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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 ...
After the sale of Desilu to Gulf+Western in 1967, Morton helped Ball form Lucille Ball Productions to allow her to have more of a free hand in television production. Morton served as executive producer of Ball's third series Here's Lucy (1968–1974) and was a co-executive producer of her ill-fated 1986 series Life with Lucy .
When Desi Arnaz and Lucille Ball were casting their new television sitcom I Love Lucy in 1951, director Marc Daniels, who had previously worked with Vance in a theater production, suggested her for the role of landlady Ethel Mertz. [8] Lucille Ball had wanted either Bea Benaderet or Barbara Pepper, both close friends, to play the role.
Gale Gordon (born Charles Thomas Aldrich Jr., February 20, 1906 – June 30, 1995) was an American character actor who was Lucille Ball's longtime television foil, particularly as cantankerously combustible, tightfisted bank executive Theodore J. Mooney, on Ball's second television sitcom The Lucy Show.
A Lucille Ball Special Starring Lucille Ball and Jackie Gleason (1975) What Now, Catherine Curtis? (1976) The Practice (1976) CBS Salutes Lucy: The First 25 Years (1976) Lucy Calls the President (1977) Lucy Comes to Nashville (1978) Lucy Moves to NBC (1980) Three's Company (1982) Stone Pillow (1985) [87] Life with Lucy (1986) Tina (2021 ...
Desilu Productions, Inc. (/ ˈ d ɛ s i l uː /) was an American television production company founded and co-owned by husband and wife Desi Arnaz and Lucille Ball.The company is best known for shows such as I Love Lucy, The Lucy Show, Mannix, The Untouchables, Mission: Impossible and Star Trek.
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 ...
Lucille Ball was reportedly a fan of Bankhead and did a good impression of her. By the time the episode was filmed, however, both Ball and Desi Arnaz were deeply frustrated by Bankhead's off-camera behavior during rehearsals. It took her three hours to "wake up" once she arrived on the set and she often seemed drunk.