Like anybody who ever heard Ricky Ricardo open his mouth, I’d always known that Desi Arnaz was a proud Cuban American, “one of the great personalities of all time,” as his friend the dancer Ann Miller once put it. But until I started researching my new biography, Desi Arnaz: The Man Who Invented Television, I did not fully understand just how much Arnaz’s traumatic teenage flight from his homeland influenced his life and career—for better and worse.
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