Desi Arnaz, here with Vivian Vance, left, and Lucille Ball each toting an Emmy for "I Love Lucy," was a driving force behind the pioneering show co-starring his wife, but struggled with alcoholism, as ...

Once a second banana, always a second banana when in the shadow of a brighter star. For musician and actor Desi Arnaz, that shadow belonged to Lucille Ball, his wife and co-star on the ground-breaking ...

Desi Arnaz’s life ricocheted between privilege and economic hardship, creative peaks and alcoholic lows — the stuff of high drama. But it was comedy that secured his legacy. The Cuban American ...