Life
"Lucy's Boys: One at Home Means Pair on TV"
April 6, 1953

Last Updated: March 28, 1998
Formatted by: Ted Nesi
Provided by: LucyLova@aol.com

Having faithfully followed the television script of her I Love Lucy right to the letter to produce a baby son exactly on cue (Life, Feb.2), Lucille Ball stayed home for two months tending to her child as proudly and dutifully as any ordinary mother. Her top-ranking television program has continued to appear on schedule every Monday night (CBS-TV, 9 pm. E.S.T.) by making use of shows which had been filmed before the baby was born or by rerunning old episodes of Lucy.

Before getting back to work at the end of last month, Miss Ball sat with her daughter Lucie, her new son Desiderio Alberto Arnaz IV and her husband for the first portrait of TV's first family. Now, at the Desilu studios, she has begun filming a new series of domestic episodes. They will be built, naturally, around Lucy's new baby, picking up at about the same age Lucille's son has now reached. Because of child labor laws in California, which forbid infants to work more than two hours a day, the Arnazes have hired twins to play their TV child. This enables them to use first one and then the other, and shoot their series with a minimum of interruption. For such chores and their comedy performances the Arnazes are being paid an unprecedented $8 million in two and a half years.



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