Lucille Ball

Lucille Désirée Ball (born in Jamestown, New York, August 6, 1911, died April 16, 1989) is one the most talented and beloved comediennes of America television, starring in the B&W sitcom I Love Lucy, that she created with then-husband Desi Arnaz at their production company Desilu, based on her 1948 CBS radio show My Favorite Husband, and aired from 1951 until 1957, then The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour (1957-1960), The Lucy Show (1962-68), Here’s Lucy (1968-1974). Ball acted in movies, like Having Wonderful Time (1938) with Ginger Rogers, The Big Street (1942) with Henry Fonda, Beauty for the Asking (1939), DuBarry Was A Lady (1943) with Gene Kelly, Ziegfeld Follies (1946) with Fred Astaire and Judy Garland, East to Wed (1946) with Van Johnson, Her Husband’s Affairs (1947) with Franchot Tone, Lured (1947) by Douglas Sirk, Yours, Mine and Ours (1968), Mame (1974).

Read Ready for My deMille: Profiles in Excellence- Lucille Ball, 1979 by Philip Berk

Golden Globe Awards

1975 Nominee

Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy
- Mame
- Lucille Ball
1972 Nominee

Actress In A Leading Role - Musical Or Comedy Series Or Television Movie
- Here's Lucy
- Lucille Ball
1971 Nominee

Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series - Musical or Comedy
- Here's Lucy
- Lucille Ball
1970 Nominee

Actress In A Television Series - Musical Or Comedy
- Here's Lucy
- Lucille Ball
1969 Nominee

Actress In A Leading Role - Musical Or Comedy
- Yours, Mine and Ours
- Lucille Ball
1968 Nominee

Actress In A Television Series
- Lucy Show, The
- Lucille Ball
1961 Nominee

Actress In A Leading Role - Musical Or Comedy
- Facts of Life, The
- Lucille Ball