Lucille Ball: A Hard Working Woman

Lucille Ball made every person laugh, and she spread happiness around like a wildfire. She made a huge impact on the world, she was a hard working woman who stopped at nothing to achieve her goals. “I don't suppose that hard work, discipline, and a perfectionist attitude toward my work did me any harm. They are a big part of my makeup today, as any of my co-workers will tell you. And when life seemed unbearable, I learned to live in my imagination, and to step inside other people's skins- indispensable abilities for an actress.” (Lucille Ball) Lucille Ball did what we all thought was impossible, she did what nobody expected her to even imagine. She did everything we thought was unachievable without batting an eyelid. Lucille Ball, the woman who changed the world of comedy forever.

Lucille’s childlife was definitely less than ideal; she was born August 6, 1911 in Jamestown, New York. Her father died when she was three, and her mother remarried not to

In the 1940s, Desi convinced her to do radio broadcasting, she landed a lead role in My Favorite Husband. This soon caught the attention of CBS, they offered her a contract to do it on television. Ball wanted Desi to do it with her, CBS was less keen and so Desi wrote a theatrical act and, Lucy and him took it on the road. What followed was immense success and a contract with CBS. On October 15, 1951 I Love Lucy made its debut, people fell in love with it over the whole world. It lasted a whole six years and it was a sitcom no one had ever seen before. In 1962-1968 Lucy did The Lucy show, which did not do as well as I Love Lucy but it was pretty high up there. Then in 1968-1973 Lucy did Here's Lucy, the same thing happened good but not as good as I Love