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DESI ARNAZ: Nobody wanted me to play Ricky. The network. The sponsors. Nobody. Who the hell believes this Babalu fellow is going to be married to this typical American girl?[1] I don't know what words people used then. And the public accepted it more than executives feared. But they didn't see him as white like her. [1] https://theplotthickens.tcm.com/content/uploads/2021/11/TPT03_Episode05_Transcript.pdf https://theplotthickens.tcm.com/content/uploads/2021/11/TPT0...