

Desi Produced Lucy’s New Television Showįollowing the couple’s divorce, Desilu Productions lost some of the shows that it produced. CBS Television/ Wikimedia Commons/ Public Domain. The scene is Carter’s Unique Employment Agency where Lucy works in 1968.

Pictured are Lucie Arnaz, Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz, Jr. They were both capable of long-term, steady relationships, just not with each other. Both Lucy’s and Desi’s second marriages lasted until their partners died in old age, Gary in 1985 and Edith in 1986. Many referred to Edith as “Lucy 2” and felt that he only married her because of how much she reminded him of Lucy. Desi also remarried, to a red-headed neighbor named Edith Hirsch, in 1963. Their marriage was more contented and less passionate than her previous one Gary never embarrassed her or drank too much. Less than a year after the divorce, Lucy married comedian Gary Morton. I didn’t want him to go any further away.” The two continued to cooperate professionally and retained dual ownership of Desilu Productions for another two years. And I didn’t want my dad out of the house. Little Lucie, who was nine years old at the time, later said, “Part of me probably totally understood why, because we had heard the arguments and that wasn’t fun either. Lucy and Desi’s divorce was acrimonious, not just because they had been America’s golden couple, but because of the pain that it caused their children.
