Biography
Lucille Désirée Ball, 6 August 1911, Celeron, near Jamestown, New York, USA, d. 26 April 1989, Los Angeles, California, USA. An actress and singer, with a trademark mop of red hair, Ball was one of the all-time great American comediennes. Her influence on US television, both as a performer and an executive, was immense. Her father was an electrician and her mother a concert pianist. Ball left high school at the age of 15 in order to join the John Murray Anderson -Robert Milton Dramatic School in New York, and subsequently worked in the chorus of several stage productions; she also featured on giant billboards as the Chesterfield Cigarette Girl, before becoming bed-ridden with rheumatoid arthritis for two years. In 1933, Ball secured the role of a Goldwyn Girl in the Eddie Cantor movie Roman Scandals, and she continued with Goldwyn until 1935, when she signed a seven-year contract with RKO. In addition to comedy and more serious assignments, Ball...
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