Lucy and Desi

Did the accident with the, the trial and everything

don't you think that strengthened your family feeling too?

Yes probably. I was too young then to step out and take care of them.

I always, as their fortunes waned during those years

I was very eager to make enough to take the burden off their shoulders.

He was the king of the rhumba.

The king of Latin music.

Now he saw me when I was 16 years old.

And that's how I ended up in the United States of America.

And people liked me. Thank God!

Cugat discovered a lot of excellent talented people,

and I am one of them.

Cugat discovered Desi.

And he could see that he was a real dreamer.

I met Desi because I knew Xavier Cugat.

They have a lot in common,

although Cugat was older.

Because Cugat grew up also in Cuba.

So they were, like they say in America, two peas in a pod.

Cugat the maestro, and the student Desi.

1... 2... 3... Kick!

1... 2... 3... Kick!

When you have that rhythm so heavy,

all percussion. It goes to your bones.

You felt right from the beginning

that this was going to be difficult didn't you?

Did she come out to Hollywood as soon as you two moved out here?

They called her "The Queen of the B's".

In those days remember they were called the B pictures. Smaller budgets.

Were you envious of her success?

No not at all. But I couldn't stay out here and just, don't do anything.

How did you feel?

Do you think being in vaudeville

had anything to do with you losing the baby?

I don't know.

Did you enjoy changing the baby and bathing it?

In 48 hours we lost everything we had. Everything.

They put all the congressmen in jail. All the mayors. All the governors.

Everybody was in the can.

And my dad was there for 6 months.

And what happened after you sold the reruns for 5 million?

Why didn't he retire right then and there?

She didn't want to quit.