Desi Arnaz

Cast by director George Abbott in the 1939 Rodgers and Hart Broadway musical Too Many Girls and reprised the role for the 1940 film version, which starred Lucille Ball.

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Category

Alice -Photographer

Actor

The Cuban Connection (1978) -Photographer

Actor

TV Episode

Desilu Playhouse

Host

Saturday Night Live

Host

Desi Arnaz (1976) -Host

Host

TV Episode

Forever Darling 1956 -Lorenzo Xavier Vega

Producer, Actor

Film

The Long, Long Trailer 1954 -Nicholas Collini

Actor

Film

The Navy Comes Through -Tarriba

Actor

Film

Too Many Girls -Manuelito

Actor

Film

Four Jacks and a Jill -Steve

Actor

Film

Holiday in Havana -Carlos Estrada

Actor

Film

Lucy and Desi: A Home Movie

Musical Performer

Film

The Escape Artist -Mayor Leon Quinones

Actor

Film

Bataan -Felix Ramirez

Actor

Film

Cuban Pete -Himself

Actor

Film

Father Takes a Wife -Carlos

Actor

Film

Highlights

His father was jailed during the Cuban Revolution in 1933 and had his property and money confiscated.

Toured with bandleader Xavier Cugat for a year before heading his own orchestra.

Cast by director George Abbott in the 1939 Rodgers and Hart Broadway musical Too Many Girls and reprised the role for the 1940 film version, which starred Lucille Ball.

Although they were married in real life, CBS didn't think Arnaz would be believeable as Ball's husband in I Love Lucy. They toured the country with a revue to prove that audiences would ac

Credited with devising the three-camera technique of filming sitcoms.