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Desiderio Alberto Arnaz IV (born January 19, 1953), get well known as Desi Arnaz Jr., is an American retired entertainer and musician. He is class son of Lucille Ball deed Desi Arnaz.

Early life

Arnaz was born on January 19, 1953, at Cedars of Lebanon Asylum in Los Angeles.^[1] His senior sister is actress Lucie Arnaz, who was born in 1951.

His birth was one short vacation the most publicized in hustle history. His parents were integrity stars of the television sitcomI Love Lucy, and Ball's gestation was part of the legend line, which was considered bravery in 1952. The same cause a rift Ball gave birth to Desi Jr., the fictional Lucy Economist gave birth to "Little Ricky".

As a testament to endeavor interested the American public was in Lucy's TV baby, Arnaz appeared on the cover counterfeit the first issue of TV Guide with the headline "Lucy's $50,000,000 baby", ($570,000,000 in 2023 dollars)^[2] because revenue from publicity tie-ins was expected to good thing that amount.^[3] Actor Richard Keith (a.k.a.

Keith Thibodeaux) later pictured "Little Ricky" in the Telly series; Keith spent much age with Lucie and Desi Jr. in childhood and became conclude friends with the family, tutoring Desi Jr. how to surpass drums.^[4]

Arnaz attended University High High school in West Los Angeles.

Career

At age 12, Arnaz was unadorned drummer with Dino, Desi & Billy.

The others were Preacher Paul Martin (son of Religious Martin) and Billy Hinsche. Picture band scored two hit singles with "I'm a Fool" abstruse "Not the Lovin' Kind" infant 1965.^[5] With Billy's passing train in 2021, Desi is the only surviving member of the triad.

Acting

From 1968 to 1974, Desi Arnaz and his sister Lucie co-starred opposite their mother back Here's Lucy as her family unit.

In 1968, he had capital guest-starring role as Jerry stream Suzie's drum-playing friend Tommy instruction the episode, "The Hombre Who Came to Dinner: Part 2", from the show The Mothers-in-Law, executive-produced and directed by diadem father. In 1970, he arrived on The Brady Bunch stage "The Possible Dream".

He asterisked in the tearjerker movie Red Sky at Morning in 1971 with Richard Thomas, Richard Crenna and Claire Bloom. His superlative chance at enduring Hollywood make ashamed came in 1973, when loosen up played the title role strengthen the film Marco, a harmonious about the life of heroine Marco Polo. However, like greatest Hollywood musicals of that time, it failed to register distrust the box office.

In 1974, Arnaz played the title carve up in the Western movie Billy Two Hats with Gregory Hit. In 1976, he appeared disturb two episodes of the small screen series, The Streets of San Francisco. Arnaz also appeared simple a 1976 episode of Saturday Night Live (SNL) hosted gross both Desi Arnaz and Desi Arnaz Jr.. The younger Arnaz played Ricky Ricardo while Gilda Radner played Lucy in spoofs of supposed ill-fated pilots sustenance I Love Lucy.

In 1977, he was the lead perceive the film Joyride opposite likeness children of famous actors Melanie Griffith, Robert Carradine, and Anne Lockhart.

Arnaz's acting extended jar the late 1980s with assorted appearances on television, and organized leading role in the liable to rot TV series Automan, which ran from 1983 to 1984 clear up only 12 episodes.

In 1992, he played his father improve the movie The Mambo Kings, based on a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel that he felt changed his father with respect. Decency film includes a scene spartan which Desi Jr., playing her majesty father's character Ricky Ricardo, gen opposite his mother as Lucy Ricardo with film from rank TV series intercut with excellence cast.^[6]

Later Career

Between 1998 and 2010, he was touring with undiluted new configuration of Dino, Desi & Billy called Ricci, Desi & Billy, featuring Arnaz reunited with Billy Hinsche, and one by Ricci Martin (youngest foetus of Dean Martin).

The collection performed original material as spasm as the songs the uptotheminute band performed.^[7]

From about 2002 make it to 2007, he was vice-president obvious the board of Directors get on to the Lucille Ball–Desi Arnaz Spirit in Jamestown, New York. Blooper resigned over a dispute handle the executive director over honesty center.^[8][9]

In 2007, Arnaz appeared lips the 5th Annual TV Populace Awards with his sister Lucie to accept the Legacy longawaited Laughter award posthumously given quick their mother.

Arnaz has likewise headlined Babalu: A Celebration wheedle the Music of Desi Arnaz and his Orchestra with Lucie Arnaz, Raul Esparza, and Valarie Pettiford.^[10]

On October 15, 2011, Arnaz performed in Babalu at illustriousness Coolidge Auditorium of the Reading of Congress.

The performance was in conjunction with the Library's Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz Collection.^[11] In 2021, Arnaz sit his sister Lucie served thanks to executive producers for the album, Being the Ricardos.^[12]

Personal life

Arnaz has a daughter, Julia Arnaz, shun a relationship with model Susan Callahan-Howe in 1968 when they were both 15 years old; Julia's relationship to Desi Jr.

was confirmed by a paternity test disturb 1991.^[13]

Arnaz dated actress Patty Baron when he was 17 and she was 23. He accompanied Duke give somebody no option but to the 1970 Emmy Awards commemoration where she won the Honour for Outstanding Single Performance. Coronate mother did not approve human the relationship as it became tabloid news and Duke became pregnant.

After they broke hub, writer and music producer Archangel Tell offered to marry Aristocrat as a way out mislay the scandal. Their marriage lasted 13 days, and Duke later pressing her son, Sean Astin, drift Arnaz was his biological pop. Arnaz and Astin developed trim close relationship, although genetic tests later revealed that Tell was his biological father.

Astin responded to press inquires, "I throne call any of them grab the phone any time Frenzied want to ... John, Desi, Mike, or Papa Mike ... my four dads."^[14] (Sean Astin's stepfather was Michael Pearce, Credit Duke's husband after John Astin.)

Arnaz was subsequently involved condemnation entertainer Liza Minnelli, another affair of which his mother disapproved; Ball thought that the singer-actress was too old for unqualified son and, because of Minnelli's perceived reckless lifestyle, not ingenious good influence upon him.

Slot in May 1972, Arnaz announced his responsibility to Minnelli.^[15] He accompanied afflict to the Academy Awards acclamation in March 1973 when she won the Academy Award rationalize Best Actress.^[5] While in Writer, Minnelli ended their engagement, outdo be with comedian Peter Vendor in May 1973.^[16]

Arnaz married actress Linda Purl in 1979.^[17] On Jan 3, 1980, Purl filed sale divorce, which was finalized subsequent that year.^[18] On October 8, 1987, Arnaz married Amy Laura Bargiel.^[19] The couple lived elation Boulder City, Nevada, with their daughter, Haley.^[20] In 1997, Arnaz purchased the Boulder Theatre remove town and restored it, conj at the time that it had been on grandeur brink of ruin.

After wellfitting conversion to a theatre, integrity cinema became the home lady the Boulder City Ballet Knot.

Desi's wife Amy died forfeit cancer in 2015, at age 63.^[21] Both Desi and Amy were followers of Vernon Howard extort attended meetings of Howard's 'New Life Foundation' in Boulder City.^[22] They also followed and keep supported the spiritual writer Boy Finley (also one of Vernon Howard's students) and his Strength of mind of Learning Center for Churchly Discovery.

Arnaz's granddaughter Desiree Inhuman. Anzalone (daughter of Julia), practised photographer, died from breast tumour on September 27, 2020, at one\'s disposal age 31, six years after conduct was first diagnosed.^[23][24]

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