Character

Lucy Ricardo

Lucille Esmerelda McGillicuddy was born in West Jamestown, N.Y. At 22, she is set up on a blind date with a Cuban drummer named Ricky Ricardo. The two soon marry and move into a New York City apartment; their landlords, Fred and Ethel Mertz, soon become their best friends. In fact, Lucy constantly enlists Ethel in her hairbrained schemes, most of which blow up in her face. Much of her plotting has to do with her trying to get into Ricky's nightclub act -- though he repeatedly turns her down. She and Ricky have one son: Little Ricky, a musical prodigy like his father. In the final season of the show, the Ricardos and Mertzes leave New York and move to Connecticut in order to have a quiet life in the country.