Lucille Ball's biography

Lucille Ball is 78 years old television actor born at Jamestown. She was born on Sunday 6th of August 1911. She is often nicknamed as Technicolor TessieQueen of the B moviesThe First Lady of TelevisionLucyThe Queen of ComedyDiane Belmont. According to year of birth 1911 she belongs to Greatest Generation. Birthday on 6th of August means she is Leo. As sign in itself indicates “Lion” or “King”, hence people born under Leo sign are considered to be leaders in every aspects of life. They are royal in nature.She was married 2 times.

She is native american english speaker. She is citizen of United States of America. She is an adherent of catholicism. Her primary profession is to be television actor. You can know her also as singer, model, film actor, comedian, television producer. She is recently known as film studio executive.

Lucille Ball's dad

Lucille Ball's father's name is Henry Ball.

Lucille Ball's mom

Lucille Ball's mother's name is Desiree Hunt.

Lucille Ball's family

Lucille Ball's ex spouses

Desi Arnaz

Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz have been together since 1940 for 20 years. He is known as television actor. Her ex spouse was born on Friday 2nd of March 1917 in Santiago de Cuba. Her ex spouse died on Tuesday 2nd of December 1986 in Del Mar. Desi Arnaz was 75 years old, when this happened.

Gary Morton

Lucille Ball and Gary Morton have been together since 1961 for 28 years. He is known as actor. Her ex spouse was born on Friday 19th of December 1924 in New York City. Her ex spouse died on Tuesday 30th of March 1999 in Palm Springs. Gary Morton was 88 years old, when this happened.

She has 1 son and 1 daughter

Lucille Ball's son: Desi Arnaz Jr.

Lucille Ball's son's name is Desi Arnaz Jr.. He is known as actor. Her son was born on Monday 19th of January 1953 in Los Angeles.

Lucille Ball's daughter: Lucie Arnaz

Lucille Ball's daughter's name is Lucie Arnaz. She is known as singer. Her daughter was born on Tuesday 17th of July 1951 in Hollywood.

Lucille Ball's career

Her main focus is to be television actor. You could see her also in The Lucy Show.

How did Lucille Ball die

She died on on Wednesday 26th of April 1989 when he was 78 years old. Lucille Balls death was caused by acute aortic aneurysm. It happend like natural causes.

Awards and competitions

Lucille Ball's Awards

Received the Women's International Center (WIC) Living Legacy Award posthumously in 1990.
Was awarded two Stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Motion Pictures at 6436 Hollywood Blvd. and for Television at 6100 Hollywood Blvd.
Her last television appearance (and one of her last public appearances) was in 1989 on the 62nd Academy Awards, with Bob Hope, announcing the nominations and winner of Best Picture. She died not long after.

Lucille Ball's Nominations

She was nominated for Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy for work The Facts of Life in 1961
She was nominated for Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Musical or Comedy for work The Lucy Show in 1968
She was nominated for Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy for work Yours, Mine and Ours in 1969
She was nominated for Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Musical or Comedy for work Here's Lucy in 1970
She was nominated for Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Musical or Comedy for work Here's Lucy in 1972
She was nominated for Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy for work Mame in 1975
She was nominated for Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series for work I Love Lucy in 1954
She was nominated for Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series for work I Love Lucy in 1955

What Lucille Ball has done for a first time

Was the first woman to own her own film studio when she became the head of Desilu Productions.
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.
Ball and her son, Desi Arnaz Jr., appeared together on the very first cover of "TV Guide" magazine in 1953.
Was Frank Sinatra's first choice for the role of Laurence Harvey's mother in The Manchurian Candidate (1962). He was only dissuaded when John Frankenheimer took him to see Angela Lansbury in a play.
A first cousin of Cleo Morgan (although they were raised as sisters), Ball was also a second cousin of Suzan Ball.
Not long after the Arnazes bought their house on 1000 North Roxbury Drive in Beverly Hills, CA, it was first featured in I Love Lucy: The Tour (1955). Richard Widmark guest-starred and she climbs over the fence to pick a grapefruit from his backyard.
When they were first married in 1940, Desi Arnaz had to give her a ring from a drugstore because all jewelry stores were closed. She wore it for the rest of their marriage.
She launched the film producing career of David Winters, one of the stars of West Side Story (1961), whose first producer job was to co-produce and choreograph her television special Lucy in London (1966).
Gave birth to her first child, Lucie Desiree Arnaz (Lucie Arnaz) at age 39 on July 17, 1951, via Caesarean section.

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.
Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead.
I'd rather regret the things that I have done than the things that I have not.
A man who correctly guesses a woman's age may be smart, but he's not very bright.
In life, all good things come hard, but wisdom is the hardest to come by.
[About her meeting Desi Arnaz for the first time]: It wasn't love at first sight. It took a full five minutes.
Desi (Desi Arnaz) was the great love of my life. I will miss him until the day I die.
[About Edith Head]: Edie knew the truth about all of us. She knew who had flat fannies and who didn't -- but she never told.
[on Liza Minnelli] She's a great trouper, Liza, I wish I had her talent. If anybody's going to take over from me, it's her. She's got a mind like a trip hammer and huge vitality. She's great.
[on Bob Hope] You spell Bob Hope C-L-A-S-S.
[on Julie Andrews] I mean, you in Britain have some of the best comediennes. Julie Andrews is a comedienne -- oh yes she is!
[on Buster Keaton] He taught me most of what I know about timing, how to fall and how to handle props and animals.
[Defending her "singing" performance in the film Mame (1974)] Mame stayed up all night and drank champagne! What did you expect her to sound like? Julie Andrews?
I have an everyday religion that works for me. Love yourself first, and everything else falls into line.
[About her friend Maureen O'Hara] Maureen O'Hara is one of the people I love the most out all the people I know.
Give yourself first and everything else will fall into line.
Life takes guts.
I dyed my hair this crazy red to bid for attention. It has become a trademark and I've got to keep it this way.
[About her drama school experience in 1926] I was a tongue-tied teenager spellbound by the schools star pupil - Bette Davis.
I'm grateful for what motion pictures did for me even though, except for on or two pictures, I've never done any I liked.
[on Arnold Schwarzenegger] I take full credit for this man. He's going to become a big star.
[on Hollywood] When they say no, you hear yes. Someone says we can't do this movie, hug them and say thank you for believing in me.
In many ways, marrying Desi was one of the boldest things I ever did. I had always gone with older men. I had also achieved some kind of stability in Hollywood, and Desi with his beautiful girls and good times seemed headed in another direction.
Yet I sensed in Desi a great need. Beneath the dazzling charm was a homeless boy who had no one to care for him, worry about him, love him. And I wanted him and only him as the father of my children.
I hate failure. And that divorce was the number one failure in my eyes. It was the worst period of my life. Neither Desi nor I have been the same since physically or mentally.
If you don't believe he's a great producer, I got two little Arnaz's at home to prove it.
I knew there was nobody in the world for me but Desi. We may have our ups and downs just as many people have. I would rather quarrel and make up with him more than anyone else in the world.
[on Desi Arnaz] Life with Desi is crazy and exciting, but our love is deep and changeless.
I'm not sure that I want to be without some lack of confidence. If you are too sure of yourself, you don't grow. You may feel confident in some things, but other fields come up as a challenge. And if you don't anticipate trouble, you will be in trouble.
[on Desi Arnaz] He did make me happy, and I really want people to know that.
The best time of my marriage was when I was pregnant. That was the kind of marriage that I've always hoped for.
We had it all, Desi and I we had it all.
There would be no Lucy without Desi.
People always expect me to be funny. I was never funny; the writers were funny. Do you know who was really funny? Judy Garland. Judy Garland was naturally funny...the funniest lady in Hollywood. She made me look like a mortician.
I have no desire to play Shakespeare or Chekhov or anything that serious.

Lucille Ball's body shape

Lets describe how Lucille Ball looks. We will focus on her body shape. Body build is average.

Lucille Ball