Lucille Ball's Grandchildren Followed in Her Creative Footsteps

Publish date: 2024-06-05

Did Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz have youngsters? Did their kids have children? We have all the details below on their grandchildren and great grandchildren!

Katie Garrity - Author

The legacy of comic and actress Lucille Ball will live to tell the tale forever. While the redheaded TV star has been gone for over 3 decades, there's no doubt that she’s still the muse for lots of upcoming comedians and actors.

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There are talks of Lucille’s lifestyles with her on (and stale) display husband, Desi Arnaz, being made into a function film starring Nicole Kidman. If the movie does plan to turn her life behind the scenes, there’s no question they’ll tell the tale of her children and grandchildren. So, did Lucille and Desi have youngsters? Did their children have kids? We have the entire details under!

Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz had two children — daughter Lucie and son Desi Junior.

Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz eloped in 1940. Just four years later, Lucille filed for divorce, but the two ended up reconciling. In July 1951, Lucille gave start to daughter Lucie Désirée Arnaz, clearly naming their first daughter after themselves.  

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A yr and a half later, Lucille and Desi welcomed their 2d child into the arena, Desiderio Alberto Arnaz IV, sometimes called Desi Arnaz, Jr.

When Lucille discovered that she used to be pregnant with Desi Jr., I Love Lucy was probably the most in style and cherished presentations on television.  So, the couple wrote the being pregnant into the display. In reality, Lucille’s planned cesarean phase in actual lifestyles was once scheduled for the same date that her television persona gave delivery.

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Desi Arnaz Jr. had his first daughter when he was just 15 years old.

Lucille and Desi Sr. had been first referred to as “grandma” and “grandpa” a little bit faster than they more than likely would have favored. Desi Jr. Arnaz had a daughter, Julia Arnaz, when he was once simply 15 years old. Model Susan Callahan-Howe, Julia’s mom, was once additionally 15. 

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After a few high-profile romances, Desi Arnaz Jr. married Amy Laura Bargiel. The couple bought the Boulder Theatre in Boulder City, Nev. and restored it, and converted the building into a theatre and residential to the Boulder City Ballet Company. They additionally lived in Boulder with their daughter, Haley. 

Desi Jr.'s first daughter, Julia, gave him his first granddaughter, Desiree S. Anzalone, in September of 1989. Sadly, Desiree died from breast cancer on Sept. 27, 2020 on the age of 31. "She was so special. All our children are special, but this little girl was something else," Julia Arnaz advised People. "We were [best friends]. We are still."

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"She was so beautiful, just so so beautiful inside and out," Julia continued. "She really, really reminded me a lot of my grandmother, more so than I."

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Lucie Arnaz’s kids all followed in their grandparents' footsteps.

Lucille and Desi’s first born, Lucie Arnaz, has been married twice. First, she married actor Philip Vandervort Menegaux and then actor-writer Laurence Luckinbill to whom she is still married to. The couple resides in Palm Springs, Calif.

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Lucie gave her oldsters three grandchildren — Simon, Joseph and Katharine Luckinbill. According to Fabiosa, the Arnaz grandchildren have no longer let the creativity and artistry from their grandparents fade. Simon is an artist, Kate is an actress, and Joseph Luckinbill is a musician. 

When Kate was once 17 years old, she got to be queen on the seventy fifth Shenandoah Apple Blossom Festival — the exact same Virginia festival that her grandmother had served as grand marshall for in 1964. 

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