Lucille Ball

露西尔·鲍尔Ball, Lucille (Desiree1911～1989），美国电影和广播女演员和电视喜剧明星。1911年8月6日出生在美国纽约州詹姆斯敦附近的瑟洛隆，1989年4月26日于加利福尼亚州洛杉矶去世。她15岁开始学习戏剧，1933年起开始在电影中担任小角色，并于1947年起在广播喜剧连续剧中演出。后来与其乐团团长丈夫阿纳慈合作创制电视喜剧连续剧《我爱露西》，在剧中扮演一对经常遭遇稀奇古怪的意外和灾祸的夫妻(1951～1957)，和后来的《露西-戴西喜剧时间》(1957～1960)。二人于1960年离异，鲍尔参加《露西剧场》(1962～1968)和《露西在这儿》(1968～1974)的演出。她特有的红头发、刺耳的嗓音和滑稽的表情再加上俗丽和女性的温柔，使得她成为早期电视界最著名的女星。
 
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by Sandy Lawson
 
Lucille Ball -- whose career in front of the camera spanned five decades -- served as a pioneer for female comedians, as well as for the television industry itself. Named TV Guide's &Biggest TV Star of All Time,& Ball was only one of two women to successfully star in three separate long-running sitcoms in successive decades. (The second woman was Jane Curtin).
 
The reason people still watch I Love Lucy -- or any other rerun for that matter -- is actually because of Lucille Ball. Together, Ball and her husband (on TV and in real life), Desi Arnaz, developed the idea for syndication. Besides this major shift in the way people viewed television, Ball also pioneered the three camera technique -- now standard fare for sitcoms. She was the first woman to own her own studio and she won seven Emmys throughout her career, including Outstanding Continued Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Comedy Series several times, and Best Comedienne. For all of her work and contributions in comedy, she won a Lifetime Achievement Award in 1987.
 
Following the I Love Lucy show (1951-1957) came The Lucy and Desi Comedy Hour (1957-1960 ). The couple then split-up in real life and Ball struck out on her own with another sitcom, The Lucille Ball Show (1962-1967), and finally, Here's Lucy (1968-1974).
 
Before hitting it big and becoming one of the first people to make a name on the small screen, Ball was known as the &Queen of the B Movies& (also as &Technicolor Tessie& -- for the way her red hair showed up on the camera.) At one time, she held contracts as a minor star at RKO (which she and Arnaz would later buy out and rename Desilu) and MGM. For over 20 years, she often took small, and in retrospect, surprisingly dramatic, roles. During this time, she performed and sang in movies such as Wildcat, and Broadway shows like Ziegfeld Follies. In 1940, on the set of Too Many Girls, she met and fell in love with Arnaz, an actor and musician. The two eloped. Toward the end of the '40s, she began taking rolls that would lead to her success in slapstick. In 1948, she took a spot on a radio comedy show, entitled My Favorite Husband, in which she played a scatterbrained housewife, which led to an offer from the television networks. Much like the character in her beloved sitcom, Ball hatched a scheme to get the Hollywood executives to sign Arnaz on before she would agree to it. The rest is history.
 
all first entered drama school in New York (where she was a classmate of Bette Davis). There she was advised to choose another career because she was told never make it in acting. She modeled hats at a department store before getting her big break as a Chesterfield Girl, and eventually landed a movie studio contract.
 
After several attempts at saving her highly publicized and troubled marriage, Ball remarried producer/actor Gary Morton (he produced a bulk Ball's shows after I Love Lucy) and stayed married to him until her death in 1989. She is survived by a son, Desi, and a daughter, Lucy, both of whom played her children at different times throughout her television series.