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Desilu: The Story of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz
Coyne S. Sanders, Tom Gilbert

Harper Paperbacks, 1994 - 384 pages

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A Walking Tour of Classic Television Production

For anyone considering a career in television, this is a must read.
You will then understand the roots of modern television technique.
This is a great book to better view the television industry up close, and through the lives of two of the best known television personalities of all time. Plus I now know how and where modern television was born.
Highly recommended.


Great book about a great couple

From the time I picked this book up I could not stop reading it. I learnt so much new information about Lucy and Desi as a couple and a business partnership that as far as I am concerned will never be beaten.
As you delve deeper into the book you learn more about their private lives and how difficult it must have been for them both to go into work each day and do their jobs as only they knew how.
It is had to write review without giving anythin' away but anyone who is a true Lucy and Desi fan should have this book on their bookshelves at home. I know that I am.
Thanks to the authors and to Lucie Arnaz and Desi Arnaz Jr. we have an insight to a great working team both on and off screen.
I definitely rate this book as worth buying. I LOVE IT!!!


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Desi-Lu-Lu

And to think that all this time, I have admired Lucille Ball, when it was Desi who was the brains and the business master of their production companay. And Desi was liked by most who knew him, wheras Lucy was aloof. Even though the book points out that Desi Arnz was a drunk and a womanizer, I think that I would have rather met him than the domineering, silent and spoiled Lucille Ball. The book just went into soooo much detail about the business end of Desilu Productions and how each of the 4 main characters in "I Love Lucy," just did not get along, especially Bill Frawley and Vivian Vance. Just a bit too much repetition. Still have great admiration for the show and what went into a weekly 1/2 hour sitcom, that was the first of its' kind. But my concept of what the actors were really like has been shattered over and over. Would have loved to sit down and have a drink with Desi as long as Lucy wasn't around to curse at him etc. etc. I am shattered. Give me Carol Burnett any day. She is pure class.


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The true, behind-the-scenes story of television's happiest couple, andHollywood's most tumultuous marriage.

Fifty years ago the magical union of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz enthralled American audiences who couldn't got enough of the fiery redhead or her sexy Cuban husband. But off camera the situation couldn't have been less comic, with backstage battles, oversized egos, drinking, philandering, and the demands of phenomenal success undermining what was once a storybook romance.

With exclusive access to family members (including daughter Lucie Arnaz) and rare photographs, Desilu is the first candid, inside account of a celebrated, complex, passionate, but ultimately tragic relationship -- as well as a fascinating behind-the-scenes look at Desilu Studios, the Golden Age of Television's most powerful production empire.




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