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  • Ball Had Multiple Miscarriages Before Having Two Children on Random Complicated And Dark History Of Lucille Ball And Desi Arnaz's Marriage

    (#9) Ball Had Multiple Miscarriages Before Having Two Children

    Though Ball wanted to have children and believed a child would help hold her marriage together, it was a challenge for her to conceive. One of Ball's closest friends later told People magazine Ball had endured two or three miscarriages. Ball and Arnaz's marriage almost ended in divorce. Despite this, they stuck it out, and even held a second wedding, this time in a Catholic church.

    In 1950, Ball became pregnant again, and relations between the couple improved, as Ball commented, "The best year of my marriage to Desi was just before and after the birth of our first child. We exchanged no harsh words and experienced no upsets of any kind. Desi hovered about me, attentive to every need... The more conservative he became, the happier I grew."

    Ball gave birth to Lucie on July 17, 1951, and I Love Lucy aired three months later. Both the baby and the show brought Ball and Arnaz closer together; allegedly, Arnaz's drinking and womanizing ceased temporarily.

    In 1952, Ball was pregnant again, but this time had to contend with the producers' distaste for showing a pregnant woman on screen. Perhaps due to the show's success, the producers decided to write Ball's pregnancy into the storyline, making Lucy the second television show in history to do so. Due to conservative minds at the time, the characters couldn't use the word "pregnant" and instead referred to Ball as "expecting."

    Ball broke the news to Arnaz, and the episode showed his actual reaction. His excitement towards Ball was so intense that the scene was almost cut. Desi Arnaz Jr. ended up being born at the exact time his fictional counterpart, Little Ricky, debuted on television, in an episode with more viewers than President Dwight D. Eisenhower's inauguration, which aired one day later.

  • Arnaz And Ball Argued Frequently, And Sometimes Heatedly on Random Complicated And Dark History Of Lucille Ball And Desi Arnaz's Marriage

    (#8) Arnaz And Ball Argued Frequently, And Sometimes Heatedly

    Arnaz and Ball's differences caused them to argue frequently. "They were fighting all the time when we were growing up. There was a lot of anger and screaming," remembered their daughter Lucie Arnaz. The couple kept their conflicts private and refrained from arguing on set. Their home life was another matter, and to save money from angrily retreating to a hotel, Arnaz built himself a guest house in the backyard. Family members and friends visiting the home sometimes heard screaming, cursing, and glass shattering coming from behind closed doors.

    However, Arnaz and Ball soon reconciled after their disagreements. According to one story, Arnaz once became so angry that he decided to move back in with his mother, but returned a few days later and stood in the front yard crying until Ball came out to console him. 

  • Ball And Arnaz Had An Impromptu Elopement  on Random Complicated And Dark History Of Lucille Ball And Desi Arnaz's Marriage

    (#2) Ball And Arnaz Had An Impromptu Elopement 

    A few hours before Arnaz asked Ball to elope with him, she gave an interview entitled "Why I Will Always Remain a Bachelor Girl." She was in Wisconsin appearing in an extended engagement and after having a fight with Arnaz, decided to take her time traveling back to him in New York. When she finally arrived home, Ball learned Arnaz was angry because her extended stay had ruined his secret elopement plans. Ball brushed aside her indignation and the fact she left her clothes in Wisconsin; she wore the only thing she had - a black wool dress - as she and Arnaz traveled to Connecticut to get married in November 1940.

    Aranz sent his manager to Woolworth to buy a cheap replacement for the ring he had failed to pick up beforehand. Ball wore the cheap ring throughout their marriage, despite Arnaz later giving her a more expensive one. She explained:

    In many ways, marrying Desi was one of the boldest things I ever did. I had always gone with older men. I had also achieved some kind of stability in Hollywood, and Desi with his beautiful girls and good times seemed headed in another direction. Yet I sensed in Desi a great need. Beneath that dazzling charm was a homeless boy who had no one to care for him, worry about him, love him.

  • It Was Essentially Love At First Sight For Ball And Arnaz on Random Complicated And Dark History Of Lucille Ball And Desi Arnaz's Marriage

    (#1) It Was Essentially Love At First Sight For Ball And Arnaz

    A Broadway director noticed Arnaz working as a bandleader in New York and hired him for his musical, Too Many Girls. In 1940, Hollywood adapted the show into a movie and cast Ball in the lead role. According to the story, Ball first met her co-star in the MGM commissary, still wearing the costume for the picture she was filming at the time. The role required her to have messy hair, a revealing gold lamé gown, and a black eye. Until this point, Ball felt indifference towards the young and inexperienced Arnaz, referring to the first-time actor as "that Cuban."

    However, when Ball actually met Arnaz, she quickly changed her mind. A co-star remembered, "Lucille followed my eyes, and I could almost hear the bells ringing in her head. The first words Lucille uttered when seeing Desi for the first time were, 'Oh, my God.' It was love at first sight for her." The 28-year-old Ball and 23-year-old Arnaz soon fell in love.

  • Both Got Remarried But Supposedly Never Stopped Loving One Another on Random Complicated And Dark History Of Lucille Ball And Desi Arnaz's Marriage

    (#13) Both Got Remarried But Supposedly Never Stopped Loving One Another

    After their divorce, both Arnaz and Ball got remarried: Ball to nightclub comic Gary Morton in 1961, and Arnaz to one of his neighbors, Edie Hirsch, in 1963. Ball reportedly felt that attending her ex-husband's wedding would prove too painful, so she did not want an invitation.

    Those who knew Ball and Arnaz said they both loved each other and always would, believing neither truly got over their divorce. William Asher, director of I Love Lucy, noted Arnaz's new wife physically resembled Ball. Ball would frequently ask mutual friends how Arnaz was doing after the divorce and watched their old home movies. In return, Arnaz continued to send Ball white and red carnations every year on their anniversary.

    When Arnaz was dying of lung cancer in 1986, Ball called to check up on him. Their daughter Lucie recalled, "She just said the same thing over and over again. It was muffled, but you could clearly make out it was the same thing over and over again. It was, 'I love you. I love you. Desi, I love you...' And he said, 'I love you, too, honey. Good luck with your show.'"

    Arnaz died two days later, and Ball passed away three years later. 

  • Arnaz Was Protective And Perhaps A Little Envious Of Ball  on Random Complicated And Dark History Of Lucille Ball And Desi Arnaz's Marriage

    (#10) Arnaz Was Protective And Perhaps A Little Envious Of Ball 

    Writer Madelyn Pugh Davis claims Arnaz knew Ball was the star of I Love Lucy and therefore the most important to the production. He would watch out for her safety on set and, according to Davis, thought "if she was taken care of, that was all that counted. He protected her. People were always asking her to do commercials and things, and he'd say, 'No, she doesn't do that.'"

    In fact, Arnaz's work behind the scenes was as crucial as Ball's acting when it came to I Love Lucy's success. From casting, moving filming from New York to Hollywood, and obtaining ownership of the show from the beginning (and later making millions selling it to CBS), Arnaz often tried to help his wife's career.

    For years, he supposedly kept mum about his insecurities about having a wife more famous than he was, at one point referring to himself as "Mr. Ball." 

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Many years later, Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz's daughter Lucie Arnaz finally publicly told about the terrible marriage and tragic divorce of her legendary parents. Lucille and Desi were married in 1940 and they had two children. To the public, their marriage seemed perfect like a fairy tale. They even starred in the American TV sitcom "I Love Lucy" together. No one denies that they are one of the greatest couples of the 20th century at that time.

But their marriage ended in 1960, and their lives were full of disputes and disagreements. The actress experienced the darkest moment of her life when she divorced and disappointed millions. The random tool shares 14 details about the complicated and dark history of their marriage.

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