Lucille Ball

Oyuncu Doğum: 1911-08-06 • Jamestown, New York, USA

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Lucille Désirée Ball (August 6, 1911 – April 26, 1989) was an American comedian, film, television, stage and radio actress, model, film and television executive, and star of the sitcoms I Love Lucy, The Lucy–Desi Comedy Hour, The Lucy Show, Here's Lucy and Life With Lucy. One of the most popular and influential stars in America during her lifetime, with one of Hollywood's longest careers, especially on television, Ball began acting in the 1930s, becoming both a radio actress and B-movie star in the 1940s, and then a television star during the 1950s. She was still making films in the 1960s and 1970s. Ball received thirteen Emmy Award nominations and four wins. In 1977 Ball was among the first recipients of the Women in Film Crystal Award. She was the recipient of the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award in 1979, the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Kennedy Center Honors in 1986 and the Governors Award from the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences in 1989. In 1929, Ball landed work as a model and later began her performing career on Broadway using the stage name Dianne Belmont. She appeared in many small movie roles in the 1930s as a contract player for RKO Radio Pictures. Ball was labeled as the "Queen of the Bs" (referring to her many roles in B-films). In 1951, Ball was pivotal in the creation of the television series I Love Lucy. The show co-starred her then husband, Desi Arnaz as Ricky Ricardo and Vivian Vance and William Frawley as Ethel and Fred Mertz, the Ricardos' landlords and friends. The show ended in 1957 after 180 episodes. They then changed the format a little - lengthening the time of the show from 30 minutes to 60 minutes (the first one went 75 mins), adding some characters, altering the storyline somewhat, and renaming the show from "I Love Lucy" to "The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour", which ran for three seasons (1957–1960) and 13 episodes. Ball went on to star in two more successful television series: The Lucy Show, which ran on CBS from 1962 to 1968 (156 Episodes), and Here's Lucy from 1968 to 1974 (144 episodes). Her last attempt at a television series was a 1986 show called Life with Lucy - which failed miserably after 8 episodes aired although 13 were produced. Ball met and eloped with Cuban bandleader Desi Arnaz in 1940. On July 17, 1951, almost 40 years old, Ball gave birth to their first child, Lucie Désirée Arnaz. A year and a half later, Ball gave birth to their second child, Desiderio Alberto Arnaz IV, known as Desi Arnaz, Jr. Ball and Arnaz divorced on May 4, 1960. On April 26, 1989, Ball died of a dissecting aortic aneurysm at age 77. At the time of her death she had been married to her second husband, standup comedian and business partner Gary Morton, for twenty-eight years.

Lucille Ball

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Showbiz Goes to War

Cher... and Other Fantasies

Carol + 2

I Love Lucy Christmas Special

Women I Love: Beautiful But Funny

Bob Hope's Love Affair with Lucy

Hold That Girl

The Jack Benny Birthday Special

The RKO Story: Tales From Hollywood

The Lucy–Desi Comedy Hour

What Now, Catherine Curtis?

The Funny World of Lucy, Volume 1

Judy Garland: By Myself

Lucy and Desi: A Home Movie

E! True Hollywood Story

Carnival

A Star Is Born World Premiere

Fugitive Lady

A Night at the Biltmore Bowl

So and Sew

Salute to Stan Laurel

Life with Lucy

The Pearl Bailey Show

Body Language

I Love Lucy

The Emmy Awards

The Jack Benny Program

I Love Lucy: The Movie

This Is Bob Hope...

The Ed Wynn Show

The Carol Burnett Show

The Dean Martin Christmas Show

Password

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

Lucy Calls the President

Cher: The Farewell Tour

Tonight Starring Jack Paar

The Practice

The Ann Sothern Show

The Greatest Show on Earth

MGM Parade

The Kennedy Center Honors

Seven Days' Leave

The Lucille Ball Comedy Hour

Şapka

Next Time I Marry

CBS Salutes Lucy: The First 25 Years

The Big Parade of Comedy

Omnibus

Roberta

Stage Door

Lucy ile Desi

Three Little Pigskins

Lover Come Back

Blood Money

That's Entertainment! III

Sevgilim Vivian

What's My Line?

The Lucy Show

The Long, Long Trailer

Without Love

Jack Benny's 20th Anniversary TV Special

Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage

Moulin Rouge

Old Man Rhythm

The Farmer in the Dell

Chatterbox

Perfectly Mismated

His Old Flame

A Woman of Distinction

Lucille Ball: Finding Lucy

Carnival Nights

The Bob Hope Show

Dinah!

The Danny Kaye Show

Follow the Fleet

Forever, Darling