Thank You So Very Much for Sharing That Video with All Us!! 💞 Lucille Ball & Desi Arnaz, Two of "The Best" Actors & People, in The Entire World!! We Sure Do Miss Them!! 💕
I have a bunch of Lucy related videos on documentaries on VHS and DVD. I went through all of them and pulled this material for them. This was a school project (not to make a profit) so I was able to get away with it. If I were ever to do a professional version I would get permission from the production companies.
CBS allowed Lucy's children to use the name for their company, Desilu II. I personally think CBS should use the name for an online video portal of their pre 1980's shows. When Gulf & Western bought Desilu they renamed it Paramount Television. When Paramount TV was merged with CBS they were renamed CBS Paramount Television. Eventually Paramount was dropped and so it is now CBS Television. What is pretty cool to me is that Desilu produced a lot of shows for CBS.
I did a report on the studio back in college (like you've done here, fine work) and found that the Desilu name itself had a few versions: Desilu Corporation, under which it did an IPO and incorporated under, Desilu Studios which was the generic name for its facilities and business related departments and Desilu Productions which did the actual work to make various tv series (including their own). The name Desilu was incorporated later as a division of Gulf-Western/Paramount as Desilu Productions. Soon the Desilu name was dropped, and, since it was not an active stand alone company lost any legal standing. I believe Desilu Two was incorporated after Ball sold Desilu in Delaware as a holding company for any business left over from the Desilu days when Arnaz and Ball owned it (not much was left, nearly everything was sold off to CBS at one time or another) and the rights to use their name and images in for profit ventures. Today it owns DVD rights to the Desilu series 'I Love Lucy', 'The Lucy Show' and 'Here's Lucy' but not the broadcast rights on tv. It also retains ownership rights to Desi Arnaz Productions and Lucille Ball Productions products, sans broadcasting rights. Most of its income comes from use of the name and image of Ball. The children, Desi Jr. and Lucie, own the company and have since their parents passed away. They also received a large stack of money from Ball's estate. However, their dad left them only his house in Del Mar, California which they sold. Same for their mothers place in Beverly Hills. The house in Palm Springs, California was willed, for his use, to her second husband Gary Morton, who lived there until his death. It was sold and later torn down for some reason.
Excellent short doc. Desi certainly deserves a LOT more credit that he got. He may have drank and have been unfaithful to Lucy, but Lucy was a fierce workaholic and that was at least part of the blame if not all.
Desi was an addict: sex, booze and gambling - before he married, during his marriage, and after as well. His second wife also was going to divorce him for his addictions. And she did not work.
To William French, who "directed" and uploaded the video on this You Tube channel: There was already a film, "The Desilu Story," that originally aired on Bravo in 2003. Isn't that basically a longer version of what you have uploaded here? I didn't post this to your You Tube channel, as there are a few persons with the name "William French," although they all have avatars, while your avatar space (like my own) remains blank.
Great work. I can't get enough of Desilu, Lucy and Desi history and this was an amazing piece especially considering that you did it on your own. Thank you, thank you, thank you for all the work you put into this. If you're still reading these, I would like to ask you a few questions. If you feel it wouldn't be an intrusion, please message me. Thanks again for this great piece of work!
When Lucy bought out Desi, the studio was losing money. When she sold it, it was making money. She did not like working on a tv show, both as actor and as producer, and also running Desilu Studio.
I wish some reporters would have asked Lucy about her contributions to Mission Impossible, Star Trek, Mannix and the movie Yours Mine and Ours at Desilu
@mgmbacklot I've seen it. Pretty cool. I love stage 25. I was there in 2008 and almost started crying when I entered. Worried about the plans for rebuilding the studio. Going to loose some great pieces of history. Luckily Stage 25 will survive.
Soon after the time of the Gulf Western (Paramount) buy out, Charlie Bluhdorn wondered if he had bought a bit of a pig in a poke as the studio property had suffered from scant capital improvements plus Star Trek and Mission Impossible were money losers--cost more than network payments. Only Mannix and The Lucy Show had cash positive promise. However, the future told otherwise. Buying Desilu turned out to be a financial windfall. Not only did the studio property appreciate in value but syndication revenue for Star Trek and Mission Impossible paid back in spades, let alone the Star Trek TV/movie franchise. However, Bluhdorn never lived to see the full payday from Desilu as he died in 1983.
Thank you very much for sharing this wonderful interesting video of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz I really enjoyed watching this because I'm such a huge fan of everything I love Lucy. I loved all four actors so if there's anything more that you can find out about all the actors I'd really appreciate it if you could share with us thank you again great video. This is Ivana Williams from Blue Mountains Ontario Canada ❤️👌
Yes, through the 1950's radio had 30-and-60-minute drama, comedy and variety shows, and transferred that format to television. What would become "I Love Lucy" started on CBS Radio in 1948, with a different title and a different actor playing Lucy's husband. When CBS wanted to move the series to television in 1950, Lucy agreed, but only if Desi took over the role of her TV husband. They went on the road, essentially to prove Desi could handle the role. They agreed, and CBS put the show on the air in 1951. Lucy and Desi also innovated by shooting the show on film, in Los Angeles, and live in front of an audience. Those things had never been done before. Virtually everything before was done live in New York, with a film camera shooting a picture of a television screen to record it. Those 'kinescopes' are the only remaining records of those shows, and not of great picture quality.
and STILL better than most of the shows on today.....
Thank You So Very Much for Sharing That Video with All Us!! 💞 Lucille Ball & Desi Arnaz, Two of "The Best" Actors & People, in The Entire World!! We Sure Do Miss Them!! 💕
This is so awesome! I'm so glad to see that you put this together so so long before I started!
Thank you Rick. You are doing an amazing job.
Thank you so much. It was next to impossible to do. But I had fun and am happy with the final project.
You did an excellent job on this piece.
I have a bunch of Lucy related videos on documentaries on VHS and DVD. I went through all of them and pulled this material for them. This was a school project (not to make a profit) so I was able to get away with it. If I were ever to do a professional version I would get permission from the production companies.
CBS allowed Lucy's children to use the name for their company, Desilu II. I personally think CBS should use the name for an online video portal of their pre 1980's shows.
When Gulf & Western bought Desilu they renamed it Paramount Television. When Paramount TV was merged with CBS they were renamed CBS Paramount Television. Eventually Paramount was dropped and so it is now CBS Television.
What is pretty cool to me is that Desilu produced a lot of shows for CBS.
I did a report on the studio back in college (like you've done here, fine work) and found that the Desilu name itself had a few versions: Desilu Corporation, under which it did an IPO and incorporated under, Desilu Studios which was the generic name for its facilities and business related departments and Desilu Productions which did the actual work to make various tv series (including their own). The name Desilu was incorporated later as a division of Gulf-Western/Paramount as Desilu Productions. Soon the Desilu name was dropped, and, since it was not an active stand alone company lost any legal standing. I believe Desilu Two was incorporated after Ball sold Desilu in Delaware as a holding company for any business left over from the Desilu days when Arnaz and Ball owned it (not much was left, nearly everything was sold off to CBS at one time or another) and the rights to use their name and images in for profit ventures. Today it owns DVD rights to the Desilu series 'I Love Lucy', 'The Lucy Show' and 'Here's Lucy' but not the broadcast rights on tv. It also retains ownership rights to Desi Arnaz Productions and Lucille Ball Productions products, sans broadcasting rights. Most of its income comes from use of the name and image of Ball. The children, Desi Jr. and Lucie, own the company and have since their parents passed away. They also received a large stack of money from Ball's estate. However, their dad left them only his house in Del Mar, California which they sold. Same for their mothers place in Beverly Hills. The house in Palm Springs, California was willed, for his use, to her second husband Gary Morton, who lived there until his death. It was sold and later torn down for some reason.
Did you know that Lucy was responsible for Star Trek being on the TV?
@@holiday-td6hx And Mission Impossible
What a team Lucy and Desi nobody like them since...
I work at the Desilu Property on Gower... you can see a video clip I put together Lucille Balls dressing room.
Excellent short doc. Desi certainly deserves a LOT more credit that he got. He may have drank and have been unfaithful to Lucy, but Lucy was a fierce workaholic and that was at least part of the blame if not all.
So it's perfectly OK for a man to flagrantly cheat on their wife and drink 2 bottles a day if the wife is a workaholic. Great to know!
@@HolgerRuneFan You have a point. They both created the perfect storm for a divorce.
Desi was an addict: sex, booze and gambling - before he married, during his marriage, and after as well. His second wife also was going to divorce him for his addictions. And she did not work.
@@LJ-ht4zs Good point, although by then he was set in his ways. Fame, especially when you have good looks, is a combination for trouble.
What a wonderful film William - thank you for sharing it! - Brenda in PA
We will always love Lucy
Really great television history!
Wow William. You did a great job making this video. Thank you so much.
he reposted this from the 2 hour special.
Well done! As a self-proclaimed Lucy expert I was impressed by the clip editing and info. packed into ten mins.
This was a jewel, seing 3
Thanks very much! What an excellent video, I really enjoyed this! All the best to you
To William French, who "directed" and uploaded the video on this You Tube channel:
There was already a film, "The Desilu Story," that originally aired on Bravo in 2003. Isn't that basically a longer version of what you have uploaded here?
I didn't post this to your You Tube channel, as there are a few persons with the name "William French," although they all have avatars, while your avatar space (like my own) remains blank.
Great work. I can't get enough of Desilu, Lucy and Desi history and this was an amazing piece especially considering that you did it on your own. Thank you, thank you, thank you for all the work you put into this. If you're still reading these, I would like to ask you a few questions. If you feel it wouldn't be an intrusion, please message me. Thanks again for this great piece of work!
That was really amazing! Great work!
Desilu was a great studio....it created much better content than the studio that it became part of: Paramount Pictures.
The comedy hour was later syndicated as Lucy in Connecticut.
Great job! Thank you ☺
Grand and valuable video congratulations
Lucy wasn't very good at running the studio. That's why she sold it. And they say that she should have sold it for a lot more.
When Lucy bought out Desi, the studio was losing money. When she sold it, it was making money. She did not like working on a tv show, both as actor and as producer, and also running Desilu Studio.
I wish some reporters would have asked Lucy about her contributions to Mission Impossible, Star Trek, Mannix and the movie Yours Mine and Ours at Desilu
You did a great job on this mini-documentary of Desilu
Ty for sharing awesome Lucy n desi😂🇨🇦🇨🇦
Very informative. Thank you.
Very good project. THANKS
Major fan of lucy i collect her stuff.
@mgmbacklot I've seen it. Pretty cool. I love stage 25. I was there in 2008 and almost started crying when I entered. Worried about the plans for rebuilding the studio. Going to loose some great pieces of history. Luckily Stage 25 will survive.
Soon after the time of the Gulf Western (Paramount) buy out, Charlie Bluhdorn wondered if he had bought a bit of a pig in a poke as the studio property had suffered from scant capital improvements plus Star Trek and Mission Impossible were money losers--cost more than network payments. Only Mannix and The Lucy Show had cash positive promise. However, the future told otherwise. Buying Desilu turned out to be a financial windfall. Not only did the studio property appreciate in value but syndication revenue for Star Trek and Mission Impossible paid back in spades, let alone the Star Trek TV/movie franchise. However, Bluhdorn never lived to see the full payday from Desilu as he died in 1983.
Loved it ❤.
Thank you very much for sharing this wonderful interesting video of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz I really enjoyed watching this because I'm such a huge fan of everything I love Lucy. I loved all four actors so if there's anything more that you can find out about all the actors I'd really appreciate it if you could share with us thank you again great video. This is Ivana Williams from Blue Mountains Ontario Canada ❤️👌
At 3:14 they are in the prop house at the old RKO (not sure which lot). This is froma special presentation they did for Westinghouse dealers.
May i know where did u get the clips of the interviews?
I think Paramount should give the name Desilu Back
Very nice!
Questions are good. Go ahead and ask away.
Nothing that is no already online.
@frenchjr25 dio you think Desilu name will come back
Wasn't Ben Casey filmed at Desilu?
Yes. At what is now Culver Studios.
@@frenchjr25 Would love to see Ben Casey on dvd or at least streaming somewhere. Who owns the rights? Thanks.
@@hippiegirl58 The distribution rights are now held by CBS.
@@hippiegirl58 And some episodes are on RUclips
@@frenchjr25 Thanks so much.
from the radio show (???) CBS did what???
Please explain your comment
He's asking about the transition between the TV show and the radio show my favorite husband which became I Love Lucy
Yes, through the 1950's radio had 30-and-60-minute drama, comedy and variety shows, and transferred that format to television. What would become "I Love Lucy" started on CBS Radio in 1948, with a different title and a different actor playing Lucy's husband. When CBS wanted to move the series to television in 1950, Lucy agreed, but only if Desi took over the role of her TV husband. They went on the road, essentially to prove Desi could handle the role. They agreed, and CBS put the show on the air in 1951. Lucy and Desi also innovated by shooting the show on film, in Los Angeles, and live in front of an audience. Those things had never been done before. Virtually everything before was done live in New York, with a film camera shooting a picture of a television screen to record it. Those 'kinescopes' are the only remaining records of those shows, and not of great picture quality.