Todd S. Purdum's biography explores the impact on American culture by the Cuban-born entertainer who (as husband and business ...

Long overshadowed by his talented wife Lucille Ball, with whom he created ‘I Love Lucy,’ Arnaz is seen in Todd S. Purdum’s ...

Desi Arnaz’s life ricocheted between privilege and economic hardship, creative peaks and alcoholic lows — the stuff of high drama. But it was comedy that secured his legacy. The Cuban American ...

During a June 2025 Q&A following a screening of her 1994 documentary, Lucy & Desi: A Home Movie, on the Paramount Studios lot ...

Desi Arnaz Jr. and especially Lucie Arnaz, who opened private family archives to the author. That access allows Purdum (who in 2018 chronicled another creative partnership, between Richard Rodgers ...

In many ways, Desi Arnaz was Ricky Ricardo, the character he played on television—creative, hardworking, excitable, lovable, an embracing personality, a natural entertainer. But there was one ...

For musician and actor Desi ... Arnaz envisioned, assembled and led the transformation that provided early television production its bedrock. Arnaz (1917-1986) was the only child of a prominent ...

In an interview, Purdum talked about why he thinks of Arnaz as “a great businessman in the persona of a wonderful entertainer ...

For musician and actor Desi Arnaz, that shadow belonged to Lucille Ball, his wife and co-star on the ground-breaking 1950s sitcom ''I Love Lucy.'' Etched in television history are the images of Lucy ...