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Lucille Ball is one of the most loved celebrities of all time. Her character of Lucy Riccardo on the 'I Love Lucy' show continues to delight tv fans around the world. At 15, she enrolled in the John Murray Anderson Drama School in New York City. Her first movie role was as a chorus girl, and she appeared in over 60 films from the early 1930s through the late 1940s. From 1947 to 1951, Ball played a wacky wife of a straight-laced banker on the popular CBS radio program, 'My Favorite Husband'. When CBS approached her about taking the show to television, she would only agree if her real-life husband, Cuban bandleader Desi Arnaz, played her TV husband. 'I Love Lucy' premiered on October 15, 1951and immediately became one of the most popular shows on tv. It has proved to be the most nnovative and influential situation-comedy ever made. After her divorce from Arnaz, she continued to activity work in television and movies until the final few years of her life. She had two children during her marriage to Arnaz and was remarried to Gary Morton. She died from complications following heart surgery and was laid to rest at Forest Lawn Cemetery in Glendale, California.
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