Some were among the earliest settlers in the Thirteen Colonies, including Elder John Crandall of Westerly, Rhode Island, and Edmund Rice, an early emigrant from England to the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Her ancestors were mostly English, but a few were Scottish, French, and Irish.
Her family belonged to the Baptist church. Lucille Désirée Ball was born on August 6, 1911, at 60 Stewart Avenue in Jamestown, New York, the daughter of Henry Durrell "Had" Ball (1887–1915), a lineman for Bell Telephone, and Désirée Evelyn "DeDe" Ball (née Hunt 1892–1977). She appeared in film and television roles for the rest of her career until her death in April 1989 from an abdominal aortic aneurysm and arterioscleroitic heart disease at the age of 77. The next year she starred in Life with Lucy, which, unlike her other sitcoms, was not well-received it was cancelled after three months. this program ran until 1974.īall did not retire from acting completely, and in 1985 she took on a dramatic role in the television film Stone Pillow. Ball immediately began appearing in a new series, Here's Lucy, with Gordon, frequent show guest Mary Jane Croft, and Lucie and Desi Jr.
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The show continued, with Ball's longtime friend and series regular Gale Gordon, until 1968. After Wildcat, she reunited with I Love Lucy co-star Vivian Vance for The Lucy Show, which Vance left in 1965. In 1962, she became the first woman to run a major television studio, Desilu Productions, which produced many popular television series, including Mission: Impossible and Star Trek. īall produced and starred in the Broadway musical Wildcat from 1960 to 1961. They divorced in March 1960, and she married comedian Gary Morton in 1961. She gave birth to their first child, Lucie, in 1951, followed by Desi Arnaz Jr.
In the 1950s, Ball ventured into television, where she and Arnaz created the sitcom I Love Lucy. During this time, she met Cuban bandleader Desi Arnaz, and they eloped in November 1940. She later appeared in films in the 1930s and 1940s as a contract player for RKO Radio Pictures, being cast as a chorus girl or in similar roles, with lead roles in B-pictures and supporting roles in A-pictures. Shortly thereafter, she began her performing career on Broadway using the stage name Diane (or Dianne) Belmont. īall's career began in 1929 when she landed work as a model. She earned many honors, including the Women in Film Crystal Award, an induction into the Television Hall of Fame, the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Kennedy Center Honors, and the Governors Award from the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. DeMille Award and two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. She was nominated for 13 Primetime Emmy Awards, winning five times, and was the recipient of several other accolades, such as the Golden Globe Cecil B. Lucille Désirée Ball (Aug– April 26, 1989) was an American actress, comedienne, and producer.
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