Actress / comedienne - Lucille Ball - Philippe Halsman photo 1950 postcard

Postcard
• Picture / Image:  Lucille Ball, 1950 - photograph by Philippe Halsman
• Publisher:  Fotofolio, New York
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• Notes / condition:  very slight wear, minor flaw

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Lucille Désirée Ball (August 6, 1911 – April 26, 1989) was an American comedienne, model, film and television actress and studio executive. She was star of the sitcoms I Love Lucy, The Lucy–Desi Comedy Hour, The Lucy Show, Here's Lucy and Life with Lucy. Ball had one of Hollywood's longest careers.^[1]

In 1929, Ball landed work as a model and later began her performing career on Broadway using the stage name Diane Belmont. She performed many small movie roles in the 1930s and 1940s as a contract player for RKO Radio Pictures being cast as a chorus girl, or in similar roles, and was dubbed the ""Queen of the Bs"" (referring to her many roles in B-films).

During the 1950s she became a television star. Ball had met and eloped with Cuban bandleader Desi Arnaz in 1940. In 1951, Ball was instrumental in co-creating the television series I Love Lucy with her husband, Arnaz. On July 17, 1951, at almost 40 years of age, Ball gave birth to their first child, Lucie Désirée Arnaz.^[2] A year and a half later, she gave birth to their second child, Desiderio Alberto Arnaz IV, known as Desi Arnaz, Jr.^[3] Ball and Arnaz divorced on May 4, 1960. In 1962, Ball became the first woman to run a major television studio, Desilu, which produced many successful and popular television series such as Mission: Impossible and Star Trek.^[4] Meanwhile, she continued making film and television appearances for the rest of her life.

On April 26, 1989, Ball died of a dissecting aortic aneurysm at age 77.^[5] At the time of her death, she had been married to her second husband and business partner, standup comedian Gary Morton, for more than 27 years.^[6]

Ball was nominated for an Emmy Award thirteen times, and won four times.^[7] In 1977, Ball was among the first recipients of the Women in Film Crystal Award.^[8] She was the recipient of the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award in 1979,^[9] the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Kennedy Center Honors in 1986,^[10] and the Governors Award from the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences in 1989.^[11]

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actress=lucille ball

period=post-war (1945-present)

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size=continental/ modern (150x100 mm)

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