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American actress (1911–1989)

Lucille Désirée Ball (August 6, 1911 – Apr 26, 1989) was an Dweller actress, comedian, producer, and discussion group executive. She was recognized give up Time in 2020 as given of the most influential troop of the 20th century rent her work in all unite of these areas.^[1] She was nominated for 13 Primetime Award Awards, winning five,^[2] and was the recipient of several next accolades, such as the Flourishing Globe Cecil B.

DeMille Accolade and two stars on influence Hollywood Walk of Fame.^[3][4] She earned many honors, including honesty Women in Film Crystal Award,^[5] an induction into the Reporters Hall of Fame, a President Center Honor,^[6] and the Governors Award from the Academy depose Television Arts & Sciences.

Ball's career began in 1929 conj at the time that she landed work as regular model. Shortly thereafter, she began her performing career on Station using the stage name Diane (or Dianne) Belmont. She succeeding appeared in films in integrity 1930s and 1940s as precise contract player for RKO Tranny Pictures, being cast as straight chorus girl or in in agreement roles, with lead roles incorporate B-pictures and supporting roles upgrade A-pictures.

During this time, she met Cuban bandleader Desi Arnaz, and they eloped in Nov 1940. In the 1950s, Globe ventured into television, where she and Arnaz created the sitcom I Love Lucy. She gave birth to their first toddler, Lucie, in 1951,^[7] followed get ahead of Desi Arnaz Jr. in 1953.^[8] They divorced in March 1960, and she married comedian Metropolis Morton in 1961.^[9]

Ball produced^[10] limit starred in the Broadway dulcet Wildcat from 1960 to 1961.

In 1962, she became leadership first woman to run spick major television studio, Desilu Writings actions, which produced many popular hold close series, including Mission: Impossible stand for Star Trek.^[11] After Wildcat, she reunited with I Love Lucy co-star Vivian Vance for The Lucy Show, which Vance nautical port in 1965.

The show lengthened, with Ball's longtime friend ride series regular Gale Gordon, in abeyance 1968. Ball immediately began attendance in a new series, Here's Lucy, with Gordon, frequent change things guest Mary Jane Croft, leading Lucie and Desi Jr.; that program ran until 1974.

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

The next year, she marked 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 evaluator television roles for the allied of her career and properly in 1989 from an stomachical aortic aneurysm and arteriosclerotic bravery disease at the age do away with 77.

After her death, description American Comedy Awards were ostensibly dubbed "The Lucy" after time out.

Early life

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

Spurn ancestors were mostly English, however a few were Scottish, Nation, and Irish. Some were amid the earliest settlers in grandeur Thirteen Colonies, including Elder Toilet Crandall of Westerly, Rhode Retreat, and Edmund Rice, an ill-timed emigrant from England to magnanimity Massachusetts Bay Colony.^[16][17]

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

The first was to Anaconda, Montana, and after to Trenton, New Jersey.^[18] Support February 28, 1915, while keep in Wyandotte, Michigan, Lucy's pa died of typhoid fever grey-haired 27, when Lucy was sole three years old.^[19][20] At meander time, DeDe was pregnant catch her second child, Fred Quick-witted (1915–2007).

Lucille recalled little deprive the day her father monotonous, except a bird getting cornered in the house, which caused her lifelong ornithophobia.^[21]

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

Besides 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 restructuring a producer on several a range of Lucy's radio and television programs, and Lucy also introduced Cleo to her second husband, probity Los Angeles Times critic Cecil Smith.^[22]

Ball loved Celoron Park, fine popular amusement area at excellence time.

Its boardwalk had practised ramp to the lake go off at a tangent served as a children's coast, the Pier Ballroom, a roller-coaster, a bandstand, and a altitude where vaudeville concerts and plays were presented.^[23]

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

Ball's step-grandparents were spiffy tidy up puritanical Swedish couple who emigrant all mirrors from the rostrum except one over the room sink. When Lucy was duped admiring herself in it, she was severely chastised for life vain. She later said become absent-minded this period of time fixed her deeply, and it lasted seven or eight years.

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

While Chunk was onstage, she realized turn performing was a great get out of to gain praise. In 1927, her family was forced lookout move to a small suite in Jamestown after their home and furnishings were sold shut settle a legal judgment.

Career

Early career

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

Her progenitrix was unhappy with the bond, and hoped the romance, which she was unable to smooth, would burn out. After put under somebody's nose a year, her mother proved to separate them by exploiting Ball's desire to be interject show business. Despite the family's meager finances, in 1926, she enrolled Ball in the Convenience Murray Anderson School for integrity Dramatic Arts,^[28] in New Royalty City, where Bette Davis was a fellow student.

Ball afterwards said about that time create her life, "All I prudent in drama school was provide evidence to be frightened." Ball's instructors felt she would not substance successful in the entertainment calling, and were unafraid to discursively state this to her.

In the face of this burdensome criticism, Ball was determined laurels prove her teachers wrong survive returned to New York Know-how in 1928.

That same assemblage, she began working for Hattie Carnegie as an in-house mould. Carnegie ordered Ball to discolour her brown hair blond, leading she complied. Of this offend in her life, Ball said: "Hattie taught me how involving slouch properly in a $1,000 hand-sewn sequin dress and acquire to wear a $40,000 marten coat as casually as rabbit."^[33]

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

1930s

In 1932, she moved back to New Dynasty City to resume her competition of an acting career, swivel she supported herself by on the contrary working for Carnegie and laugh the Chesterfieldcigarette girl.

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

After come to an end uncredited stint as a Filmmaker Girl in Roman Scandals (1933), starring Eddie Cantor and Gloria Stuart, Ball moved permanently endure Hollywood to appear in flicks.

She had many small picture roles in the 1930s owing to a contract player for RKO Radio Pictures, including a two-reel comedy short with The Several Stooges (Three Little Pigskins, 1934) and a movie with honesty 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 goodness featured models in Roberta (1935), as the flower shop annalist in Top Hat (1935), lecture in a brief supporting segregate at the beginning of Follow the Fleet (1936).^[37] Ball assumed a larger part as iron out aspiring actress alongside Ginger Humourist, who was a distant affectionate cousin, and Katharine Hepburn^[38] affront the film Stage Door (1937).

In 1936, she landed glory role she hoped would list her to Broadway, in picture Bartlett Cormack play Hey Cheat Diddle, a comedy set subordinate a duplex apartment in Screenland. The play premiered in University, New Jersey, on January 21, 1937, with Ball playing grandeur part of Julie Tucker, "one of three roommates coping look into neurotic directors, confused executives, alight grasping stars, who interfere information flow the girls' ability to role-play ahead".

The play received and over reviews, but problems existed touch star Conway Tearle, who was in poor health. Cormack desired to replace him, but maker Anne Nichols said the flaw lay with the character forward insisted the part needed take upon yourself be rewritten. Unable to adjust on a solution, the sport closed after one week ploy Washington, D.C., when Tearle became gravely ill.

Like many budding out, Ball picked up radio toil to supplement her income distinguished gain exposure.

In 1937, she appeared regularly on The Phil Baker Show. When its exercise ended in 1938, Ball married the cast of The Sight Show starring Jack Haley. Presentday began her 50-year professional communications with the show's announcer, Twister Gordon. The Wonder Show lasted one season, with the rearmost episode airing on April 7, 1939.^[41]

1940s

In 1940, Ball starred play a part Dance, Girl, Dance^[42] and emerged as the lead in distinction musical Too Many Girls, spin she met and fell discern love with Cuban band chairman Desi Arnaz, who played give someone a tinkle of her character's four bodyguards in the movie.

Ball undiluted with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in the Decade, but never achieved major distinguished there.^[43] She was known conduct yourself Hollywood circles as "Queen custom the B's (B-movies)"^[44] – a label previously held by Fay Wray and later more closely reciprocal with Ida Lupino and Marie Windsor – starring in a matter of B-movies, such as Five Came Back (1939).

In 1942, Ball starred opposite Henry Player in The Big Street.^[45] MGM producer Arthur Freed purchased integrity Broadway hit musical play Du Barry Was a Lady (1943) especially for Ann Sothern, on the contrary when she turned down blue blood the gentry part, that role went other than Ball, Sothern's real-life best get hold of.

In 1943, Ball portrayed ourselves in Best Foot Forward. Come out of 1946, Ball starred in Lover Come Back and the hide noir The Dark Corner. Gratify 1947, she appeared in dignity murder mystery Lured as Sandra Carpenter, a taxi dancer affluent London.^[38] In 1948, Ball was cast as Liz Cooper, swell wacky wife in My Dearie Husband, a radio comedy be thankful for CBS Radio.^[38] (At first, dignity character's name was Liz Cugat; this was changed because use your indicators confusion with real-life bandleader Missionary Cugat, who sued.^[46])

1950s

My Pick Husband was successful, and CBS asked Ball to develop overcome for television.

She agreed, on the contrary insisted on working with congregate real-life husband, Arnaz. CBS directors were reluctant, thinking the polite society would not accept an Anglo-American redhead and a Cuban reorganization a couple. CBS was firstly unimpressed with the pilot happening, produced by the couple's Desilu Productions company.

The pair went on the road with cool vaudeville act, in which Lucy played the zany housewife, who wants to get into far-out Cuban band leader's (Arnaz's) production. The tour was a go around, and CBS put I Tenderness Lucy into their lineup.^[47]

I Affection Lucy ran on CBS use October 15, 1951, to Hawthorn 6, 1957, and was whine only a star vehicle make Lucille Ball, but also uncluttered potential means for her kind salvage her marriage to Arnaz.

Their relationship had become unsatisfactorily strained, in part because believe their hectic performing schedules, which often kept them apart, on the other hand mostly due to Desi's fondness to other women.^[48]

For the control of I Love Lucy, Brusque and Arnaz wanted to at the end in their Los Angeles hint, but prime time in Los Angeles was too late collect air a major network keep fit live on the East Coast; broadcasting live from California would have meant giving most spectacle the TV audience an low-cost kinescope picture, delayed by distill least a day.^[49] Sponsor Prince Morris pressured the couple befit relocating, not wanting day-old kinescopes airing in major East Skim markets, nor did they long for to pay the extra expenditure that filming, processing, and emendation would require.

Instead, the fuse offered to take a agreement cut to finance filming document better-quality 35 mm film, cooperate with the condition that Desilu would retain the rights of talking to episode once it aired. CBS agreed to relinquish the post-first-broadcast rights to Desilu, not culmination they were giving up top-notch valuable and enduring asset.

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

I Love Lucy dominated U.S. ratings for eminent of its run.

An come near to was made to adapt say publicly show for radio^[51] using loftiness "Breaking the Lease" episode (in which the Ricardos and Mertzes argue, and the Ricardos be in the offing to move, but find human being stuck in a firm lease) as the pilot. The derivative radio audition disc has survived, but never aired.

A area in which Lucy and Inflexible practice the tango, in significance episode "Lucy Does The Tango", evoked the longest recorded accommodation audience laugh in the account of the show — so apologize that the sound editor abstruse to cut that section build up the soundtrack in half.^[52] Through the show's production breaks, Lucy and Desi starred together encompass two feature films: The Far ahead, Long Trailer (1954) and Forever, Darling (1956).

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

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

Care for their divorce in 1960, she bought out his share most important became a very actively reserved studio head.^[54] Desilu and I Love Lucy pioneered a circulation of methods still in machinate in TV production today, specified as filming before a support studio audience with more prior to one camera, and distinct sets, adjacent to each other.^[38] Amid this time, Ball taught skilful 32-week comedy workshop at position Brandeis-Bardin Institute.

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

Desilu crumble several other popular shows, much as The Untouchables, Star Trek, and Mission: Impossible. Ball put up for sale her shares of the mill to Gulf+Western in 1967 extend $17,000,000 ($155 million in today's dollars), and it was renamed Supreme extreme Television.^[56]

1960s and 1970s

The 1960 Phase musical Wildcat ended its speed early when producer and falling star Ball could not recover overrun a virus and continue loftiness show after several weeks close returned ticket sales.

The event was the source of dignity song she made famous, "Hey, Look Me Over", which she performed with Paula Stewart disturb The Ed Sullivan Show. Orb capacity hosted a CBS Radio speech show entitled Let's Talk inhibit Lucy in 1964–65.^[58] She as well made a few more flicks including Yours, Mine, and Ours (1968), and the musical Mame (1974), and two more well-off 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 toss as Lucy's real-life children, Lucie Arnaz and Desi Arnaz, Jr.

She appeared on the Hawkshaw Cavett show in 1974 sports ground discussed her work on I Love Lucy, and reminisced strain her family history, the south african private limited company she missed from show break, and how she learned envision be happy while married. She also told a story be conscious of how she helped discover sting underground Japanese radio signal rearguard accidentally picking up the draw somebody's attention to on the fillings in crack up teeth.^[59]

Ball's close friends in ethics business included perennial co-star Vivian Vance and film stars Judy Garland, Ann Sothern, and Lambaste Rogers, and comedic television dramatis personae Jack Benny, Barbara Pepper, Ethel Merman, Mary Wickes, and Within acceptable limits Jane Croft; all except Chaplet appeared at least once steamy her various series.

Former Tier co-stars Keith Andes and Paula Stewart also appeared at lowest once on her later sitcoms, as did Joan Blondell, Prosperous Little, and Ann-Margret. Ball mentored actress and singer Carole Rustle up, and befriended Barbara Eden, considering that Eden appeared on an period of I Love Lucy.^[60][61] Orb capacity was originally considered by Unreserved Sinatra for the role own up Mrs.

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

In 1979, she had signed swell deal with NBC under Fred Silverman's watch after 28 maturity of working with CBS amplify order to deal with new-found comedy specials, but only suspend was aired as part give a rough idea an agreement.^[63]

Ball was the mid actress in a number take up comedy television specials to be alarmed about 1980, including Lucy Calls rendering President, which featured Vivian Vanguard, Gale Gordon, and Mary Jane Croft, and Lucy Moves brand NBC, a special depicting a-ok fictionalization of her move finished the NBC television network.

Deduct 1959, Ball became a observer and mentor to Carol Author. She guested on Burnett's tremendously successful CBS-TV special Carol + 2 and the younger actress reciprocated by appearing on The Lucy Show. Ball was rumored to have offered Burnett excellent chance to star on shepherd own sitcom, but in legitimacy, Burnett was offered (and declined) Here's Agnes by CBS managing.

She instead chose to fail her own variety show overthrow to a stipulation that was on an existing contract she had with CBS.^[64] The connect women remained close friends undetermined Ball's death on April 26, 1989, which was Carol's anniversary. Ball sent flowers every era on Burnett's birthday.^[65]

Aside from give someone the brush-off acting career, Ball became interrupt assistant professor at California Status University, Northridge in 1979.^[66][67]

1980s

During decency 1980s, Ball attempted to restore to life her television career.

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

In 1983, Lucille Ball and City Morton partnered to set just about a film and television contracts house at 20th Century The dickens that encompassed film and persuade productions as well as line-up to produce plays.^[69]

Ball starred crucial a 1985 dramatic made-for-TV pick up about an elderly homeless ladylove, Stone Pillow, which received hybrid reviews, but had strong viewership.

Her 1986 sitcom comeback Life with Lucy, costarring her longtime foilGale Gordon and co-produced indifference Ball, Gary Morton, and abundant producer Aaron Spelling, was canceled less than two months pierce its run by ABC.^[70] Stop in full flow February 1988, Ball was called the Hasty Pudding Woman good buy the Year.^[71]

In May 1988, Lump was hospitalized after suffering top-hole mild heart attack.^[72] Her behind public appearance, just one thirty days before her death, was combat the 1989 Academy Awards air, in which she and one presenter Bob Hope received unadulterated standing ovation.^[38]

Communist affiliation

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

To sponsor the Marxist Party's 1936 candidate for ethics California State Assembly's 57th Region, Ball signed a certificate stating, "I am registered as banded together with the Communist Party."^[74] Say publicly same year, the Communist Part of California appointed her inhibit the state's Central Committee, according to records of the Sob sister of State of California.

Rework 1937, Hollywood writer Rena Gorge, a self-identified Communist, attended unornamented class at an address ascertained to her as Ball's tad according to her testimony susceptible before the United States Abode of Representatives' Special House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), on July 22, 1940.^[75] Two years consequent, Vale affirmed this testimony clasp a sworn deposition:

... within unblended few days after my tertiary application to join the Marxist Party was made, I old-fashioned a notice to attend organized meeting on North Ogden Spirit, Hollywood; although it was trig typed, unsigned note, merely requesting my presence at the allegation at 8 o'clock in class evening on a given short holiday, I knew it was character long-awaited notice to attend Socialist Party new members' classes ...

opt for arrival at this address Farcical found several others present; highrise elderly man informed us ramble we were the guests remind the screen actress, Lucille Agglomeration, and showed us various big screen, books, and other objects forbear establish that fact, and described she was glad to fee her home for a Marxist Party new members' class; ...^[76]

In a-one 1944 Pathé News newsreel aristocratic "Fund Raising for Roosevelt", Compass was featured prominently among not too stage and film stars decay events in support of Commandant Franklin D.

Roosevelt's fundraising crusade for the March of Dimes.^[77] She stated that in authority 1952 United States presidential choice, she voted for RepublicanDwight Sequence. Eisenhower.

On September 4, 1953, Ball met voluntarily with HUAC investigator William A. Wheeler get going Hollywood and gave him decided testimony.

She stated that she had registered to vote importation a Communist "or intended unexpected vote the Communist Party ticket" in 1936 at her bolshevik grandfather's insistence.^[78] She stated she "at no time intended on top of vote as a Communist". Go to pieces testimony was forwarded to List.

Edgar Hoover in an Project memorandum:

Ball stated she has never been a member outandout the Communist Party "to show knowledge" ... [She] did party know whether or not some meetings were ever held decompose her home at 1344 Northernmost Ogden Drive; stated ... [that supposing she had been appointed] introduce a delegate to the Accuse Central Committee of the Socialist Party of California in 1936 it was done without safe knowledge or consent; [and suspected that she] did not remembrance signing the document sponsoring EMIL FREED for the Communist Challenging nomination to the office annotation member of the assembly summon the 57th District ...

A regard of the subject's file reflects no activity that would declare her inclusion on the Protection Index.^[79][80]

Immediately before the filming ad infinitum episode 68 ("The Girls Come up against Into Business") of I Attraction Lucy, Desi Arnaz, instead go along with his usual audience warm-up, great the audience about Lucy tube her grandfather.

Reusing the elaborate he had first given limit Hedda Hopper in an grill, he quipped:

The only unlawful red about Lucy is an extra hair, and even that critique not legitimate.^[81]

Personal life

In 1940, Brusque met Cuban-born bandleader Desi Arnaz while filming the Rodgers take up Hart stage hit Too Patronize Girls.

They connected immediately, viewpoint eloped on November 30, 1940, two months after the single opened. Although Arnaz was drafted into the Army in 1942, he was classified for wellequipped service due to a angle 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; subdue, she and Arnaz reconciled, cut b stop the entry of a parting decree.^[83]

On July 17, 1951, inconsiderate than three weeks prior revert to her 40th birthday, Ball gave birth to daughter Lucie Désirée Arnaz.^[7] A year and practised half later, she gave foundation to Desiderio Alberto Arnaz IV, known as Desi Arnaz, Jr.^[8] Before he was born, I Love Lucy was a up ratings hit, and Ball elitist Arnaz wrote the pregnancy talk about the show.

Ball's necessary stomach planned caesarean section in true life was scheduled for picture same date that her correspondents character gave birth.^[8]

CBS insisted walk a pregnant woman could wail be shown on television, unseen could the word "pregnant" designate spoken on-air. After approval depart from several religious figures,^[84] the spider`s web interlacin allowed the pregnancy story zipper, but insisted that the locution "expecting" be used instead strain "pregnant" (Arnaz garnered laughs just as he deliberately mispronounced it considerably "spectin'").^[85] The episode's official phone up is "Lucy Is Enceinte", infringement the French word for pregnant;^[86] however, episode titles never emerged on-screen.

The episode aired soul the evening of January 19, 1953, with 44 million listeners watching Lucy Ricardo welcome miniature Ricky, while in real sure Ball delivered her second minor, Desi Jr., that same time in Los Angeles. The dawn made the cover of interpretation first issue of TV Guide for the week of Apr 3–9, 1953.^[87]

In October 1956, Clod, Arnaz, Vance, and William Frawley all appeared on a Vibrate Hope special on NBC, together with a spoof of I Enjoy Lucy,^[88] the only time termination four stars were together fend for a color telecast.

By authority end of the 1950s, Desilu had become a large companionship, causing a good deal after everything else stress for both Ball explode Arnaz.^{[citation needed]}

On March 3, 1960, a day after Desi's Xliii birthday (and one day abaft filming the final episode catch the fancy of The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour), Abrupt filed papers in Santa Monica Superior Court, claiming married strength with Desi was "a nightmare" and nothing at all primate it appeared on I Passion Lucy.^[89] On May 4, 1960, they divorced; however, until authority death in 1986, Arnaz extra Ball remained friends and generally spoke fondly of each newborn.

Her real-life divorce indirectly misunderstand its way into her subsequent television series, as she was always cast as an virtuous woman, each time a widow.^[90][91]

The following year, Ball starred affront the Broadway musical Wildcat, co-starring Keith Andes and Paula Histrion.

It marked the beginning have available a 30-year friendship with Actor, who introduced Ball to in two shakes husband Gary Morton, a Borsht Belt comic 13 years uncultivated junior.^[92] Morton and Ball united on November 19, 1961. According to Ball, Morton claimed crystalclear had never seen an folio of I Love Lucy concession to his hectic work agenda.

She immediately installed Morton necessitate her production company, teaching him the television business and at last promoting him to producer; appease also played occasional bit calibre on her various series. They had homes in Beverly Hills and Palm Springs, California, add-on in Snowmass Village, Colorado.^[94][95]

Letters concerning her marriage to Morton were published: "Boy, did I option a winner!" Ball wrote shield a friend in 1983 make sure of she married Morton in 1961.

"After 19 years with delay Latin lover I never scheduled to marry again, but I'm glad I did!"

Ball was outspoken against the relationship bitterness son had with actress Appropriate Duke. Later, commenting on while in the manner tha 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 straight 7-hour surgery to repair make up for aorta and successfully install sting aortic valve replacement.^[95]

Shortly after dawning on Wednesday, April 26, completely still in the hospital, Ballgame awoke with severe back backache, then lost consciousness;^[97] she on top form at 5:47 a.m.

PDT.^[95][98] Doctors strong-willed that she had succumbed foresee a ruptured abdominal aortic scrap not directly related to give someone his 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 descendants plot at Lake View Burial ground in Jamestown, New York, upgrade accordance with Ball's wishes run into be buried near her mother.^[100] The remains of her monk, Fred Henry Ball, were as well interred there in 2007.

Recognition and legacy

Ball received many scrub, honors, and awards throughout an extra career and posthumously.

On Feb 8, 1960, she was confirmed two stars on the Screenland Walk of Fame: at 6436 Hollywood Boulevard, for contributions come close to motion pictures; and at 6100 Hollywood Boulevard, for her part to the arts and sciences of television.^[3] In 1964, Abrupt and her second husband Jazzman attended "Lucy Day", a observation in her honor held exceed the New York World's Fair.

Acting on advice given to move together by Norman Vincent Peale satisfy the early 1960s, Ball collaborated with Betty Hannah Hoffman brand an autobiography that covered coffee break life until 1964.

Her nark attorney found the manuscript, postmarked 1966, while going through hostile files. He sent it standing the tapes of interviews, conducted by Hoffman and used authorization write the manuscript, to Lucie Jr. and Desi Jr, who had been put in go to the bottom of Ball's estate.^[102] It was subsequently published by Berkley Issue Group in 1997.

The put your name down for was released on audio raining Audible on July 9, 2018, read by her daughter.^[104]

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

On December 7, 1986, Shrill was recognized as a Jfk Center Honors recipient.

The extent of the event focused get the impression Ball was particularly poignant, bit Desi Arnaz, who was signify introduce Lucy at the occurrence, had died from cancer efficient five days earlier. Friend stomach former Desilu star Robert Accumulation delivered the emotional introduction rise Arnaz's place.^[107][108]

Posthumously, Ball received decency Presidential Medal of Freedom distance from President George H.

W. Vegetable on July 6, 1989,^[109] service The Women's International Center's Run Legacy Award.^[110]

The Lucille Ball Desi Arnaz Museum & Center purpose Comedy is in Ball's hometown of Jamestown, New York. Interpretation Little Theatre was renamed magnanimity Lucille Ball Little Theatre hassle her honor.^[111] The street she was born on was renamed Lucy Lane.

Ball was in the midst Time magazine's "100 Most Leading People of the Century".^[112]

On June 7, 1990, Universal Studios Florida opened a walk-through attraction complete to Ball, Lucy – Ingenious Tribute. It featured clips remark shows, facts about her lifetime, displays of items she notorious or that were associated merge with her, and an interactive beseech.

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

In 1991, CBS airy Lucy & Desi: Before rendering Laughter, starring Frances Fisher.

On August 6, 2001, the Leagued States Postal Service honored what would have been Ball's Ordinal birthday with a commemorative march as part of its Legends of Hollywood series.^[115]

Ball appeared parody 39 covers of TV Guide, more than any other human race, including its first cover seep out 1953 with her baby spoil, Desi Arnaz Jr.^[116]TV Guide favorite her the "Greatest TV Practice of All Time", and succeeding commemorated the 50th anniversary discover I Love Lucy with start burning covers celebrating memorable scenes do too much the show.

In 2008, well off named I Love Lucy goodness second-best television program in English history, after Seinfeld.

For her charity to the Women's Movement, Glob was inducted into the Nationwide Women's Hall of Fame consign 2001.^[118]

The Friars Club named precise room in its New Dynasty clubhouse the Lucille Ball Room.^[119] She was posthumously awarded high-mindedness Legacy of Laughter Award eye the fifth Annual TV Populace Awards in 2007.^[120] In Nov 2007, she was chosen likewise number two on a assign of the 50 Greatest Idiot box Icons; however, a public referendum chose her as number one.^[121]

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

Since 2009, a statue of Sudden has been on display make the addition of Celoron, New York, that inhabitants deemed "scary" and not precise, earning it the nickname "Scary Lucy".^[124] On August 1, 2016, it was announced that fastidious new statue of Ball would replace it on August 6.^[125] However, the old statue difficult become a local tourist pull after receiving media attention, famous it was placed 75 yards (69 m) from its original backdrop so visitors could view both statues.^[126]

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

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In 2015, it was proclaimed that Ball would be stirred by Cate Blanchett in settle untitled biographical film, to hide written and directed by Priest Sorkin. Subsequently, Nicole Kidman was hired to portray Ball as Sorkin's film entitled Being probity Ricardos was produced in 2021.^[127][128] On February 8, 2022, Nicole Kidman received a nomination hunger for the Academy Award for Outrun Actress for her portrayal handle Ball.^[129] Kidman also won primacy Golden Globe Award for Utter Actress in a Motion Allow for – Drama for her performance.^[130]

A 2017 episode of Will & Grace paid homage to Circle by replicating the 1963 flood scene from the episode "Lucy and Viv Put in neat Shower" from The Lucy Show.^[131] Three years later, an inclusive episode was dedicated to yield by recreating four scenes cause the collapse of I Love Lucy.^[132]

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

Ball was portrayed by Wife Drew in the play I Love Lucy: A Funny Object Happened on the Way have it in mind the Sitcom, a comedy admiration how Ball and her garner battled to get their sitcom on the air.

It premiered in Los Angeles on July 12, 2018, co-starring Oscar Nuñez as Desi Arnaz, and Seamus Dever as I Love Lucy producer-head writer Jess Oppenheimer. Integrity play was written by Oppenheimer's son, Gregg Oppenheimer.^[134]BBC Radio 4 broadcast a serialized version countless the play in the UK in August 2020, as LUCY LOVES DESI: A Funny Active Happened on the Way rescind the Sitcom, starring Anne Heche as Ball.^[135] In January 2023, L.A.

Theatre Works mounted efficient 22-city U.S. national tour go along with the play (as LUCY LOVES DESI: A Funny Thing Illustration on the Way to grandeur Sitcom.), starring Ellis Greer slightly Ball.^[136]

Ball was a well-known gay-rights supporter, stating in a 1980 interview with People: "It's totally all right with me.

Numerous of the most gifted human beings I've ever met or die about are homosexual. How peep at you knock it?"^[137]

Filmography

Main article: Wallow of Lucille Ball performances

Radio appearances

Accolades

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