Lucille Ball

Lucille Ball took birth on the 6th of August, 1911 in Jamestown, New York Click to look into! >> Read More... . Ball did not have the greatest childhood. Henry, Ball’s father, was an electrician. After her birth, he took the family and moved to Montana. Not long after, he decided to shift again with his family to Michigan where he started working for the Michigan Bell Company as a telephone lineman. Unfortunately, Ball’s father died after a high stroke of typhoid fever in 1915, and Ball was only three years old. Ball’s mother had no choice after the death to take Ball and the soon to come second child back to Jamestown. Ball had always had an urge to do something out of the ordinary, and she convinced her mother to join New York City’s drama school. Slowly and gradually she learned from her school, and she managed to find work as a model. Her first foot forward was for a fashion designer, Hattie Carnegie. By the 1930’s she had finally moved to Hollywood looking for bigger chances and soon she found opportunities. She played roles in Roman Scandals, The Three Musketeers Click to look into! >> Read More... , and Stage Door. Ball appeared in numerous movies in her career, and one of the reminisced films is Dance, Girl, Dance, where she had been introduced to Desi Arnaz. He was a Cuban actor that had caught Ball’s eye.

In fact, their work together was too great that they two even starred in a second film, Too Many Girls. By the end of this production, they were inseparable. Arnaz had always pushed Ball, and hence, they tried broadcasting a radio comedy My Favorite Husband. This show got CBS executives attention and came up with I Love Lucy. This show caught many viewers instantly and luckily the two lead actors managed to retain full ownership rights to the show as their production company owned it. I Love Lucy was about the suburban lifestyle, marriage issues, and women in their workplace. The show had ended by 1957 but their production company, Desilu Productions continued to produce numerous shows such as Our Miss Brooks, Make Room for Daddy, Star Trek Click to look into! >> Read More... and Mission: Impossible. She was the first woman to obtain the International Radio and Television Society’s Gold Medal in 1971. She also won four Emmy and received recognition for her life’s work from the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. She was a great entertainer for sitcom comedies and that is why she has done sitcoms such as The Lucy Show, Here’s Lucy and the final show was Life with Lucy. On April 26th, 1989, she passed away from a ruptured aorta in Los Angeles.