It might not have been the most ideal romance, but Desi and Lucille's was one for the ages.
Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz met and fell madly in love in 1940 while on the set of the film, Too Many Girls. They married later that year on the 30th of November. 8 years later in 1948, Bell was cast to play the character Liz Cooper, a goofy wife on the CBS radio sitcom, My Favorite Husband.
▬Contents of this video▬
00:00 - Intro
00:38 - Desi and Ball Divorced After This Happened
02:04 - Barbara Eden Confirmed Arnaz's Infidelity
03:22 - "Her Temper Got The Best Of Her"
06:18 - Outro
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The show went on to run for 148 episodes. After its success, Ball was asked by CBS to develop a similar show for television. She readily agreed to do so on one condition. She would only take on the project if she could work with her husband, Desi.
After seeing a pilot episode of their new show, the studio wasn't very impressed and turned it down. They were also not very keen on presenting an interracial couple on television. The studio brass thought that the general public would find such an on-screen romance to be too risque. Boy, they couldn't have been any more wrong.
Ball and Arnaz then set out on a nationwide tour as a vaudeville act in which Ball played a wacky housewife who tried her best to make her way into her husband's show.
After the tour proved to be an enormous success, CBS decided to go ahead and greenlight I Love Lucy. The show went on to run for more than 100 episodes and became one of the most-watched and influential television shows of all time.
Throughout the series run, Ball and Arnaz started a family of their own. Their daughter Lucie Arnaz was born in 1951. Their son, Desi Jr Arnaz was born two years later in 1953.
After 2 decades of marriage and a couple of popular I Love Lucy spin-off series, Ball and Arnaz got divorced in 1960.
Their long and storied journey of falling in and out of love, working, and fighting to keep their love alive throughout their darkest moments was a tale that the public couldn't seem to get enough of. To this day, their story is one that is nothing short of captivating.
Join Facts Verse as we take a look back on what went wrong with Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz' marriage.
Lucy and Desi Filed for Divorce Immediately After This Happened