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LUCY (LUCILLE ARNAZ) BALL FAN PAGE
Common Misspelling: Lucy Arnez, Lucile Ball |
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Full Name |
Date of Birth |
Birth Place |
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Lucille Désirée Ball |
b. August 6,
1911
d. April 26,
1989 |
Jamestown, New York |
LUCY (LUCILLE ARNAZ) BALL BIOGRAPHY
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Lucille Ball was born on August 6, 1911 in
Jamestown, New York to Henry Durrell Ball and
Desiree Evelyn Hunt.
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She dropped out of high school in 1926 (at the
age of 15) to go to the John Murray Anderson
Drama School in New York City. However, the
school told her that she had no talent and
therefore would not accept her into the school.
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While her hopes of fame as an actress were going
up in flames, she took up modeling as a career
(under the name of Diane Belmont). As her
modeling career, grew, so did her exposure. She
became the “Chesterfield Cigarette Girl” in 1933
and gained some national fame. She was also on
of the original twenty Goldwyn Girls.
She took this moderate fame and began
auditioning for parts in movies. Her first
screen debut came as a slave girl in the musical
Roman Sandals in 1933.
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With each role she took, she gained more
experience and exposure in Hollywood. She took
on many parts large and small during the 1930’s
and 1940, although no one role really pushed her
into the big media spotlight.
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Although she did not become a household name
during this time, it was during the filming of
the movie Too Many Girls (1940) that she
met a handsome Cuban bandleader named Desi Arnaz
(Desiderio Alberto Arnaz y De Acha III, d.
1986). They immediately fell in love and
married later that year. Due to the stress of
their jobs and traveling apart, they almost got
divorced in 1944. They decided that in order to
stay together, they were going to need to work
together. They pitched an idea to CBS of a
television show based on a crazy red head and a
Cuban bandleader. CBS balked at the idea saying
that the American public would not go for such
an idea.
In 1945, Lucy and Desi Arnaz created their own
production company, and began touring the
country, doing the vaudeville circuit, with a
show based on the crazy red head and the Cuban
bandleader. Audiences loved their act. They
also took the show to the airwaves via radio
(entitled My Favorite Husband). They went
back to CBS, but once again they were turned
down, so they decided to make a pilot for a show
funding the entire thing themselves. The pilot
of I Love Lucy aired in October 1951 to
great reviews. CBS then came knocking on their
door and decided to make it into a full series.
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For six seasons (1951-1957), the show was always
at the very top of the rating charts. In
January 1953, the episode where Lucy gave birth
to their on screen son Little Ricky (Keith
Thibodeaux) was the most watched single episode
of television up to that time (over 44 million
viewers). This coincided with the birth of their
first child, Desi Arnaz, Jr. (they also later
had a daughter Lucie Arnaz). [Trivia: The first
issue of TV Guide pictured Lucy and her
new son Desi Jr.] The show won or was nominated
for dozens of awards (including 5 Emmys) during
the six year span. Lucy herself was also
honored with winning many awards, including the
1956 Emmy Award for Best Actress - Continuing
Performance and some of the awards she was
nominated for include the 1954 Emmy Award for
Best Female Star of Regular Series; 1955 Emmy
Award for Best Actress Starring in a Regular
Series; 1956 Emmy Award for Best Comedienne;
1957 Emmy Award for Best Continuing Performance
by a Comedienne in a Series; 1958 Emmy Award for
Best Continuing Performance (Female) in a Series
by a Comedienne . . . who Essentially Plays
Herself.
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Although the show was doing well, the marriage
was not. In order to save their marriage, they
decided to cancel the I Love Lucy show
and do something less stressful, such as a
variety show called the Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour,
which first aired in 1957. They also began
working more closely together on other Desilu
productions such as Star Trek and Mission
Impossible.
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Once again, their love life turned sour and they
filed for and received a divorce in 1960. The
divorce was hard on Desi and he turned towards
the bottle. On the other hand, Lucy placed all
of her misery into work. She borrowed three
million dollars to buy out Desi of his half of
Desilu Productions and engrossed herself in her
work as the owner of a multimillion dollar
company.
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She appeared as Kitty Weaver in the movie Facts
of Life in 1960 and came in second place for the
Golden Laurel Award for Top Female Comedy
Performance. She went back to the small screen
in 1962, reviving the character of Lucy in the
new TV series, The Lucy Show. This series
was successful and ran for 6 years.
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She also began to perform on Broadway, and
headlined in Wildcat, which was a
deviation from the comedies she was know for.
She continued to appear on the big screen and
appeared in such movies as Yours, Mine and
Ours where she won the Golden Laurel Award
for Female Comedy Performance and was nominated
for the Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture
Actress - Musical/Comedy. She was again awarded
for her role as Lucy receiving the 1967 Emmy
Award for Outstanding Continued Performance by
an Actress in a Leading Role in a Comedy Series
and the 1968 Emmy Award for Outstanding
Continued Performance by an Actress in a Leading
Role in a Comedy Series. Some of the awards she
was nominated for include the 1963 Emmy Award
for Outstanding Continued Performance by an
Actress in a Series (Lead); 1966 Emmy Award for
Outstanding Continued Performance by an Actress
in a Leading Role in a Comedy Series; and the
1968 Golden Globe for Best TV Star – Female.
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She
sold Desilu Poductions in 1967 for a whopping 17
million dollars. Then after marrying Gary Morton
in 1968, she created Lucile Ball Productions.
One of her first projects was to resurrect Lucy
one more time in the television series Here’s
Lucy, which also led her to be nominated for
Golden Globes for Best TV Acress –
Musical/Comedy in 1970 and 1972. In 1970, she
was nominated once again for a Golden Globe,
this time for her role in the movie Mame.
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Throughout the late 1970s and 1980s she worked
on a few sporadic movies and television roles,
and spent her time with her family and working
with her production company. [Note: She had a
fifth TV show based on the Lucy character in the
short lived Life With Lucy from September to
November 1986.] Over the next three decades she
was awarded for many lifetime achievement awards
including, a Star on the Hollywood walk of fame,
the 1973 Golden Apple Female Star of the Year,
1977 Woman In Film Crystal Award; 1979 Golden
Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award; 1987 American
Comedy Award’s Lifetime Achievement Award in
Comedy; 1988 Hasty Pudding Theatricals Woman of
the Year; 1989 Television Critics Assn Career
Achievement Award; 1989 Emmy Awards’ Governor’s
Award; The Women's International Center (WIC)
Living Legacy Award (posthumously in 1990). A US
Postage Stamp was also issued with her likeness
on it in 2001.
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The Queen of Comedy passed away in April 1989.
She had a very full and productive life for a
woman who “had no talent” and whose fame was
based on he own television concept that was
turned down by the networks twice, because the
American people would not go for it.
Biography by Ian Ripley,
PopStarsPlus.com, Sr. Staff Writer
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Official Lucile Ball Websites:
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Lucile Ball (Lucy
Arnaz)
Fan Sites:
Rating: Highest = 4
J's |
Celebrity & Commercial Sites:
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JJJ
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The Lucille Ball File
JJJ
America’s
Favorite Redhead
JJJ
Lucille Ball
Universe
JJJ
Tropicana Nightclub
JJJ
Youns.com
JJ2
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LucyBall.net
JJ
½ We Love Lucy (fan club)
JJ
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Meredy’s I Love Lucy
Trivia Mania
JJ
Lucile Ball (her
life)
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Lucile
Ball |
JJJ
½
IMDb.com
JJJ
A&E Biography
JJJ
CelebrityStorm.com
JJJ
EOnline.com
JJJ
PBS.org
JJ
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Time.com
JJ
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www.PopStarsPlus.com
JJ
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Lucille Ball on TVGuide.com
JJ
AlwaysCelebrity.com
JJ
ClassicMovieMusicals.com
JJ
FlickStars.com
JJ
FunkyStars.com
JJ
Museum of TV
JJ
PerfectPeople.net
JJ
Seeing-Stars.com
JJ
StarPulse.com
JJ
Stars2Go.com
J
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NYTimes.com
J
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Spomis.com
J
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AllMovie.com |
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CBSNews.com
J
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ClassicAcrtresses.com
J
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Encyclopedia Britannica
J
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FindAGrave.com
J
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Hollywood.com
J
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HollywoodCultMovies.com
J
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PageWise.com
J
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TheGoldenYears.org
J
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The-Numbers.com
J
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TV-Now.com
J
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TVTome.com
J
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Encarta.msn.com
J
ReelClassics.com
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BrainyQuote.com
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TheQuotationsPage.com
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Who2.com
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Encyclopedia.com
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LUCY (LUCILLE ARNAZ) BALL FILMOGRAPHY
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Year |
1933 |
1933 |
1933 |
1933 |
1934 |
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Selection N/A |
Selection N/A |
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Selection N/A |
Selection N/A |
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Title |
Blood Money |
Broadway Through a Keyhole |
Roman Scandals |
The
Bowery |
The
Affairs of Cellini |
|
Role |
Davy's
girlfriend |
Girl at the
beach |
Slave |
uncredited |
Lady-in-Waiting |
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Year |
1934 |
1934 |
1934 |
1934 |
1934 |
| |
|
Selection N/A |
Selection N/A |
Selection N/A |
Selection N/A |
|
Title |
Broadway Bill |
Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back |
Bottoms Up |
Fugitive Lady |
Hold
That Girl |
|
Role |
Blonde Telephone Operator |
uncredited |
uncredited |
Beauty operator |
Girl |
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Year |
1934 |
1934 |
1934 |
1934 |
1934 |
| |
Selection N/A |
|
Selection N/A |
|
|
|
Title |
Jealousy |
Kid
Millions |
Men
of the Night |
Moulin Rouge |
Murder at the Vanities |
|
Role |
uncredited |
1934 Goldwyn Girl |
Peggy |
Chorus Girl |
Chorine |
|
Year |
1934 |
1934 |
1934 |
1935 |
1935 |
| |
Selection N/A |
Selection N/A |
|
Selection N/A |
Selection N/A |
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Title |
Nana
|
Perfectly Mismated |
Three Little Pigskins |
A
Night at the Biltmore Bowl |
Behind the Evidence |
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Role |
Chorus Girl |
uncredited |
Daisy Simms |
uncredited |
Secretary |
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Year |
1935 |
1935 |
1935 |
1935 |
1935 |
| |
Selection N/A |
Selection N/A |
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Selection N/A |
Selection N/A |
|
Title |
Carnival |
His
Old Flame |
I
Dream Too Much |
I'll
Love You Always |
Old
Man Rhythm |
|
Role |
Nurse |
uncredited |
Gwendolyn Dilley |
Lucille |
College Girl |
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Year |
1935 |
1935 |
1935 |
1935 |
1936 |
| |
Selection N/A |
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|
Selection N/A |
Selection N/A |
|
Title |
Roberta |
The
Three Musketeers |
Top
Hat |
The
Whole Town's Talking |
Bunker Bean |
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Role |
Fashion model |
uncredited |
Flower Clerk |
Girl |
Miss Rosie Kelly |
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Year |
1936 |
1936 |
1936 |
1936 |
1936 |
| |
Selection N/A |
Selection N/A |
Selection N/A |
Selection N/A |
Selection N/A |
|
Title |
Chatterbox |
Dummy Ache |
The
Farmer in the Dell |
Muss
'em Up |
One
Live Ghost |
|
Role |
Lillian Temple |
The Actress |
Gloria Wilson |
Train Passenger |
Maxine |
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Year |
1936 |
1936 |
1936 |
1936 |
1937 |
| |
Selection N/A |
Selection N/A |
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Selection N/A |
|
Title |
So
and Sew |
Swing It |
That
Girl from Paris |
Winterset |
Don't Tell the Wife |
|
Role |
Sally Curtis |
uncredited |
Claire Williams |
A Girl |
Ann Howell |
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Year |
1937 |
1937 |
1938 |
1938 |
1938 |
| |
|
Selection N/A |
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|
Selection N/A |
|
Title |
Stage Door |
There Goes My Girl |
The
Affairs of Annabel |
Annabel Takes a Tour |
Go
Chase Yourself |
|
Role |
Judy Canfield |
scenes
deletged |
Annabel Allison |
Annabel Allison |
Carol Meely |
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Year |
1938 |
1938 |
1938 |
1938 |
1939 |
| |
Selection N/A |
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Title |
Having Wonderful Time |
Joy
of Living |
Next
Time I Marry |
Room
Service |
Beauty for the Asking |
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Role |
Miriam |
Salina Garret Pine |
Nancy Crocker Fleming |
Christine |
Jean Russell |
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Year |
1939 |
1939 |
1939 |
1939 |
1940 |
| |
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Selection N/A |
Selection N/A |
Selection N/A |
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|
Title |
Five
Came Back |
Panama Lady |
That's Right - You're Wrong |
Twelve Crowded Hours |
Dance, Girl, Dance |
|
Role |
Peggy Nolan |
Lucy |
Sandra Sand |
Paula Sanders |
Bubbles |
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Year |
1940 |
1940 |
1940 |
1941 |
1941 |
| |
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Selection N/A |
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|
Selection N/A |
|
Title |
Too
Many Girls |
The
Marines Fly High |
You
Can't Fool Your Wife |
A
Girl, a Guy, and a Gob |
Look
Who's Laughing |
|
Role |
Consuelo Casey |
Joan Grant |
Clara Fields Hinklin & Mercedes Vasquez |
Dorothy Duncan |
Julie Patterson |
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Year |
1942 |
1942 |
1942 |
1943 |
1943 |
| |
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|
Selection N/A |
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|
Title |
The
Big Street |
Seven Days' Leave |
Valley of the Sun |
Du
Barry Was a Lady |
Thousands Cheer |
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Role |
Gloria Lyons |
Terrence Havalok-Allen |
Christine Larson |
Madame Du Barry |
cameo |
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Year |
1944 |
1945 |
1946 |
1946 |
1946 |
| |
Selection N/A |
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|
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|
Title |
Meet
the People |
Without Love |
The
Dark Corner |
Easy
to Wed |
Lover Come Back |
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Role |
Julie Hampton |
Kitty Trimble |
Kathleen |
Gladys Benton |
Kay Williams |
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Year |
1946 |
1946 |
1947 |
1947 |
1949 |
| |
Selection N/A |
|
Selection N/A |
|
|
|
Title |
Two
Smart People |
Ziegfeld Follies |
Her
Husband's Affairs |
Lured |
Easy
Living |
|
Role |
Ricki Woodner |
Specialty |
Margaret Weldon |
Sandra Carpenter |
Anne |
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Year |
1949 |
1949 |
1950 |
1950 |
1950 |
| |
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|
Title |
Miss
Grant Takes Richmond |
Sorrowful Jones |
A
Woman of Distinction |
Fancy Pants |
The
Fuller Brush Girl |
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Role |
Ellen Grant |
Gladys O'Neill |
cameo |
Agatha Floud |
Sally Elliot |
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Year |
1951 |
10/15/51 - 5/6/57 |
1954 |
1956 |
1956 |
| |
Selection N/A |
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Title |
The
Magic Carpet |
I
Love Lucy (TV) |
The
Long, Long Trailer |
Forever, Darling |
I
Love Lucy Christmas Special (TV) |
|
Role |
Princess Narah |
Lucy Esmeralda (McGillicuddy) Ricardo |
Tacy Bolton - Collini |
Susan Vega |
Lucy Ricardo |
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Year |
11/6/57 - 4/1/60 |
1960 |
7/2/62 - 3/11/68 |
1963 |
1966 |
| |
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Selection N/A |
Selection N/A |
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Title |
The
Lucy-Desi Arnaz Comedy Hour (TV) |
The
Facts of Life |
The
Lucy Show (TV) |
Critic's Choice |
Lucy
in London (TV) |
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Role |
Lucy Ricardo |
Kitty Weaver |
Lucy Carmichael |
Angela Ballantine |
Lucy Carmichael |
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