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Lucille Ball Wiki Biography

Lucille Ball, whose full name is Lucille Desiree Ball, was born in 1911, in California. Lucille was a well known actress, model and comedian, perhaps best known for for her roles in such shows as “Life with Lucy”, “The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour”, “Here’s Lucy”, “I Love Lucy” and others. Unfortunately, Ball died in 1989 at age 77. During her career Lucille won an Emmy Award, Film Crystal Award, Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award and many others. It is really sad that the movie industry lost this incredibly talented actress. What is more, Ball also had her own television studio, called “Desilu”. Another proof that Lucille Ball was acclaimed and one of the most successful actresses is the fact that she even received the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Nowadays Lucille is still remembered, and is considered to be one of the all-time bests.

So how rich was Lucille Ball? Sources now estimate that Ball’s net worth was $40 million. The main source of this sum money was her career as an actress and her roles in different successful shows and movies. As Lucille Ball was a very successful actress, there is no surprise that she earned a lot during her career.

When Lucille was a teenager she started showing an interest in acting and went to study at the John Murray Anderson School for the Dramatic Arts. Although her experience was not that great, she was able to find work as a model. This was also the time when Ball’s net worth began growing. Soon Lucille started appearing in different television shows and movies. Some of them include “Room Service”, “Three Little Pigskins”, “Roman Scandals”, “Top Hat”, “Follow the Fleet” and others. These appearances, of course, added a lot to Lucille Ball’s net worth. In 1938 Lucille became a part of the show called “The Wonder Show”. This also added to Ball’s net worth. In 1948 Lucille began working on the show called “I Love Lucy”. This show soon became very popular among the viewers. In addition to the success of “I Love Lucy”, Ball’s television show also produced many successful shows such as “Star Trek”, “The Untouchables”, “Mission: Impossible”. It is clear that these productions made Lucille Ball’s net worth grow. Later Ball continued working on many popular shows until she died in 1989.

While talking about Ball’s personal life, it can be said that she was married twice. Her first marriage was with Desi Arnaz, but they divorced in 1960. After a year Lucille married Gary Morton. Ball had two children.

Finally, it can be said that Lucille Ball was one of the most successful and famous actresses in the industry, and is still remembered now as one of the best actresses. Contemporary actors admire her work and are also influenced by it. It is good that the memory of Lucille Ball will remain for a long time.

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Lucille Ball Quick Info

Lucille Ball Trademarks

1. Her trademark ‘spider face’ when something goes wrong for her, accompanied by an “eugh” sound.
2. Husky voice
3. Famous for her fake wailing when something bad happens to her
4. Red hair and blue eyes

Lucille Ball Quotes

• [on Desi Arnaz] He did make me happy, and I really want people to know that.
• I’m not sure that I want to be without some lack of confidence. If you are too sure of yourself, you don’t grow. You may feel confident in some things, but other fields come up as a challenge. And if you don’t anticipate trouble, you will be in trouble.
• [on Desi Arnaz] Life with Desi is crazy and exciting, but our love is deep and changeless.
• I knew there was nobody in the world for me but Desi. We may have our ups and downs just as many people have. I would rather quarrel and make up with him more than anyone else in the world.
• If you don’t believe he’s a great producer, I got two little Arnaz’s at home to prove it.
• I hate failure. And that divorce was the number one failure in my eyes. Desi and I have never been the same since.
• It’s so hard to believe he is gone. I’m the only one left now. I remember the very last time I spoke with him. It was November 30th, our anniversary and he was in Del Mar with Lucie. He was very weak. Lucie held the phone up to his ear, and we said I love you over and over again to each other. On December 2nd, 1986 I was in the car coming home from taping an episode of Password when I heard Desi died. I could not stop crying. I felt lost, and like my own life had come to some kind of end. Lucie arranged the funeral and Danny Thomas gave the eulogy. It was funny and touching, but so very hard for me to sit through. With Desi’s passing I lost my youth, my great success and the only man I ever wanted to be father of my children. Besides Dede, Fred & Cleo, he was the one person who had been in my life the longest and made the greatest impact. I didn’t want to even consider what my life would’ve been without him.
• Yet I sensed in Desi a great need. Beneath the dazzling charm was a homeless boy who had no one to care for him, worry about him, love him. And I wanted him and only him as the father of my children.
• In many ways, marrying Desi was one of the boldest things I ever did. I had always gone with older men. I had also achieved some kind of stability in Hollywood, and Desi with his beautiful girls and good times seemed headed in another direction.
• [on Hollywood] When they say no, you hear yes. Someone says we can’t do this movie, hug them and say thank you for believing in me.
• [on Arnold Schwarzenegger] I take full credit for this man. He’s going to become a big star.
• I’m grateful for what motion pictures did for me even though, except for on or two pictures, I’ve never done any I liked.
• [About her drama school experience in 1926] I was a tongue-tied teenager spellbound by the schools star pupil – Bette Davis.
• I died my hair this crazy red to bid for attention. It has become a trademark and I’ve got to keep it this way.
• Life takes guts.
• [on Vivian Vance] I find that now I usually spend my time looking at Viv. Viv was sensational. And back then, there were things I had to do-I was in the projection room for some reason, and I just couldn’t concentrate on it. But now I can. And I enjoy every move that Viv made. She was something.
• Give yourself first and everything else will fall into line.
• [About her friend Maureen O’Hara] Maureen O’Hara is one of the people I love the most out all the people I know.
• I have an everyday religion that works for me. Love yourself first, and everything else falls into line.
• [Defending her “singing” performance in the film Mame (1974)] Mame stayed up all night and drank champagne! What did you expect her to sound like? Julie Andrews?
• [on Buster Keaton] He taught me most of what I know about timing, how to fall and how to handle props and animals.
• [on Julie Andrews] I mean, you in Britain have some of the best comediennes. Julie Andrews is a comedienne — oh yes she is!
• You were taken in charge and trained. They have none of that today any place. I regret the passing of the studio system. I was very appreciative of it because I had no talent. Believe me. What could I do? I couldn’t dance. I couldn’t sing. I could talk. I could barely walk. I had no flair. I wasn’t a beauty, that’s for sure.
• [on Audrey Hepburn] She’s a tomboy and a fine comedienne. You’d never think of her being able to do my type of comedy. But she can. She has great energy, frail as she looks. But, well, she’s so beautiful, so ethereal, it would be sacrilege to put her through it.
• [on Bob Hope] You spell Bob Hope C-L-A-S-S.
• [on Liza Minnelli] She’s a great trouper, Liza, I wish I had her talent. If anybody’s going to take over from me, it’s her. She’s got a mind like a trip hammer and huge vitality. She’s great.
• [About Edith Head]: Edie knew the truth about all of us. She knew who had flat fannies and who didn’t — but she never told.
• Desi (Desi Arnaz) was the great love of my life. I will miss him until the day I die.
• [About her meeting Desi Arnaz for the first time]: It wasn’t love at first sight. It took a full five minutes.
• In life, all good things come hard, but wisdom is the hardest to come by.
• A man who correctly guesses a woman’s age may be smart, but he’s not very bright.
• I’d rather regret the things that I have done than the things that I have not.
• Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead.
• I’m not funny. What I am is brave.
• The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.
• I don’t know anything about luck. I’ve never banked on it, and I’m afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn’t.
• 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.
• I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that’s good taste.

Lucille Ball Important Facts

• $150,000 /episode
• $250,000 +10% net profits
• 50% of the net profits (co-producer)
• $10,000 for two days work.
• $100,000
• $1,100,000 (1968) deferred compensation
• $384,000 (1967-68)
• $125,000 + $150,000 (profits bonus)
• $85,000
• $3,500 per episode
• $2,000 /epsiode + 50% profits for the first 39 shows as well as ownership of the negatives to all future shows (1951-52)
• $1,750 /week
• $3,500 /week
• $12,500
• $1,500 /week
• $3,500 /week
• $2,000 /week
• $2,000 /week
• $50 /week
• Her company, Desilu Productions, produced The Untouchables, Mission: Impossible and Star Trekj.
• Was 6 years older than her first husband and 13 years older than her second.
• Broderick Crawford and _Lucille Ball_ announced their engagement in 1936. They never got as far as the altar. It was claimed that RKO fronted this story to cover her affair with studio producer _Pandro S. Berman_, who was married.
• Delivered her children Lucie and Desi via Caesarean section.
• She discovered actor and dancer Ken Berry.
• Her acting mentors were Comedians Buster Keaton and Red Skelton.
• Was an acting mentor to Actress and Comedian Ruth Buzzi and Carol Burnett.
• Best remembered by the public for her starring roles as the title characters in each of her 3 series: I Love Lucy (1951), The Lucy Show (1962) and Here’s Lucy (1968).
• Was the mentor of her protégé Carole Cook and to her real-life children Lucie Arnaz and Desi Arnaz Jr..
• Was a Girl Scout.
• Gave birth to her second child, Desiderio Alberto Arnaz IV at age 41, January 19, 1953.
• Gave birth to her first child, Lucie Desiree Arnaz at age 39, July 17, 1951.
• She used the name of Diane Belmont while modeling professionally.
• It was at the urging of “Roman Scandals” dance director Busby Berkely that Sam Goldwyn had Ball put under contract. The producer initially nixed the idea.
• In the early part of her career, Ball said she was born in Butte, Montana, where her father died. Because of that she was nicknamed ‘Montana.’.
• Lucille Ball had an East bungalow office suite adjacent the main Desilu Production offices located on Gower Street, (main reception entrance on Gower Street). Cleo Morgan, Lucille’s first cousin, was Lucille’s secretary, scheduling meetings, dealing with clients and agents for the Desilu CEO Lucille Ball. Cleo remained with the Desilu management team the entire period of operation. Bud Brooks was in charge of the Desilu Production Art department, located in the top floor of the main entrance building.
• Lucille suffered from ornithophobia, the fear of birds.
• There are 2 stamps with Lucille Ball on them. A 34 cent stamp, in 2001 and a 44 cent stamp, in 2009.
• Lucy launched the movie producer career of David Winters, one of the stars of West Side Story, whose first producer job was to co-produce and choreographed her television special Lucy in London (1966).
• Though starring in many successful 1940s musical comedies for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, her contract allowed her to honor her prior commitments. She starred in two film classics, The Dark Corner (1946) for 20th Century Fox and the independently produced Lured (1947).
• Profiled in a book, “Funny Ladies”, written by Stephen M. Silverman in 1999, titled Funny Ladies: 100 Years of Great Comediannes.
• Became very good friends with Maureen O’Hara during the making of Dance, Girl, Dance (1940) and continued being friends until Ball’s death. O’Hara was with Lucille when Lucille first met her first husband, Desi Arnaz.
• Was good friends with 6 other actresses. They are Mary Jane Croft, Carole Lombard, Ginger Rogers, Ann Sothern, Vivian Vance, and Mary Wickes. Among them, only Croft and Sothern were biological mothers. Wickes never married and was always listed as single.
• Appears on a 44¢ USA commemorative postage stamp in the Early Television Memories issue with Vivian Vance, as Lucy Ricardo and Ethel Mertz, in a scene from I Love Lucy: Job Switching (1952). The stamp was issued 11 August 2009.
• Was offered the role of Angel in The Greatest Show on Earth (1952), but was forced to turn it down due to pregnancy. Gloria Grahame was later cast instead.
• When she and Desi Arnaz moved to 1000 North Roxbury Drive in Beverly Hills, Caliifornia, Jack Benny, was their next-door neighbor, residing at 1002 North Roxbury Drive.
• In 1958, in order to raise funds for their various investments, she and Desi Arnaz took Desilu public on the NYSE at $10 per share. She and Desi each retained 25% of the company, while each selling 25%. She took her $2,500,000 windfall, paid $600,000 in capital gains taxes and, always frugal, invested the remainder into bonds and securities.
• Her 1960 divorce from Desi Arnaz was quite amicable. They divided their $20 million television empire equally, each retaining 25% Desilu stock (282,800 shares), she got the homes in Beverly Hills and Rancho Mirage, and Desi got the beach house in Del Mar, California and his Horse Ranch in Corona, California. In addition, they agreed to joint custody of their children with him paying $450/month child support.
• When her subsequent series The Lucy Show (1962) and Here’s Lucy (1968) became popular, Jess Oppenheimer, a co-creator of I Love Lucy (1951) alleged that her character Lucy Carmichael/Carter was in fact Lucy Ricardo re-named and threatened to sue. Rather than go to court, she settled for $220,000.
• Profiled in “Killer Tomatoes: Fifteen Tough Film Dames” by Ray Hagen and Laura Wagner (McFarland, 2004).
• In July 1967, she sold Desilu Productions, consisting of 36 sound stages, 2000 employees and 62 acres adjacent to Paramount, to Gulf + Western Industries for $17 million. She received $10 million in Gulf + Western stock for her 60% of Desilu, the remaining $7 million being distributed to 3878 stockholders.
• In 1962, she purchased Desi Arnaz’s holdings in Desilu holdings for $3 million, as he wanted to retire to his horse ranch in Corona, California, and lead a more stress-free life.
• In 1968, she was reported to be the richest woman in television, having earned an estimated $30 million.
• In 1966, it was reported in an annual stockholder’s meeting that her salary as President of Desilu Productions (1962-1967) was $100,000. Her acting fees for 1966 were $130,172.
• Was in frail health following a heart attack in May 1988.
• In Italy, her films were often dubbed by Lidia Simoneschi or Wanda Tettoni, notably in the hilarious The Long, Long Trailer (1953). She was occasionally dubbed by Rosetta Calavetta, Dhia Cristiani, Rina Morelli and Renata Marini (in Stage Door (1937)).
• Her younger brother, Fred Ball (1915-2007), moved from their hometown of Jamestown, New York, to join Lucy in Hollywood in the 1930s. Fred often accompanied Desi Arnaz’s band on tour during the 1940s and 1950s, and was also on the Board of Directors of Desilu Productions. In later years, Fred and his wife Zo operated a motel in Cottonwood, Arizona, where he died. Fred also shared the same birthday as his niece Lucie Arnaz.
• Biography in: “The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives”. Volume Two, 1986-1990, pages 63-66. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1999.
• When they were first married in 1940, Desi Arnaz had to give Lucy a ring from a drugstore because all jewelry stores were closed. She wore it for the rest of their marriage.
• Was tutored in comedy by Buster Keaton.
• Was once known as the “Chesterfield Girl” because she was the spokesmodel for Chesterfield cigarettes.
• The original Desilu was her and Desi Arnaz’s ranch in Chatsworth, California. They used the same method of naming it that Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford’s did when they named their estate “Pickfair”.
• The day she first met Desi Arnaz, she had a black eye and a torn dress from filming a fight scene for Dance, Girl, Dance (1940) and he didn’t find her at all attractive until they met again later in the day when she had changed into her own clothes and makeup. His oft-quoted first impression of her extraordinary beauty was “That’s a hunk o’ woman”.
• She named herself Diane Belmont after the Belmont racetrack in New York.
• Not long after the Arnazes bought their house on 1000 North Roxbury Drive in Beverly Hills, California, it was first featured in episode, I Love Lucy: The Tour (1955). Richard Widmark guest-starred and she climbs over the fence to pick a grapefruit, from his backyard.
• Lucy filed for divorce from Desi Arnaz in the 1940s, but didn’t go through with it because they reconciled.
• Lucy and Desi Arnaz were married at the Byram River Beagle Club in Connecticut in 1940.
• Lucy and Desi Arnaz were married a second time in 1946 in a church because his mother believed that the reason they didn’t have children yet was because they were never married in the Catholic Church.
• She was proud of her family and heritage. Her genealogy can be traced back to the earliest settlers in the colonies. One direct ancestor, William Sprague (1609-1675), left England on the ship “Lyon’s Whelp” for Plymouth/Salem, Massachusetts. They were from Upwey, Dorsetshire, England. William, along with his 2 brothers, helped to found the city of Charlestown, Massachusetts. Other Sprague relatives became soldiers in the Revolutionary War and 2 of them became governors of the state of Rhode Island.
• Comedian John Belushi was a fan of her and knew every detail of her life and career.
• Suffered three miscarriages with husband Desi Arnaz. First miscarriage was in 1942. Second miscarriage was in 1949. Third and last miscarriage was in 1950.
• Was of Irish, Scottish, French, and English descent.
• Related by marriage to Vanda Barra.
• Related by marriage to Sid Gould.
• First cousin of Cleo Morgan, though they were raised as sisters.
• Had a superstition about the letters A and R, which is why her character was named Lucy RicARdo in I Love Lucy (1951); Lucy CARmichael in The Lucy Show (1962); Lucy CARter in Here’s Lucy (1968) and Lucy BARker in Life with Lucy (1986) (she was also married to ‘Desi ARnaz’). She believed she didn’t have luck in her career until she changed her name to Arnaz.
• Disliked any false form of a bird, she preferred to see them in person so she banned all pictures of birds from her house and any hotel room she was staying in.
• Was Frank Sinatra’s first choice for the role of Laurence Harvey’s mother in The Manchurian Candidate (1962). He was only dissuaded when John Frankenheimer took him to see Angela Lansbury in a play.
• While still contemplating whether to do the I Love Lucy (1951) shows, she claimed that in her dream, Carole Lombard came to her and told her to “Give it a whirl”.
• Felt that she did not deserve the title of “Queen of Comedy” and felt that it belonged to her idol, Carole Lombard.
• Biography in: “Who’s Who in Comedy” by Ronald L. Smith. pg. 35-37. New York: Facts on File, 1992. ISBN 0816023387.
• Filed for a divorce from husband Desi Arnaz, the day following the last day of filming The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour (1957). [March 1960]
• Stricken by rheumatoid arthritis early in her modeling career and spent 2 years re-learning how to walk.
• One of her last television appearances was in 1989 on the 62nd Academy Awards, with Bob Hope, announcing the nominations and winner of Best Picture.
• Her favorite movie she made was The Big Street (1942). Up to her dying day, she resented AMPAS for not recognizing her performance in the movie by including her for an Academy Award nomination.
• Inducted into the National Women’s Hall of Fame in 2002.
• Pictured on a 34¢ USA commemorative postage stamp in the Legends of Hollywood series, issued 6 August 2001.
• Was known for a while as Dianne Belmont back when she was a model.
• For many years during their marriage, Lucy and Desi Arnaz hid the fact that she was six years older than he by splitting the difference in their ages. She (born in 1911) said she was born in 1914 and he (born in 1917) also said he was born in 1914.
• Second cousin of actress Suzan Ball.
• Born at 5:00 pm Eastern Standard Time zone.
• Was one of the 20 original “Goldwyn Girls”, along with Virginia Bruce; Ann Dvorak; Paulette Goddard and Betty Grable.
• TV Guide picked her as the greatest TV star of all time.
• She put her Chesterfield cigarettes in a Philip Morris package to please her sponsor (of the I Love Lucy (1951) show).
• She was fired from working at an ice cream store because she kept forgetting to put bananas in banana splits.
• Lucy and Desi Arnaz began I Love Lucy (1951) in the hopes of saving their crumbling marriage.
• Before her movie career, Lucille was a model at Hattie Carnegie’s in New York. She mainly modeled heavy fur coats, because she was startlingly thin as a young lady.
• During the 1933 filming of Roman Scandals (1933), young Lucille Ball, portraying a slave girl, needed to have her eyebrows entirely shaved off. They never grew back.
• Died the morning of April 26, 1989, the fifty-sixth birthday of her friend Carol Burnett. That afternoon Burnett received the flowers that Ball had ordered for her birthday.
• Lucy and her son, Desi Arnaz Jr., appeared together on the very first cover of “TV Guide” magazine in 1953.
• Once registered as a voter for the Communist party as a favor to her grandfather Frederick Charles Hunt (July 24, 1865-January 9, 1944).
• She signed her first promotional agreement with Max Factor in 1935 and again in 1942. Of all the stars, she had the longest association with the Max Factor company.
• Was awarded 2 Stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Motion Pictures at 6436 Hollywood Boulevard; and for Television at 6100 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California.
• Was the first woman to own her own film studio as the head of Desilu Productions.
• During a Barbara Walters interview, Jane Fonda claimed that her father, Henry Fonda, was deeply in love with Lucille Ball and that the two were “very close” during the filming of Yours, Mine and Ours (1968).
• Mother of Lucie Arnaz and Desi Arnaz Jr..
• Ball and Barbara Pepper met early in their careers when they were both “Goldwyn Girls” and remained lifelong friends.
• A comment from a member of the preview audience of Follow the Fleet (1936) about bit-player Ball: “You might give the tall gum chewing blonde more parts and see if she can’t make the grade – a good gamble.”
• Originally interred at Forest Lawn (Hollywood Hills), Los Angeles, California, USA, Columbarium of Radiant Dawn, Court of Remembrance. In 2003, she was re-interred in the Ball family plot in Lake View Cemetery, Jamestown, New York.
• Received the Women’s International Center (WIC) Living Legacy Award posthumously in 1990.

Lucille Ball Filmography

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