Lucille Ball

About Lucille Ball

Who is it?: actress, production_manager, soundtrack
Birth Day: August 6, 1911
Birth Place: USA
Birth Sign: Leo
Birth Name: Lucille Désirée Ball
Nick Names: Technicolor TessieQueen of the B moviesThe First Lady of TelevisionLucyThe Queen of Comedy
Height: 5' 6½" (1.69 m)

Lucille Ball Net Worth

The woman who will always be remembered as the crazy, accident-prone, lovable Lucy Ricardo was born Lucille Desiree Ball on August 6, 1911 in Jamestown, New York. Her father died before she was four, and her mother worked several jobs, so she and her younger brother were raised by their grandparents.
Lucille Ball is a member of Actress

💰Lucille Ball Net worth and Salary

Top Hat (1935) $50 /week
Don't Tell the Wife (1937) $2,000 /week
Go Chase Yourself (1938) $2,000 /week
Dance, Girl, Dance (1940) $3,500 /week
Too Many Girls (1940) $1,500 /week
A Girl, a Guy, and a Gob (1941) $12,500
The Big Street (1942) $3,500 /week
Two Smart People (1946) $1,750 /week
I Love Lucy (1951) $2,000 /episode + 50% profits for the first 39 shows as well as ownership of the negatives to all future shows (1951-52)
I Love Lucy (1951) $3,500 per episode
The Magic Carpet (1951) $85,000
The Long, Long Trailer (1954) $125,000 + $150,000 (profits bonus)
The Lucy Show (1962) $384,000 (1967-68)
The Lucy Show (1962) $1,100,000 (1968) deferred compensation
The Danny Kaye Show with Lucille Ball (1962) $100,000
A Guide for the Married Man (1967) $10,000 for two days work.
Yours, Mine and Ours (1968) 50% of the net profits (co-producer)
Mame (1974) $250,000 +10% net profits
Life with Lucy (1986) $150,000 /episode

The woman who will always be remembered as the crazy, accident-prone, lovable Lucy Ricardo was born Lucille Desiree Ball on August 6, 1911 in Jamestown, New York. Her father died before she was four, and her mother worked several jobs, so she and her younger brother were raised by their grandparents. Always willing to take responsibility for her brother and young cousins, she was a restless teenager who yearned to "make some noise". She entered a dramatic school in New York City, but while her classmate Bette Davis received all the raves, she was sent home; "too shy". She found some work modeling for Hattie Carnegie's and, in 1933, she was chosen to be a "Goldwyn Girl" and appear in the film Roman Scandals (1933).

She was put under contract to RKO Radio Pictures and several small roles, including one in Top Hat (1935), followed. Eventually, she received starring roles in B-pictures and, occasionally, a good role in an A-picture, like in Stage Door (1937) or The Big Street (1942). While filming Too Many Girls (1940), she met and fell madly in love with a young Cuban actor-musician named Desi Arnaz. Despite different personalities, lifestyles, religions and ages (he was six years younger), he fell hard, too, and after a passionate romance, they eloped and were married in November 1940. Lucy soon switched to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, where she got better roles in films such as Du Barry Was a Lady (1943); Best Foot Forward (1943) and the Katharine Hepburn-Spencer Tracy vehicle Without Love (1945). In 1948, she took a starring role in the radio comedy "My Favorite Husband", in which she played the scatterbrained wife of a Midwestern banker. In 1950, CBS came knocking with the offer of turning it into a television series. After convincing the network brass to let Desi play her husband and to sign over the rights to and creative control over the series to them, work began on the most popular and universally beloved sitcom of all time.

With I Love Lucy (1951), she and Desi promoted the 3-camera technique now the standard in filming sitcoms using 35mm film (the earliest known example of the 3-camera technique is the first Russian feature film, "Defence of Sevastopol" in 1911). Desi syndicated I Love Lucy.

Lucille Desiree Ball was the first woman to own her own studio as the head of Desilu Productions.

Lucille Ball died at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, age 77, of an acute aortic aneurysm on April 26, 1989 in Los Angeles, CA.