In 1940, Ball met the Cuban bandleader Desi Arnaz while shooting Too Many Girls and the couple soon eloped.įrom 1947 to 1951, Ball starred as a ditzy wife on the radio program My Favorite Husband. She went on to leading roles in dozens of B-movies in the late 1930s and 1940s. Around this time, she began playing bit parts in Hollywood movies. After waitressing and working as a hat model, Ball was hired in 1933 as the Chesterfield Cigarette Girl. However, she received little encouragement and was rejected multiple times from Broadway chorus lines. On August 6, 1911, Lucille Desiree Ball, one of America’s most famous redheads and beloved comic actresses, is born near Jamestown, New York.Īt age 15, Ball went to New York City to attend drama school and become an actress.
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