Despite her accomplishments and the success of her entertainment empire,
Lucille Ball never forgot her hometown.
In an entertainment context, the "unruly talent" unleashed by the small screen included people such as
Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz, who created the first great smash series, I Love Lucy.
Another Hirschfeld classic," TV Totem Pole," was featured on the cover o Colliers Magazine in 1954 and features actors
Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz, Jackie Gleason, Jack Webb and Groucho Marx.
Testimony before the committee in 1953 revealed that
Lucille Ball had once registered as a Communist.
That's because, as the enduring story line goes,
Lucille Ball's character, Lucille McGillicuty, had met Desi Arnaz's Ricky Ricardo while vacationing in his homeland, Cuba.
* Indeed, Jimmy Durante still charms television watchers, but 50 years ago when it came time to bestow the 1952 Emmy for the Most Outstanding Television Personality, the winner, chosen over nominees that included not only Durante, but also
Lucille Ball, Arthur Godfrey and Edward R.
Boris Karloff, the Marx Brothers, Eddie Cantor, James Cagney,
Lucille Ball, and Frederic March were only a few of the Screen Actors Guild enthusiasts from among the stars.
On offer are Terry Thomas's Too Many Crooks (certainly are in this election); Woody Allen's Take The Money And Run (cash-for- questions Tories already have), and Look Who's Laughing (not John Major as Tony Blair sweeps into Downing Street) with
Lucille Ball and - I kid you not - one Neil Hamilton!
Kathleen Brady's Lucille: The Life of
Lucille Ball (Hyperion, 397 pp.) is a pleasure to read as her accounts of film and comic TV actress
Lucille Ball's life are masterfully written and full of first-hand and often funny anecdotes from Ball's friends and family as well as Ball herself.
Fantle, a professor of film and culture who interviews, writes, and speaks about Hollywood's Golden Age, and Johnson, an editor and writer of movie reviews and features, offer 75 interviews with artists who starred, directed, wrote, choreographed, or composed musical scores for movies and television shows from the Golden Age, such as Steve Allen, Ed Asner, Fred Astaire,
Lucille Ball, Milton Berle, Jacqueline Bisset, George Burns, James Cagney, Frank Capra, Hoagy Carmichael, Cyd Charisse, Angie Dickinson, Peter Falk, George Hamilton, Tippi Hedren, Charlton Heston, Bob Hope, Gene Kelly, Martin Landau, Jerry Lewis, Karl Malden, Bob Newhart, Gregory Peck, Debbie Reynolds, Mickey Rooney, Artie Shaw, Robert Wagner, and Eli Wallach.
Summary: Los Angeles [USA], August 8 (ANI): Cate Blanchett is all set to live the life of the comedienne
Lucille Ball.