Lucy and Desi

[Available March 4 on Amazon Prime Video.] Amy Poehler's informative, fascinating, entertaining, insightful, touching, behind-the-scenes, 103-minute documentary that explores the life and successful career of legendary, iconic, comedic, redheaded actress Lucille Ball and her tumultuous relationship with spicy, jealous Cuban musician Desi Arnaz whose hit television sitcom I Love Lucy made the famous couple even more popular and successful and consists of archival show and film clips and photographs, interview snippets, voiceovers (such as Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz, son Desi Arnaz Jr., talk show host Johnny Carson, writer Bob Carroll Jr., and actors, including Vivian Vance!p, William Frawley, and Katherine Hepburn), and commentary by archives director Laura Laplaca, brother Fred Ball, Cuban playwright/professor Eduardo Machado, actor/singer/comedian Charo, actor Carol Burnett, executive director National Comedy Center Journey Gunderson, actor/singer Bette Midler, I Love Lucy producer/head writer Jess Oppenheimer's son Greg Oppenheimer, daughter Lucie Arnaz Luckinbill, David Daniels, and producer/writer Norman Lear.
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