Who’s Lucille Ball? The famous Actress from the famous television show called “I Love Lucy.” Lucille Ball was born in August 6, 1911, her mother was Desiree Evelyn Hunt, her father’s name was Henry Durrell Ball. She was born in Jamestown, New York. Henry Ball passed away when Lucille was 8 years old because of Typhoid fever, Lucille says it was a day she would never forget. After her father’s death her mother, brother Frederick Ball and her had moved to Celeon, New York to live with Desiree’s parents. Four years after her father’s death her mother married a man named Edward Peterson and moved back to Jamestown, New York to find work, So Lucille had to stay with Edward’s parents and Frederick stayed with Desiree’s parents. Edward’s parents were very strict. …show more content…
When Lucille was 15 she convinced her mother to let her in roll into a New York City drama school, with Lucille being very nervous the school wrote a letter to DeDe saying “your daughter is wasting her time and ours. She’s too shy and reticent to put her best foot forward.” Lucille stayed in New York City and in 1927 she started calling herself Diane Belmont, she found work as a model for fashion designer named Hattie Carnegie. In the early 1930’s Lucille had moved to Hollywood to find more actress jobs, she finally got one as one of the 12 “Golden Girls”, she also got a role as an extra in The Three Musketeers and then in 1937 she got a sizable part in Stage
Shirley Temple was born on April 23, 1928, in Santa Monica, California at 9:00 p.m - a time significant to her because it told her she would always have a bit of catching up to do if she wanted to be on time for dinner (Black 5). As the youngest child and only girl in her family of five, she was her mother’s pride and joy. She had two supportive parents, Gertrude and George, and two older brothers, Jack and George Junior. Gertrude Temple was a stay-at-home mom while George went to work as a bank teller, which played in Shirley’s favor when she needed someone to manage her money later in life (Blashfield 55). Gertrude Temple has been called the first stage mother (Blashfield 22) for good reason. Shirley Temple was acting before she could read, so her mother helped her memorize her lines. Temple’s mother served as her private costume designer, and never failed to make the young star’s performance her best yet, by encouraging her to “Sparkle, Shirley Sparkle!” (David 2).
She first did various radio shows in the 40s. But her first TV show was on Hollywood in Television in 1949. Whites first produced television show was Life with Elizabeth. "I was one of the first women producers in Hollywood."
In 1929, Eleanor made her Broadway debut in Follow Thru. After being in a Broadway show, her stardom kept rising until she made it to Hollywood. In 1935 she appeared in her first movie, George White's 'Scandals of 1935'.From then on, she just got more and more successful. One of her more memorable performances was in ‘Broadway Melody in 1940’ dancing alongside Fred Astaire to “Begin the Beguine’.
Lena Mary Calhoun Horne was born in Brooklyn, New York, on June 30, 1917 to Edwin and Edna Horne. Unfortunately, Horne’s father left the family when she was only three. Since her mother was an actress with a black theatre troupe that traveled, she lived in places like Georgia, and Miami. She also stayed with her grandparents for a while. After their deaths Horne moved in with a family friend. Shortly after she moved back in with her mother, whom just gotten married.
Rosa Louise McCauley Parks historically known as Rosa Parks, was born February 4,1913 in Tuskegee, Alabama and past away from natural causes at age 92, on October 24,2005 in Detroit, Michigan. Parks lived with her mother Leona McCauley and her father James McCauley. Ater on in 115 her brother was born Sylvester Parks her only sibling.Both of park’s parents worked, her mother was employed as a teacher and her father was employed as a carpenter . Some time later after Parks’s brother was born her mother and father separated. Once the separation was final, Parks moved with her mother to Pine Level, Alabama while her brother and father moved to Montgomery, Alabama. parks was homeschooled by her mother until age 11 and attended Industrial
Robert F Kennedy had gone to Marilyn's home that day, they had gotten into an argument and sometime after that he left with a partner of Ginancana named Johnny Roselli. He visited her around 10pm, purposely leaving the front door unlocked, letting five hit men enter her house. One crept up behind her and slipped a chloroform-soaked washcloth over her face and gave her an enema of barbiturates and took her to her bathroom. Departing the house when they hear Marilyn's housekeeper come into the house” said Darwin Potter, biographer and travel writer. Police contact and a man named Peter Lawford arrived and stole Marilyn Monroe's little red diary, which she kept all her sexual affair details in, which all made the scene after a while.
married as teens and soon Sally gave birth to Eleanora Fagan. Shortly after the birth, Clarence
The first problem that arose was that Lucille Ball wanted her real life husband, Desi, to play her fake husband, Ricky, on the show. At first, the show’s sponsors didn't think that he w...
Lucille Mulhall was born on October 21, 1885 in Oklahoma and died December 21, 1940 in Oklahoma when she got in a terrible vehicle accident. She is the first born child of Zach (1847-1931) and Mary Agnes Mulhall (1859-1931). Her sister’s name is Margaret Reed (1906-1925) and she was the last child born. She married her first husband in 1916 and his name was Martin Van Bergen. Lucille then divorced this man and married a man named Thomas Loyd Burnett (1871-1939). He was born in Denton County, Texas and died in Wichita County, Texas on December 26, 1938. Lucille Mulhall was a soft spoken and beautiful young lady. She was very feminine and had a very good education. When she was a teenager, she was known as one of the top cowboy performers in
At the age of nineteen she met and married Louis Jones. Together they had two children Gail and Teddy (who later died in 1970 from kidney failure). While trying to get used to raising a family and having a career, she received a call from an agent, who had seen her at the Cotton Club, about a part in a movie. Her controlling husband allowed her to be in “The Duke is Tops” and also the musical revue “Blackbirds of 1939."
Lucille Ball was the most loved television comedienne of her time. She was an American icon and is considered the first lady of television. With her strong work ethic and her determination, Lucille not only changed the face of television, she also paved the way for a lot of other female actresses.
She started her career working as an assistant to Aline Bernstein. She worked as an assistant on the Broadway productions of Hedda Gabler, The Would-Be Gentleman, The Cherry Orchard, and Peter Pan. Following those productions she became the costume designer for her debut production Alice in Wonderland, as well as As Thousands Cheer, Union Pacifi...
And when she became a Hattie Carnegie model she changed her name back to Lucille Ball. It stayed that way from that time forward (Ball 43-45). After modeling for a time, her face became well-known and was seen on billboards all around New York city. A movie producer noticed and offered her a minor role in a movie called Roman Scandals. Lucille dyed her brown hair blond and moved to Hollywood, California, the place where dreams had come true for so many actors and actresses (Biography.com). The newspaper in Lucille’s hometown of Jamestown, New York made a big deal about her starring in this movie, writing big articles that everyone read. Lucille found herself becoming a “local celebrity” overnight (Ball 64). Her small role in Roman Scandals opened other doors, landing her other roles in other films. Her second big break came when Lucille got a role in the movie Roberta and got a contract for up to three years with the studio that produced the movie. This contract ended up stretching to seven years of steady work with the studio (Ball
On April 23, 1928, Gertrude and George Temple gave birth to their youngest child, and only daughter, Shirley Temple. The Temple family was an average family, with two sons and one daughter. From an early age, Gertrude encouraged Shirley to dance, sing, and act, so she enrolled her daughter in dancing lessons at Meglin’s Dance School. Temple was discovered when a talent search came to the dance school. Shortly after this, she began filming short films under the title, Baby Burlesks. Baby Burlesks were a series of short films that featured Shirley Temple and other pint size actors and actresses in diapers with oversized safety pins acting in adult situations. Once the series ended, Shirley was signed with several different companies, including Tower Productions, Paramount, Univers...
Over the years she had many, many guest stars. She was known to being very good to her