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DIED
March 30, 1999

RECENT CREDITS
Postcards from the Edge (FILM)  Jan. 1, 1990
All the Right Moves (FILM)  Oct. 21, 1983
Lenny (FILM)  Jan. 1, 1974

BIOGRAPHY
After entertaining the troops as a member of Special Services during World War II, Gary Morton worked the Catskills circuit as a trumpet player and comedian. Though his talents were modest, Morton made his fellow....
After entertaining the troops as a member of Special Services during World War II, Gary Morton worked the Catskills circuit as a trumpet player and comedian. Though his talents were modest, Morton made his fellow performers laugh easily, and as a result was gainfully employed as the opening act for such notables as Al Hirt and Tony Bennett. While headlining at the Copacabana in 1960, Morton was invited to go on a blind date. Upon discovering that his companion for the evening was recently divorced comedienne Lucille Ball, Morton capriciously feigned indifference to Ball's celebrity. At first infuriated, Ball was charmed by Morton, and within a year they were married. At his wife's request, Morton gave up his nightclub career after their marriage, keeping busy professionally as a warm-up comic for The Lucy Show's live audience and as executive producer for Ball's various TV endeavors. The onus of being "Mr. Lucille Ball" didn't seem to bother Morton, who was far more interested in playing golf and schmoosing with his showbiz friends than in pursuing a career. Occasionally, however, Gary Morton accepted a choice film character role, most memorably as the Milton Berle-ish Sherman Hart in Mike Nichols' Lenny (1974).

~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide


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Lucille Ball
Oct. 30, 2008
For generations, everyone loved Lucy, who still reigns supreme as the funniest comedienne in television history. But what Lucille Ball really loved was her Beverly Hills home on posh Roxbury Drive. She loved it so much, in fact, that she didn’t want to leave—even in death.




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Postcards from the Edge
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