[1] Per Boze Hadleigh's interview with Cesar Romero, Hollywood Gays (1996).
Father: Desiderio II (Mayor of Santiago, Cuba)
Mother: Dolores de Acha
Wife: Lucille Ball (actress, m. 30-Nov-1940, div. 4-May-1960, one son, one daughter)
Daughter: Lucie Arnaz (b. 17-Jul-1951)
Son: Desi Arnaz, Jr. (actor, b. 19-Jan-1953)
Wife: Edith Mack Hirsch (m. 2-Mar-1963, d. 1985)
Slept with: Cesar Romero (per Romero's interview with Boze Hadleigh)
Slept with: Richard Kollmar (husband of Dorothy Kilgallen, also per Romero's interview)
High School: Colegio de Dolores
Teacher: San Diego State University
RKO Radio Pictures under contract
Endorsement of Philip Morris
Hollywood Walk of Fame 6220 Hollywood Blvd (television)
Hollywood Walk of Fame 6327 Hollywood Blvd (motion pictures)
Naturalized US Citizen
Coma 1986
Cuban Ancestry
Risk Factors: Smoking, Alcoholism
TELEVISION
I Love Lucy Ricky Ricardo (1951-57)
The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour Ricky Ricardo (1957-60)
The Mothers-in-Law Raphael del Gado (1967-69)
FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR
The Escape Artist (28-May-1982)
Forever, Darling (9-Feb-1956)
The Long, Long Trailer (18-Feb-1954)
Bataan (3-Jun-1943)
Father Takes a Wife (4-Sep-1941)
Too Many Girls (8-Oct-1940)
Is the subject of books:
Desilu: The Story of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz, 1993, BY: Coyne Steven Sanders and Tom Gilbert
Author of books:
A Book (1976, memoir)
AKA Desiderio Alberto Arnaz y de Acha