“It was romantic, passionate, everything you could imagine in a love affair…”
“Both times I was pregnant, I mooned for hours over a baby photograph of Desi, hoping by some magic I would have a baby who looked just like him. Then we did a show where Lucy tells Ricky she is having a baby. She sends an anonymous note to him at his nightclub, requesting that he sing “Rock a-Bye Baby.” Ricky complies, going from table to table, singing the old nursery rhyme. In front of Lucy’s table, he looks into her eyes and suddenly realizes he is the father. When we did this scene before an audience, Desi was suddenly struck by all the emotion he’d felt when we discovered, after ten childlesss years of marriage, that we were finally going to have Lucie. His eyes filled up and he couldn’t finish the song; I started to cry, too. Vivian started to sniffle; even the hardened stagehands wiped their eyes with the backs of their hands. The director wanted retakes at the end of the show, but the audience stood up and shouted, “No, no!”
- Love, Lucy
12/100 Favorite Photos of Lucille Ball
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All pictures in this graphic are post-divorce.
“After the short ceremony, we ate our wedding breakfast in front of a bright fire in the club’s lounge. Outside, a fresh mantle of snow hung on the pine trees. After all the indecision we’d been through, Desi and I were dazed with happiness. We kissed each other and the marriage certificate again and again. It still has my lipstick stains on it.
‘I’m going to keep this forever and ever,’ I told Desi, clutching it to my black wool covered bosom. This marriage had to work. I would do anything, sacrifice anything, to make Desi happy.”
- Love, Lucy by Lucille Ball
LITTLE DESILU THINGS || Lucy wiping the lipstick away after a kiss.
Lucille Ball in Dance, Girl, Dance 1940
Lucille Ball cracks up during the filming of a scene in I Love Lucy’s season 3 episode Tennessee Ernie Visits.
