Desilu

The Plot Thickens

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Tv & Film, Film History

4.8 • 4.8K Ratings

🗓️ 9 November 2021

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

From the start, Lucy and Desi fight as fiercely as they love. After a spur-of-the-moment elopement, the newlyweds buy a small ranch north of Hollywood and call it “Desilu.” They suffer miscarriages and career setbacks, which causes Desi to take his band on the road – where he frequently cheats on his wife. Lucy considers divorce, but when a TV offer comes in, she uses her stardom to keep Desi by her side.

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0:00.0	Where was I?
0:02.0	I'll talk a little bit about Mr. Ernest.
0:04.0	How you met?
0:06.0	We met on the set at RKO in the summer of 40.
0:12.0	He was very romantic.
0:16.0	He was just different.
0:18.0	Had anything exciting and romantic like that happened to me quite so fast.
0:32.0	Lucy was 28 years old when she first met Desi Arnez at the RKO studio.
0:38.0	He was 23.
0:40.0	Hours later, they were on their first date at a Mexican restaurant in Hollywood called El Zarapet.
0:46.0	They had dinner with the cast of Too Many Girls.
0:48.0	That was the film they were both starring in.
0:50.0	Desi played a college football player.
0:52.0	Lucy was the engineer.
0:56.0	Lucy and Desi sat apart from everyone else.
0:58.0	They were in their own world that night.
1:02.0	Desi told Lucy his story about his life in Cuba, the revolution escaping to America,
1:08.0	starting the Konga craze.
1:10.0	They talked until three in the morning, danced the rumble, and then he drove her home.
1:14.0	Lucy fell in love with Desi almost immediately.
1:20.0	There was only one thing better than looking at Desi, she said.
1:24.0	That was talking to him.
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