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...cancer; in Del Mar, Calif. Fleeing Cuba after the revolution of 1933, he formed a Latin dance band, making his film debut in Too Many Girls (1940), where he met and married his leading lady Lucille Ball. While co-starring with her in Lucy, he headed their production studio, Desilu, pioneering in the use of film for TV programs. The approach preserved Lucy and other shows, resulting in additional income from reruns. Two years after Ball and Arnaz divorced in 1960, he sold his interest in Desilu; he interrupted his retirement to produce pilots for proposed TV series, only...
...seven years since the publication of Lehman's story, Winchell had aged toward a cranky obscurity; if a younger generation remembers him today, it is as the narrator of the Desilu crime series "The Untouchables." Sullivan, Winchell's rival at the Daily News, was a far more potent starmaker on his Sunday night TV show than in his column. All the stars of daily journalism were diminished, because TV had quickly become the primary source of news...
...shooting on film, rather than doing it live and recording on kinescope. CBS balked at the extra cost; the couple agreed to take a salary cut in return for full ownership of the program. It was a shrewd business decision: I Love Lucy was the launching pad for Desilu Productions, which (with other shows, like Our Miss Brooks and The Untouchables) became one of TV's most successful independent producers, before Paramount bought...
...Desilu Studios tries to sell Star Trek to CBS, which declines and decides to air Lost in Space instead...
Offscreen, the couple's marriage was marred by Arnaz's drinking, gambling and incessant philandering. Ball was forgiving, but the pair finally divorced in 1960. Arnaz proved a poor manager of their joint Desilu production company, while Ball persevered, starring in another top-rated sitcom, The Lucy Show. "There's no way I'm going to stay here and become Mr. Ball," said Arnaz early on. If anyone in this immensely readable book fits the unlikely description of misery-stricken sitcom star...