00:00I'd like you to meet my favorite redhead, the mother of my children, ladies and gentlemen, Lucille Ball.
00:08I wanted to get as far away as possible.
00:11My parents had these audiotapes.
00:14Hello, hello. Hi there.
00:16He said, that's Lucille Ball.
00:18And I said, oh man, that's a hunk of woman.
00:21I was madly in love with Desi.
00:23I've never felt that way about anyone before.
00:26No one wanted him to play my husband, because he was Cuban.
00:29And they wanted a real American couple.
00:31The only reason I Love Lucy exists is because they wanted to be together.
00:36A cubita bella.
00:37Uh, welcome.
00:40They established their own studio.
00:43That's an enormous operation.
00:45Desi Lu was responsible for some of the greatest television of the 20th century.
00:50She was fearless.
00:51You realize that women could do this too.
00:53We had no idea Desi Lu was going to become what it was.
00:56Work became our whole life.
00:58There was a cost to the success.
01:01Communist infiltration in Hollywood.
01:03A lot of witch hunting at the time.
01:05His work was harder.
01:07I worked, I worked too much.
01:08I drank, I drank too much.
01:10I could live that way.
01:11She didn't want to play.
01:12After all, there's no business like show business.
01:16You may quote me.
01:17You see, when we worked, we were happy.
01:24I Love Lucy built every episode around that idea of fracture and coming back together.
01:30And I think we crave that as humans.
01:32No matter what you've done, I forgive you.
01:36You don't necessarily have to be a funny person to get a laugh.
01:44I'm not a funny person.
01:47The show was one of the most wonderful things that happened in my life.
01:51You brought the rafters down.
01:53At the core, it's all about unconditional love.
02:05You brought the rafters down.
02:32Sous-titrage Société Radio-Canada
