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Lucille Ball (born 6.8.1911 - died 26.4.1989) Lucille Ball was an American actress, comedian and film executive, known for her fifty-seven year long film career.

Net Worth When Lucille Ball died in 1989, Celebrity Net Worth claims she had a net worth of 40 million USD.

Childhood: Lucille Ball was born in Jamestown, New York to Henry Durrel Ball and Desiree Evelyn Hunt. Three years after she was born while her mother was pregnant with Lucille's brother, her father died from typhoid fever. Four years later, her mother married Edward Peterson. He encouraged Ball to perform as a chorus girl in a show he was putting on when she was twelve, and she promptly decided to begin a career in show business.

Career: In 1936, after years of minor appearances in various films, Lucille Ball got a part in the play Hey Diddle Diddle, although it was cancelled before it made it to Broadway. Ball returned to Hollywood and continued to work in B-Movies, never reaching great stardom until 1948. In that year, Ball stared in the radio show My Favourite Husband. When the show became a success, it was turned into a television series, however it never made it past the pilot. Ball, instead, joined the vaudeville production of the show, which went on to surpass the radio original.

In 1951, Ball became part of the six-year sitcom I Love Lucy, which earned itself five Emmy Awards and was voted the Best TV Show of All Time in 2012. After it finished in 1957, the shows makers went ahead and commissioned a further thirteen one-hour specials.

Personal Life: In 1940, Lucille Ball married Desi Arnaz - a bandleader from Cuba - but she filed for a divorce in 1944. However, the couple soon got back together and in 1951, Ball gave birth to their first child. A year later, their second child was written into the story of the show I Love Lucy, as Ball was pregnant throughout filming and had a caesarean section scheduled for the date of the live episode when her character gave birth. In 1989, Ball suffered from chest pains and underwent surgery for eight hour to receive heart surgery. After making a full recovery, Ball died eight days later from a similar heart problem, unrelated to the surgery.



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Cate Blanchett Cast As Lucille Ball In New Biopic


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Cate Blanchett is to be cast as Lucille Ball in an upcoming biopic produced by the late American actress’s two children – Lucie Arnaz and Desi Arnaz Jr – and written by Aaron Sorkin, according to The Wrap.

The website reports that Australian star Blanchett will play the TV sweetheart in a movie that will focus on Ball’s twenty-year marriage to Cuban bandleader Desi Arnaz from 1940 to 1960. The couple created and starred in the hugely successful sitcom ‘I Love Lucy’, the very first such show to be filmed in front of a live audience.

Cate BlanchettCate Blanchett will be portraying '50s TV star Lucille Ball

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Residents Of Lucille Ball's Hometown Are Petitioning Against Her "Horrible" Statue


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Residents of Lucille Ball's hometown are hoping to have a statue of the late actress replaced with something a little less terrifying. A Facebook page has emerged calling for residents of Celeron, New York to petition the local authorities, via the local paper, for the removal of the statue.

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Jerry Lewis Is Still Not A Fan Of Female Comedians


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Jerry Lewis say wha-??? The beloved comedian has earned his right to an opinion in the standup world, but his latest statement had more than a few eyebrows raised. On Saturday, Lewis left his hand and footprints in cement outside Hollywood’s Chinese Theater and used the occasions to clear up some of his controversial opinions on female comedians. In an interview a few years ago, Lewis set the internet on fire by expressing his distaste for female comedians. He clarified on Saturday, saying that he did in fact enjoy the comedy of Lucille Ball and Carol Burnett.

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Jerry Lewis reached a huge milestone Saturday.

Ball “went to the lowest level of the barrel, and she was brilliant because of it,” Lewis said Saturday, according to the Washington Post.

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Mame Review


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Reviewing Mame, Lucille Ball's late-in-life stab at starring in an enormous movie musical, gives me the opportunity to pull out one of my favorite SAT words: execrable. I mean, I love Lucy, but...

One of Hollywood's most famous casting blunders, letting Lucy star as Mame instead of Angela Lansbury, who had conquered Broadway in the same role, was a mistake of epic proportions, not unlike the decision to deny Julie Andrews the starring role in the movie version of My Fair Lady. The legend is that Lucy wanted it really badly and even put up some of her own money to guarantee her spot. I bet Desi Arnaz could have talked her out of it, but something tells me she never asked his opinion.

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Lucille Ball

Date of birth

6th August, 1911

Date of death

26th April, 1989

Occupation

Actor

Sex

Female

Place of birth

Jamestown, NY

Height

1.71


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