Lucy and Ricky Ricardo are the fictional characters of the American I Love Lucy television sitcom, each portrayed by Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz. The Ricardos also appeared on The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour, and Lucy also appeared in one episode of The Ann Sothern Show.
Together, Lucy and Ricky serve as a double action. Ricky is a straight man, a character very similar to Arnaz himself; he is the leader of Cuban-American bandits whose trademark is "Babalu". Lucy with red hair is his wife, who always gets into trouble and is usually caught by Ricky. They have Ricky Ricardo Jr.'s son, also called "Little Ricky", played by little actor Richard Keith.
Full name Lucy (Lucille Esmeralda Ricardo nÃÆ' Â © e McGillicuddy) is awarded in episode 1 of the season "Fred and Ethel Fight" and "The Marriage License," and "The Passports" in season 5. Ricky gives her full name in season 4 episode "Hollywood Anniversary "as Ricardo Alberto Fernando Ricardo y de Acha, but in the season 6 episode" Lucy Raises Tulips "Lucy called him" Enrique Alberto Fernando Ricardo y de Acha III ".
The marriage between Scottish American Lucy and Cuban Ricky marks the first appearance of a mixed cultural marriage on American TV shows; I Love Lucy debuted in 1951, sixteen years before Loving v. Virginia legalizes all forms of interracial marriage in 50 states.
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Just like Lucille Ball herself, Lucy McGillicuddy was born and raised in Jamestown, New York (or West Jamestown per episode # 138), to Scottish American families. In one episode where she was asked for her birthday, she gave it as August 6th (just like Ball's), though in typical fashion for her she refused to give her years; but elsewhere, where he was forced to tell the truth, he said he was 33 years old. This episode aired during the third season in 1953. In the episode, his parents never mentioned his name, and only his mother (played by Kathryn Card) is seen during the series. No other families are mentioned, except the passing reference to his Swedish grandmother (Jamestown has a large Swedish community). In Season 5, episode 11 - "The Passports" - founded he was born in 1921, therefore exactly ten years younger than Ball in real life. At grammar school, he plays petunias in a recital. In high school, he was involved in a drama program, where he studied with Miss Hanna and played Juliet Capulet in Romeo and Juliet. He also plays saxophone in high school (as did the original Lucy), although every song he plays sounds like "The Glow-Worm." Lucy also knows how to play ukulele. He is seen playing ukulele in episodes "Ricky Loses His Voice", "Don Juan is Shelved", and "Little Ricky Gets Stage Fright".
References to Lucille's presence in an unnamed junior college were made in the episode "Fan Magazine Interview" (1954); Jamestown Community College, the closest junior college to Lucy's hometown, did not exist until 1950, though business schools and nursing schools were in the city at the time.
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Wedding
When she was 22 years old, Lucy was founded on a blind date by her friend Marion Strong. The blind date turned out to be a Cuban conga drummer, Ricky Ricardo. Both fell in love and eventually married at Byram River Beagle Club in Connecticut. An alternative scenario given to the guest star Hedda Hopper in Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour episode Lucy Takes a Cruise to Havana, with Lucy and friend Susie McNamara (Ann Sothern, repeating her role from Personal Secretary ), is that Lucy met Ricky while on vacation in Cuba in 1940.
In the early 1940s, Lucy and Ricky moved into an old brick apartment that was re-converted at 623 East 68th Street in New York City (a reference made during the date series moved to 1940 or 1943). The apartment was rented for $ 105 per month. Their landlords (soon to be best friends) are Fred and Ethel Mertz.
Lucy and Ethel quickly become good friends, though Ethel is older than Lucy. After moving to the city, Ricky finally got a job that became the Club Tropicana headline where he and his band were held indefinitely. For Lucy, Ricky's career and days seemed a lot more fun than the days of cooking and cleaning. She desperately wants to be a star and keeps trying to get into Ricky's actions. Ricky wants his wife to remain a housewife. However, despite Ricky's reluctance and regular rejection to give him a share, Lucy usually finds his way into the show.
Little Ricky Birth
In 1952, after going to the doctor complaining of feeling "leafy" (a word her grandmother made, Lucyy's definition of a "leafy" feeling is when you are not really sick but just feeling unwell) and gaining weight, she learns that she is pregnant. Actually Ethel who first told Lucy she might be expecting, even before Lucy went to the doctor. Lucy is excited to tell her husband the good news. The Mertzes studied the first news and was sworn to maintain confidentiality. When she was younger, Lucy imagined how she would tell her husband that they would have a baby. He decides to tell Ricky when he comes home for lunch that afternoon. However, with repeated interruptions from the phone and Mertzes, he can not afford. She tries to tell him at his club during practice, but it's uncomfortable telling him such a private thing in front of his band, so he's been crying. Finally, that night, when Ricky appeared, Lucy wrote a note and gave it to maÃÆ'®tre d'hotel. He gave notes to Ricky. Ricky reads the note, which offends a wife who needs to tell her husband that they are pregnant, and asks her to sing a certain song. Ricky, unaware that the "husband" mentioned in the letter is her, wants to bring the expected couple on stage to congratulate them. He went from couple to couple trying to find them. Ricky sees Lucy in the audience, and it happens to her that Lucy might be the one to expect. Lucy nodded yes, and Ricky was overcome with emotion. They sang "We're Having a Baby", with Lucille Ball actually crying during the scene, which made it one of the most touching moments in television history.
During her pregnancy, Lucy experiences normal pregnancy woes. She became depressed when everyone seemed to focus their attention on the upcoming child and not on Lucy. She could not decide the name for the child and was nervous that she would not be a good mother. However, he wants the best for his son and enrolls himself, Ricky, and Mertzes in undercover lessons to make sure his son learns to speak properly. Finally, he takes sculpting so that he and Ricky can enrich their child's life with art and music.
However, Lucy's show business aspirations have never diminished. He managed to break into Ricky's number [barbershop quartet] by firing the man who had the part he wanted.
Finally, on January 19, 1953 (the same day he had Desi Arnaz's real life son Jr.) while her husband Ricky performed voodoo acts at his nightclub, Lucy gave birth to Ricky Ricardo, Jr. The Mertzes are named the godson of Ricky. Little Ricky grew up season after season, and by the sixth season (1957) he had started school and learned to play drums and speak Spanish fluently.
Hollywood
In 1954, Lucy's husband was given a role in the upcoming MGM movie based on Don Juan's life. Lucy and Mertzes follow Ricky on his way to Hollywood stars. While in Hollywood, Lucy meets many famous celebrities, including William Holden, Hedda Hopper, Rock Hudson, Cornel Wilde, Harpo Marx, Richard Widmark, Van Johnson, and John Wayne. Some of these actors are the celebrities that Ricky has met as a result of his show business. He reported he had seen 99 celebrities while in Hollywood and finally got even 100 when he met Wilde. Lucy is very obsessed and keeps everything that even touches celebrities, such as the cans that were destroyed by Cary Grant's left rear wheel. However, he is not just a hob nob with a celebrity; he also got some chances to get into show business himself.
Ricky gave him a small role in a film as a stage girl. Lucy's role required her to wear a large headdress; he also got death scene. However, the headdress proved to be impractical, and the parts were lowered. She finally ends up as a dead stage girl on a stretcher when the scene begins. Lucy's second experiment into the show business was when she replaced vanilla's partner who had a headache in her actions at the hotel. He wants to impress his friend Carolyn Appleby and succeed in persuading Johnson to give him a job through flattery. He did a very good job and impressed the crowd. Finally, he had a third chance when he became a star when he appeared with Ricky Ricardo at a luncheon for film executives. Ricky was asked to perform, but he refused to support the fishing trip he had planned. Lucy is accepted on her behalf and conspires to build the doll and then pretends that she is sick, and she completes her own show. The plan did not go as well as he expected, but he was still a huge success and was offered a contract. However he refused, when he realized that it would take him away from his husband and son.
Europe
Soon after returning from Hollywood, the band Ricky was given the opportunity to tour around Europe. Lucy and Mertzes once again took part in this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Lucy missed the boat and had to descend to the yacht deck, Constitution of the USS, from a helicopter. They sail across the Atlantic, where Lucy has to settle for partnering with a boy to play games on the deck but together they win a pingpong trophy. He also managed to get stuck in the ship's window.
After landing in England, Lucy gets a chance to perform and meet Queen Elizabeth. He also participated in the fox hunt and settled in a real English estate.
In Paris, he meets Charles Boyer who has been warned by Ricky not to recognize who he is because Lucy is so famous; Boyer took his advice when Lucy cornered him and claimed he was Maurice DuBois, an actor out of work. Ricky has pretended to be jealous about Lucy's obsession with Charles Boyer so he hires "DuBois" to impersonate Boyer and seduce him in front of Ricky so he can convince him with a complete lack of interest. He trained "DuBois" on "growls" and Boyer's behavior, still unaware that he was a true Boyer until Ricky came back and let the cat out of the bag.
In another episode, Lucy was arrested by French police and taken to Bastille after accidentally trying to use counterfeit money. The scene that followed, after Ricky arrived to rescue him, was one of the funniest parts of show history, because the French-speaking Commander interrogated Lucy by directing questions to his French-and-German Lieutenant in French, translating questions into German and directed them to a drunken German-and-Spanish prisoner, who translated the question into Spanish to ask Ricky in Spanish and English, who made the final translation into English for Lucy. The answer has to travel back the chain to the Commandante and it's funny to watch, especially since the movements that accompany the words take on the characteristics of each language as questions and answers travel up and down the boundary.
Also, he stepped on a winery in Turo, a wine-making city in Italy, and wrestling (and almost drowned by) his colleagues who snarled professional wines inside the wine vat.
Move to Connecticut
In 1956, Lucy and her husband Ricky decided to move to Connecticut after traveling there, and Lucy fell in love with the area. Before they moved, he tried (unsuccessfully) to get out of the deal. Soon Ricardo decided to keep the chickens and sell the eggs. To help them with their business, their best friends, Fred Mertz and Ethel Mertz, moved into their guest house. (Fred grew up on a farm.) Lucy and Ricky are also close friends while in Connecticut, Betty and Ralph Ramsey (next door neighbor Ricardos).
After I Love Lucy
I Love Lucy and The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour ended after the divorce of Arnaz and Ball in real life in 1960, an incident not written in the script. Both characters remain married to each other at the end of the running series.
Lucille Ball will continue to feature Lucy Ricardo's inspired characters on the next sitcom: The Lucy Show , Here's Lucy , and short life Life with Lucy . In each series, the character of the Ball described (each named Lucy) is a widow or divorce. In the mid-1960s, he was involved in a lawsuit against Jess Oppenheimer, I Love Lucy's co-creator, for the similarities between Lucy's separate characters. The dispute was then settled out of court.
Arnaz only portrays Ricky Ricardo's same character once after The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour ends its operation: in a repetitive role in Mothers-in-Law Arnaz plays the matador Raphael Delgado , with the same accent and personality as Ricky (as a production of Desilu, The Mothers-in-Law uses many of the same writers and executive staff as Lucy's show).
Other television series, especially those made by Desilu (production company Arnaz and Ball co-found) attempted to copy the Lucy Ricardo theme. Even Janis Paige, on her short-lived CBS sitcom, produces It's Always Jan, wears her hair like Lucy, and Cara Williams follows the Lucy Ricardo format at Pete and Gladys, only lasted for two seasons on CBS.
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