Lucille Ball
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| Name: | Lucille Ball | |
| Status | Deceased | |
| Age: | 77 (August 6, 1911 -April 26, 1989) | |
| IMDB: | IMDb | |
| TMDB: | TMDB | |
| Smoking Status: | Unknown | |
| Type of Celebrity: | Actor | |
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| TMDB Popularity | 18.619 | |
| Biography (TMDB): | Lucille Désirée Ball (August 6, 1911 – April 26, 1989) was an American comedian, film, television, stage and radio actress, model, film and television executive, and star of the sitcoms I Love Lucy, The Lucy–Desi Comedy Hour, The Lucy Show, Here's Lucy and Life With Lucy. One of the most popular and influential stars in America during her lifetime, with one of Hollywood's longest careers, especially on television, Ball began acting in the 1930s, becoming both a radio actress and B-movie star in the 1940s, and then a television star during the 1950s. She was still making films in the 1960s and 1970s. Ball received thirteen Emmy Award nominations and four wins. In 1977 Ball was among the first recipients of the Women in Film Crystal Award. She was the recipient of the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award in 1979, the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Kennedy Center Honors in 1986 and the Governors Award from the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences in 1989. In 1929, Ball landed work as a model and later began her performing career on Broadway using the stage name Dianne Belmont. She appeared in many small movie roles in the 1930s as a contract player for RKO Radio Pictures. Ball was labeled as the "Queen of the Bs" (referring to her many roles in B-films). In 1951, Ball was pivotal in the creation of the television series I Love Lucy. The show co-starred her then husband, Desi Arnaz as Ricky Ricardo and Vivian Vance and William Frawley as Ethel and Fred Mertz, the Ricardos' landlords and friends. The show ended in 1957 after 180 episodes. They then changed the format a little - lengthening the time of the show from 30 minutes to 60 minutes (the first one went 75 mins), adding some characters, altering the storyline somewhat, and renaming the show from "I Love Lucy" to "The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour", which ran for three seasons (1957–1960) and 13 episodes. Ball went on to star in two more successful television series: The Lucy Show, which ran on CBS from 1962 to 1968 (156 Episodes), and Here's Lucy from 1968 to 1974 (144 episodes). Her last attempt at a television series was a 1986 show called Life with Lucy - which failed miserably after 8 episodes aired although 13 were produced. Ball met and eloped with Cuban bandleader Desi Arnaz in 1940. On July 17, 1951, almost 40 years old, Ball gave birth to their first child, Lucie Désirée Arnaz. A year and a half later, Ball gave birth to their second child, Desiderio Alberto Arnaz IV, known as Desi Arnaz, Jr. Ball and Arnaz divorced on May 4, 1960. On April 26, 1989, Ball died of a dissecting aortic aneurysm at age 77. At the time of her death she had been married to her second husband, standup comedian and business partner Gary Morton, for twenty-eight years. Description above from the Wikipedia article Lucille Ball, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia |
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Movies
Best Foot Forward
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smokingsides
[plays] an actress invited to a boy's military school to be the queen of an upcoming dance. There are two scenes early in the movie in which she smokes. In the first she takes her agent's cigarette and has a puff through the fishnet of her hat. The second is one of the best I've seen of her. She dangles a cigarette then lights and inhales, all sideways and very visible. |
Critic's Choice
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smokingsides
Four scenes, but nothing special other than the white-gloved hand in two of them. |
Easy to Wed
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smokingsides
Considering her prominent role in cigarette advertising for Chesterfield and later Philip Morris, it is surprising that Lucille seldom inhales. There are four scenes. In the first she puffs on a cigarette in a holder, then extracts it, stubs it out, and immediately replaces it with another, lighting and puffing without inhaling. A second scene shows her without her cigarette holder. The third scene sees a reappearance of the holder, but again she just puffs. Finally she helps herself from a cigarette box in an office and accepts a light with a barely perceptible inhale, before inserting it into her holder. |
Her Husband's Affairs
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smokingsides
Smokes twice. Both are dangling light ups. These are above average for Lucy fans. |
Joy of Living
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smokingsides
At breakfast table, Lucille Ball takes two big puffs, [Brady] holds ND. |
Lover Come Back
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smokingsides
To make her husband jealous, she lights up a cigar and leaves it where her husband will find it. She exaggerates the difficulty of lighting the cigar, and makes a lot of funny faces. For a more elegant version of this gag, check out Myrna Loy in 'So Goes My Love'. |
Lured
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smokingsides
A couple of lightings and one holding scene |
Mame
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smokingsides
Uses a VERY long holder |
The Big Street
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smokingsides
A lighting. |
The Dark Corner
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Ball smokes in several scenes, though her style leaves something to be desired. Downs has only one light up scene, but looks great. |
The Facts of Life
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smokingsides
Several scenes, but blows out huge clouds of uninhaled smoke. In a bar scene, she seems to inhale VERY slightly. |
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