I love lucy lucille ball biography images
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At the Ricardo residence in the ’50s sitcom I Love Lucy, over-the-top housewife Lucy and Ricky, her excitable husband, were always getting into some sort of entertaining hijinks. But life at home for the married actors who portrayed them, Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz, was much different. “They were very busy,” the late stars’s daughter, Lucie Arnaz, explained in a 2011 interview. “From probably the age of birth up through seven, they weren’t home a lot [aside from] very late at night and weekends.”
When Ball wasn’t at work alongside her husband on the hit television comedy, “she was very businesslike about running her house,” their daughter said. The couple, who eloped in November 1940 after a whirlwind romance, bought an abode about 10 miles north of Hollywood in the San Fernando Valley, where they stayed for 15 years. Their domestic lives as Lucy and Ricky—broadcast into dwellings nationwide for six seasons—made them stars, but their actual home lives were still captured by the occasional photoshoot. Read on for a roundup of images of the TV-famous duo in their element as they raised a family in the 1950s.
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45 Rare Photos of Lucille Ball on Set Through the Years
1934: 'Kid Millions'
The up-and-coming actress fixes her makeup on the set of Kid Millions, in which she played a"Goldwyn Girl." Lucille's first appearance on-screen was in an uncredited role the prior year in a film called The Bowery.
1936: 'Chatterbox'
One of Lucille's first big roles was playing Lillian Temple in Chatterbox. Here, she knits on set between scenes with fellow actresses Patricia Wilder and Anne Shirley.
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1938: 'Next Time I Marry'
The actress discusses a scene on the set of Next Time I Marry with the film's director, Garson Kanin, her costar James Ellison and Ellison's stand-in, Allan Kneip.
1938: 'The Phil Baker Show'
Lucille worked as a comedian on CBS's radio show The Phil Baker Show in 1938. Here, she records a scene with Phil Baker himself, as well as British actor Harry McNaughton.
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1938: 'Having Wonderful Time'
Lucille wears a robe and her hair wrapped in a towel on the set of the romantic comedy Having Wonderful Time, which she costarred in with Ginger Rogers, Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and Red Skelton.
1938: 'Beauty For the Asking'
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