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Welcome to Lucy.OnTheWeb.com TV Guide [click all underlined text for a "LUCY" surprise] reports, the face of Lucille Ball has been seen by more people than any other human being that lived. She reined as the First Lady of Television for 35 years.
Right now, somewhere in the world I Love Lucy, starring Lucille Ball [this "Lucy" surprise is worth the 1 min. wait -you'll need FREE Quicktime] is hitting the air-waves again in re-runs. Lucille Ball is one of the greatest artists that America has produced and by virtue of the scope of the "boob tube" probably the most familiar across several gererations.
As a young child in Jamestown, NY she often enjoyed vaudville touring companies and set her hopes on becoming a Vaudville star! However, Ball recalls, "Vaudeville was dead, but I didn't know it!"
In 1926, Lucy fled her native home of Jamestown, NY at the age of 15, for Manhattan where she enrolled in the John Murray Anderson Dramatic School but was sent home by school officials because she had "no talent". How then did this "no-talent" gal uncover such "genius"?
This self-made millionaire was born to a lower-middle class family, on August 6th, 1911 in upstate New York in a suburb of Jamestown. Her story is the epitomy of the American Dream. With merely an intention to survive her dysfunctional roots and keep her family together she struck "gold" in 1951 when she created the world famous "Lucy Ricardo" character for the greatest television show of all time, I Love Lucy.produced by Jess Oppenhiemer, CBS, Phillip Morris and her-then husband, Desi Arnaz.
Following a mysterious illness that left her crippled for over a year she managed to return to NYC where she worked as Broadway chorus girl in shows that could only seem to rehearse and never opened. She also worked as a Soda Jerk, Hattie Carnegie model, and eventually got jobs as a Chesterfield Cigarette poster-girl.
It was her Chesterfield Cigarette girl work that led her to the notorious Hollywood contract with independent producer Samuel Goldwyn and took her to Hollywood, in 1933.
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