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Lucille Ball: Goldwyn Girls
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Left fatherless at the age of four, American actress "Lucille Ball" developed a strong work ethic in childhood; among her more unusual jobs was as a "seeing eye kid" for a blind soap peddler. Ball's mother sent the girl to the Chautauqua Institution for piano lessons, but she was determined to pursue an acting career after watching the positive audience reaction given to vaudeville monologist "Julius Tannen". Young Ball performed in amateur plays for the Elks club and at her high school, at one point starring, staging, and publicizing a production of Charley's Aunt. In 1926, Ball enrolled in the John Murray Anderson American Academy of Dramatic Art in Manhattan (where "Bette Davis" was the star pupil), but was discouraged by her teachers to continue due to her shyness.
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Synopsis: Lucille Ball is an American taxi-dancer living in London whose roommate has disappeared. The missing girl had left to answer a job offer in the "personal" column of the Times...just like several other women who've vanished without a trace. Scotland Yard detective George Zucco suggests that BallRead More
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Remembered as a dizzy sitcom redhead with show business aspirations, Lucille Ball was, in fact, a show business powerhouse and television pioneer. Throughout her teen years, Ball tried unsuccessfully to launch her show business career, finally landing a spot as a Ziegfeld Girl. She launched her Hollywood career as one of the Goldwyn Girls, but she moved out from the crowd of starlets to starring roles.
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A high-spirited musical romp with Lucille Ball as a publicity-hungry movie star who decides on a whim to accept a young man's invitation to his military academy's prom. The guy is thrilled until his girlfriend ... shows up and he finds himself juggling two dates. Tommy Dix, June Allyson, Nancy Walker also star.
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