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Word: arnaz (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Love Lucy (Mon. 9 p.m., CBS) is an untrammeled TV comedy show distinguished by the high-quality slapstick of carrot-topped Comedienne Lucille Ball and her handsome Cuban-born husband, Desi Arnaz. Filmed especially for television in Hollywood, Lucy's combination of well-written scripts and rowdy good humor proved popular enough last month to displace both Arthur Godfrey and Milton Berle, and thus became the nation's No. i TV attraction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The First 10 Million | 5/12/1952 | See Source »

...Love Lucy (Mon. 9 p.m., CBS). Better-than-average domestic comedy, with Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RADIO: Program Preview, Apr. 21, 1952 | 4/21/1952 | See Source »

...little after dawn, somewhere along Los Angeles' Sepulveda Boulevard, Lucille Ball used to meet her husband, Desi Arnaz. He would be going home after a night of leading his orchestra at Ciro's. She would be headed for a day's work at her movie studio. "We would pull off the road and talk for a few minutes," Lucille recalls. Then she adds: "That's a dull way to live, brother...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Unaverage Situation | 2/18/1952 | See Source »

Much of the credit belongs to Lucille, a redheaded, uninhibited comedienne who takes pratfalls and pie-throwings in her stride, manages to add an extra wriggle or a rubber-faced doubletake to each funny line. Cuban-born Desi Arnaz gets enough masculine authority into his role to keep Lucy from degenerating into a Dagwood and Blondie farce. Three writers turn out scripts that bring flashes of grown-up humor to such standard subjects as amateur theatricals and wedding anniversaries. Says Lucille: "We try to be an average married couple getting into unaverage situations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Unaverage Situation | 2/18/1952 | See Source »

...Love Lucy (Mon. 9 p.m., CBS). A broad, often funny comedy series with Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RADIO: Program Preview, Jan. 14, 1952 | 1/14/1952 | See Source »

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