Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz collection
Contributors: Arnaz, Desi, 1917-1986; Arnaz, Desi, 1953-; Arnaz, Lucie, 1951-
Published: 1915
Language: eng
Number of pages: 4700
Subjects: Popular music; Entertainers
Description: The collection consists chiefly of a set of 85 scrapbooks which preserve the record of the lives careers of Ball and Arnaz as they were recorded by the contemporary press. The childhood years of their children, Lucie Arnaz and Desi Arnaz, Jr. also figure prominently in the scrapbooks. Along with newspaper clippings and magazine articles, however, there are also many photographs, letters, telegrams, greeting cards, and other items. There are also five scrapbooks assembled by Desi Arnaz's father which record the details of the Arnaz family in pre-revolutionary Cuba, and a number of scrapbooks assembled by fans of Lucille Ball and sent to her in her later years. In addition, the collection contains many of the scores and instrumental parts used by the Desi Arnaz Orchestra from the late 1930s until the 1960s.
Notes: Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz collection, Music Division, Library of Congress.

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Transfer; Lucie Arnaz and Desi Arnaz, Jr.; 2003.

Sound recordings located in Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA.

The Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz collection chronicles the lives and careers of two of the most influential figures in the history of American entertainment. Ball and Arnaz achieved immortality when they created the roles of Lucy and Ricky Ricardo in the ground-breaking television situation comedy "I Love Lucy" in 1952.