Lucille Ball

Ricardo as a slick television 'huckster' pitching a foul-tasting and alcoholic concoction (amusingly, Lucille the actress quite enjoyed the taste).. She also received her third Tony, which was her second in the Best Actress in a Play category, for her performance in The Time of the Cuckoo. Vita-meata-vege-min - "Do you Poop Out at Parties?", "It's so tasty too!" Mrs. In 1953, she received the Academy Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role for her performance as Lola Delaney in the successful movie, Come Back, Little Sheba. complete with 'seltzer bottles' (a familiar clown prop) and slapstick. Booth then returned to New York and played Leona Samish in Time of the Cuckoo (1952) on Broadway. The Stranger with a Kind Face (aka 'Slowly I turned' or 'Niagara Falls!') in which a veteran clown introduces Lucy Ricardo to some basics of the clown art, and is schooled in this classic (and at that time quite familiar) vaudevillian routine .. It was her first movie.

The Mirror Gag - now a classic improvisational acting exercise (with Harpo Marx), in which Lucy, dressed as Harpo Marx encounters the real Harpo unexpectedly in a doorway, and mistakenly thinks she is looking into a mirror. She then went to Hollywood and recreated her stage role in the motion picture version of Come Back, Little Sheba (1952) with Burt Lancaster playing Doc. Lucy in the Candy Factory - ("Speeeeeeed it Up a little!!") Lucy and Ethel attempt to get jobs -- for which they are demonstrably unprepared -- the classic candy-gobbling scene in this epidode is an American cultural icon. Her enormous success in Come Back, Little Sheba was immediately followed by A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1951), in which Booth played the feisty but loveable Aunt Cissy. Perhaps the best example of this gag is when Lucy shows up unannounced at Ricky's club, toting a clown-modified cello and pretending to be a musician, asking to speak with "Risky Riskerdoo" (Ricky Ricardo) this classic includes Lucy winding the cello's tuning peg as if it were a watch (to the accomaniment of ratcheting sounds) and shooting the cello's bow at Ricky's backside. Her leading man, Sidney Blackmer, received the Tony for Best Actor in a Play for his performance of Doc. Lucy tries to Get into the Act - a recurring and almost omnipresent theme on the show, was that "talentless" plain old Lucy the Housewife dearly desired a chance to perform, as anything: a dancer, showgirl, clown, singing cowboy - or in any role. The real joke here is that Lucille Ball, aside from being regarded as beautiful, was also quite talented in a variety of performance arts, as well as being a ground-breaking television director. Her second Tony was for Best Actress in a Play, which she received for her widely acclaimed performance of the tortured wife, Lola, in the poignant drama Come Back, Little Sheba (1950).

In the course of the television series, Lucy shared the screen with numerous famous clowns, prominent among these were Red Skelton and Harpo Marx. Her first Tony, for Best Supporting or Featured Actress (Dramatic), was awarded for her performance as Grace Woods in Goodbye, My Fancy (1948). She is regarded as one of the best, ever, in the history of film and television at physical 'schtick'. Booth had two husbands, actor Ed Gardner (married 1929-divorced 1942) and William Baker (married 1943-his death 1951). The setup of the show provided ample opportunities for Ball to display her skills at clowning and physical comedy. She also starred on the popular radio series Duffy's Tavern, portraying the light-hearted Miss Duffy on CBS Radio from 1941 to 1942 and on NBC-Blue Radio from 1942 to 1943, and won an audience of fans over the airwaves. "Lucy! You got some 's-plainin' to do!" became a famous cry of Ricky Ricardo. She acted with Katharine Hepburn in The Philadelphia Story (1939) and with Ralph Bellamy in Tomorrow the World (1943).

Considered by professional clowns to be one of their own, Lucile Ball's 'clown character' was, of course, "Lucy Ricardo", (nee "Lucille McGillicuddy" - an instantly recognizable'clown 'monikker') "Lucy Ricardo" was a friendly, ambitious and somewhat naïve housewife who was constantly getting into trouble of one kind or another. During the 1930s and 1940s, she achieved popularity in dramas, comedies and musicals. and Lucie Arnaz to the Lake View Cemetery, in Jamestown, New York. She debuted on Broadway in the play Hell's Bells opposite Humphrey Bogart on January 26, 1925. Lucille Ball died on April 26, 1989 and was interred in the Forest Lawn - Hollywood Hills Cemetery in Los Angeles, California, but was later moved by her children, Desi Arnaz, Jr. Booth began her career on the stage as a teenager acting in stock company productions. Following "I Love Lucy", Ball appeared in "The Lucy Show" which was later renamed "Here's Lucy." In 1986 she appeared in "Life With Lucy", which sadly was a critical and popular flop. Her younger sister was Jean Valentine Ford.

Among other non-standard techniques used in filming the show, cans of paint (in shades ranging from white to medium gray) were kept on set - to 'paint out' innappropriate shadows and disguise lighting flaws. She was born Thelma Marjorie Ford in New York City, the daughter of Albert James Ford and Virginia Wright. In filming I Love Lucy, Desi Arnaz pioneered the '3-camera setup', now a standard in television. Shirley Booth (August 30, 1898 – October 16, 1992) was an acclaimed American actress. From a production aspect, the use of actual film during production, instead of making just an inferior-quality kinescope as most other TV shows did at the time, paved the way for rebroadcast through syndication. Along the way, she pioneered the television sitcom, and was among the first stars to film before a live audience.

"I Love Lucy" was not only a star vehicle for Lucille Ball, but a way for her to try to salvage her marriage to Desi Arnaz, which had been badly strained by the fact that each had a hectic performing schedule. This show became I Love Lucy. She agreed, but insisted on working with her real-life husband, Desi Arnaz. The program was successful, and CBS asked her to develop it as a television program.

In 1948, she was cast as a wacky wife in "My Favorite Husband", a radio program. She was known in many Hollywood circles as "the B-Movie queen", sharing the "royalty" honor with Macdonald Carey, who was designated as her "king". She switched to MGM in the 1940s, but never achieved great success in films. She appeared in many small movie roles in the 1930s as a contract player for RKO.

She moved to Hollywood in 1933 to appear in films. She moved to New York City to become an actress and had some success as a fashion model and chorus girl. She was born in Jamestown, New York and after her father died, was raised by her working mother and grandparents. A 'B-grade' movie star of the 1940s, she became one of the best and most popular stars in television history.

Lucille Désirée Ball (August 6, 1911 - April 26, 1989) was an American actress, comedian and star of I Love Lucy.