Word: desi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Eighteen months after she dropped her 19-year option on ex-Husband Desi Arnaz (but retained half interest in their $20 million Desilu Productions empire), carrot-crested Comedienne Lucille Ball, 50, decided on a second marriage. Her new choice: Bronx-born Gary Morton, 44, a tall, dark nightclub comic whom she met over pizza on a blind date a year ago. Said Lucy, busily making arrangements for a Bergdorf Goodman trousseau, the services of the Rev. Norman Vincent Peale, and an Acapulco honeymoon: "I'm looking forward to a nice quiet life...
...haired Lucille Ball, 48, who had once said of her 19-year-long marriage that she "never expected it to last six weeks," divorced Desi Arnaz, 43, calling the last few years a "nightmare" during which Desi became hysterically enraged at the slightest provocation-when water pipes burst in their Beverly Hills mansion or when he could not find a jacket he wanted to wear. The split: for Lucy, their two children, half of their $20 million Desilu TV interests, the leaky mansion, two station wagons, a cemetery plot at Forest Lawn. For Desi: the other half...
When TV's foremost up-from-the-ranks production tycoons, Cinemactress Lucille Ball and Bandleader Desi Arnaz, were married in 1940, acquaintances of the volatile lovebirds gave their union six months at most before an inevitable explosion would send them on separate ways. Lucy herself doubted that the match was good for six weeks. Last week, after more than 19 years of sometimes hectic marriage, and two children (Lucy, 8; Desi IV, 7), Lucy and Desi, co-bosses of Desilu Productions, Inc. (grossing more than $20 million a year) and co-stars of TV's longtime rating-topper...