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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. 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 ...
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.
Ball married comedian Gary Morton in 1961, while Arnaz married Edith Mack Hirsch in 1963. Despite their new marriages, Ball and Arnaz remained connected through their children, Lucie and Desi Jr ...
Best known for: CBS comedy series “I Love Lucy” (1951-1957), “The Lucy Show” (1962-68), “Here’s Lucy” (1968-74). Autobiography: “Love, Lucy,” published posthumously in 1996, from ...
Lucie, who was 9 when her parents, Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz, got divorced, ... (Lucille to comedian, Gary Morton, and Desi to his neighbor, Edie Hirsch), "I Love Lucy" director William Asher ...
Morton decided not to reveal the news to Ball until after the taping had ended. [2]: 343 Since only 13 episodes were produced, it was not possible for the series to go into heavy rerun rotation like I Love Lucy. Nevertheless, it aired on Nick at Nite as part of a Lucille Ball-themed marathon in 1996.
Gary Morton of Lucille Ball Productions was executive producer. The production was filmed over seven weeks in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, in the early spring of 1983. [ 5 ] [ 8 ] The recently closed sixty-year-old high school ( 40°19′18″N 78°55′18″W / 40.3217°N 78.9217°W / 40.3217; -78.9217 ), the former campus of Greater ...