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Word: desiderio (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...painted silver water tower, loomed a new hallmark: Desilu Studios. Below it, cameramen were already shooting TV films on five of the lot's 14 stages, while an army of wreckers, carpenters, painters and plasterers exorcised the past for the arrival of the new owners: onetime Bongo Drummer Desiderio Alberto Arnaz y De Acha III, 41, and his round-eyed, henna-crested wife, Comedienne Lucille Ball...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The New Tycoon | 4/7/1958 | See Source »

...evening starts with Salinas' hero, Professor Desiderio, being visited by a pretty young girl who claims to be the subject of the biography he is currently writing. The professor is suspicious, because his subject has been dead for a hundred years. A true historian, he says: "I, for example, never allow myself to be inspired. I burrow. . ." The play has a few serious overtones, resulting from the plight of a man inspired in spite of himself, but the style is always light and satiric in a capable translation by Stephen Gilman and Harry W. Rodgers...

Author: By Stephen Addiss, | Title: The Lady and Her Sources and The Bald Soprano | 10/26/1956 | See Source »

Unfortunatly, Bernard Miller has not mastered Professor Desiderio's volatile Spanish character, and his performance is forced as a consequence. Mary Graydon, however, is delightfully human as the Lady, and John Ahern is lively in the small role of a reporter. The play runs a little long, but perhaps a more convincing central performance would have helped...

Author: By Stephen Addiss, | Title: The Lady and Her Sources and The Bald Soprano | 10/26/1956 | See Source »

...part. As television's Lucy Ricardo she was rushed off to the hospital to give birth to Ricky Ricardo Jr. As Lucille Ball Arnaz, she entered Hollywood's Cedars of Lebanon Hospital and gave birth to another boy. His weight: 8 lbs. 9 oz. His name: Desiderio Alberto Arnaz...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Birth of a Memo | 1/26/1953 | See Source »

Born, To Lucille Ball, 41, red-haired comedienne of screen and television (I Love Lucy), and Cuba-born Actor Desi Arnaz (real name: Desiderio Alberto Arnaz y De Acha III), 35; their second child first son; in Hollywood. Name: Desiderio Alberto IV. Weight: 8 lbs 9 oz. (see RADIO...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jan. 26, 1953 | 1/26/1953 | See Source »

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