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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 ...
Actress Lucille Ball died April 26, 1989, from an abdominal aortic aneurysm. At the time of her death, she was in Cedars-Sinai Medical Center recovering from emergency surgery performed just six days earlier because of a dissecting aortic aneurysm near her heart. Ball was at increased risk as she had been a heavy smoker for decades. [96]
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. Aside from ...
Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz first met in 1940 and married later that year. ... Arnaz died of lung cancer on Dec. 2, 1986. Ball died of cardiac arrest a little over two years later on April 26, 1989.
Lucille died in 1989, and Desi Sr. died in 1986. In the years since their deaths, Lucie has worked to keep her parents legacy alive. In 2022, the actress and singer was on hand at the premiere of ...
Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz's two children, Lucie and Desi Jr., ... Arnaz passed away in 1986 at the age of 69, while Ball died in 1989 at the age of 77. Next: ...
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 ...
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 ...