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Lucille Ball. Lucille Désirée Ball was born on Sunday, August 6, 1911, at 69 Stewart Avenue in Jamestown, New York, [12] the first child and only daughter of Henry Durrell "Had" Ball, a lineman for Bell Telephone, and Désirée Evelyn "DeDe" (née Hunt) Ball. [13] Her family belonged to the Baptist church. Her ancestors were mostly English ...
Lucille Ball was diagnosed with dissecting aortic aneurysm and underwent surgery to repair her aorta and a successful seven-hour aortic valve replacement, but died days later. [51] A greater incidence of aortic aneurysm is seen in cigarette smokers; Ball had been a heavy smoker most of her life. [52]
The same day Ball gave birth to Desi Jr., the fictional Lucy Ricardo gave birth to "Little Ricky". As a testament to how interested the American public was in Lucy's TV baby, Arnaz appeared on the cover of the first issue of TV Guide with the headline "Lucy's $50,000,000 baby", ($570,000,000 in 2023 dollars) [ 2 ] because revenue from ...
Desiree S. Anzalone, Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz Sr.'s only great-granddaughter, has died. Desiree, who was the daughter of Julia Arnaz and Mario Anzalone, died on Sept. 27 at Smilow Cancer ...
Autobiography: “Love, Lucy,” published posthumously in 1996, from a memoir Ball wrote in the mid-1960s. Behind the scenes impact: With her husband and “I Love Lucy” co-star Desi Arnaz ...
The couple had long been divorced, but what he said was still significant.
The Lucille Ball-Desi Arnaz Center museum is in Jamestown, New York, and the Desi Arnaz Bandshell in the Lucille Ball Memorial Park is in Celoron, New York. Desi Arnaz appears as a character in Oscar Hijuelos's 1989 novel The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love and is portrayed by his son, Desi Arnaz Jr., in the 1992 film adaptation, The Mambo Kings ...
In the 1930s, Lucille Ball and Judy Garland began appearing on the big screen in various films, the latter in larger-known films, and the former in B-pictures. By the 1950s, they were both ...