EARLY DAYS PRODUCTIONS
Ball was born Lucille Désirée Ball to Henry Durrell Ball (September 16, 1886 – February 19, 1915) and Desiree "DeeDee" Evelyn Hunt (September 21, 1892 – July 20, 1977) on August 6, 1911 in Jamestown, New York. Although Lucy was born in Jamestown, New York, she told many people that she was born in Butte, Montana. At age 3, her family moved to Anaconda, Montana and then to Wyandotte, Michigan. Her family was Baptist; her father was of Scottish descent, and his mother was Mary Ball. Her mother was of French, Irish and English descent. Her genealogy can be traced back to the earliest settlers in the colonies. After her father died, Ball and her brother Fred were raised by her mother and grandparents in Celoron, New York a village just west of Jamestown.
1911 - 1989
Stats:
Birth Name:
Lucille Désirée Ball
Height: 5' 7½"
Hair Color: light brown (natural)
red (dyed)
Eye Color: blue
Quote: "One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn't pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore faith in yourself."
Birth Name:
Lucille Désirée Ball
Height: 5' 7½"
Hair Color: light brown (natural)
red (dyed)
Eye Color: blue
Quote: "One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn't pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore faith in yourself."
In 1927, Ball dated a gangster's son by the name of Johnny DeVita. Because of this relationship, her mother decided to ship Ball off to the John Murray Anderson School for the Dramatic Arts in New York City. There, Ball attended with fellow actress Bette Davis. Ball went home a few weeks later when drama coaches told her that she "had no future at all as a performer". Ball was determined to prove her teachers wrong, and returned to New York City in 1929. She landed work as a fashion model. Her career was thriving when she became ill with rheumatoid arthritis and was unable to work for two years. She moved to New York City once again in 1932 to resume her pursuit of a career as an actress, and had some success as a fashion model for designer Hattie Carnegie and as the Chesterfield cigarette girl. She began on Broadway as Dianne Belmont. She was hired—but then quickly fired—by theatre impresario Earl Carroll from his Vanities, and by Florenz Ziegfeld from a touring company of Rio Rita.
After an uncredited stint as one of the Goldwyn Girls in "Roman Scandals" (1933) she permanently moved to Hollywood to appear in films. She appeared in many small movie roles in the 1930s as a contract player for RKO Radio Pictures, including movies with the Three Stooges ("Three Little Pigskins", 1934) and the Marx Brothers ("Room Service", 1938). She can also be seen as one of the featured models in the Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers film "Roberta" (1935) and briefly as the flower girl in "Top Hat" (1935), as well as a brief supporting role at the beginning of "Follow the Fleet" (1936) another Astaire-Rogers film. Ginger Rogers was a distant cousin of Ball's on her mother's side of the family. She and Rogers played aspiring actresses in the hit film "Stage Door" (1937) co-starring Katharine Hepburn. Ball was signed to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in the 1940s, but she never achieved major stardom from her appearance in those films.
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Lucille Ball's Selected Filmography
The Bowery (1933)
Broadway Through a Keyhole (1933)
Blood Money (1933)
Roman Scandals (1933)
Moulin Rouge (1934)
Nana (1934)
Hold That Girl (1934)
Bottoms Up (1934)
Murder at the Vanities (1934)
Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back (1934)
The Affairs of Cellini (1934)
Kid Millions (1934)
Men of the Night (1934)
Broadway Bill (1934)
Jealousy (1934)
Fugitive Lady (1934)
Behind the Evidence (1935)
Carnival (1935)
The Whole Town's Talking (1935)
Roberta (1935)
I'll Love You Always (1935)
Old Man Rhythm (1935)
Top Hat (1935)
The Three Musketeers (1935)
I Dream Too Much (1935)
Chatterbox (1936)
Muss 'em Up (1936)
Follow the Fleet (1936)
The Farmer in the Dell (1936)
Bunker Bean (1936)
Winterset (1936)
That Girl from Paris (1936)
Don't Tell the Wife (1937)
There Goes My Girl (1937) (scenes deleted)
Stage Door (1937)
Go Chase Yourself (1938)
Joy of Living (1938)
Having Wonderful Time (1938)
The Affairs of Annabel (1938)
Room Service (1938)
Annabel Takes a Tour (1938)
Next Time I Marry (1938)
Beauty for the Asking (1939)
Twelve Crowded Hours (1939)
Panama Lady (1939)
Five Came Back (1939)
That's Right You're Wrong(1939)
The Marines Fly High (1940)
You Can't Fool Your Wife (1940)
Dance, Girl, Dance (1940)
Too Many Girls (1940)
A Girl, a Guy, and a Gob (1941)
Look Who's Laughing (1941)
Valley of the Sun (1942)
The Big Street (1942)
Seven Days' Leave (1942)
Best Foot Forward (1943)
DuBarry Was a Lady (1943)
Thousands Cheer (1943)
Meet the People (1944)
Without Love (1945)
Abbott and Costello in Hollywood (1945)
Ziegfeld Follies (1946)
The Dark Corner (1946)
Two Smart People (1946)
Easy to Wed (1946)
Lured (1947)
Her Husband's Affairs (1947)
Sorrowful Jones (1949)
Miss Grant Takes Richmond (1949)
Easy Living (1949)
A Woman of Distinction (1950) (Cameo)
Fancy Pants (1950)
The Fuller Brush Girl (1950)
The Magic Carpet (1951)
"I Love Lucy: The Movie" (1953)
The Long, Long Trailer (1954)
Forever, Darling (1956)
The Facts of Life (1960)
Critic's Choice (1963)
A Guide for the Married Man (1967, narrarator)
Yours, Mine and Ours (1968)
Mame (1974
Broadway Through a Keyhole (1933)
Blood Money (1933)
Roman Scandals (1933)
Moulin Rouge (1934)
Nana (1934)
Hold That Girl (1934)
Bottoms Up (1934)
Murder at the Vanities (1934)
Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back (1934)
The Affairs of Cellini (1934)
Kid Millions (1934)
Men of the Night (1934)
Broadway Bill (1934)
Jealousy (1934)
Fugitive Lady (1934)
Behind the Evidence (1935)
Carnival (1935)
The Whole Town's Talking (1935)
Roberta (1935)
I'll Love You Always (1935)
Old Man Rhythm (1935)
Top Hat (1935)
The Three Musketeers (1935)
I Dream Too Much (1935)
Chatterbox (1936)
Muss 'em Up (1936)
Follow the Fleet (1936)
The Farmer in the Dell (1936)
Bunker Bean (1936)
Winterset (1936)
That Girl from Paris (1936)
Don't Tell the Wife (1937)
There Goes My Girl (1937) (scenes deleted)
Stage Door (1937)
Go Chase Yourself (1938)
Joy of Living (1938)
Having Wonderful Time (1938)
The Affairs of Annabel (1938)
Room Service (1938)
Annabel Takes a Tour (1938)
Next Time I Marry (1938)
Beauty for the Asking (1939)
Twelve Crowded Hours (1939)
Panama Lady (1939)
Five Came Back (1939)
That's Right You're Wrong(1939)
The Marines Fly High (1940)
You Can't Fool Your Wife (1940)
Dance, Girl, Dance (1940)
Too Many Girls (1940)
A Girl, a Guy, and a Gob (1941)
Look Who's Laughing (1941)
Valley of the Sun (1942)
The Big Street (1942)
Seven Days' Leave (1942)
Best Foot Forward (1943)
DuBarry Was a Lady (1943)
Thousands Cheer (1943)
Meet the People (1944)
Without Love (1945)
Abbott and Costello in Hollywood (1945)
Ziegfeld Follies (1946)
The Dark Corner (1946)
Two Smart People (1946)
Easy to Wed (1946)
Lured (1947)
Her Husband's Affairs (1947)
Sorrowful Jones (1949)
Miss Grant Takes Richmond (1949)
Easy Living (1949)
A Woman of Distinction (1950) (Cameo)
Fancy Pants (1950)
The Fuller Brush Girl (1950)
The Magic Carpet (1951)
"I Love Lucy: The Movie" (1953)
The Long, Long Trailer (1954)
Forever, Darling (1956)
The Facts of Life (1960)
Critic's Choice (1963)
A Guide for the Married Man (1967, narrarator)
Yours, Mine and Ours (1968)
Mame (1974
Full Movie: Lured (1947)
A serial killer in London is murdering young women whom he meets through the personal columns of newspapers; he announces each of his murders to the police by sending them a cryptic poem. - Taken from IMDB
In 1948, Ball was cast as Liz Cugat (later "Cooper"), a wacky wife, in "My Favorite Husband", a radio program for CBS Radio. The program was successful, and CBS asked her to develop it for television. She agreed, but insisted on working with Arnaz. CBS executives were reluctant, thinking the public would not accept an All-American redhead and a Cuban as a couple. CBS was initially not impressed with the pilot episode produced by the couple's Desilu Productions company, so the couple toured the road in a vaudeville act with Lucy as the zany housewife wanting to get in Arnaz's show. The tour was a smash, and CBS put "I Love Lucy" on their lineup. The "I Love Lucy" show was not only a star vehicle for Lucille Ball, but a way for her to try to salvage her marriage to Desi Arnaz, which had become badly strained, in part by the fact that each had a hectic performing schedule which often kept them apart.
By the end of the 1950s, Desilu had become a large company, causing a good deal of stress for both Ball and Arnaz; his increased drinking further compounded matters. On May 4, 1960, just two months after filming the final episode of "The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour", the couple divorced. Until his death in 1986, however, Arnaz and Ball remained friends and often spoke very fondly of each other. Her real-life divorce indirectly found its way into her later television series, as she was always cast as a single woman. She made a few more movies including "Yours, Mine, and Ours" (1968), and the musical "Mame" (1974), and two more successful long-running sitcoms for CBS: "The Lucy Show" (1962–68), which costarred Vivian Vance and Gale Gordon, and "Here's Lucy" (1968–74), which also featured Gordon, as well Lucy's real life children, Lucie Arnaz and Desi Arnaz, Jr. Lucille Ball died on April 26 1989 of a ruptured aorta. She was 77 years old.
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