
Lucille Ball
Born August 6, 1911 · Jamestown, New York, USA
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.
Movies

Yours, Mine and Ours

The Dean Martin Christmas Show

Lucy and Desi

Happy Birthday, Bob: 50 Stars Salute Your 50 Years with NBC

The Long, Long Trailer

Top Hat

A Guide for the Married Man

Night of 100 Stars II

Mary Tyler Moore: A Celebration

That's Entertainment! III

Outstanding: A Comedy Revolution

Mame

Dance, Girl, Dance

Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage

The Fabulous Allan Carr

The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender

Classic TV Bloopers Uncensored

That's Dancing!

Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood

Rock Hudson: All That Heaven Allowed

Stage Door

The Fuller Brush Girl

Du Barry Was a Lady

Cher: The Farewell Tour

Murder at the Vanities

Valley of the Sun

The Best of Bob Hope: 50 Years of Laughter — Volume 2

TV in Black: The First Fifty Years

The Big Parade of Comedy

Swing Out, Sweet Land

Hollywood's Funniest All-Star Bloopers

The Facts of Life
TV Shows

The Dick Cavett Show

Intimate Portrait

Tonight Starring Jack Paar

The Carol Burnett Show

The Lucy Show

Dinah!

I Love Lucy

Omnibus

The Bob Hope Show

Here's Lucy

The Ed Sullivan Show

The Jack Benny Program

Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse

Entertainment Tonight

The Danny Kaye Show

The Kennedy Center Honors

The Flip Wilson Show

This Is Your Life

The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour

The Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts

MGM Parade

Donny & Marie

Password

Body Language

The American Film Institute Salute to ...

The Lucy–Desi Comedy Hour

The Ann Sothern Show

The Emmy Awards

The Practice

Life with Lucy

The RKO Story: Tales From Hollywood

E! True Hollywood Story
More Movies

Stone Pillow

Follow the Fleet

Mad About the Boy: The Noël Coward Story

Five Came Back

Miss Grant Takes Richmond

The Dark Corner

Room Service

Showbiz Goes to War

This Is Bob Hope...

The Best of Bob Hope: 50 Years of Laughter — Volume 1

My Darling Vivian

Lucy Moves to NBC

Lucy Calls the President

The Whole Town's Talking

The Best of the Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts

Thousands Cheer

Ziegfeld Follies

Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Hollywood

NBC: The First Fifty Years

Critic's Choice

Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back

Happy Anniversary and Goodbye

A Star Is Born World Premiere

The Big Street

Broadway Bill

Lured

Judy Garland: By Myself

A Girl, a Guy, and a Gob

Hedda Hopper's Hollywood

CBS Salutes Lucy: The First 25 Years

Fancy Pants

The Affairs of Cellini

The Best Of Danny Kaye - The Television Years

The Lucille Ball Comedy Hour

The Magic Carpet

You Can't Fool Your Wife

What Now, Catherine Curtis?

Next Time I Marry

Easy Living

Look Who's Laughing

I Dream Too Much

Roman Scandals

That Girl from Paris

Her Husband's Affairs

Lucy and Desi: A Home Movie

Broadway Thru a Keyhole

Annabel Takes a Tour

Best Foot Forward

Shirley MacLaine: Gypsy in My Soul

I'll Love You Always

Joy of Living

That's Right – You're Wrong

Carol + 2

General Foods Opening Night

Biography: Bob Hope: America's Entertainer

A Beverly Hills Christmas

Too Many Girls

Don't Tell the Wife

Without Love

Men of the Night

Meet the People

The Affairs of Annabel

A Woman of Distinction

Cher... and Other Fantasies

Lucy's Really Lost Moments

A Night at the Biltmore Bowl

Beauty for the Asking

The Farmer in the Dell

The Marines Fly High

Forever, Darling

The Bob Hope Chevy Show

Dummy Ache

Muss 'em Up

I Love Lucy: The Movie

The Bowery

A Love Letter to Jack Benny

Winterset

Roberta

Old Man Rhythm

Two Smart People

Ellis in Freedomland

Hold That Girl

Fugitive Lady

Pioneers of Primetime

The Time Element

Kid Millions

Chatterbox

Sorrowful Jones

The Three Musketeers

Go Chase Yourself

Blood Money

Nana

Moulin Rouge

Panama Lady

Easy to Wed

I Love Lucy Christmas Special

Having Wonderful Time

Three Little Pigskins

Bottoms Up

The Lucy-Desi Milton Berle Special

The Funny World of Lucy, Volume 1

Hooray for Love

Twelve Crowded Hours

Three for Two

Lover Come Back

Lucy in London

Carnival Nights

Carnival

Seven Days' Leave

Jealousy

Bunker Bean

Lucy Gets Lucky

Perfectly Mismated




