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When Lucille Ball entered the world, these stories made the front page of the nation's newspapers: Rumors spread throughout Europe that France and Germany are about to declare war over their dispute in Morocco. In Lisbon, Portugal elects Arriaga as the first constitutional president of the republic. Harriet Quimby becomes the first woman to earn a pilot's license in the United States. Quimby is a student at the Moisant Aviation School and the second woman in the world to hold a pilot's license.
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Lucille Ball, born 6 August 1911, in Jamestown, New York, is known and loved worldwide as "Lucy". Lucille Ball did it all in the entertainment industry -- from feature films to radio to television and even some modeling and vaudeville. Her situation comedy "I Love Lucy" remained at number one in the television ratings for four out of the six years it aired.
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Lucille Désirée Ball was born 6 August 1911, in the small town of Celoron, New York, a suburb of Jamestown. Her father, Henry Durrell Ball, was a telephone lineman for the Bell Company, while her mother, Désirée (DeDe) Hunt, was often described as a lively and energetic young woman. Henry Ball's job required frequent transfers, and within three years after her birth, Lucille had moved from Jamestown to Anaconda, Montana, and then to Wyandotte, Michigan. While DeDe Ball was pregnant with her second child, Frederick, Henry Ball contracted typhoid fever and died in February 1915.
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Twelve years after Lucille Ball's show Here's Lucy left the air, she was coaxed back to television for a new sitcom on ABC. ABC had to promise Lucy a truckload of money, complete creative control,... more
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Lucille Ball will star in a new series on ABC in the fall, Brandon Stoddard, the president of ABC Entertainment, has announced. The 74-year-old Miss Ball has not been seen regularly on television since 1974, when her last comedy series on CBS ended.
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As a teenager, Ball left her Jamestown, New York home to pursue a career in show business, adopting the stage name Diane Belmont. After being fired from several chorus jobs, she retreated to her hometown. Returning to NYC in the early 1930s, Ball was hired as a Hattie Carnegie model but that career was cut short by a bout with what was diagnosed as rheumatoid arthritis. Following two years of intense pain and experimental treatments, she had recovered sufficiently and embarked on a Hollywood career, which at first consisted mostly of walk-ons and bit roles before she was turned into a glamorous Goldwyn showgirl in Eddie Cantor musicals like "Roman Scandals" (1933). Put under contract by Columbia, the statuesque then-blonde actress continued to appear in small roles before her option was dropped. RKO hired Ball at the urging of producer Pandro S. Berman, who featured her in supporting roles in the Astaire-Rogers films, "Roberta", "Top Hat" (both 1935) and "Follow the Fleet" (1936).
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