Basic Information About Lucille Ball
| Category | Celebrities › Comedians |
|---|---|
| Professions | Comedian, Model, Actor, Television producer, Singer |
| Net worth | $60,000,000 |
| Date of birth | 1911-08-06 |
| Place of birth | Celoron |
| Date of death | 1989-04-26 (aged 77) |
| Nationality | United States of America |
| Curiosities and Trademarks | Red hair and blue eyes Famous for her fake wailing when something bad happens to her Her trademark 'spider face' when something goes wrong for her, accompanied by an "eugh" sound. Gift for physical comedy |
| Spouse | Gary Morton - (19 November 1961 - 26 April 1989) (her death) Desi Arnaz - (30 November 1940 - 16 May 1961) (divorced) (2 children) |
| Gender | Female |
| Height | 5 ft 7 in (1.71 m) |
| Social Media | ↗︎ Wikipedia ↗︎ IMDb |
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What Movie Awards did Lucille Ball win?
 Oscar |
 Golden Globe |
 Golder Raspberry |
 BAFTA |
 Other |
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| 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
Lucille Ball awards
| Award Name | State | Movie / Series Name | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Primetime Emmy - Outstanding Continued Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Comedy Series | Winner | The Lucy Show | 1968 |
| Primetime Emmy - Outstanding Continued Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Comedy Series | Winner | The Lucy Show | 1967 |
| Primetime Emmy - Outstanding Continued Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Comedy Series | Nominee | The Lucy Show | 1966 |
| Primetime Emmy - Outstanding Continued Performance by an Actress in a Series (Lead) | Nominee | The Lucy Show | 1963 |
| Golden Globe - Best TV Star - Female | Nominee | The Lucy Show | 1968 |
| Golden Globe - Best TV Actress - Comedy or Musical | Nominee | Here's Lucy | 1972 |
| Golden Globe - Best TV Actress - Comedy or Musical | Nominee | Here's Lucy | 1970 |
Lucille Ball roles
| Movie / Series | Role |
|---|---|
| Trumbo | Self (voice) (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| Yours, Mine and Ours | Helen North Beardsley |
| The Lucy Show | Lucy Carmichael / ... 156 episodes, 1962-1968 |
| Life with Lucy | Lucy Barker 13 episodes, 1986 |
| The Carol Burnett Show | Self - Guest / ... 4 episodes, 1967-1970 |
| Three's Company | Self 2 episodes, 1982 |
| The Dick Cavett Show | Self / ... 4 episodes, 1970-1974 |
Lucille Ball's Movie/Shows Salary
| Movie / Series | Salary |
|---|---|
| Top Hat (1935) | $50 /week |
| Don't Tell the Wife (1937) | $2,000 /week |
| Go Chase Yourself (1938) | $2,000 /week |
| Dance, Girl, Dance (1940) | $3,500 /week |
| Too Many Girls (1940) | $1,500 /week |
| A Girl, a Guy, and a Gob (1941) | $12,500 |
| The Big Street (1942) | $3,500 /week |
| Two Smart People (1946) | $1,750 /week |
| I Love Lucy (1951) | $3,500 per episode |
| The Magic Carpet (1951) | $85,000 |
| The Long, Long Trailer (1954) | $125,000 + $150,000 (profits bonus) |
| The Lucy Show (1962) | $1,100,000 (1968) deferred compensation |
| The Danny Kaye Show with Lucille Ball (1962) | $100,000 |
| A Guide for the Married Man (1967) | $10,000 for two days work. |
| Yours, Mine and Ours (1968) | 50% of the net profits (co-producer) |
| Mame (1974) | $250,000 +10% net profits |
| Life with Lucy (1986) | $150,000 /episode |
Lucille Ball's Quotes
- I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that's good taste.
- 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 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.
- The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.
- I'm not funny. What I am is brave.
Lucille Ball's photos
Interesting Facts about Lucille Ball
- Received the Women's International Center (WIC) Living Legacy Award posthumously in 1990.
- Originally interred at Forest Lawn (Hollywood Hills), Los Angeles, CA, Columbarium of Radiant Dawn, Court of Remembrance. In 2003, she was re-interred in the Ball family plot in Lake View Cemetery, Jamestown, NY.
- A comment from a member of the preview audience of Leve de Jantjes (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".
- Ball and Barbara Pepper met early in their careers when they were both in The Goldwyn Girls and remained lifelong friends.
- During a Barbara Walters interview, Jane Fonda stated that that her father, Henry Fonda, was deeply in love with Ball and that the two were "very close" during the filming of Yours, Mine and Ours (1968).
- Was the first woman to own her own film studio when she became the head of Desilu Productions.
- Was awarded two Stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Motion Pictures at 6436 Hollywood Blvd. and for Television at 6100 Hollywood Blvd.
- 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.
- Once registered as a voter for the Communist party as a favor to her grandfather Frederick Charles Hunt (July 24, 1865-January 9, 1944).
- Ball and her son, Desi Arnaz Jr., appeared together on the very first cover of "TV Guide" magazine in 1953.
- Died the morning of April 26, 1989, the 56th birthday of her friend Carol Burnett. That afternoon Burnett received the flowers that Ball had ordered for her birthday.
- During the filming of De sukkel (1933), Lucy--playing a slave girl--needed to have her eyebrows entirely shaved off. They never grew back.
- Before her movie career she 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.
- Ball and Desi Arnaz began I Love Lucy (1951) in the hopes of saving their crumbling marriage.
- She was fired from working at an ice cream store because she kept forgetting to put bananas in banana splits.
- She put her Chesterfield cigarettes in a Philip Morris package to please her sponsor (of the I Love Lucy (1951) show).
- "TV Guide" picked her as the greatest TV star of all time.
- Was one of 20 original The Goldwyn Girls. Among the others were Virginia Bruce; Ann Dvorak; Paulette Goddard and Betty Grable.
- Ball was six years older than first husband Desi Arnaz, and 13 years older than second husband, Gary Morton. For many years, she and Arnaz obscured this 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.
- Inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in 2002.
References & Fact Checks ✅
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- Source URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Lucille_Ball_-_Downtown_Jamestown,_NY.jpg
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Own work - Author: Dr. Blazer
- Licence: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license.
- Date taken: 23 December 2019, 12:39:32
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back - Author: Bureau of Industrial Service. The bureau was a division of ad agency Young & Rubicam and was widely used by those in the television industry for distributing publicity material.
- Date taken: 10 September 1958
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- Source URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Lucille_Ball_and_Joe_Penner_1938.jpg
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It's a cropping of a file that is already on Wikimedia Commons. Direct source: Wikimedia Commons: File:Go Chase Yourself lobby card 1938.JPG. For information on their source for the base image, from which the crop was taken, copyright info etc, see that link (URK). - Author: RKO Studios
- Date taken: 1938
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- Source URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Lucille_Ball_-_Metro_Goldwyn_Mayer_post_card.jpg
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Boston Public Library, Tichnor Brothers Postcard Collection
- Author: Associated Publicity Bureau, 1472 Broadway, N.Y.C. (publisher)
- Date taken: between circa 1930 and circa 1945 date QS:P,+1950-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1319,+1930-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1945-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
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eBay item photo front photo back
- Transferred from en.wikipedia by SreeBot
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Ford Motor Company (show sponsor). Ford used their advertising agency, J. Walter Thompson, to distribute the photos.
Uploaded by We hope at en.wikipedia
- Date taken: Press release on back is dated 9 October 1957; episode originally aired 6 November. 9 August 2011 (original upload date)
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CBS Television. The Bureau of Industrial Services was a division of advertising agency Young & Rubicam. Information shown on back of photo.
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- Date taken: Press release on back is dated 31 January 1956; episode originally aired 20 February 1956. 15 August 2011 (original upload date)
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photo back - Author: CBS Television/Bureau of Industrial Service. In the 1950s and 1960s, it was not uncommon for television networks, studios, and the shows' sponsors to use an advertising agency to distribute their publicty material. The Bureau of Industrial Service was a division of advertising agency Young & Rubicam.
- Date taken: Press release is undated but says the episode was to air 3 October. This episode aired 3 October 1955.
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- Source URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:I_Love_Lucy_Cast.JPG
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photo back - Author: CBS Television-see above re: advertising and publicity agencies and how they were used for publicity material distribution.
- Date taken: The press release is not dated. The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour aired on CBS from 1962 to 1967. It should also be noted that the press release is from a public relations agency; this method of distributing publicity materials was common for networks, studios and program sponsors in the 1950s and 1960s. one example from 1962. The addresses given for the East and West Coast offices of the public relations agencies include a zone number, not a Zip Code, which began being used in 1963. Prior to this, large cities used zone numbers in their addresses. The telephone numbers listed do not include area codes and they are listed with letter prefixes, which were converted to all numerals well over 20 years ago. The photo has only a "date use" stamp for 27 April 1989, which is the day after Lucille Ball's death. The photo was apparently kept in the newspaper's photo files after it was received and not published in that respective newspaper until after Ball's death. Have seen re-issued photos of other subjects and note that the publicity information on them is not the original, but has been updated, and that the re-issues are copyrighted and carry notices to that effect. This was sent circa 1960s but kept on file for many years.
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press release - Author: Ford Motor Company via their advertising agency, J. Walter Thompson. In the 1950s and 1960s, it was not unusual for networks, studios or program sponsors to distribute publicity materials through either a press or advertising agency. This television show was sponsored by Ford Motor Company at the time; Ford chose to use its advertising agency, J. Walter Thompson, to distribute the material.
- Date taken: Press release says the show would air November 6, but gave no year. This program originally aired on 6 November 1957.
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photo back - Author: CBS Television
- Date taken: 25 November 1969
