husband is of German and English decent, (a white man),and I’m black or African American. We consider ourselves an interracial couple.
Race is a social construct anyway, but that’s a lot to deconstruct on this platform.
That she was for sure 😍
It is what it is. It was what it was. Maybe anyone young person under 25 might agree with you, but not the oldergeneration. Got it !
nancysrios @ I agree. They were not an interracial couple. They were an intercultural couple. Desi was a Cuban of European ancestry. That's why they were able to get a marriage license in 1940 and when you look at their children, Lucie and Desi Jr., they are perfectly white. The level of ignorance out there is disheartening.
I never thought of them as interracial. He was gorgeous and she was a sparky red head, not naturally though.
They weren’t interracial. Desi was Cuban and his ancestors were from Spain.
She was a real beauty when she was young, regardless of her hair color.
@@kepc9083 Ummm, that IS interracial. He was not caucasian.
@@usfanlovesjiwoo1978 Spaniards from Spain are White. He was White Hispanic.
Cuban is not a race.
Desi didn’t deserve Lucy!!! She was way too beautiful for him!!!!!
Desi not only cheated on Lucy with women but also with men. Yes that's right. He was bisexual and was reportedly involved in homosexual relationships with other men including actor Cesar Romero. Sad.
I love Lucy and Oesi they loved each other peoples not perfect I would loved to know them I hope their in heaven I love both of them they were wonderful
1 Corinthians 6
9 Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,
10 Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God
How was their relationship interracial? Lucille Ball was of English ancestry and Desi Arnaz's family came from Spain. They are both descendant from Europeans. The only difference is that they were raised speaking different languages!
If you’re done being with someone just respectful leave and try to be friends. Don’t CHEAT ! That’s sociopath behavior.
2:27 in the 1950s they weren't considered an interracial couple, back then Cubans were considered white, even on the US census, they were classified as white. The contention was that he was an immigrant with an accent.
Yeah you are righ. If they were actually interracial like this video says they would have never aired it at the time.
@@Dollface98 As compared to countries like Brazil and the UK, you don't see many interracial couples on American TV today
He’s Latin and Machismo is really a thing and certainly was back then. She knew.... she’s a smart woman. You can love someone unconditionally yet know that you can no longer live with that person.
Good point, Tina
Even if you're not a male celebrity, as soon as you get a girlfriend or, even more, married, females who showed zero interest in you when you were single and available and looking for love or companionship, start flirting with, to throwing themselves at, you, sexually, subtly to blatantly. One reason many females hate other females, I suppose.
How was that a interracial couple? They were both of white ancestry, you can be white of Spanish/Latin ancestry.
They will go down in history as a classic show and a couple that will always be remembered as classic as their show i feel the two did love each other very much I think his lifestyle growing up in Cuba and seeing what he saw growing up it seemed to be acceptable behavior to be with other women and thats the way he lived never hiding it from her for she knew of his womanizing behavior even before she married him I felt bad for her she was a tough lady but loved him so much she was putty in his hands reguardless these two people will always live on as a couple and talented duo a class a act r.i.p. you guys will never be forgotten
Lucy still loved Desi as much as he loved her, It wasnt all known to be true that he cheated on her completely the whole time, he may have had girlfriends multiple times but less likely 20 yrs. I love them both, may God bless them and make them happy!
Scripture differs with who God can bless!
1 Corinthians 6
9 Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,
10 Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God
First onscreen interracial couple? Desi Arnez was pretty white lol he was a white cuban
@Jayson M Still not the same as a black and a white person
Hmm, everyone saying they still "loved" each other "madly" even after they divorced...and married other people? I give you...George Burns, another legend, who was widowed and NEVER remarried...and lived to 100, as I'm sure most know. For a more sophisticated comedy duo (not physical), I give you "The Goerge Burns and Gracie Allen Show". Their show preceded and outlasted "I Love Lucy", but not widely syndicated like ILL. Gracie was underrated.
What can you say, they entertain us throughout our lives, no judgment on either one. Rest in peace to all, and thank you for giving us your best work!
OH MY! the picture of Lucy and Desi head to head with the pink background.....we have this on our mantle! A man in New York had all kinds of painted pictures of them and we chose this one!!!! We love the show. I don't care what's in their personal lives. They all brought such joy to me. NO one is perfect and we all have skeletons in our closets. I'll always love Lucy....
Imagine creating a show to spend more time with your husband… damn
This was not an inter racial couple. They were an inter culture couple. They were both Caucasian. Get it it right for heavens sake.
What's "race," though?
Desi was not caucasian. As a matter of fact he had a very background was a lot of native which would make him Asian
I'm sure he loved his wife Lucy but with all those women throwing themselves on him, a man is a man