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	Desilu Productions - Wikipédia
		Desilu Productions est une société de production de télévision américaine qui a été créée par les comédiens Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz.
		Desilu a produit des classiques tels que Star Trek, The Andy Griffith Show, Mission impossible et I Love Lucy.
		Aujourd'hui, le catalogue de Desilu fait partie du conglomérat de médias Viacom.
	fr.wikipedia.org /wiki/Desilu_Productions (197 words)

	Desilu Productions
		Desilu Productions was a company jointly owned by American actors Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz.
		Desilu's first studio was on Cahuenga Boulevard in Hollywood, at the site of what is now the Ren-Mar rental studio; the first episodes of I Love Lucy were filmed there.
		Desilu's holdings are currently owned by media conglomerate Viacom.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/d/de/desilu_productions.html (209 words)

	Lucille Ball
		It was on the set of RKO Studios, during the filming of Too Many Girls (1940), that Ball and Arnaz met; they were married on 30 November 1940.
		Ball pressured the studio to cast Arnaz in the role of husband, a suggestion that met with strong opposition.
		Though Ball and Arnaz had appeared together on the Ed Wynn show in December 1949, the network's major objection was the belief the public would not accept a Latin bandleader as her husband.
	www.edwardsly.com /ball.htm (1830 words)

	Search Encyclopedia.com
		It was an outgrowth of the Whitney Studio (1914-18), the Whitney Studio Club (1918-28), and the Whitney Studio Galleries (1928-30).
		As studio designer at MGM studios (1928-41), he created glamorous clothing for such stars as Greta Garbo, Joan Crawfo...
		In 1845 he opened a studio in New York City, devoting himself to painting, and two years later with a friend's aid was...
	www.encyclopedia.com /searchpool.asp?target=Desilu+Studios (432 words)

	Quinn Martin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		His series were known for their highly stylized format: a prologue featuring a stern-voice narrator to establish the premise; explicitly announced Acts I, II, III, and IV; and an epilogue, again featuring the narrator.
		Martin started worked for Desilu Studios, but soon created his own studio, QM Productions.
		He sold it in 1978 and worked as an adjunct professor at Warren College of the University of California, San Diego, but returned to QM in the 1980s to develop motion pictures.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Quinn_Martin (168 words)

	Encyclopedia: Desilu Studios (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		For example, lacking formal business training, Arnaz knew nothing of amortization, and often included all the costs incurred by the production into the first episode of a season, rather than spreading them across the projected number of episodes in the year.
		Another Desilu loss was Carol Burnett, who declined to star in a sitcom for the studio in favor of a weekly variety show that ultimately lasted eleven seasons.
		Desilu: The Story of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz, by Coyne Steven Sanders and Tom Gilbert, William Morrow, 1993
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Desilu-Studios (461 words)

	RKO Forty Acres
		Desilu Productions new ownership of RKO in Culver City also included the physical property of RKO's other studios that were located on Cahuenga Boulevard and Gower Street in Hollywood, right behind Paramount Pictures.
		Desilu Studios was very successful and had this little Mom and Pop feeling that accompanied all who worked there.
		For the television series, Roddenberry moved back to Desilu on Gower Street in Hollywood, since he didn't like the stages at the Culver lot, in particular Stage 15 had a three-foot drop on one side of the cement floor, which ran through part of Stage 16 and the stage walls were not soundproofed.
	ponderosascenery.homestead.com /files/rko.html (2117 words)

	Welcome to Hollywood! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Because they are each working studios, the tours often change to adjust for the current shooting schedules: so keep in mind, you could take the same tour twice and see several different things.
		Today the studio is a combination of the original Paramount lot and the old RKO studio, which later became the Desilu studios.
		At Desilu, Lucille Ball had a day care center constructed for one of her employees, which back in those days was virtually unheard of.
	www.lafamily.com /display_article.php?id=669 (1091 words)

	Culver Studios (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Culver Studios is the exception to that rule; its exterior facade is a grand colonial mansion, a virtual copy of George Washington's Mount Vernon, fronted by sweeping green lawns, sculpted hedges, flowering rose bushes, and the picturesque white "mansion" itself.
		Both the nearby M-G-M (now Sony) studios and Culver Studios were once part of Ince Studios, and you will notice that the street running along the east side of the studio is named Ince Boulevard, in honor of the studios' original owner).
		So if you really want to see the inside of this historic studio, go to "Audiences Unlimited" and see if they have tickets to a show taping at the studio - if so, then with ticket in hand, you may be able to walk inside the studio for the tapings.
	www.seeing-stars.com /Studios/CulverStudios.shtml (1167 words)

	Lucille Ball: "I Love Lucy" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		So, Lucy and Desi formed Desilu Productions and invested the $5,000 to tape the show on film in exchange for the rights to “I Love Lucy.” In essence, Desi Arnaz invented the rerun.
		The show was the first to be filmed using a “three-camera technique,” by which three cameras filmed the show simultaneously.
		By 1960, Desilu owned three different studios including RKO, the same studio the two met and worked at as contract players.
	people.smu.edu /sscroggi/ill.html (839 words)

	Boston.com / Business / Sony sells Culver Studios for $125M (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The historic Culver Studios, where such films as "Citizen Kane" and television classics such as "Lassie" were filmed, has been sold to a private investment group for $125 million.
		The Culver Studios were built in 1919 by Thomas Ince and have been host to such legendary filmmakers as Cecil B. DeMille and David O. Selznick.
		The lot was once home to RKO Pathe Studios when it was run by Joseph Kennedy and later served as home to Desilu Studios, owned by Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz.
	www.boston.com /business/articles/2004/04/06/sony_sells_culver_studios_for_125m (540 words)

	Ball, Lucille (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The program was incomparably successful, reaching the number one position by February of its first season and remaining number one for four of its six years on the air, averaging a 67 share.
		Aired in over 100 countries, the series quite literally financed the creation of Desilu Studios, where Lucy and her husband reigned as vice President and President respectively.
		In the mid-1960s, she sold Desilu to Gulf and Western for $17 million, and she went on to form Lucille Ball Productions with her second husband, Gary Morton, as vice president.
	www.museum.tv /archives/etv/B/htmlB/balllucille/balllucille.htm (1326 words)

	RKO
		The globe still sits atop the former studios main building at Gower and Melrose Avenue in Hollywood (see photos), but RKO was unable to make the transition to major contemporary studio.
		RKO Studios was one of the most important studios of the "Golden Age" of Hollywood in the 1930's.
		Hughes continued his systematic disruption and dismantling of the studio through 1955, when he split it into two separate entities, one of which was RKO General.
	caot.lacitycollege.edu /112/FinalKane/RKO.htm (285 words)

	TCM Now Playing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The first film would be shot at the Motion Picture Center, Desilu's studios, which would increase their profit participation, and establish the company as a feature film producer.
		For the first film in the deal, Schary suggested a property the studio had bought in the 1940's as a vehicle for Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn -- about as far from Lucy and Ricky's personas as MGM was from TV sitcom.
		But one Desilu executive recalled that "they hired Al Hall, but wouldn't let him direct." As they were used to doing, Ball and Arnaz ran the show, and brought in I Love Lucy writers Madelyn Pugh and Bob Carroll for some uncredited script doctoring.
	www.turnerclassicmovies.com /v1/NowPlaying/Monthly/0,3598,65\|63\|11573\|11578,00.html (941 words)

	Amazon.ca: Editorial Reviews Books: Desilu: The Story of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The famed redhead and her Cuban husband, who met as young Hollywood contract players, pioneered TV situation comedy by starring in their own series and founding Desilu Productions, which was responsible for such other hit shows as Star Trek and Mission Impossible.
		Lucille's obsessive involvements with her co-stars and children and Desi's alcoholism and womanizing come to stand out in sharp contrast to the zany TV antics of Lucy and Desi, who remain beloved by the viewing public worldwide.
		With exclusive access to family members (including daughter Lucie Arnaz) and rare photographs, Desilu is the first candid, inside account of a celebrated, complex, passionate, but ultimately tragic relationship -- as well as a fascinating behind-the-scenes look at Desilu Studios, the Golden Age of Television's most powerful production empire.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/books/0688135145/reviews (660 words)

	Bonanza Studios
		The reason the fake mountain was erected was because RKO had sets stored in the late 40's, and later in 1957 when Lucille Ball bought them out and created Desilu, she had a construction mill and sawdust collection tower built.
		The reason for renumbering the Desilu stages was because Paramount had many with the same numbers and to avoid confusion this was done, once they adjoined Desilu and it became part of Paramount Studios that year.
		David Dortort decided to stop filming the series at Paramount Studios at the end of the 1969-70 season because of the increase of the lot fees and also with the Janss Conejo Ranch and Iverson Ranch being fully urbanized in the valley, they could no longer do local exteriors there.
	www.ponderosascenery.homestead.com /studios.html (3107 words)

	Biography for Lucille Ball (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		She raised eyebrows as one of the wisecracking actresses in Stage Door (1937), and RKO, by then her home studio, promoted her to starring parts in a variety of comedies and dramas over the next five years.
		Desilu also became a major supplier of TV programs; in 1957 the company bought the defunct RKO studios, where Lucy had toiled for so many years.
		When she and Arnaz divorced in 1960, she ran the studio herself until selling it to Paramount in 1968, and kept busy with her own sitcom, which in various forms ran another 12 years and earned her another two Emmys.
	www.imdb.com /name/nm0000840/bio (2084 words)

	Lucyfan Studio Archives: Studio Facilites - Production Schedules (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Following are production schedules for Desilu Studios for the week of January 9-14 and January 16-21, 1961.
		As one can see, the lots were beehives of activity, with 14 different projects shooting during the first week, and 15 during the second.
		Desilu also owned a percentage of The Ann Sothern Show filmed at Gower.
	www.lucyfan.com /prodsched.html (202 words)

	Bonanza Studios
		In 1967, after Paramount bought Desilu, Stage 9 was renumbered as Stage 31 and Stage 10 was renumbered as Stage 32, both Michael Landon used years later in "Little House On The Prairie".
		The soundstages used for "Mission: Impossible" were Stages 7 and 8 at Desilu Studios.
		In winter of 1970, he chose Warner Brothers Studios because it had a wooded backlot and that would serve as the most frequently seen backdrop the last few years of the series, from 1970 to 1972.
	ponderosascenery.homestead.com /studios.html (3107 words)

	Whirlybirds Section
		It was conceived and produced by Desilu Studios, which was the home studio of the TV sitcom I Love Lucy.
		Down she goes on the hoist, in a studio sequence carefully staged using a 47G cabin mockup.
		Desilu Studios, duly intrigued by the 47 and its makers, began discussions with Bell Aircraft about how the entertainment potential of the Bell 47 might be further developed for a television audience.
	www.bell47.net /WB/WBSection.htm (779 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Business -- Investment group buys Culver Studios
		LOS ANGELES – The historic Culver Studios, where such films as "Citizen Kane" and television classics such as "Lassie" were filmed, has been sold to a private investment group for $125 million.
		The studios were built in 1919 by Thomas Ince and have been host to such legendary filmmakers as Cecil B. DeMille and David O. Selznick.
		As part of the deal, Studio City Los Angeles has agreed to build a 30,000-square-foot expansion of an existing office building to provide space for Sony's animation and visual effects divisions.
	www.signonsandiego.com /news/business/20040407-9999-1b7studio.html (496 words)

	LMT Tech Resource Store: Books : Desilu : The Story of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		This is the story of Desilu and it is a great story.
		The author dwells a little too much on the negative aspects of the Arnaz marriage/relationship, and I'm not sure he's a fan of weither, but the studio story is good.
		These authors did their extensive research and transposed their factual material into an engrossing, extremely well written and fascinating account of how one of the entertainment industry's most famous acting, creative and producing teams- Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz- created the most beloved sitcom in history I LOVE LUCY as well as a...
	www.elise.com /lmtstore/0688135145/Desilu__The_Story_of_Lucille_Ball_and_Desi_Arnaz.html (525 words)

	Variety.com - Desilu: The Story of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz
		In its heyday it was the most powerful of the non-network TV companies, producer of "The Untouchables,""Mission: Impossible,""Star Trek" and other hits in addition to Lucille Ball's various starring vehicles.
		Arnaz knew how to tailor the program to showcase his wife's comedic brilliance, and quotes from the many interviews conducted by the authors attest to his savvy and to a personal warmth that made it easier for subordinates to work with him than the remote, often difficult Ball.
		Although the tumultuous Arnaz-Ball marriage finally broke up in l960, the partners were aware of their professional interdependence and tried for nearly three years to continue running Desilu together.
	www.variety.com /article/VE1117900626?categoryid=31&cs=1 (346 words)

	Desilu: The Story of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz by Coyne Steven Sanders, ISBN 0688135145 And Theory of Orbits: ...
		Desilu: The Story of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz by Coyne Steven Sanders, ISBN 0688135145 And Theory of Orbits: Perturbative and Geometrical Methods by D. Boccaletti, ISBN 3540603557
		Desilu: The Story of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz by Coyne Steven Sanders, ISBN 0688135145
		The magical union of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz created I Love Lucy and Desilu Studios--two of the greatest show-business success stories of all time.
	www.forcefreight.com /ball.htm (270 words)

	The Andy Griffith Show
		Now, for the first time, we take a look behind the scenes of this small town and its residents, through countless interviews, historic film and television archives, old aerial photos of the Desilu Studio's backlot, and closeups of subsequent shows of that era, to learn much more about this euphoric spot in television history.
		While the outdoor filming was produced at Desilu Studio's '40 Acres' backlot, many of the interior shots were filmed at Desilu's Cahuenga Studios, now Ren-Mar Studios, at 846 N. Cahuenga Blvd. in Hollywood.
		In 1967, Desilu sold the studio buildings and backlot to Gulf & Western Industries, and later to Paramount Studios - a G&W subsidiary.
	www.radoknews.com /andy-griffith-show.html (989 words)

	Paramount Studios (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		And Paramount is also one of the few studios that admit the public on regular guided tours of the studio's back lot.
		Paramount Studios began in 1913 in a rented horse barn near Sunset and Vine, and moved to its current location on Gower Street in 1926, into an existing studio which had been built in 1917.
		Paramount Studio is bounded by Van Ness Avenue (on the east), Melrose (on the south), Gower Street (on the west), and the Hollywood Cemetery (on Santa Monica Boulevard) to the north.
	www.seeing-stars.com /Studios/ParamountStudios.shtml (1200 words)

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