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Apr 27, 1989 · Lucille Desiree Ball was born on Aug. 6, 1911 in Celoron, outside Jamestown, N.Y. She was the daughter of the former Desiree Hunt, a pianist, and Henry Dunnell Ball, a telephone lineman, who died ...
Lucille Desiree Ball was born on August 6, 1911 in Jamestown, NY. Her father, Henry, died when she was three years old, so she was raised by her mother, Desiree, a concert pianist, and her maternal grandparents. Her grandparents instilled in her both a commitment to hard work and a love for the theater. She began performing in school plays as a ...
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Sep 21, 2006 · Lucille Ball’s early career. Dropping out of high school at the age of fifteen, Ball moved to New York to study acting and found her first stage work as a chorus girl in 1927. She had her first ...
Dec 21, 2021 · Lucille Ball has been a figure of importance to me since I was 13, when I began watching reruns of the classic 1950s “I Love Lucy” shows, then nearly two decades old, and discovered her ...
Lucille Ball was born on August 6, 1911 in Jamestown, New York. Her father died early on, leaving Ball’s mother a widow. Eventually, her mother remarried. By the age of 12, Ball knew that she loved being on stage. She enrolled in many acting classes and in 1925, her mother sent her to John Murray Anderson School for Dramatic Arts.
Sep 21, 2006 · September 21, 2006. Lucille Ball is born on August 6th in Celeron, New York. 1911. Family moves to Butte, Montana, where her father contracts and dies of typhoid fever. The family returns to ...
The Ultimate I Love Lucy Experience. Explore the lives, careers, and legacies of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz while immersing yourself in the ultimate fan experience with original costumes, props, awards, and exact re-creations of the I Love Lucy sets. See some of what’s inside the Lucy Desi Museum in Jamestown, NY!
