Lucille Ball Essay Research Paper Lucille Desiree

Lucille Ball Essay, Research Paper

Lucille Desiree Ball. The first thought that comes into many people.s

minds when this name is said would be . Lucy. the well known funny

character she played on her popular TV series .I Love Lucy. ( 1951-57).How

did she become a legend. With dreams of being on stage in musicals to being

the .star. in the big screen. Just like .Lucy., Lucille yearned to be a famous

performer. Looking back now, anyone could say that her childhood dream

came true. Who would have thought that a Jamestown farm girl could

become a Hollywood legend. I guess you can say it all started on August 6,

1911 in Jamestown New York – when a .star. was born.

Lucille was the first child of Henry Dunnell Ball and the former

Desiree Evelyn Hunt, both were teens when they were married and had

Lucille. She had ancestors from all over Europe. With roots from France

England, Scotland, and Ireland.(Harris 20)

Besides having the ability to make anyone laugh any time and in any

situation. Another unforgettable trait Lucille had was her red hair.

Unfortunately, she was brought into this world with blond hair, that darkened

to a brunette. However she still kept that .little girl. quality, which became

one of her main appeals as a comedian.

Lucille despised being called .Lucy. so her family nicknamed her .

Lucyball.. Although she tried to avoid being called .Lucy. after a certain

television debut in 1951, she was rarely called anything but .Lucy..

Lucille.s father worked for her grandfather, Jasper Ball as a electrical

lineman. As a result of his job, the family was constantly on the move.

Lucille ended up spending her childhood in places like Anaconda, Montana,

and Wyandotte, Michigan. Far from her birthplace in Jamestown.( Harris 20)

Even as a child Lucille possessed qualities similar to .Lucy.. Her

mother always had to tie a rope around her waist and hook it to the

clothesline in order to keep Lucille out of trouble. Most of the time she did

anyway. One morning her mother looked out the window and saw her all

tangled up on a tree branch, begging the milkman to help her get free.( Harris

20)

Life seemed to go well for young Lucille. With a baby brother on the

way. It was supposed to be their happiest year. Until a tragedy happened to

the Ball.s. In February, Henry Ball came down with typhoid fever and died.

After her father.s death, Lucille and her mother moved to Jamestown to live

her grandparents, Frederick and Florabelle Hunt. Shortly after the move,

Lucille.s baby brother Fred was born on July 3, 1915. Certain that Fred was

her mother.s favorite Lucille hated her brother. Little did she know that her

mother dedicated her life to Lucille. Desiree had studied piano and wanted

Lucille to follow in her footsteps, but Lucille showed no interest despite her

mother.s efforts to teach her.( Harris 21)

Lucille was in care of her grandparents most of the time. Her mother

still young and wanting to find a husband made it difficult to watch over

Lucille and Fred. Lucille was very close to her grandparents, especially her

grandfather. She got her first taste of show business from Grandpa Hunt.

Lucille loved watching vaudeville with her grandpa on Saturdays. When they

got home, she would reenact the show for her grandmother. She also used to

play theater with her friend Pauline Lopus. They used the barn as their

theater, stage, mansion, ranch house. Lucille and her friends often put on

one-act plays and revues, for which they made their own tickets, props, and

advertising posters. She loved playing a boy in her acts and the audience

loved it too. Her grandfather saw her love for acting, and he encourage her to

get involved in plays at school and church.( Harris 22)

Like before whenever things seem to be going well for Lucille,

something had to go wrong. It did. In 1920 Lucille.s mom Desiree remarried,

and left Lucille and Fred temporarily. Later she sent for her kids where they

lived with her new husband Ed Peterson. Ed was really strict to the children,

Lucille felt frustrated all the time with his rules. The only way out of this for

her was to make people laugh. Things began to go bad in the Peterson home

Ed began drinking. That.s when Lucille and her brother were sent back to

their grandparent.s house. Once again tragedy strict, Lucille.s grandmother

died from cancer. With her grandmother gone, Lucille had to take care of

Fred. And at the age of 10, she began having part-time jobs. During the

summer, she sold hot dogs and ice cream from a little gazebo or on the

boardwalk. Lucille was in her teens when World War I and the Great

Depression.( Harris 25-6)

Lucille was the first girl in her neiborhood to get the bob hair cut, own

a raccoon coat, and to wear unbuckled galoshes. Like true .flapper.. At 15,

Lucille was 5.6, as tall as she wo

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