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Lucille Désirée Ball (August 6, 1911 – April 26, 1989) was an American actress and comedienne. She was nominated for 13 Primetime Emmy Awards, winning five times. She received several other accolades, including the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award and two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. She earned many honors, including the Women in Film Crystal Award, an induction into the Television Hall of Fame, a Kennedy Center Honor,[5] and the Governors Award from the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences.

Ball's career began in 1929 when she landed work as a model. Shortly after, she began performing on Broadway using the stage name Diane (or Dianne) Belmont. She later appeared in films in the 1930s and 1940s as a contract player for RKO Radio Pictures, being cast as a chorus girl or in similar roles, with lead roles in B-pictures and supporting roles in A-pictures. She met Cuban bandleader Desi Arnaz during this time, and they eloped in November 1940. In the 1950s, Ball ventured into television, where she and Arnaz created the sitcom I Love Lucy. She gave birth to their first child, Lucie, in 1951, followed by Desi Arnaz Jr. in 1953. They divorced in March 1960, and she married comedian Gary Morton in 1961.

Ball did not retire from acting completely, and in 1985, she took on a dramatic role in the television film Stone Pillow. The next year, she starred in Life with Lucy, which needed to be better received, unlike her other sitcoms; it was canceled after three months. She did not appear in film or television roles for the rest of her career. She died in 1989 from an abdominal aortic aneurysm and arteriosclerotic heart disease at the age of 77.

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Lucille Désirée Ball (August 6, 1911 – April 26, 1989) was an American actress and comedienne. She was nominated for 13 Primetime Emmy Awards, winning five times. She received several other accolades, including the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award and two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. She earned many honors, including the Women in Film Crystal Award, an induction into the Television Hall of Fame, a Kennedy Center Honor,[5] and the Governors Award from the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences.

Ball's career began in 1929 when she landed work as a model. Shortly after, she began performing on Broadway using the stage name Diane (or Dianne) Belmont. She later appeared in films in the 1930s and 1940s as a contract player for RKO Radio Pictures, being cast as a chorus girl or in similar roles, with lead roles in B-pictures and supporting roles in A-pictures. She met Cuban bandleader Desi Arnaz during this time, and they eloped in November 1940. In the 1950s, Ball ventured into television, where she and Arnaz created the sitcom I Love Lucy. She gave birth to their first child, Lucie, in 1951, followed by Desi Arnaz Jr. in 1953. They divorced in March 1960, and she married comedian Gary Morton in 1961.

Ball did not retire from acting completely, and in 1985, she took on a dramatic role in the television film Stone Pillow. The next year, she starred in Life with Lucy, which needed to be better received, unlike her other sitcoms; it was canceled after three months. She did not appear in film or television roles for the rest of her career. She died in 1989 from an abdominal aortic aneurysm and arteriosclerotic heart disease at the age of 77.