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Lucille Ball was born on August 6, 1911 in Jamestown, New York. Her father died early on, leaving Ball’s mother a widow. Eventually, her mother remarried. By the age of 12, Ball knew that she loved being on stage. She enrolled in many acting classes and in 1925, her mother sent her to John Murray Anderson School for Dramatic Arts.
Lucille Desiree Ball was born on August 6, 1911 in Jamestown, NY. Her father, Henry, died when she was three years old, so she was raised by her mother, Desiree, a concert pianist, and her maternal grandparents. Her grandparents instilled in her both a commitment to hard work and a love for the theater. She began performing in school plays as a ...
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Lucille Ball. Producer: I Love Lucy. 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, the daughter of Desiree Evelyn "DeDe" (Hunt) and Henry Durrell "Had" Ball. 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...
Sep 21, 2006 · Lucille Ball’s early career. Dropping out of high school at the age of fifteen, Ball moved to New York to study acting and found her first stage work as a chorus girl in 1927. She had her first ...
May 14, 2018 · Lucille Desiree Ball was born in Jamestown, New York, on August 6, 1911. She was the eldest of two children born to Henry Durell Ball and Desiree (DeDe) Hunt. Ball's father was a telephone lineman for the Bell Company, and the family moved to Montana and then Michigan before Ball was four years old. In 1915, Henry Ball died, and the family ...
Sep 21, 2006 · September 21, 2006. Lucille Ball is born on August 6th in Celeron, New York. 1911. Family moves to Butte, Montana, where her father contracts and dies of typhoid fever. The family returns to ...
Aug 6, 2020 · Lucille Desiree Ball. Born: Aug. 6, 1911 in Celeron, N.Y. Died: April 26, 1989 in Los Angeles. Best known for: CBS comedy series “ I Love Lucy ” (1951-1957), “The Lucy Show” (1962-68 ...
