Lucy & Desi Quotes

“He was very handsome and romantic. But he also frightened me, he was so wild. I knew I shouldn’t have married him, but that was one of the biggest attractions.”
― Warren G. Harris, Lucy & Desi: The Legendary Love Story of Television's Most Famous Couple

“Desi didn’t really want to settle down with Lucy, or with any other woman for that matter. But Lucy put up such a campaign that he wound up believing that he did.” Lucy”
― Warren G. Harris, Lucy & Desi: The Legendary Love Story of Television's Most Famous Couple

“Like most women of her generation, Desiree Ball (known familiarly as “DeDe”) had been raised to become a wife, housekeeper, and mother hen. When DeDe married Henry Ball, it was taken for granted that she—and eventually the family—would accompany him wherever his job took him. As a result, Lucy spent her early years far from Jamestown, first in the copper-mining territory around Anaconda, Montana, and then in Wyandotte, Michigan, a factory town dependent on the automotive industry in nearby Detroit.”
― Warren G. Harris, Lucy & Desi: The Legendary Love Story of Television's Most Famous Couple

“During the flight back to Los Angeles from Milwaukee, Lucy became sick and went to bed as soon as the couple got home. Two days later, Desi rushed her to Cedars of Lebanon Hospital and the conclusion was the same as before. Another miscarriage.”
― Warren G. Harris, Lucy & Desi: The Legendary Love Story of Television's Most Famous Couple

“That evening, Desi took her to El Zerape, a Mexican-Cuban nightspot close to downtown Los Angeles and the current rage for slumming Hollywood celebrities. It turned out to be a group excursion organized by George Abbott, a fanatic ballroom dancer. Nearly the entire cast of Too Many Girls was there, including the fourteen singing and dancing choristers that RKO had hired from the New York production at a weekly salary of forty dollars each.”
― Warren G. Harris, Lucy & Desi: The Legendary Love Story of Television's Most Famous Couple

“LUCY and Desi. Lucy and Ricky. As far as the public knew, the private life of the Arnazes closely resembled that of the Ricardos on the TV screen; a camera crew just dropped by once a week to film a half hour of slapstick and tender kisses.”
― Warren G. Harris, Lucy & Desi: The Legendary Love Story of Television's Most Famous Couple