Lucille Ball

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RECENT CREDITS

Yours, Mine and Ours (FILM) Nov. 23, 2005

That's Entertainment! III (FILM) May. 6, 1994

Wisecracks (FILM) Sep. 29, 1993

Mame (FILM) Jan. 1, 1974

A Guide For the Married Man (FILM) Jun. 1, 1967

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HIGHLIGHTS

1996 Long lost autobiography, "Love, Lucy", published

1993 Daughter Lucie compiled personal home movies to create the award-winning special "Lucy and Desi: A Home Movie" for NBC;

1991 Portrayed by Frances Fisher in the CBS biopic "Lucy & Desi: Before the Laughter"

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1996 Long lost autobiography, "Love, Lucy", published

1993 Daughter Lucie compiled personal home movies to create the award-winning special "Lucy and Desi: A Home Movie" for NBC;

1991 Portrayed by Frances Fisher in the CBS biopic "Lucy & Desi: Before the Laughter"

1989 Last public appearance on the annual Academy Awards telecast

1986 Starred in the short-lived ABC sitcom, "Life with Lucy"

1985 TV-movie debut playing the dramatic role of a homeless woman in "The Stone Pillow" (CBS)

1980 Signed production deal with NBC, made one special and a pilot for a proposed series that was not picked up

1974 Made final feature film, the critically-derided adaptation of the Broadway musical "Mame"

1968 Co-starred with Henry Fonda in the feature comedy about a blended family, "Yours, Mine and Ours"

1967 Sold Desilu to Gulf + Western

1967 Formed Lucille Ball Productions

1963 Starred opposite Hope in "Critics Choice"

1962 Bought out Desi Arnaz's share of Desilu

1960 Reteamed with Bob Hope for the feature "The Facts of Life"

1960 Starred in Broadway musical, "Wildcat"; run cut short reportedly due to Ball's ill health

1957 Desilu Productions bought old RKO Studio lot (date approximate)

1956 Reteamed with Arnaz for the feature "Forever Darling"

1954 Co-starred with Arnaz in "The Long, Long Trailer"

1951 Formed Desilu Productions Arnaz

1950 Again appeared opposite Hope in "Fancy Pants"

1949 First screen teaming with Bob Hope in "Sorrowful Jones"

1949 Returned to Columbia with a three-picture deal

1946 - 1949 Worked freelance after MGM contract expired

1943 Teamed with Red Skelton in the film version of the Broadway musical "Du Barry Was a Lady"

1942 Starred opposite Henry Fonda in "The Big Street", playing the uncharacteristically dramatic role of a crippled nightclub singer

1942 Signed by MGM to be groomed as musical star; learned comic use of props on backlot from Buster Keaton

1940 First acted onscreen with Desi Arnaz in "Too Many Girls"

1938 Acted in "Room Service", supporting the Marx Brothers

1937 Breakthrough film, "Stage Door"

1935 Joined Columbia appearing in bit parts, walk-ons and as a foil for the Three Stooges; first film billing in "Carnival"; fired by Columbia in an economy move

1935 Signed by RKO

1933 Selected as a Goldwyn Girl to appear in "Roman Scandals", starring Eddie Cantor

1931 Worked briefly as a Hattie Carnegie model before being paralyzed from waist down with rheumatoid arthritis; cured two years later (date approximate)

1929 Feature film debut in "Bulldog Drummond"

1927 Hired to dance in touring company of "Rio Rita" but fired because she couldn't handle choreography; later fired from chorus jobs in three shows (date approximate)

Raised in Celoron, New York

Changed professional name to Diane Belmont in the late 1920s

Played leading roles in a number of B films for RKO including "The Affairs of Annabel" (1938) and "Five Came Back" (1939)

Starred on radio in "My Favorite Husband" playing a scatter-brained wife opposite actor Richard Denning

Starred in the TV sitcom, "I Love Lucy" (CBS); she and Arnaz had undertaken a stage tour in part to prove to CBS executives that audiences would accept them as a married couple and that they could wor

Appeared in a series of one-hour specials under the umbrella title of "The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour/The Lucille Ball-Desi Arnaz Show"; episodes aired as part of "Desilu Playhouse"

As president of Desilu became first woman ever to head a major Hollywood film production company

Starred in the popular TV sitcom, "The Lucy Show" (CBS); show reteamed her with sidekick Vivian Vance and also featured Gale Gordon

Starred on the popular CBS sitcom, "Here's Lucy"; show featured her real-life children playing her screen character's kids