“But at the same time, you want it to be a true depiction of who they are so that people watching it go, ‘Oh, OK…’ Aaron’s really gone in there, he’s done them proud, but at the same time he has been very true to their spirits… They’re compelling, fascinating… people and at the same time-they are human.” “That is something that Javier and I want to honor,” she said. In an interview with Extra in December 2021, Kidman opened up about why she wanted to play Ball. The film was written and directed by Aaron Sorkin. After the success of the tour, CBS greenlit I Love Lucy, which went on to run for more than 100 episodes and be one of the most-watched shows in TV history.īall and Arnaz’s marriage was portrayed in the 2021 movie Being the Ricardos, in which Nicole Kidman and Javier Bardem starred as the couple. Unimpressed by the pilot episode, CBS turned down a show with Ball and Arnaz, which led them to hit the road as a vaudeville act in which Ball played a zany housewife who tried to get into her husband’s show. After the success of My Favorite Husband, Ball was asked by CBS to develop it for television, which she agreed if she could work with her real-life husband, Arnaz. In 1948, Ball was cast as Liz Cooper, a wacky wife in the CBS Radio comedy show, My Favorite Husband. The couple fell in love and married on November 30, 1940. In 1940, Arnaz starred in the movie version of the show, alongside his future wife, Lucille Ball. The band also led Arnaz to be cast in his first Broadway musical, Too Many Girls, in 1939. The success of the group led Arnaz to start his own band, the Desi Arnaz Orchestra, which became a hit in New York City’s club scene. After he graduated from high school, Arnaz joined a band called the Siboney Septet. Patrick Catholic High School in Miami Beach. Arnaz’s family then fled to Miami, where the I Love Lucy star attended St. Alberto was released after six months when his brother-in-law, Alberto de Acha, intervened.

After the Cuban Revolution of 1933, Arnaz’s father, Alberto Arnaz, was jailed and their home was confiscated. If you’re a massive I Love Lucy fan, you may want to know about Desi Arnaz’s net worth and how it compared to his ex-wife (and former co-star), Lucille Ball, after their divorce.Īrnaz-whose full name is Desiderio Alberto Arnaz y de Acha, III-was born on March 2, 1917, in Santiago de Cuba in Cuba.

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