“My parents were caretakers in that they had to take care of their families after tragedy struck - both of them,” she adds. “I wish they had gotten divorced a little sooner so we could all have been happier longer,” actress-singer Lucie Arnaz, who was born to Lucy and Desi in 1951, says. Ball played Lucy Carmichael, a widowed mother of two children sharing a home with Vivian Bagley, television’s first divorcee co-lead character, who was raising a son of her own. Sixty years ago this fall, Lucille Ball made her triumphant return to television in The Lucy Show, a sitcom which ran from 1962 - 1968 and saw the legendary comedienne re-team with her long-time sidekick Vivian Vance. But for Ball, then 48, and Arnaz, 43, some of their greatest personal and professional successes were just around the corner.
The film leaves viewers with the note that the iconic couple divorced in 1960. Written and directed by Aaron Sorkin and streaming now on Prime Video, Being the Ricardos explores Ball and Arnaz’s often-tempestuous relationship through the lens of one production week on the pioneering sitcom I Love Lucy. Simmons created of Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz and William Frawley respectively in the film Being the Ricardos will endure. They might have left the 94 th Academy Awards ceremony in March empty-handed, but the images Nicole Kidman, Javier Bardem and J.K.
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