Love Lucy is a classic and most popular American sitcom
from the 1950s, starring comedian Lucille Ball, her husband
Desi Arnaz, Vivian Vance and William Frawley. The series
ran from October 15, 1951 to May 6, 1957 on CBS (180 episodes,
including the "lost" Christmas episode). Keith
Thibodeaux (credited as "Richard Keith") played
"Little Ricky" in the last two seasons. Based
on a radio show starring Lucille Ball and Richard Denning
called My Favorite Husband. Denning was enthusiastic to
continue his role as Ball's husband, but Ball wanted her
real life husband, Cuban-born musician Desi Arnaz, to
play her onscreen husband. Studio heads were worried that
American audiences would not find such a "mixed marriage"
to be believable, and were concerned about Arnaz's heavy
Cuban accent. But Ball was adamant, and they were eager
to have her in the part.
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