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Lucie Arnaz

 
Artist: Lucie Arnaz
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Performed Songs By:

Ira Gershwin, George Gershwin
  • Active: '90s
  • Genres: Vocal Music
  • Instrument: Vocals Representative Album: "Just in Time"

Biography

One does not usually think of Lucie Arnaz, the actress daughter of Lucille Ball, as being a musical performer. However, she has a nice voice and is capable of swinging her way through standards on the rare occasions when she is called upon to do so. In 1993, she recorded Just in Time for Concord with the assistance of a big band and such guests as Gary Foster, Ken Peplowski and Bob Cooper, showing off the influence of her singing inspiration, Rosemary Clooney. ~ Scott Yanow, All Music Guide
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Actor: Lucie Arnaz
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  • Born: Jul 17, 1951 in Hollywood, California
  • Occupation: Actor, Director
  • Active: '60s-2000s
  • Major Genres: Film, TV & Radio, Drama
  • Career Highlights: Who Is the Black Dahlia?, Abduction of Innocence: A Moment of Truth Movie, Washington Mistress
  • First Major Screen Credit: The Lucy Show: Lucy Is a Soda Jerk (1963)

Biography

American actress Lucie Arnaz was the first child of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz. Lucie was a genuine "miracle baby", delivered by C-section after her 40-year-old mother had suffered several miscarriages. In the public eye almost from birth, Lucie and her younger brother Desi Jr. frequently accompanied their parents to the set of I Love Lucy; both children, in fact, made their professional TV debuts as extras on the last Lucy half-hour filmed in 1957. Lucille Ball arranged for Lucie to play bits on her post-Desi TV series of the 1960s, The Lucy Show. When Lucie decided she enjoyed the limelight, her mother agreed to allow her to continue as a full supporting player on her next series, Here's Lucy (1968-74) -- but only on the condition that she kept apace in school and stayed out of trouble. The notion that Lucie would flounder without the support of her parents was quashed when she won a Theatre World Award for her 1978 Broadway debut in They're Playing Our Song. Lucie had earlier established herself as an actress of distinction in the 1976 TV movie Who Is the Black Dahlia?, and even managed to emerge from the painful Neil Diamond version of The Jazz Singer (1980) without any loss of reputation. She has also starred in two short-lived TV series, The Lucie Arnaz Show (1985) and Sons and Daughters (1991). Long married to actor Laurence Luckinbill, Lucie Arnaz has in recent years become the torchbearer of the Lucy/Desi legacy by marketing several reels of the Arnaz' 1940s home movies for TV and videocassette exposure. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
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Lucie Arnaz

Arnaz at the Academy Awards, 1988
Born Lucie Désirée Arnaz
July 17, 1951 (1951-07-17) (age 58)
Los Angeles, California‹See Tfd›, U.S.
Occupation Actress
Years active 1968 – present
Spouse(s) Phil Vandervort
(1971 – 1977)
Laurence Luckinbill
(1980 – present) (three children, two stepsons)

Lucie Désirée Arnaz (born July 17, 1951) is an American actress, singer, dancer and producer. She is the daughter of actors Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz, and is the sister of actor Desi Arnaz, Jr.. She shares a birthday with her uncle, Fred Ball.

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Personal life

Born and raised in Los Angeles, Arnaz attended the Immaculate Heart High School. She has been twice married, to Phil Vandervort (July 17, 1971 – 1977) and Laurence Luckinbill (June 22, 1980 – present).

She and actor-writer Luckinbill have three children together — Simon, Joseph and Katharine — while Luckinbill has two from his previous marriage, Nicholas and Benjamin.

Career

Having had several walk-on parts in her parents' television series, The Lucy Show, Arnaz made her first acting appearance in a continuing role in the series Here's Lucy from 1968 to 1974. She played Kim, the daughter of the eponymous Lucy—who was played by Arnaz's real-life mother, Lucille Ball.

Arnaz branched out into television roles independent of her family from the mid-1970s. In 1975, she played infamous murder victim Elizabeth Short in a production of Who is the Black Dahlia?, while in 1978, she appeared in an episode of Fantasy Island as a woman desperately trying to save her marriage. She has continued to make appearances in a number of popular television series over the years, including Murder, She Wrote, Marcus Welby M.D., Sons and Daughters, and Law & Order. Arnaz also briefly had a series of her own, The Lucie Arnaz Show, in 1985.

She has also had a lengthy career in musical theatre. In the summer of 1978, she played the title role in "Annie Get Your Gun" at the popular Jones Beach Theatre on Long island, NY. This was the first production at Jones Beach Theatre after the death of longtime producer Guy Lombardo. She made her Broadway debut in 1979 in the musical They're Playing Our Song. Arnaz won the Theatre World Award and the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Actress in a Musical for her portray of Sonia Walsk in the show. In 1986, she won the Sarah Siddons Award for her tour with Tommy Tune in the international company of the musical My One and Only. She has numerous other theater and musical credits both in the United States and abroad, including roles in Seesaw, Annie Get Your Gun, Whose Life is it, Anyway?, The Guardsman, The Wizard of Oz in Concert: Dreams Come True, Sonia Flew, The Witches of Eastwick, Vanities, Neil Simon's Lost in Yonkers, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, and Terence McNally's Master Class.

Arnaz has also made some feature film appearances, the most prominent of which was 1980's The Jazz Singer, in which she co-starred with singer Neil Diamond and renowned actor Laurence Olivier. She earned a Best Supporting Actress Golden Globe nomination for her work in the film.

She won an Emmy Award in 1993 for her documentary Lucy and Desi: A Home Movie.

Other

From about 2002 to 2007, she was the President of the Board of Directors of the Lucille Ball-Desi Arnaz Center in Jamestown, New York. She resigned over a dispute with the Executive Director over the future direction of the Center;[1] for further information, see the SaveLucyDesiCenter.org website.[2]

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Filmography

Television

References

  1. ^ http://www.savelucydesicenter.org/pjarticle.html Fanelli, P. (2007), "Lucie, Desi Jr. Depart with Clark, Rapaport; Spots Filled with Locals", Jamestown Post-Journal (5 December)
  2. ^ http://www.savelucydesicenter.org

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