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The Ricardos Biography

LUCY RICARDO

Whole Name: Lucille Esmeralda McGillicuddy

Date of Birth: August 6, 1921

Marriage: Ricky Ricardo, 1940-

Children: Ricky Jr, 1953.

Hair: mousy brown(natural), red(dyed with henna rinse)

Eyes: blue

Biography (Life before Ricky): Lucille Esmeralda McGillicuddy was born on August 6th, 1921 in West Jamestown, New York. As a child, she was babysat by Helen Erickson whenever her parents wanted to go out. Her doctor was Dr. Peterson and he once treated her when she was bitten on the ear by Fred Bigalow's cat. When Lucille was 17, she left Jamestown. In 1940, she met and married Cuban bandleader Ricky Ricardo. They were married on the 19th (or the 7th, we aren't quite sure) in Conneticut at the Byram River Beagle Club.

RICKY RICARDO

Whole Name: Enrique Alberto Ricardo y de Acha III

Date of Birth: May 20th-June 20th, 1917-1920?

Marriage: Lucy McGillicuddy, 1940-

Children: Ricky Jr, 1953.

Hair: Black

Eyes: Brown

Biography (Life before Lucy): Enrique Alberto Ricardo y de Acha III, was born during the Gemini season in Havana, Cuba. He was born to his mother and his father who gave him lots of advice. He was once taken to a Havana casino by his father, who told him that if he caught Ricky gambling then he wouldn't be able sit down for a week, and well, Ricky couldn't sit down for a week. He has a uncle Alberto who Ricky says practically raised him. He also has 5 brothers who are only mentioned once in "Be a Pal." Sometime before 1940, Ricky got a part in the Broadway play "Too Many Girls," and him and his band preformed at the Copacabana. In 1940, Ricky met and married Lucille McGillicuddy and they married at the Byram River Beagle Club in Conneticut.

LIFE AS A COUPLE:

On August 6, 1948 (the exact date Ricky gives in "The Fur Coat.") Lucy and Ricky moved into apartment 4A in a reconverted brownstone apartment at 623 East 68th Street in New York City. The landlords of the apartment were Fred and Ethel Mertz. The Ricardos and the Mertzes quickly became friends, and Ricky began his long engagement at the Tropicana club in downtown New York City. Lucy's dream is to be a famous actress so to try to realize her dream she constantly tries to get into Ricky's act at the club. And Ricky constantly tries to keep Lucy out of the act (but he rarely succeeds). In 1953, Lucy gave birth to Ricky Ricardo Jr. In 1955, Ricky got a movie deal so he took Lucy, Ricky Jr, Lucy's mother, Fred and Ethel with him to Hollywood. There, Lucy had many mishaps. On their first day in Hollywood, Lucy and the Mertzes went to the Brown Derby and Lucy acccidently tripped the waiter who was bringing William Holden's pie and it ended up all over his head. She also stole John Wayne's footprints from Graumen's Chinese Theater, and snuck into Richard Widmark's house. A few months later the Ricardos and Mertzes returned home and about a month later, they took off on yet another trip this time to Europe. Lucy got into more trouble there, she missed the boat, and the pilot boat, and had to get onto the boat by helicopter. Also on the boat Lucy got her head stuck in the port hole, but she did get to meet the queen, she also got arrested in Paris for counterfieting, and they got stuck in a avalanche in Switzerland. In Monaco, Lucy won 875,000 francs at the famous Monte Carlo Casino. On the way home to the U.S. Lucy snuck a 25 pound of cheddar cheese onto a plane, then she cut up the cheese and stashed it into all of Ricky's bandmember's instruments. In 1957, the Ricardos and Mertzes moved to Westport, Connecticut. Lucy got into more trouble, and Lucy and Ricky lived happily ever after.