She started in summer stock productions and worked all the way up to Broadway, where met actor Laurence Luckinbill. After an early stint on the short-lived sitcom Here’s Lucy, in which she starred alongside her mother and brother, Lucie decided to go into musical theater. As a child, she put on makeshift plays at home, and Lucille Ball even had a stage built for her to perform on in the family’s garage. Lucie Arnaz was a natural performer from a young age. Below, find out what happened to Lucie and Desi Arnaz Jr., and where they are now. have balanced their own careers in the performing arts with efforts to preserve their parents’ legacy. What?’ It was kind of wonderful to go back in time.”Īs adults, Lucie and Desi Jr. I’d look at him and think, ‘You’re my dad. It was a little spooky and kind of wonderful. Not sending her up like some sort of impersonator. Lucie struck up a friendship with Nicole Kidman, who plays Ball in the film, and told the Los Angeles Times in an interview, “To see someone play Lucille Ball for real and not as a joke - that was unique. The Arnaz children both appear in Poehler’s documentary and serve as executive producers on Being the Ricardos. And now, this week, a new documentary about the coupe, directed by Amy Poehler, Lucy and Desi, is being released on Amazon. It was dramatized in the Aaron Sorkin film Being the Ricardos, which takes place behind the scenes of I Love Lucy during one particularly eventful week, and was nominated for three Academy Awards.
Their real children, Lucie Arnaz and Desi Arnaz Jr., grew up in the spotlight - and sometimes onscreen, too.īall and Arnaz’s relationship is having a major cultural moment. On the show, married couple Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz played a pair of married characters, and in one particularly memorable episode, Lucy even “gave birth” shortly before giving birth in real life. The line between truth and fiction was often blurred on the iconic 1950s sitcom I Love Lucy.
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