Lucy and Desi Facts

• Lucille Ball's birthday is on August 6, 1911, making this year the 100th anniversary!
• Lucy's birth father died after a bad fever from being out in the COLD snow for a long time. The fever than turned into grippe then typhoid.
• Lucy called her mom De De
• De De remarried to Ed, who wasn't ready or made to be a father

I LOVE LUCY FACTS

• By the time "The Richardos go to Japan" was shot, Lucy's marriage to Desi was ending.  A friend remembers: "She was playing a geisha with white makeup, and her eye's were red from crying."