American comedian and just a beauty, style icon of the fifties, Lucille Ball lived a long life, and devoted all of it to creativity. Looking at the photographs of a secular lady, it is difficult to imagine that she skillfully knew how to make people laugh, and this is not given to everyone.
Biography
Lucille Ball was born in 1911 in Jamestown. Her family had nothing to do with the world of cinema: her father was a telephone company worker, her mother was a housewife. There were Scots, Irish and French in her family. Due to the nature of his work, his father often had to change his place of residence, so the Ball family moved frequently. They visited the city of Anaconda, then in Wyndotte, where the head of the family unexpectedly died.
After that, Lucille and her brother were raised by their grandparents. Grandfather was a rather eccentric person, protesting against the injustice of the government. He was also an inveterate theater-goer and often took his granddaughter to performances at the local theater.
Apparently, it was at that time that the girl became infected with love for the stage. She began to participate in school performances, to which the grandfather was very happy.
At the age of 14, Lucille entered drama school, but due to natural shyness she could not show all her abilities, and she was expelled.
Seven years later, she made another attempt at Broadway theater, but again failed. Then the motivated girl went to work as a model for the designer Hattie Carnegie, as well as in an advertisement for Chesterfield cigarettes.
Career in radio and cinema
After a setback in New York, Ball decided to make a knight's move and went to Hollywood. There she had a happy meeting with the actress Ginger Rogers, with whom they became inseparable friends.
In the early thirties, Lucille had many cameo roles in various films, and in the early forties she signed a contract as a permanent actress at MGM Studios.
At that time, humorous radio broadcasts were popular, and in 1948 Ball participated in such a broadcast. It was called My Beloved Husband. The project was a huge success, and the producers decided to make a TV version of it called "I Love Lucy" starring Ball.
She made a condition that her husband, Daisy Arnaz, would be filming with her. Difficulties arose due to the fact that he was Cuban, and therefore they did not want to take him into this project. But when the director saw the comedic talent of the actress, he agreed to all of her conditions. So the image of an eccentric wife migrated to television screens, and Ball got the opportunity to reveal her potential and show her creativity.
During the filming of the series, Lucille suffered a second pregnancy, and therefore her heroine also had to give birth - for this the script was rewritten. The project has gained great popularity in America and abroad.
After that, Ball managed to make his dream come true - to play on Broadway. She performed on the show "Risky Business". After that, there were age roles, because Lucille was already under fifty, although she looked luxurious.
For her professionalism, Lucille was nominated sixteen times for prestigious awards, and three times was the winner as a comedic actress and performer of the best female role.
Personal life
Ball's first husband is the leader of a jazz orchestra, a native of Cuba, Disi Arnaz. They got married in 1940, in this marriage the couple had two children: a son and a daughter. They divorced in 1960, but were friends until Lucille's death in 1989.
And a year after the divorce, Ball married actor Gary Morton and lived a long life with him.
Lucille Ball is buried in her hometown of Jamestown.
