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Lucille Desiree Ball was born on August 6, 1911, in a small town near Jamestown, New York. At 15, she enrolled in a drama school in New York City. However, after twelve months (attending with classmate Bette Davis) the acting coach told Lucy that she wasn't talented and should go into something else. Dejected, she became a soda fountain clerk at a drug store, and ... sold hotdogs at an amusement park. Lucy repeatedly auditioned unsuccessfully for Broadway chorus lines before turning to modeling. Using the name Diane Belmont, she became a model in fashion designer Hattie Carnegie’s studio and soon won national exposure as the Chesterfield Cigarette Girl in 1933.
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Lucille Desiree Ball, the undisputed first lady of television comedy, was born on August 6, 1911 in Jamestown, New York. She began studying drama at the age of 15. As a young adult, she supported herself in Manhattan as a model and a poster girl while trying to get work on Broadway chorus lines. Her modeling job as the Chesterfield Cigarette Girl in 1933 led to her first Hollywood role as one of the Goldwyn Girls in the Eddie Cantor film "Roman Scandals." Numerous bit parts followed throughout the 1930s but by the following decade Ball was considered to be a preeminent comic actress in feature films, with such credits as "Stage Door," "Room Service," "The Big Street," "DuBarry Was a Lady," and "Sorrowful Jones."
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Lucille Ball died on April 26, 1989, of a ruptured aorta at the age of 77 and was cremated. Her remains were initially interred in the Forest Lawn - Hollywood Hills Cemetery in Los Angeles, California, but were later moved by her children, Desi Arnaz, Jr. and Lucie Arnaz to the Lake View Cemetery, in Jamestown, New York.
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It was on the set of an innocuous film, Dance, Girl, Dance, that Lucille Ball first met her future husband, Cuban bandleader Desi Arnaz. Married in 1940, they were separated by Desi's travels for much of the first decade of their marriage. The union, plagued by Arnaz's alcoholism, workaholism, and philandering, dissolved in 1960.
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One week after undergoing open heart surgery, on April 26, 1989, Lucille Ball suffered a ruptured aorta and died. She was 77 years old. Ball is survived by two children. Desi Arnaz died of cancer in 1986. Today, "I Love Lucy" is syndicated in more than 80 countries and remains one of the most popular TV shows of all time.
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Lucille Ball, the unhappy wife of workaholic chemist Desi Arnaz, receives marital help from guardian angel James Mason in this offbeat fantasy comedy. The couple's trip to the woods for an insecticide test provides some wacky moments. Louis Calhern, John Hoyt co-star. 91 min. Widescreen (Enhanced); Soundtrack: English Dolby Digital mono; Subtitles: English, Spanish, French; featurette; theatrical trailer.
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