Little Ricky and Desi Arnaz Jr. share a birthday.
Little Ricky came into this planet during a much publicized Jan. nineteen, 1953, episode called “Lucy Visits the Hospital.” Also born on that day? Desi Arnaz Jr., who emerged via a planned caesarean delivery at Cedars of Lebanon Hospital. About seventy two % of American households have been tuned in on the episode, probably the most watched in Tv history up to that time, plus based on Hollywood legend, water pressure decreased across the nation whenever the show ended: People were definitely carrying it in until Little Ricky was created, and once they almost all expelled simultaneously following the episode ended, reservoir levels temporarily dipped. The birth episode even have better ratings compared to President Eisenhower’s inauguration the following morning and also, based on Ball, Ike later joked about Arnaz Jr., “Is that the young male that knocked me off the front pages?”
Lucy got her trademark hair color from henna.
An all natural brunette, Ball began dyeing the hair bombshell-blonde of her in the 1920s and’ 30s, prior to making the switch to white. As her on set hairstylist Irma Kusely explained, the hair of her was really really a “golden apricot” hue, achieved by first using dye then finishing with a henna rinse. Based on an interview with Kusely conducted by the Archive of American Television, Ball met a rich sheik in Las Vegas, and he sent her an enormous source of henna, which she kept in a secure in Kusely’s garage. “The length of your time I have been in existence never occurred to me until 1 day just recently, I discovered out I was outliving the supply of mine of henna,” Ball later joked. Following Ball ‘s death in 1989, Kusely said, “There was a great deal of it left when she left the planet, though I’d to offer it with the estate. I do not understand what little Lucie did with it, maybe sold it for a thousand bucks. Simply for a spoonful, are you able to envision what I could ‘ve earned with that?”