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Lucy & Desi: Before the Laughter
1991 TV film
Lucy & Desi: Before the Laughter is a 1991 television movie from CBS about the lives of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz.
Lucy & desi before the laughter
The movie begins when the two actors met in the 1940s and ends with their divorce in 1960. The movie covers how their careers developed, their often rocky marriage, and how they came to develop the I Love Lucy show. It recreates a number of scenes from classic I Love Lucy episodes, including "Lucy Thinks Ricky Is Trying to Murder Her" and "Lucy Does a TV Commercial".[1][2] The television movie was directed by Charles Jarrott and written by William Luce, based on a teleplay by Luce and Cynthia A.
Cherbak.
Premise
The film begins in 1951, during the filming of the first episode of I Love Lucy. It then flashes back to a decade prior when Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz first meet in show business and fall in love.
The couple's ups and downs and their journey to creating the iconic TV