LUCILLE BALL *** 3 ORIGINAL Paparazzi Color Transparencys wt. GARY MORTON

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LUCILLE BALL - 3 ORIGINAL 35mm COLOR TRANSPARENCIES, 1980s.
RARE PAPARAZZI CANDID IMAGES Wt. HUSBAND GARY MORTON.
MOUNTED, EXCELLENT CONDITION & VERY SHARP.
DOMESTIC U.S.P.S. SHIPPING - .20
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The woman who will always be remembered as the crazy, accident-prone, lovable Lucy Ricardo was born Lucille Desiree Ball on August 6, 1911 in Jamestown, New York. Her father died before she was four, and her mother worked several jobs, so she and her younger brother were raised by their grandparents. Always willing to take responsibility for her brother and young cousins, she was a restless teenager who yearned to "make some noise". She entered a dramatic school in New York City, but while her classmate
Bette Davis
received all the raves, she was sent home; "too shy". She found some work modeling for
Hattie Carnegie
's and, in 1933, she was chosen to be a "Goldwyn Girl" and appear in the film
Roman Scandals
(1933).
She was put under contract to RKO Radio Pictures and several small roles, including one in
Top Hat
(1935), followed. Eventually, she received starring roles in B-pictures and, occasionally, a good role in an A-picture, like in
Stage Door
(1937) or
The Big Street
(1942). While filming
Too Many Girls
(1940), she met and fell madly in love with a young Cuban actor-musician named
Desi Arnaz
. Despite different personalities, lifestyles, religions and ages (he was six years younger), he fell hard, too, and after a passionate romance, they eloped and were married in November 1940. Lucy soon switched to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, where she got better roles in films such as
Du Barry Was a Lady
(1943);
Best Foot Forward
(1943) and the
Katharine Hepburn
-
Spencer Tracy
vehicle
Without Love
(1945). In 1948, she took a starring role in the radio comedy "My Favorite Husband", in which she played the scatterbrained wife of a Midwestern banker. In 1950, CBS came knocking with the offer of turning it into a television series. After convincing the network brass to let Desi play her husband and to sign over the rights to and creative control over the series to them, work began on the most popular and universally beloved sitcom of all time.
With
I Love Lucy
(1951), she and Desi promoted the 3-camera technique now the standard in filming sitcoms using 35mm film (the earliest known example of the 3-camera technique is the first Russian feature film, "Defence of Sevastopol" in 1911). Desi syndicated I Love Lucy.
Lucille Desiree Ball was the first woman to own her own studio as the head of Desilu Productions.
Lucille Ball died at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, age 77, of an acute aortic aneurysm on April 26, 1989 in Los Angeles, CA.