Lucille Ball
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
202
Gender
Female
Birthday
1911-08-06
Day of death
1989-04-26 (77 years old)
Place of Birth
Jamestown, New York, USA
Lucille Ball
Biography
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.
Known For
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
The Mike Douglas Show
The Mike Douglas Show
The Merv Griffin Show
The Dick Cavett Show
I Love Lucy
Intimate Portrait
The Carol Burnett Show
What's My Line?
The Lucy Show
Dinah!
Tonight Starring Jack Paar
The Bob Hope Show
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
This Is Your Life
The Ed Sullivan Show
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Hollywood
What Now, Catherine Curtis?
Happy Birthday, Bob: 50 Stars Salute Your 50 Years with NBC
Showbiz Goes to War
Mad About the Boy: The Noël Coward Story
The Jack Benny Program
Here's Lucy
The Best of Bob Hope: 50 Years of Laughter — Volume 2
The Best of Bob Hope: 50 Years of Laughter — Volume 1
A Star Is Born World Premiere
The Danny Kaye Show
Biography: Bob Hope: America's Entertainer
Broadway Bill
Entertainment Tonight
The Affairs of Annabel
Donny & Marie
Look Who's Laughing
Next Time I Marry
The Kennedy Center Honors
Hollywood's Funniest All-Star Bloopers
Lucy Moves to NBC
Annabel Takes a Tour
Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
CBS Salutes Lucy: The First 25 Years
Yours, Mine and Ours
TV in Black: The First Fifty Years
The Flip Wilson Show
Miss Grant Takes Richmond
Password
A Guide for the Married Man
The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender
The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour
The Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts
The Greatest Show on Earth
The Bob Hope Chevy Show
Joy of Living
Easy Living
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
That Girl from Paris
Thousands Cheer
All Star Party for Clint Eastwood
Startime
The Lucy–Desi Comedy Hour
Ann-Margret: From Hollywood with Love
The Emmy Awards
That's Right – You're Wrong
Body Language
The Farmer in the Dell
Trumbo
Swing It
Three for Two
Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back
Life with Lucy
Follow the Fleet
Moulin Rouge
The Best of the Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts
The Ann Sothern Show
Room Service
The Funny World of Lucy, Volume 1
Forever, Darling
Lured
Five Came Back
The Practice
Swing Out, Sweet Land
Without Love
The Magic Carpet
A Love Letter to Jack Benny
The Long, Long Trailer
Stone Pillow
Murder at the Vanities
Easy to Wed
Fancy Pants
A Beverly Hills Christmas
Beauty for the Asking
Kid Millions
Mame
The Facts of Life
Bunker Bean
The Big Parade of Comedy
NBC Sunday Showcase
Broadway Thru a Keyhole
The Bowery
A Woman of Distinction
Meet the People
Panama Lady
A Night at the Biltmore Bowl
Winterset
Blood Money
Roman Scandals
The Lucille Ball Comedy Hour
E! True Hollywood Story
Chatterbox
Top Hat
The Pearl Bailey Show
Fugitive Lady
The Ed Wynn Show
Outstanding: A Comedy Revolution
The Dark Corner
Bottoms Up
The Affairs of Cellini
That's Dancing!
Roberta
Dance, Girl, Dance
Du Barry Was a Lady
Carol + 2
This Is Bob Hope...
Carnival
Hedda Hopper's Hollywood
You Can't Fool Your Wife
The Dean Martin Christmas Show
Ziegfeld Follies
Hooray for Love
Treffpunkt New York
The RKO Story: Tales From Hollywood
A Girl, a Guy, and a Gob
The Big Street
That's Entertainment! III
The Fuller Brush Girl
Salute to Stan Laurel
Two Smart People
Nana
The Best Of Danny Kaye - The Television Years
Bob Hope's Love Affair with Lucy
Lover Come Back
Lucy Gets Lucky
Old Man Rhythm
Happy Anniversary and Goodbye
Rock Hudson: All That Heaven Allowed
Lucy and Desi
Three Little Pigskins
Judy Garland: By Myself
Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood
Lucille Ball: Finding Lucy
The Marines Fly High
Valley of the Sun
I Dream Too Much
Seven Days' Leave
The Three Musketeers
My Darling Vivian
The Whole Town's Talking
Go Chase Yourself
Ellis in Freedomland
Stage Door
Don't Tell the Wife
Television: The First Fifty Years
The Jack Benny Birthday Special
General Foods Opening Night
Having Wonderful Time
Lucy in London
Too Many Girls
Critic's Choice
Night of 100 Stars II
So and Sew
One Live Ghost
I Love Lucy: The Movie
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
Sorrowful Jones
Classic TV Bloopers Uncensored
His Old Flame
All Star Party for Lucille Ball
Mary Tyler Moore: A Celebration
Best Foot Forward
I'll Love You Always
Dummy Ache
G.I. Journal
Pioneers of Primetime
Cher... and Other Fantasies
Lucy Calls the President
Texaco Presents: A Quarter Century of Bob Hope on Television
Shirley MacLaine: Gypsy in My Soul
Jack Benny's 20th Anniversary TV Special
Her Husband's Affairs
Twelve Crowded Hours
NBC: The First Fifty Years
Muss 'em Up
Hold That Girl
Foolish Hearts
Lucy's Really Lost Moments
Women I Love: Beautiful But Funny
Jealousy
Perfectly Mismated
Men of the Night
Carnival Nights
Behind the Evidence
Lucy and Desi: A Home Movie
I Love Lucy Christmas Special
