Desi Arnaz

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Born: 3/2/1917 · Santiago, Cuba

Biography: A musican, singer, songwriter, actor and television producer, Arnaz came to the US from Cuba when he was sixteen and became a professional bandleader of popular Latin music. He married actress Lucille Ball in 1940 and, in 1951, costarred with her in their long-running and su …

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Lucy & Desi: A Home Movie [Movie]

1992

Babalu Music! I Love Lucy's Greatest Hits [TV Series]

1991

The Escape Artist [Movie] as Mayor Leon Quinones,Mayor Quinones

1982

Alice: The Cuban Connection [TV Series] as Paco

1978

Saturday Night Live: Desi Arnaz [TV Series] as Host/Musical Guest

1976

The Lucille Ball-Desi Arnaz Show [TV Series] as Ricky Ricardo

1957

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Forever Darling [Movie]

1956

Executive ProducerAll Executive Producer Credits

The Untouchables: Season 04 [TV Series]

1962

The Untouchables: Season 03 [TV Series]

1961

The Untouchables: Season 02 [TV Series]

1960

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Wedding traditions on the big screen

06/18/09 June is a popular month for weddings ? and wedding movies. | St Louis Post-Dispatch - St Louis MO
DVD Review: TV Sets - Forever Funny

06/13/09 Straight from the vaults of CBS/Paramount comes another edition of their very modestly priced TV Sets collection. | Blogcritics.org Video
Movie poster exhibit highlights iconic films of the '70s

06/09/09 The Lighthouse International Film Festival on Long Beach Island is over, but the memories linger on. | Asbury Park Press - Neptune NJ
Jon and Kate plus guest stars!

06/02/09 Everyone knows that there is drama between Jon and Kate and the episode following the well-gawked-at season premiere totally blankets over the whole situation. | TV Squad
Jon and Kate plus guest stars!

06/02/09 ON AOL TELEVISION Everyone knows that there is drama between Jon and Kate and the episode following the well-gawked-at season premiere totally blankets over the whole situation. | TV Squad
Quick Getaway to ... Jamestown, N.Y.

05/21/09 Annual Lucy-Desi Days festival, celebrating Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz, today through Sunday. | Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - Pittsburgh PA
Jamestown visit has a Hollywood feel

05/16/09 And though its sloping streets lack the incline and elevation distinguishing Pittsburgh or San Francisco, one is reminded of those great cities when walking around Jamestown. | The Buffalo News - Buffalo NY
Pregnancies can change TV plots

05/09/09 Mother's Day is taking on a whole new meaning for TV series regulars Ellen Pompeo (Grey's Anatomy) and Molly Ringwald (The Secret Life of the American Teenager), who are both very much in the family way. | JAM! Showbiz
Danny Gans, 52, popular Vegas singer, actor, impressionist

05/02/09 Danny Gans, a singer, actor and impressionist who spent more than a decade as one of the most popular entertainers in Las Vegas, has died. | The Arizona Republic - Phoenix AZ
What's On Tonight: Survivor, Hell's Kitchen, Private Practice, Basketball

04/23/09 TNT has the Celtics/Bulls game at 8, then the Lakers/Jazz game. | TV Squad
What's On Tonight: Survivor, Hell's Kitchen, Private Practice, Basketball

04/23/09 ON AOL TELEVISION TNT has the Celtics/Bulls game at 8, then the Lakers/Jazz game. | TV Squad
A city that's for the birds

04/18/09 In 1975, the residents of this town in western New York took a straw poll to determine the community's most famous son or daughter. | Akron Beacon Journal - Akron OH
Sean Astin on his four dads and a possible Goonies reunion

03/31/09 If you hit your formative years in the '80s or '90s, you probably had a crush on Sean Astin . | Time Out NY
Deaths Elsewhere / Dan Seals had successful careers in country, pop

03/26/09 Dan Seals, who was England Dan in the pop duo England Dan and John Ford Coley and later had a successful country career, has died of complications from cancer. | St. Paul Pioneer Press - St. Paul MN
Last of the performing Borden Twins dead at 76

03/26/09 Marilyn Borden Thiel, an actress best remembered as half of the chubby singing twins Teensy and Weensy on "I Love Lucy," has died in Modesto of congestive heart failure. | The Fresno Bee - Fresno CA
Cabaret show delights at Pines theater

03/23/09 To fill the seconds before acts began, Marsh wisecracked with front-row audience members. | Sun-Sentinel - Fort Lauderdale FL
Tonto via Toronto: The Rise and Fall of Jay Silverheels

03/14/09 Although Jay Silverheels sounds like an authentic Native name it was, in reality, the name he chose for showbiz. | WFMU
Celebrity Birthdays, March 2

03/01/09 Happy Birthday to "A.J. Soprano " Robert Iler (1985), Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger (1982), Lady in the Water star Bryce Dallas Howard (1981), actress Heather McComb (1977), Coldplay singer Chris Martin (1977), new James Bond actor Daniel Craig (1968), rocker Jon Bon Jovi (1962), SNL alum Laraine Newman (1952), singer Karen Carpenter (1950; d. 1983), Star Trek doctor Gates McFadden (1949), singer Eddie Money (1949), Irish guitarist Rory Gallagher (1948), Velvet Underground singer Lou Reed (1942), authors John Irving (1942) and Tom Wolfe (1931), former Soviet Union president Mikhail Gorbachev (1931), Cuban bandleader Desi Arnaz (1917; d. 1986), and author Theodore " Dr. Seuss " Geisel (1904; d. 1991). | Starpulse News Blog

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