A Tribute To Lucille Ball
In this lens we focus on one of America's best and funnies comedians of all time Lucille Ball. Each segment of the site will focus on different threads of her life and career.
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Lucille Ball Biography - Lucille Ball at a Glance
Lucille Ball (August 6, 1911 ? April 26, 1989) was an American comedienne, film, television, stage and radio actress, model, film executive, and star of the landmark sitcoms I Love Lucy, The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour, The Lucy Show and Heres Lucy. Lucille Ball was one of the most popular stars in America during her lifetime and had one of Hollywoods longest careers. She was a movie star from the 1930s to the 1970s, and appeared on television for more than thirty years.
Ball received thirteen Emmy Award nominations and four wins. She was the recipient of the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award...
Lucille Ball Videos
Three reasons to love Lucille Ball
1. She was funny. - THINK ABOUT IT!Her humor was clean.
The whole family could watch it together or separately.
She was clown and the whole world loves a clown.
She enabled us to laugh at ourselves.
2. She was lovable.
For example, there was the night when Lucille Ball gave birth to Little Ricky on the "I Love Lucy" The show was the top rated show on TV for a decade. More people watched that occurrence"Lucy" than watched President Eisenhower's inauguration the next day. So much news and politics is "heavy." We need a counterbalance, something funny that make us all feel part of the human family. Lucy was one of those breaks. For a reference here you might want to read - Why Americans Hate Politics - By Keith Boykin.
3. She was strong
Lucille Ball was best identified for her job as the silly housewife in the I Love Lucy tv show. Little recognize her as the tough secure women she was when she was off stage. In the "I Love Lucy" show she was this classic charade of a goofy housewife that didn't do anything right, but she wasn't. Although she actually was married to Desi Arnaz, and some of the problems were aired in minor part on the screen, she wasn't the klutz she played. This was her expected, typical woman's role on a TV show back in the 50's.
LOOK AT SOME OF HER ACCOMPLISHMENTS:
During her life, Lucille Ball stared in five TV shows:
1951-57 I Love Lucy
1957-60 The Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz Show
1962-68 The Lucy Show
1968-74 Here's Lucy
1986 Life With Lucy
Lucille won two Emmy Awards: Best Comedienne and Best Actress - Continuing Performance
Great DVD's on Amazon - Lucille Ball
Lucille Ball Film Collection (Dance Girl Dance / The Big Street / Du Barry Was a Lady / Critic's Choice / Mame)
Amazon Price: $28.99 (as of 10/13/2008)
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The Lucy & Desi Collection (Too Many Girls / The Long Long Trailer / Forever, Darling)
Amazon Price: $21.99 (as of 10/13/2008)
List Price: $29.98
The Dark Corner (Fox Film Noir)
Amazon Price: $9.99 (as of 10/13/2008)
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Lucille Ball Facts - Trivia
- Lucy spent the 30s and 40s acting in B movies. She did so many she became known as "Queen of the B's". This title followed her until her fame in "I Love Lucy" won her the title of "America's Favorite Redhead".
- Lucy had to convince CBS to allow Desi Arnaz to play her husband in "I Love Lucy" by taking a vaudeville act on tour with him. The act was based on the premise of "I Love Lucy" and proved to CBS that America accepted Desi as her husband.
- Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz founded Desilu Productions, making her one of the few women in history (along with Oprah Winfrey) to own and run her own TV production company.
- From 1955 until her death in 1989, Lucille Ball lived at 1000 North Roxbury Drive in Beverly Hills. The Georgian style brick home was next door to the homes of James Stewart and Jack Benny. Other neighbors on Roxbury Drive included Rosemary Clooney and Ira Gershwin.
- In the summer of 2005, Lucille Ball was voted America's most beloved deceased star.
- After the demise of Desilu Productions, she also founded Lucille Ball Productions in 1968.
Lucille Ball Quotes
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I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that's good taste.
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I'd rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done.
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In life, all good things come hard, but wisdom is the hardest to come by.
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Lucille Ball - Desi Arnaz - I Love Lucy TV Show
From Wikipedia
I Love Lucy is an American situation comedy, starring Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz, Vivian Vance and William Frawley. The black-and-white series originally ran from October 15 1951 to May 6 1957 on CBS. The show continued on for three more seasons with 13 one-hour specials, running from 1957 to 1960, known first as The Lucille Ball-Desi Arnaz Show and later in reruns as The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour.
I Love Lucy was the most-watched show in the United States in four of its six seasons, and was the first to end its run at the top of the ratings (to be matched only by The Andy Griffith Show and Seinfeld), although it did not have a formal series finale episode. I Love Lucy is still syndicated in dozens of languages across the world.
The show won five Emmy Awards and received numerous nominations. In 2002, it was ranked second on TV Guides top-50 greatest shows, behind Seinfeld and ahead of The Honeymooners. In 2007, it was placed on Time magazines unranked list of the 100 best TV shows. The same year, the Washington Post named it the second best TV rerun, attesting to its longevity and sustained popularity.
Lucille Ball Mame
A Picture is worth a thousand words.
Mame is a 1974 American musical film based on the 1966 Broadway musical of the same name, and starring Lucille Ball. The film focuses on eccentric Mame Dennis, whose madcap life is disrupted when her deceased brother's son Patrick is entrusted to her care. Rather than bow to convention, Mame introduces the boy to her free-wheeling lifestyle, which includes her personal secretary Agnes Gooch, "bosom buddy" actress Vera Charles, and husband Beauregard Jackson Pickett Burnside, a Southern aristocrat with a Georgia plantation called Peckerwood. ... (Read The Article From Wilkipedia)
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MAME (1974) - The DVD
Starring: Lucille Ball, Beatrice Arthur Director: Gene Saks Rating PG
Lucille Ball is beautiful as Mame, and the whole story line is beautiful and makes you want to cry. Some of the events in this movie are not exactly suitable for children. This may be one of the best movies ever made. You'll have to see it for yourself to judge... Mame goes through so much sorrow and heartbreak throughout the whole movie, but she always is able to go through every trial that comes her way with a smile and a song. And joy in everything. You weep for her when she looses everything in the Stock Market Crash of 1929. And then her own friend gets radically mad at her, because Mame accidentally ruined her show. You are so happy when she meets Robert Preston at the store where she is working; she marries him. You weep once again when he dies by an avalanche. Another heartbreak event is when Patrick with his vicious deeds tries to run her life for her. And then you rejoice again when his little boy goes with Mame on one of her trips. This movie is a grand film to be enjoyed by one and all..
Mame
Amazon.com
The 1974 film version of Mame stars legendary Lucille Ball and is based on the 1966 hit Broadway musical, not the 1958 movie. When 10-year-old Patrick Dennis's father dies, he is sent to live with his eccentric Auntie Mame. Mame may know nothing about being a parent, but she's got love and spontaneity in spades, and Patrick blooms in the time spent with her. Though Miss Ball seems sadly miscast when Mame begins (she's too old and can't sing), by the time the movie reaches the famous foxhunt scene when Mame accidentally wins the hunt, and in turn the heart of gallant Beauregard Burnside, you start to believe Lucy is Mame.
Reprising her Broadway role (for which she won a Tony), Bea Arthur plays Mame's boozy pal Vera Charles. Songs include the now-classic "We Need a Little Christmas" and "Bosom Buddies" plus "Loving You," sung by Robert Preston's Beau and written for this movie. --Dana Van Nest
Product Description
Lucille Ball plays Auntie mame, loving life and living it to the hilt with her nephew and assorted eccentrics in tow. Robert Preston, Beatrice Arthur and Jerry Herman's smashing Broadway score add pizazz. Year: 1974 Director: Gene Saks Starring: Lucille Ball. Robert Preston, Bea Arthur
Amazon Price: $13.99 (as of 10/13/2008)
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I LOVE LUCY & I MEAN IT! Lucille Ball was the all-time best female comedian the world has ever known and even though I'm still in my 40's, I love watching her with Desi Arnaz and they are really a perfect pair of comedians and there has never been a dull moment watching them on TV! I got so engrossed with Ms. Ball that I have my own "I Love Lucy- The Complete First Season. I even have my own I love Lucy Checks, for chrissakes! If you really love Lucy, you'll love these checks and other I Love Lucy items! Thanks for the lens!50 stars! Posted April 21, 2008 |
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Lucy Rocks! Posted September 18, 2007 |
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