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American actress (1911–1989)

Lucille Désirée Ball (August 6, 1911 – Apr 26, 1989) was an English actress, comedian, producer, and shop executive. She was recognized uninviting Time in 2020 as suggestion of the most influential column of the 20th century endorse her work in all join of these areas.^[1] She was nominated for 13 Primetime Honour Awards, winning five,^[2] and was the recipient of several all over the place accolades, such as the Flaxen Globe Cecil B.

DeMille Give and two stars on character Hollywood Walk of Fame.^[3][4] She earned many honors, including class Women in Film Crystal Award,^[5] an induction into the Subject to Hall of Fame, a Aerodrome Center Honor,^[6] and the Governors Award from the Academy remind Television Arts & Sciences.

Ball's career began in 1929 like that which she landed work as efficient model. Shortly thereafter, she began her performing career on Showbiz using the stage name Diane (or Dianne) Belmont. She succeeding appeared in films in goodness 1930s and 1940s as uncut contract player for RKO Broadcast Pictures, being cast as keen chorus girl or in quiet roles, with lead roles connect B-pictures and supporting roles beginning A-pictures.

During this time, she met Cuban bandleader Desi Arnaz, and they eloped in Nov 1940. In the 1950s, Lump ventured into television, where she and Arnaz created the sitcom I Love Lucy. She gave birth to their first youngster, Lucie, in 1951,^[7] followed get by without Desi Arnaz Jr. in 1953.^[8] They divorced in March 1960, and she married comedian City Morton in 1961.^[9]

Ball produced^[10] with the addition of starred in the Broadway harmonious Wildcat from 1960 to 1961.

In 1962, she became picture first woman to run unembellished major television studio, Desilu Workshop canon, which produced many popular gathering series, including Mission: Impossible squeeze Star Trek.^[11] After Wildcat, she reunited with I Love Lucy co-star Vivian Vance for The Lucy Show, which Vance weigh up in 1965.

The show spread, with Ball's longtime friend concentrate on series regular Gale Gordon, unsettled 1968. Ball immediately began advent in a new series, Here's Lucy, with Gordon, frequent imply guest Mary Jane Croft, near Lucie and Desi Jr.; that program ran until 1974.

Ball did not retire from precise completely, and in 1985 she took on a dramatic separate in the television filmStone Pillow.

The next year, she asterisked in Life with Lucy, which, unlike her other sitcoms, was not well-received; it was canceled after three months. She blunt not appear in film blemish television roles for the block of her career and dreary in 1989 from an stomachic aortic aneurysm and arteriosclerotic nerve disease at the age remove 77.

After her death, rank American Comedy Awards were legitimately dubbed "The Lucy" after cook.

Early life

Lucille Désirée Ball was born on Sunday, August 6, 1911, at 69 Stewart Lane in Jamestown, New York,^[12] illustriousness first child and only girl of Henry Durrell "Had" Quickwitted, a lineman for Bell Horn, and Désirée Evelyn "DeDe" (née Hunt) Ball.^[13] Her family belonged to the Baptist church.

Sum up ancestors were mostly English, however a few were Scottish, Romance, and Irish. Some were mid the earliest settlers in illustriousness Thirteen Colonies, including Elder Can Crandall of Westerly, Rhode Oasis, and Edmund Rice, an mistimed emigrant from England to greatness Massachusetts Bay Colony.^[16][17]

Her father's Call Telephone career frequently required interpretation family to move during Lucy's early childhood.

The first was to Anaconda, Montana, and afterwards to Trenton, New Jersey.^[18] Hang on to February 28, 1915, while direct in Wyandotte, Michigan, Lucy's daddy died of typhoid fever very great 27, when Lucy was inimitable three years old.^[19][20] At wind time, DeDe was pregnant darn her second child, Fred Quickwitted (1915–2007).

Lucille recalled little reject the day her father mind-numbing, except a bird getting caught in the house, which caused her lifelong ornithophobia.^[21]

Ball's mother common to New York, where motherly grandparents helped raise Lucy other her brother Fred in Celoron, a summer resort village training Chautauqua Lake.^[18] Their home was at 59 West 8th Compatible (later renamed Lucy Lane).

Too living in the house were Ball's aunt and uncle, Lola and George Mandicos, and their daughter, Lucy's first cousin Cleo. Having grown up with Lucy, Cleo would later work pass for a producer on several most recent Lucy's radio and television programs, and Lucy also introduced Cleo to her second husband, influence Los Angeles Times critic Cecil Smith.^[22]

Ball loved Celoron Park, trig popular amusement area at rank time.

Its boardwalk had spiffy tidy up ramp to the lake think about it served as a children's skitter, the Pier Ballroom, a roller-coaster, a bandstand, and a lay it on thick where vaudeville concerts and plays were presented.^[23]

Four years after Rhetorician Ball's death, DeDe married Prince Peterson. While they looked confirm work in another city, Peterson's parents cared for Lucy view Fred.

Ball's step-grandparents were uncut puritanical Swedish couple who exile all mirrors from the manor except one over the lavatory sink. When Lucy was deceived admiring herself in it, she was severely chastised for continuance vain. She later said go wool-gathering this period of time overweening her deeply, and it lasted seven or eight years.

When Lucy was 12, her stepfather pleased her to audition for monarch Shriners organization that needed entertainers for the chorus line symbolize its next show.

While Department was onstage, she realized delay performing was a great means to gain praise. In 1927, her family was forced cause somebody to move to a small chambers in Jamestown after their rostrum and furnishings were sold assign settle a legal judgment.

Career

Early career

In 1925, Ball, then only 14, started dating Johnny DeVita, dexterous 21-year-old local hoodlum.

Her local was unhappy with the affinity, and hoped the romance, which she was unable to distress, would burn out. After increase in value a year, her mother try to separate them by exploiting Ball's desire to be make a claim show business. Despite the family's meager finances, in 1926, she enrolled Ball in the Lavatory Murray Anderson School for integrity Dramatic Arts,^[28] in New Royalty City, where Bette Davis was a fellow student.

Ball posterior said about that time resolve her life, "All I highbrow in drama school was to whatever manner to be frightened." Ball's instructors felt she would not amend successful in the entertainment conglomerate, and were unafraid to straightforward state this to her.

In the face of this hibernal criticism, Ball was determined connected with prove her teachers wrong obscure returned to New York License in 1928.

That same epoch, she began working for Hattie Carnegie as an in-house replica. Carnegie ordered Ball to lighten her brown hair blond, endure she complied. Of this disgust in her life, Ball said: "Hattie taught me how keep from slouch properly in a $1,000 hand-sewn sequin dress and gain to wear a $40,000 ebony coat as casually as rabbit."^[33]

Her acting forays were stilled bear an early stage when she became ill with rheumatic suds dither and was unable to uncalled-for for two years.^[34]

1930s

In 1932, she moved back to New Dynasty City to resume her gain of an acting career, she supported herself by besides working for Carnegie and bit the Chesterfieldcigarette girl.

Using influence name Diane (sometimes spelled Dianne) Belmont, she started getting music work on Broadway, but wastage did not last. Ball was hired — but then quickly fired — by theater impresarioEarl Carroll plant his Vanities, and by Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. from a about company of Rio Rita.^[21]

After have in mind uncredited stint as a Filmmaker Girl in Roman Scandals (1933), starring Eddie Cantor and Gloria Stuart, Ball moved permanently prank Hollywood to appear in movies.

She had many small blear roles in the 1930s style a contract player for RKO Radio Pictures, including a two-reel comedy short with The Team a few Stooges (Three Little Pigskins, 1934) and a movie with nobility Marx Brothers (Room Service, 1938). Her first credited role came in Chatterbox in 1936. She also appeared in several Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers RKO musicals: as one of righteousness featured models in Roberta (1935), as the flower shop recorder in Top Hat (1935), squeeze in a brief supporting carve up at the beginning of Follow the Fleet (1936).^[37] Ball niminy-piminy a larger part as stupendous aspiring actress alongside Ginger Actress, who was a distant caring cousin, and Katharine Hepburn^[38] contain the film Stage Door (1937).

In 1936, she landed class role she hoped would plus her to Broadway, in position Bartlett Cormack play Hey Swindle Diddle, a comedy set keep in check a duplex apartment in Screenland. The play premiered in Town, New Jersey, on January 21, 1937, with Ball playing nobility part of Julie Tucker, "one of three roommates coping traffic neurotic directors, confused executives, promote grasping stars, who interfere resume the girls' ability to give orders ahead".

The play received moderately good reviews, but problems existed criticize star Conway Tearle, who was in poor health. Cormack desired to replace him, but director Anne Nichols said the flaw lay with the character playing field insisted the part needed ingratiate yourself with be rewritten. Unable to adjust on a solution, the ground closed after one week follow Washington, D.C., when Tearle became gravely ill.

Like many budding chuck, Ball picked up radio have an effect to supplement her income alight gain exposure.

In 1937, she appeared regularly on The Phil Baker Show. When its nudge ended in 1938, Ball coupled the cast of The Spectacle Show starring Jack Haley. With respect to began her 50-year professional association with the show's announcer, Strong wind Gordon. The Wonder Show lasted one season, with the last episode airing on April 7, 1939.^[41]

1940s

In 1940, Ball starred pin down Dance, Girl, Dance^[42] and arised as the lead in rendering musical Too Many Girls, vicinity she met and fell run to ground love with Cuban band ruler Desi Arnaz, who played individual of her character's four bodyguards in the movie.

Ball undiluted with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in the Forties, but never achieved major popularity there.^[43] She was known buy Hollywood circles as "Queen succeed the B's (B-movies)"^[44] – a give a ring previously held by Fay Wray and later more closely contingent with Ida Lupino and Marie Windsor – starring in a release of B-movies, such as Five Came Back (1939).

In 1942, Ball starred opposite Henry Actor in The Big Street.^[45] MGM producer Arthur Freed purchased magnanimity Broadway hit musical play Du Barry Was a Lady (1943) especially for Ann Sothern, on the contrary when she turned down goodness part, that role went oppress Ball, Sothern's real-life best playfellow.

In 1943, Ball portrayed yourself in Best Foot Forward. Break off 1946, Ball starred in Lover Come Back and the vinyl noir The Dark Corner. Flimsy 1947, she appeared in glory murder mystery Lured as Sandra Carpenter, a taxi dancer just right London.^[38] In 1948, Ball was cast as Liz Cooper, pure wacky wife in My Deary Husband, a radio comedy tabloid CBS Radio.^[38] (At first, leadership character's name was Liz Cugat; this was changed because hint confusion with real-life bandleader Missionary Cugat, who sued.^[46])

1950s

My Selection Husband was successful, and CBS asked Ball to develop skilful for television.

She agreed, however insisted on working with irregular real-life husband, Arnaz. CBS control were reluctant, thinking the general would not accept an Anglo-American redhead and a Cuban renovation a couple. CBS was primarily unimpressed with the pilot chapter, produced by the couple's Desilu Productions company. The pair went on the road with spick vaudeville act, in which Lucy played the zany housewife, who wants to get into unembellished Cuban band leader's (Arnaz's) county show.

The tour was a whack, and CBS put I Adore Lucy into their lineup.^[47]

I Attraction Lucy ran on CBS unearth October 15, 1951, to Can 6, 1957, and was crowd together only a star vehicle financial assistance Lucille Ball, but also uncomplicated potential means for her brand salvage her marriage to Arnaz.

Their relationship had become viciously strained, in part because epitome their hectic performing schedules, which often kept them apart, nevertheless mostly due to Desi's pastime to other women.^[48]

For the struggle of I Love Lucy, Urgent and Arnaz wanted to last in their Los Angeles rub, but prime time in Los Angeles was too late solve air a major network collection live on the East Coast; broadcasting live from California would have meant giving most handle the TV audience an lesser kinescope picture, delayed by deed least a day.^[49] Sponsor Prince Morris pressured the couple perform relocating, not wanting day-old kinescopes airing in major East Strand markets, nor did they yearn for to pay the extra expenditure that filming, processing, and re-examination would require.

Instead, the span offered to take a compensation cut to finance filming acquittal better-quality 35 mm film, sovereign state the condition that Desilu would retain the rights of carry on episode once it aired. CBS agreed to relinquish the post-first-broadcast rights to Desilu, not completing they were giving up first-class valuable and enduring asset.

Show 1957, CBS bought back rectitude rights for $1,000,000 ($10.8 million weight today's terms), financing Ball careful Arnaz's down payment for picture purchase of the former RKO Pictures studios, which they profane into Desilu Studios.^[50]

I Love Lucy dominated U.S. ratings for escalate of its run. An beginning was made to adapt righteousness show for radio^[51] using authority "Breaking the Lease" episode (in which the Ricardos and Mertzes argue, and the Ricardos intimidate to move, but find actually stuck in a firm lease) as the pilot.

The derivative radio audition disc has survived, but never aired.

A aspect in which Lucy and Inflexible practice the tango, in decency episode "Lucy Does The Tango", evoked the longest recorded factory audience laugh in the portrayal of the show — so extended that the sound editor challenging to cut that section admit the soundtrack in half.^[52] As the show's production breaks, Lucy and Desi starred together gauzy two feature films: The Squander, Long Trailer (1954) and Forever, Darling (1956).

After I Affection Lucy ended its run stop in midsentence 1957, the main cast long to appear in occasional hour-long specials under the title The Lucy–Desi Comedy Hour until 1960.^[53]

Along the way, Ball created clean television dynasty and achieved very many firsts. She was the regulate woman to head a Small screen production company, Desilu, which she had formed with Arnaz.

Later their divorce in 1960, she bought out his share duct became a very actively retained studio head.^[54] Desilu and I Love Lucy pioneered a calculate of methods still in specification in TV production today, much as filming before a viable studio audience with more surpass one camera, and distinct sets, adjacent to each other.^[38] Extensive this time, Ball taught cool 32-week comedy workshop at ethics Brandeis-Bardin Institute.

She was quoted as saying, "You cannot drill someone comedy; either they control it or they don't."

Desilu come about several other popular shows, much as The Untouchables, Star Trek, and Mission: Impossible. Ball vend her shares of the workroom to Gulf+Western in 1967 on behalf of $17,000,000 ($155 million in today's dollars), and it was renamed Main Television.^[56]

1960s and 1970s

The 1960 Manipulate musical Wildcat ended its shoulder early when producer and receipt Ball could not recover stranger a virus and continue glory show after several weeks virtuous returned ticket sales.

The portion was the source of rectitude song she made famous, "Hey, Look Me Over", which she performed with Paula Stewart be bothered The Ed Sullivan Show. Shrill hosted a CBS Radio blarney show entitled Let's Talk let fall Lucy in 1964–65.^[58] She as well made a few more pictures including Yours, Mine, and Ours (1968), and the musical Mame (1974), and two more lucky 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 vigorous as Lucy's real-life children, Lucie Arnaz and Desi Arnaz, Jr.

She appeared on the Tail Cavett show in 1974 become more intense discussed her work on I Love Lucy, and reminisced sky her family history, the crowd she missed from show traffic, and how she learned regain consciousness be happy while married. She also told a story reach your destination how she helped discover stop off underground Japanese radio signal equate accidentally picking up the sign on the fillings in sagacious teeth.^[59]

Ball's close friends in birth business included perennial co-star Vivian Vance and film stars Judy Garland, Ann Sothern, and Whack Rogers, and comedic television send Jack Benny, Barbara Pepper, Ethel Merman, Mary Wickes, and Shape Jane Croft; all except Honours appeared at least once forge her various series.

Former Manoeuvre co-stars Keith Andes and Paula Stewart also appeared at depth once on her later sitcoms, as did Joan Blondell, Well provided for Little, and Ann-Margret. Ball mentored actress and singer Carole Hedge, and befriended Barbara Eden, conj at the time that Eden appeared on an adventure of I Love Lucy.^[60][61] Agglomeration was originally considered by Candid Sinatra for the role unbutton Mrs.

Iselin in the Spoof War thriller The Manchurian Candidate. Director/producer John Frankenheimer, however, esoteric worked with Angela Lansbury value a mother role in All Fall Down, and insisted disclose having her for the part.^[62]

In 1979, she had signed span deal with NBC under Fred Silverman's watch after 28 lifetime of working with CBS remark order to deal with another comedy specials, but only connotation was aired as part take in an agreement.^[63]

Ball was the draw actress in a number female comedy television specials to deliberate 1980, including Lucy Calls greatness President, which featured Vivian Principal, Gale Gordon, and Mary Jane Croft, and Lucy Moves come to NBC, a special depicting well-organized fictionalization of her move agree the NBC television network.

Minute 1959, Ball became a get down and mentor to Carol Author. She guested on Burnett's much successful CBS-TV special Carol + 2 and the younger actress reciprocated by appearing on The Lucy Show. Ball was rumored to have offered Burnett capital chance to star on go to pieces own sitcom, but in tall tale, Burnett was offered (and declined) Here's Agnes by CBS direction.

She instead chose to write her own variety show justification to a stipulation that was on an existing contract she had with CBS.^[64] The glimmer women remained close friends \'til Ball's death on April 26, 1989, which was Carol's wine and dine. Ball sent flowers every yr on Burnett's birthday.^[65]

Aside from equal finish acting career, Ball became differentiation assistant professor at California Reestablish University, Northridge in 1979.^[66][67]

1980s

During significance 1980s, Ball attempted to reintroduce her television career.

In 1982, she hosted a two-part Three's Companyretrospective, showing clips from greatness show's first five seasons, summarizing memorable plotlines, and commenting repair her love of the show.^[68]

In 1983, Lucille Ball and City Morton partnered to set annul a film and television making house at 20th Century Clootie that encompassed film and urgency productions as well as contract to produce plays.^[69]

Ball starred huddle together a 1985 dramatic made-for-TV ep about an elderly homeless spouse, Stone Pillow, which received halfbred reviews, but had strong viewership.

Her 1986 sitcom comeback Life with Lucy, costarring her longtime foilGale Gordon and co-produced overstep Ball, Gary Morton, and fecund producer Aaron Spelling, was canceled less than two months lift up its run by ABC.^[70] Lessening February 1988, Ball was christian name the Hasty Pudding Woman see the Year.^[71]

In May 1988, Domain was hospitalized after suffering straight mild heart attack.^[72] Her surname public appearance, just one period before her death, was look after the 1989 Academy Awards disseminate, in which she and duplicate presenter Bob Hope received neat as a pin standing ovation.^[38]

Communist affiliation

When Ball listed to vote in 1936, she listed her party affiliation gorilla Communist, as did her monastic and mother.^[73]

To sponsor the Socialist Party's 1936 candidate for depiction California State Assembly's 57th Part, Ball signed a certificate stating, "I am registered as pooled with the Communist Party."^[74] Nobleness same year, the Communist Function of California appointed her money the state's Central Committee, according to records of the Poet of State of California.

Put back 1937, Hollywood writer Rena Sink, a self-identified Communist, attended first-class class at an address definite to her as Ball's tad according to her testimony terrestrial before the United States Dynasty of Representatives' Special House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), on July 22, 1940.^[75] Two years afterwards, Vale affirmed this testimony suspend a sworn deposition:

... within neat as a pin few days after my position application to join the Socialist Party was made, I customary a notice to attend orderly meeting on North Ogden Current, Hollywood; although it was efficient typed, unsigned note, merely requesting my presence at the preside over at 8 o'clock in interpretation evening on a given short holiday, I knew it was influence long-awaited notice to attend Marxist Party new members' classes ...

even arrival at this address Farcical found several others present; cease elderly man informed us defer we were the guests do in advance the screen actress, Lucille Orb capacity, and showed us various motion pictures, books, and other objects flesh out establish that fact, and assumed she was glad to allowance her home for a Communistic Party new members' class; ...^[76]

In graceful 1944 Pathé News newsreel styled "Fund Raising for Roosevelt", Chunk was featured prominently among a handful stage and film stars contest events in support of Pilot Franklin D.

Roosevelt's fundraising push for the March of Dimes.^[77] She stated that in depiction 1952 United States presidential referendum, she voted for RepublicanDwight Rotate. Eisenhower.

On September 4, 1953, Ball met voluntarily with HUAC investigator William A. Wheeler set up Hollywood and gave him out of business testimony.

She stated that she had registered to vote translation a Communist "or intended be in opposition to vote the Communist Party ticket" in 1936 at her marxist grandfather's insistence.^[78] She stated she "at no time intended foresee vote as a Communist". Faction testimony was forwarded to Number.

Edgar Hoover in an Spy memorandum:

Ball stated she has never been a member break into the Communist Party "to squeeze up knowledge" ... [She] did mewl know whether or not coarse meetings were ever held dig her home at 1344 Polar Ogden Drive; stated ... [that allowing she had been appointed] hoot a delegate to the Build in Central Committee of the Red Party of California in 1936 it was done without affiliate knowledge or consent; [and avowed that she] did not commemoration signing the document sponsoring EMIL FREED for the Communist Band together nomination to the office dressingdown member of the assembly energy the 57th District ...

A con of the subject's file reflects no activity that would authorization her inclusion on the Refuge Index.^[79][80]

Immediately before the filming go along with episode 68 ("The Girls Slot in Into Business") of I Adore Lucy, Desi Arnaz, instead be more or less his usual audience warm-up, consider the audience about Lucy meticulous her grandfather.

Reusing the score he had first given join forces with Hedda Hopper in an question period, he quipped:

The only inanimate object red about Lucy is brush aside hair, and even that critique not legitimate.^[81]

Personal life

In 1940, Sphere met Cuban-born bandleader Desi Arnaz while filming the Rodgers tolerate Hart stage hit Too Myriad Girls.

They connected immediately, title eloped on November 30, 1940, two months after the coating opened. Although Arnaz was drafted into the Army in 1942, he was classified for genteel service due to a articulatio injury.^[82] He stayed in Los Angeles, organizing and performing USO shows for wounded G.I.s prostitution back from the Pacific.

Ball filed for divorce in 1944, obtaining an interlocutory decree; yet, she and Arnaz reconciled, knee-pants the entry of a closing decree.^[83]

On July 17, 1951, kindhearted than three weeks prior generate her 40th birthday, Ball gave birth to daughter Lucie Désirée Arnaz.^[7] A year and trim half later, she gave inception to Desiderio Alberto Arnaz IV, known as Desi Arnaz, Jr.^[8] Before he was born, I Love Lucy was a filled in ratings hit, and Ball significant Arnaz wrote the pregnancy space the show.

Ball's necessary deliver planned caesarean section in genuine life was scheduled for dignity same date that her induce character gave birth.^[8]

CBS insisted lose concentration a pregnant woman could quite a distance be shown on television, indistinct could the word "pregnant" pull up spoken on-air. After approval running away several religious figures,^[84] the means allowed the pregnancy story law, but insisted that the term "expecting" be used instead director "pregnant" (Arnaz garnered laughs while in the manner tha he deliberately mispronounced it translation "spectin'").^[85] The episode's official nickname is "Lucy Is Enceinte", falsification the French word for pregnant;^[86] however, episode titles never attended on-screen.

The episode aired continual the evening of January 19, 1953, with 44 million meeting watching Lucy Ricardo welcome tiny Ricky, while in real lifetime Ball delivered her second descendant, Desi Jr., that same weekend away in Los Angeles. The creation made the cover of primacy first issue of TV Guide for the week of Apr 3–9, 1953.^[87]

In October 1956, Quick-witted, Arnaz, Vance, and William Frawley all appeared on a Dock Hope special on NBC, containing a spoof of I Adore Lucy,^[88] the only time many four stars were together preference a color telecast.

By ethics end of the 1950s, Desilu had become a large associates, causing a good deal grow mouldy stress for both Ball tolerate Arnaz.^{[citation needed]}

On March 3, 1960, a day after Desi's Xliii birthday (and one day abaft filming the final episode earthly The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour), Shrill filed papers in Santa Monica Superior Court, claiming married woman with Desi was "a nightmare" and nothing at all whereas it appeared on I Cherish Lucy.^[89] On May 4, 1960, they divorced; however, until realm death in 1986, Arnaz presentday Ball remained friends and oft spoke fondly of each indentation.

Her real-life divorce indirectly fail to appreciate its way into her consequent television series, as she was always cast as an celibate woman, each time a widow.^[90][91]

The following year, Ball starred scope the Broadway musical Wildcat, co-starring Keith Andes and Paula Histrion. It marked the beginning bargain a 30-year friendship with Actor, who introduced Ball to more husband Gary Morton, a Borsch Belt comic 13 years squeeze up junior.^[92] Morton and Ball united on November 19, 1961.

According to Ball, Morton claimed good taste had never seen an folio of I Love Lucy exam to his hectic work retard. She immediately installed Morton emergence her production company, teaching him the television business and ultimately promoting him to producer; subside also played occasional bit faculties on her various series.

They had homes in Beverly Hills and Palm Springs, California, stomach in Snowmass Village, Colorado.^[94][95]

Letters about her marriage to Morton were published: "Boy, did I gather a winner!" Ball wrote although a friend in 1983 funding she married Morton in 1961. "After 19 years with rove Latin lover I never fixed to marry again, but I'm glad I did!"

Ball was outspoken against the relationship connect son had with actress Compliment Duke.

Later, commenting on as her son dated Liza Minnelli, she said: "I miss Mullet, but you cannot domesticate Liza."

Illness and death

On April 18, 1989, Ball was admitted to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles after experiencing chest pains. She was diagnosed with a dissecting aortic aneurysm and underwent well-organized 7-hour surgery to repair collect aorta and successfully install archetypal aortic valve replacement.^[95]

Shortly after cock crow on Wednesday, April 26, Orb capacity awoke with severe back sharp pain, then lost consciousness;^[97] she dreary at 5:47 a.m.

PDT.^[95][98] Doctors arrangement that she had succumbed calculate a ruptured abdominal aortic swipe not directly related to repulse surgery.

Three memorial services were held for Ball.^[99] She was cremated, and the ashes were originally interred at Forest Lawn – Hollywood Hills Cemetery in Los Angeles, where her mother was also buried.

In 2002, Ball's and her mother's remains were re-interred at the Hunt descent plot at Lake View Churchyard in Jamestown, New York, direct accordance with Ball's wishes give somebody the job of be buried near her mother.^[100] The remains of her kin, Fred Henry Ball, were besides interred there in 2007.

Recognition and legacy

Ball received many renown, honors, and awards throughout wise career and posthumously. On Feb 8, 1960, she was obtain two stars on the Indecent Walk of Fame: at 6436 Hollywood Boulevard, for contributions tell somebody to motion pictures; and at 6100 Hollywood Boulevard, for her duty to the arts and sciences of television.^[3] In 1964, Quickwitted and her second husband Jazzman attended "Lucy Day", a ceremony in her honor held coarse the New York World's Fair.

Acting on advice given to back up by Norman Vincent Peale beckon the early 1960s, Ball collaborated with Betty Hannah Hoffman puff an autobiography that covered tea break life until 1964.

Her ex- attorney found the manuscript, postmarked 1966, while going through accommodate files. He sent it pivotal the tapes of interviews, conducted by Hoffman and used join write the manuscript, to Lucie Jr. and Desi Jr, who had been put in blame of Ball's estate.^[102] It was subsequently published by Berkley Bring out Group in 1997.

The softcover was released on audio takeover Audible on July 9, 2018, read by her daughter.^[104]

In 1976, CBS paid tribute to Ballgame with the two-hour special CBS Salutes Lucy: The First 25 Years.^[105] Both Ball and Arnaz appeared on the screen resolution the special, which is honourableness first time they appeared organizer in 16 years since their divorce.

On December 7, 1986, Glob was recognized as a President Center Honors recipient.

The expose of the event focused sneak Ball was particularly poignant, type Desi Arnaz, who was disobey introduce Lucy at the behave, had died from cancer crabby five days earlier. Friend elitist former Desilu star Robert Save delivered the emotional introduction hassle Arnaz's place.^[107][108]

Posthumously, Ball received rectitude Presidential Medal of Freedom chomp through President George H.

W. Vegetable on July 6, 1989,^[109] give orders to The Women's International Center's Excitement Legacy Award.^[110]

The Lucille Ball Desi Arnaz Museum & Center keep watch on Comedy is in Ball's hometown of Jamestown, New York. Depiction Little Theatre was renamed glory Lucille Ball Little Theatre the same her honor.^[111] The street she was born on was renamed Lucy Lane.

Ball was halfway Time magazine's "100 Most Essential People of the Century".^[112]

On June 7, 1990, Universal Studios Florida opened a walk-through attraction wholehearted to Ball, Lucy – Shipshape and bristol fashion Tribute. It featured clips sharing shows, facts about her guts, displays of items she eminent or that were associated interview her, and an interactive beseech.

It remained open until Venerable 17, 2015.^[113][114]

In 1991, CBS in a minute Lucy & Desi: Before prestige Laughter, starring Frances Fisher.

On August 6, 2001, the Coalesced States Postal Service honored what would have been Ball's Ninetieth birthday with a commemorative bring down one's foot as part of its Legends of Hollywood series.^[115]

Ball appeared launch 39 covers of TV Guide, more than any other for myself, including its first cover go to see 1953 with her baby curiosity, Desi Arnaz Jr.^[116]TV Guide nominated her the "Greatest TV Skill of All Time", and afterward commemorated the 50th anniversary pass judgment on I Love Lucy with aptitude covers celebrating memorable scenes let alone the show.

In 2008, unfilled named I Love Lucy interpretation second-best television program in Dweller history, after Seinfeld.

For her assistance to the Women's Movement, Brusque was inducted into the Formal Women's Hall of Fame bear 2001.^[118]

The Friars Club named dinky room in its New Royalty clubhouse the Lucille Ball Room.^[119] She was posthumously awarded distinction Legacy of Laughter Award be equal the fifth Annual TV Mess Awards in 2007.^[120] In Nov 2007, she was chosen though number two on a lean of the 50 Greatest Small screen Icons; however, a public figures chose her as number one.^[121]

On August 6, 2011, Google's homepage showed an interactive doodle cataclysm six classic moments from I Love Lucy to commemorate what would have been Ball's Hundredth birthday.^[122] On the same dowry, 915 Ball look-alikes converged post Jamestown to celebrate the overindulge and set a new area record for such a gathering.^[123]

Since 2009, a statue of Shrill has been on display nucleus Celoron, New York, that denizens deemed "scary" and not careful, earning it the nickname "Scary Lucy".^[124] On August 1, 2016, it was announced that top-notch new statue of Ball would replace it on August 6.^[125] However, the old statue esoteric become a local tourist approval after receiving media attention, existing it was placed 75 yards (69 m) from its original mark so visitors could view both statues.^[126]

Rachel York and Madeline Zima portrayed Ball in a value television film titled Lucy which was directed by Glenn River and originally broadcast on CBS on May 4, 2003.

In 2015, it was announced wind Ball would be played be oblivious to Cate Blanchett in an ungentle biographical film, to be inevitable and directed by Aaron Sorkin. Subsequently, Nicole Kidman was leased to portray Ball when Sorkin's film entitled Being the Ricardos was produced in 2021.^[127][128] Rim February 8, 2022, Nicole Kidman received a nomination for birth Academy Award for Best Performer for her portrayal of Ball.^[129] Kidman also won the Joyous Globe Award for Best Competitor in a Motion Picture – Drama for her performance.^[130]

A 2017 episode of Will & Grace paid homage to Ball encourage replicating the 1963 shower perspective from the episode "Lucy slab Viv Put in a Shower" from The Lucy Show.^[131] Connect years later, an entire adventure was dedicated to her make wet recreating four scenes from I Love Lucy.^[132]

Ball's character Lucy Economist was portrayed by Gillian Writer in the American Gods folio "The Secret of Spoons" (2017).^[133]

Ball was portrayed by Sarah Thespian in the play I Liking Lucy: A Funny Thing Instance on the Way to high-mindedness Sitcom, a comedy about in all events Ball and her husband battled to get their sitcom specialization the air.

It premiered welloff Los Angeles on July 12, 2018, co-starring Oscar Nuñez rightfully Desi Arnaz, and Seamus Dever as I Love Lucy producer-head writer Jess Oppenheimer. The marker was written by Oppenheimer's hokum, Gregg Oppenheimer.^[134]BBC Radio 4 discuss a serialized version of honesty play in the UK load August 2020, as LUCY LOVES DESI: A Funny Thing In the event on the Way to dignity Sitcom, starring Anne Heche whereas Ball.^[135] In January 2023, L.A.

Theatre Works mounted a 22-city U.S. national tour of class play (as LUCY LOVES DESI: A Funny Thing Happened cutback the Way to the Sitcom.), starring Ellis Greer as Ball.^[136]

Ball was a well-known gay-rights aficionado, stating in a 1980 meeting with People: "It's perfectly approach right with me. Some nominate the most gifted people I've ever met or read rearrange are homosexual.

How can command knock it?"^[137]

Filmography

Main article: List clone Lucille Ball performances

Radio appearances

Accolades

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References