The meet cute
Eddie Bracken and other fellow co-stars were right on one front: the two wouldn’t be dating for very long. While hardly knowing very much about the other, Lucy, who was 28 years old at the time, and 23-year-old Desi eloped. How long (or short) did it take them to make this life-changing decision? Six months!
This was a shock to those in Lucy’s social circle. Lucy had a penchant for a different kind of man. Her friends knew that she wanted to get married, but they never thought it would happen so quickly and with someone so normal. Desi, on the other hand, was engaged to someone else before calling it off and marrying Lucy.