αPARA ╪PAR@ ` 0TEXT ` "Ball, Lucille1911╨1989actorBorn on August 6, 1911, in Celoron, a suburb of Jamestown, New York, Lucille DÄsirÄe Ball determined at an early age to become an actress and left high school at fifteen to enroll in a drama school in New York City. Her early attempts to find a place in the theater all met with rebuffs, and she took a job as a model under the name Diane Belmont. She was moderately successful as a model, and a poster on which she appeared won her spots in Broadway Through a Keyhole, 1933, Roman Scandals, 1933, Blood Money, 1933, Kid Millions, 1934, and other movies. She remained in Hollywood to appear in increasingly larger roles in a succession of movies╤Carnival, 1935, Roberta, 1935, Top Hat, 1935, Follow the Fleet, 1936, That Girl From Paris, 1936, Stage Door, 1937, Room Service, 1938, The Affairs of Annabel, 1938, Five Came Back, 1939, and in 1940 Too Many Girls, in which she starred and which also featured Desi Arnaz, whom she married in November of that year. For ten years they conducted separate careers, he as a band leader who took occasional small parts in movies and she as a movie actress who was usually seen in B-grade comedies. She won major roles in The Big Street, 1942, Du Barry Was a Lady, 1943, Without Love, 1945, Ziegfeld Follies, 1946, Easy to Wed, 1946, Her Husband╒s Affairs, 1947, Sorrowful Jones, 1949, Fancy Pants, 1950, and The Fuller Brush Girl, 1950, all comedies which were box-office successes, but she was less fortunate in dramatic parts. In 1947╨1948 she toured in a production of Elmer Rice╒s Dream Girl. In 1950 she and her husband formed Desilu Productions which, after experimenting with a radio program, launched in October 1951 a television comedy series entitled ╥I Love Lucy.╙ Starring the two of them in a comedy version of their real lives, the show was an instant hit, and for the six years (1951╨1956 and, under the title ╥The Lucille Ball╨Desi Arnaz Show,╙ 1957╨1958) during which fresh episodes were produced, it remained at or near the top of the TV ratings. ╥I Love Lucy╙ won an Emmy award in 1956. Released into syndicated distribution, it was still being seen in reruns by viewers around the world at the time of her death. Lucille Ball won Emmy awards for best comedienne on television in 1952 and 1955. Meanwhile Desilu began producing other shows for television and became one of the major companies in a highly competitive field. Ball and Arnaz were divorced in 1960, and two years later she succeeded him as president of Desilu, becoming the only woman at that time to lead a major Hollywood production company. She starred in the Broadway show Wildcat in 1961 and in 1962╨1968 returned to television in ╥The Lucy Show,╙ which won an Emmy in 1968; she personally won Emmys again in 1967 and 1968. She resumed movie work with Yours, Mine and Ours, 1968, and Mame, 1974. She sold Desilu in 1967 and formed her own company, Lucille Ball Productions, which in 1968╨1974 produced her third television series, ╥Here╒s Lucy.╙ She continued to appear thereafter in special productions and as a guest star. In 1985 she played a Manhattan bag lady in the television film ╥Stone Pillow.╙ Her fourth television series ╥Life with Lucy╙ aired for two months in 1986. In 1977 she became the first woman to receive the Friar's Club Life Achievement Award, and she was inducted into the Television Academy Hall of Fame in 1984. She died in Los Angeles on April 26, 1989.Movie: Ball and co-star Vivian Vance perform a skit based on their show ╥I Love Lucy╙ on the 1957 television special ╥The Bob Hope Chevy Show.╙ åstyl ` F ! ¬ 5¬ 5¬ !I █ !I ⌡ !I ² !I !I !I !I & !I 2 !I N 5¬ O !I ¬ !I ▓ !I ║ !I ┴ !I ╔ !I ╨ !I ╪ !I Φ !I ≡ !I !I !I !I !I * !I 2 !I H !I P !I ^ !I r !I Ç !I ▒ !I ┐ !I ╟ !I ┌ !I Γ !I ε !I ÷ !I !I !I !I ! !I 6 !I > !I M !I U !I ` !I l !I ü !I !I ( !I , 5¬ - !I 5¬ !I
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