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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
August 6, 1911
Died
April 26, 1989
Place of Birth
Jamestown, New York, USA
Also Known As
- Люсиль Болл
- Lucille Désirée Ball
- Lucy
- The Queen of the B's
- Λουσίλ Μπολ
- Λουσίλ Ντεζιρέ Μπολ
Lucille Ball
0.8 Popularity
Biography
Lucille Désirée Ball (August 6, 1911 – April 26, 1989) was an American comedian, film, television, stage and radio actress, model, film and television executive, and star of the sitcoms I Love Lucy, The Lucy–Desi Comedy Hour, The Lucy Show, Here's Lucy and Life With Lucy. One of the most popular and influential stars in America during her lifetime, with one of Hollywood's longest careers, especially on television, Ball began acting in the 1930s, becoming both a radio actress and B-movie star in the 1940s, and then a television star during the 1950s. She was still making films in the 1960s and 1970s. Ball received thirteen Emmy Award nominations and four wins. In 1977 Ball was among the first recipients of the Women in Film Crystal Award. She was the recipient of the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award in 1979, the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Kennedy Center Honors in 1986 and the Governors Award from the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences in 1989. In 1929, Ball landed work as a model and later began her performing career on Broadway using the stage name Dianne Belmont. She appeared in many small movie roles in the 1930s as a contract player for RKO Radio Pictures. Ball was labeled as the "Queen of the Bs" (referring to her many roles in B-films). In 1951, Ball was pivotal in the creation of the television series I Love Lucy. The show co-starred her then husband, Desi Arnaz as Ricky Ricardo and Vivian Vance and William Frawley as Ethel and Fred Mertz, the Ricardos' landlords and friends. The show ended in 1957 after 180 episodes. They then changed the format a little - lengthening the time of the show from 30 minutes to 60 minutes (the first one went 75 mins), adding some characters, altering the storyline somewhat, and renaming the show from "I Love Lucy" to "The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour", which ran for three seasons (1957–1960) and 13 episodes. Ball went on to star in two more successful television series: The Lucy Show, which ran on CBS from 1962 to 1968 (156 Episodes), and Here's Lucy from 1968 to 1974 (144 episodes). Her last attempt at a television series was a 1986 show called Life with Lucy - which failed miserably after 8 episodes aired although 13 were produced. Ball met and eloped with Cuban bandleader Desi Arnaz in 1940. On July 17, 1951, almost 40 years old, Ball gave birth to their first child, Lucie Désirée Arnaz. A year and a half later, Ball gave birth to their second child, Desiderio Alberto Arnaz IV, known as Desi Arnaz, Jr. Ball and Arnaz divorced on May 4, 1960. On April 26, 1989, Ball died of a dissecting aortic aneurysm at age 77. At the time of her death she had been married to her second husband, standup comedian and business partner Gary Morton, for twenty-eight years.
Known For
6.2
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Outstanding: A Comedy Revolution
2024
5.7
Self (archive footage)
Rock Hudson: All That Heaven Allowed
2023
6.4
Self (archive footage)
Mad About the Boy: The Noël Coward Story
2023
7.1
Self (archive footage)
Lucy and Desi
2022
6.8
Self (archive footage)
My Darling Vivian
2020
8.0
Self (archive footage)
This Is Bob Hope...
2017
10.0
Lucy
I Love Lucy Christmas Special
2016
7.2
Self (archive footage) (voice) (uncredited)
Trumbo
2015
10.0
Lucy Ricardo / I Love Lucy (archive footage)
Mary Tyler Moore: A Celebration
2015
0.0
Lucy Ricardo (archive footage)
Classic TV Bloopers Uncensored
2011
Credits
Outstanding: A Comedy Revolution
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2024
6.2
Rock Hudson: All That Heaven Allowed
as Self (archive footage)
2023
5.7
Mad About the Boy: The Noël Coward Story
as Self (archive footage)
2023
6.4
Lucy and Desi
as Self (archive footage)
2022
7.1
My Darling Vivian
as Self (archive footage)
2020
6.8
This Is Bob Hope...
as Self (archive footage)
2017
8.0
I Love Lucy Christmas Special
as Lucy
2016
10.0
Trumbo
as Self (archive footage) (voice) (uncredited)
2015
7.2
Mary Tyler Moore: A Celebration
as Lucy Ricardo / I Love Lucy (archive footage)
2015
10.0
Classic TV Bloopers Uncensored
as Lucy Ricardo (archive footage)
2011
0.0
Pioneers of Primetime
2005
0.0
Judy Garland: By Myself
as Self (archive footage)
2004
7.5
TV in Black: The First Fifty Years
as (archive footage)
2004
4.0
Biography: Bob Hope: America's Entertainer
as Self (archive footage)
2003
0.0
The Best of Bob Hope: 50 Years of Laughter — Volume 1
as Self (archive footage)
2001
0.0
The Best of Bob Hope: 50 Years of Laughter — Volume 2
as Self (archive footage)
2001
0.0
🎬
Lucille Ball: Finding Lucy
as Self (archive footage)
2000
0.0
🎬
Television: The First Fifty Years
as Self / Lucy Ricardo (archive footage)
1999
0.0
The Best of the Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts
as Self - Roastee (archive footage)
1998
5.0
The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender
as Self (archive footage)
1997
4.9
The Funny World of Lucy, Volume 1
1997
10.0
E! True Hollywood Story
1996
8.1
That's Entertainment! III
as (archive footage)
1994
7.0
Intimate Portrait
as Self (archive footage)
1993
4.5
The Best Of Danny Kaye - The Television Years
as Self (archive footage)
1993
0.0
Lucy and Desi: A Home Movie
as Self
1993
8.2
🎬
Bob Hope's Love Affair with Lucy
as (archive footage)
1989
0.0
Happy Birthday, Bob: 50 Stars Salute Your 50 Years with NBC
as Self
1988
6.0
A Beverly Hills Christmas
as Self
1987
3.5
The RKO Story: Tales From Hollywood
as Self
1987
8.0
Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood
as Self
1987
5.7
🎬
All Star Party for Clint Eastwood
as Self
1986
6.0
Life with Lucy
as Lucy Barker
1986
8.3
Stone Pillow
as Florabelle
1985
6.7
Night of 100 Stars II
as Self
1985
8.0
That's Dancing!
as Self (archive footage)
1985
7.0
Hollywood's Funniest All-Star Bloopers
as Self (archive footage)
1985
0.0
🎬
All Star Party for Lucille Ball
as Self
1984
6.0
Body Language
as Self
1984
0.0
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1983
6.5
Showbiz Goes to War
as (archive footage)
1982
10.0
🎬
Women I Love: Beautiful But Funny
as Self
1982
0.0
Entertainment Tonight
as Self
1981
4.1
A Love Letter to Jack Benny
as Herself
1981
0.0
Lucy Moves to NBC
as Self
1980
1.0
Cher... and Other Fantasies
as Cleaning Lady
1979
10.0
The Kennedy Center Honors
as Self
1978
7.4
Lucy Calls the President
as Lucy Whittaker
1977
5.0
CBS Salutes Lucy: The First 25 Years
as Self
1976
7.3
NBC: The First Fifty Years
1976
0.0
What Now, Catherine Curtis?
as Catherine Curtis
1976
8.0
The Practice
1976
7.5
Donny & Marie
as Self
1976
6.7
Shirley MacLaine: Gypsy in My Soul
as Self
1976
0.0
Three for Two
as Sally / Rita / Pauline
1975
2.3
🎬
Texaco Presents: A Quarter Century of Bob Hope on Television
as (archive footage)
1975
0.0
Lucy Gets Lucky
as Lucy Collins
1975
1.0
Happy Anniversary and Goodbye
as Norma Michaels
1974
4.8
Dinah!
as Self
1974
6.7
Mame
as Mame Dennis
1974
6.0
The Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts
as Self
1973
5.4
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
as Self
1973
6.3
🎬
The Pearl Bailey Show
as Self
1971
0.0
🎬
Jack Benny's 20th Anniversary TV Special
as Janet (uncredited)
1970
0.0
The Flip Wilson Show
as Self
1970
4.6
Swing Out, Sweet Land
as Statue of Liberty (voice)
1970
6.0
🎬
Ann-Margret: From Hollywood with Love
as Self
1969
0.0
🎬
The Jack Benny Birthday Special
as Self
1969
0.0
The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour
as Self
1969
5.8
The Dean Martin Christmas Show
as Self - Guest (uncredited)
1968
7.6
Here's Lucy
as Lucy Carter
1968
6.7
The Dick Cavett Show
as Self - Guest
1968
6.8
Yours, Mine and Ours
as Helen North Beardsley
1968
6.9
Carnival Nights
as Self
1968
0.0
The Carol Burnett Show
as Self - Guest
1967
7.7
A Guide for the Married Man
as Technical Adviser (Mrs. Joe X)
1967
5.8
Lucy in London
as Lucy Carmichael
1966
6.0
Carol + 2
as Self
1966
0.0
🎬
Salute to Stan Laurel
as Self
1965
0.0
The Big Parade of Comedy
as Julie Hampton in 'Meet the People' (archive footage)
1964
6.3
The Lucille Ball Comedy Hour
as Bonnie Blakely
1964
7.5
🎬
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
as Self
1963
5.7
The Danny Kaye Show
as Self
1963
6.3
🎬
General Foods Opening Night
1963
0.0
🎬
The Greatest Show on Earth
as Kate Reynolds
1963
5.0
Critic's Choice
as Angela Ballantine
1963
5.6
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
as Self
1962
7.5
The Merv Griffin Show
as Self
1962
6.2
The Lucy Show
as Lucy Carmichael
1962
7.0
The Mike Douglas Show
as Self
1961
5.4
The Mike Douglas Show
as Self - Co-Hostess
1961
5.4
Password
1961
7.2
🎬
Treffpunkt New York
as Self
1961
0.0
The Facts of Life
as Kitty Weaver
1960
5.1
Hedda Hopper's Hollywood
as Self
1960
6.0
Startime
1959
6.0
🎬
NBC Sunday Showcase
as Lucy Ricardo
1959
4.3
Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
1958
5.8
The Ann Sothern Show
as Lucy Ricardo
1958
6.5
The Lucy–Desi Comedy Hour
as Lucy Ricardo
1957
8.6
🎬
Tonight Starring Jack Paar
as Self
1957
7.0
The Bob Hope Chevy Show
as Lucy Ricardo
1956
0.0
Forever, Darling
as Susan Vega
1956
7.0
Lucy's Really Lost Moments
as Lucy Ricardo
1956
6.5
A Star Is Born World Premiere
as Self
1954
8.0
The Long, Long Trailer
as Tacy Collini
1954
6.9
I Love Lucy: The Movie
as Lucy Ricardo
1953
7.4
This Is Your Life
as Self
1952
6.4
Ellis in Freedomland
as The Laundromat (voice)
1952
0.0
The Magic Carpet
as Princess Narah
1951
4.7
I Love Lucy
as Lucy Ricardo
1951
7.9
The Jack Benny Program
as Rachel Revere
1950
7.8
The Fuller Brush Girl
as Sally Elliot
1950
6.0
Fancy Pants
as Agatha Floud
1950
5.6
The Bob Hope Show
as Self
1950
7.0
A Woman of Distinction
as Self (uncredited)
1950
6.2
What's My Line?
as Self
1950
6.9
Miss Grant Takes Richmond
as Ellen Grant
1949
5.0
Easy Living
as Anne, Lenahan's Secretary
1949
5.6
🎬
The Ed Wynn Show
as Self
1949
7.0
Sorrowful Jones
as Gladys O'Neill
1949
6.1
The Emmy Awards
as Self
1949
7.9
The Ed Sullivan Show
as Self
1948
6.8
Her Husband's Affairs
as Margaret Weldon
1947
4.7
Lured
as Sandra Carpenter
1947
6.3
Easy to Wed
as Gladys Benton
1946
6.2
Lover Come Back
as Kay Williams
1946
6.2
Two Smart People
as Ricki Woodner
1946
6.4
The Dark Corner
as Kathleen Stewart
1946
6.5
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Hollywood
as Self (uncredited)
1945
5.6
Ziegfeld Follies
as Lucille Ball (segment "Here's to the Ladies")
1945
6.0
Without Love
as Kitty Trimble
1945
6.8
🎬
G.I. Journal
as Self
1944
0.0
Meet the People
as Julie Hampton
1944
5.4
Best Foot Forward
as Lucille Ball
1943
6.0
Thousands Cheer
as Lucille Ball
1943
6.4
Du Barry Was a Lady
as May Daly / Madame Du Barry
1943
6.2
Seven Days' Leave
as Terry Havalok-Allen
1942
6.0
The Big Street
as Gloria Lyons
1942
5.6
Valley of the Sun
as Christine Larson
1942
5.8
Look Who's Laughing
as Julie Patterson
1941
5.5
A Girl, a Guy, and a Gob
as Dot Duncan
1941
4.7
Too Many Girls
as Connie Casey
1940
5.6
Dance, Girl, Dance
as Bubbles
1940
6.4
You Can't Fool Your Wife
as Clara Fields Hinklin
1940
4.5
The Marines Fly High
as Joan Grant
1940
4.8
That's Right – You're Wrong
as Sandra Sand
1939
5.7
Five Came Back
as Peggy Nolan
1939
6.2
Panama Lady
as Lucy
1939
5.6
Beauty for the Asking
as Jean Russell
1939
5.2
Twelve Crowded Hours
as Paula Sanders
1939
5.2
Next Time I Marry
as Nancy Crocker Fleming
1938
7.0
Annabel Takes a Tour
as Annabel Allison
1938
5.0
Room Service
as Christine Marlowe
1938
6.5
The Affairs of Annabel
as Annabel Allison
1938
4.0
Having Wonderful Time
as Miriam
1938
4.6
Joy of Living
as Salina Garret Pine
1938
5.7
Go Chase Yourself
as Carol Meeley
1938
5.0
Stage Door
as Judith
1937
7.0
Don't Tell the Wife
as Annie Howell
1937
5.0
That Girl from Paris
as Claire Williams
1936
6.6
Winterset
as Girl (uncredited)
1936
5.7
One Live Ghost
as Maxine
1936
5.0
🎬
So and Sew
as Sally Curtis
1936
0.0
Dummy Ache
as Actress
1936
5.1
🎬
Swing It
as Mary (uncredited)
1936
4.2
Bunker Bean
as Rosie Kelly
1936
4.6
The Farmer in the Dell
as Gloria Wilson
1936
0.0
Follow the Fleet
as Kitty Collins
1936
6.8
Muss 'em Up
as Departing Train Passenger (uncredited)
1936
5.5
Chatterbox
as Lillian Temple
1936
6.0
🎬
Foolish Hearts
as Hat Check Girl
1935
0.0
I Dream Too Much
as Gwendolyn Dilley
1935
5.1
The Three Musketeers
as (uncredited)
1935
6.5
Top Hat
as Flower Shop Clerk (uncredited)
1935
7.2
Old Man Rhythm
as College Girl
1935
6.3
A Night at the Biltmore Bowl
as Lucille Ball
1935
6.0
Hooray for Love
as Chorine (uncredited)
1935
4.7
I'll Love You Always
as Lucille (uncredited)
1935
3.0
Roberta
as Fashion Model (uncredited)
1935
7.0
The Whole Town's Talking
as Bank Employee (uncredited)
1935
6.8
Carnival
as Nurse
1935
0.0
🎬
His Old Flame
1935
0.0
🎬
Behind the Evidence
as Secretary (uncredited)
1935
2.0
Fugitive Lady
as Beauty Operator (uncredited)
1934
6.0
Three Little Pigskins
as Daisy Simms
1934
6.9
Broadway Bill
as Blonde Telephone Operator (uncredited)
1934
6.0
Jealousy
as (uncredited)
1934
4.7
Men of the Night
as Peggy (uncredited)
1934
2.0
Perfectly Mismated
1934
0.0
Kid Millions
as Goldwyn Girl (uncredited)
1934
6.5
The Affairs of Cellini
as Lady-in-Waiting (uncredited)
1934
4.9
Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back
as Bridesmaid
1934
5.3
Murder at the Vanities
as Earl Carroll Girl (uncredited)
1934
5.5
Bottoms Up
as Chorine (uncredited)
1934
4.8
Hold That Girl
as Girl (uncredited)
1934
0.0
Nana
as Chorus Girl (uncredited)
1934
5.2
Moulin Rouge
as Show Girl (uncredited)
1934
7.0
Roman Scandals
as Goldwyn Girl (uncredited)
1933
5.8
Blood Money
as Davy's Girlfriend (uncredited)
1933
7.0
Broadway Thru a Keyhole
as Chorine / Girl at the Beach
1933
5.7
The Bowery
as Blonde (uncredited)
1933
5.0