Lucille Ball 101st Birthday

Lucille Ball is extremely underrated. Sure, some people know that she's the queen of comedy, but most of us have overlooked her dramatic acting skills. Before taking up the role of Lucy Ricardo in I Love Lucy, Miss Ball was typecast into many roles in dramatic movies, glamor movies, musical comedies, film noirs and so on, and she was perfect in all of them! No one, and I mean no one had and can never have the caliber of talent as this lady. Moreover, her beauty was often overlooked because she indulged in slapstick and physical comedy. Has anyone ever noticed how desirable she still looked with a pie in her face, when she was stuffing chocolates, or when she was drenched? And her lipstick never smudged once!

I'll always regard her as my role model. Her beauty and her talent are just the tip of the iceberg. Character-wise, she was optimistic and determined, diligent and down-to-earth, childlike and sentimental, and humble and shy. Most importantly, she had a phenomenal capacity to love both human beings and animals. 
 
Happy 101st birthday to the first pregnant lady on television, first noted chairperson of a major film productions studio, America's favorite redhead, Miss Lucille Ball! You'll always be loved!

HAPPY 101ST BIRTHDAY, LUCY!

Whenever they were in the Bay Area, she (Lucy) and Harriet, who was not only her maid but her gin rummy partner and confidante, visited Harriet’s best friend, Dot. Knowing Lucille loved barbecue, Dot bought ribs, and they all sat in the kitchen eating them. “I kept staring at this beautiful lady eating messy ribs,” said Dot’s daughter, Barbara, who was ten at the time. “Lucille loved children and she always treated me like a princess. She had her dressmaker make me pinafores and she sent socks to match. My mother was afraid I would be spoiled rotten, and I was. Lucille made people feel important in her company, because if she liked you, she loved you.” 

The little girl delighted in seeing how silly Lucille and her aunt Harriet behaved together. “They tried on hats with feathers and veils and pranced around like college kids.” Harriet and Dot reminisced about being dancers together, and Lucille chimed in with tales of her Goldwyn Girl days. “The three of them would have a couple of drinks, then push the furniture back and form a chorus line, laughing and giggling and dancing,” Barbara recalled.

Happy 101st Birthday, Lucille Ball!

Enjoy the collage I made.

It's Lucy Picture Spamming Day! Happiest birthday to you, Lucy! You'll always be loved!

“The sun never sets on Lucille Ball. All over this worried world tonight, nations of untold millions are watching reruns they also watched the first time around. Joy requires no translation. God wanted the world to laugh, and He invented you. Many are called, but you were chosen. All of the funny hats, the baggy pants, the moustaches and the wigs, and the pratfalls and the blacked-out-teeth – they didn’t fool us one minute. We saw through all the disguises, and what we found inside was more than we deserve”

Lucille Ball's Profile

Here's a profile of Lucy, hope you'll enjoy it! Happy 101st Birthday, Miss Ball!


Profile: 
Name: Lucille Désirée Ball Morton
Date of Birth: 6 August 1911
Date of Death: 26 April 1989
Place Interred: Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Hollywood Hills, California, then Lake View Cemetery at 907 Lake View Avenue, Jamestown, New York
Words inscribed on grave: "You've come home"
Sex: Female
Height: 170cm (~5.58 feet)
Weight: 55kg (~120 pounds)
Eye color: Baby blue
Hair color(s): Originally mousy brown, then blond, then strawberry blond, then flaming red, then apricot red
Hometown: Celeron, Jamestown, New York, United States of America
Occupations: Model, Actress, Comedienne, Vice President then President of Desilu Productions, Director, film executive producer
Parents: Henry Durrell Ball, Desirée Eveline Hunt Ball
Sibling: Frederick Henry Ball (younger brother)
Spouses: Desi Arnaz (1940 - 1960), Gary Morton (1961 - death)
Children: Lucie Désirée Arnaz, Desiderio Alberto Arnaz IV
Favorite female movie stars: Carole Lombard, Katharine Hepburn, Audrey Hepburn, Liza Minnelli, Shirley MacLaine
Favorite male movie stars: Spencer Tracy, Henry Fonda, William Holden, Gary Cooper
Favorite movies: Cabaret, My Fair Lady, A Star is Born
Favorite singers: Dean Martin, Barbra Streisand, Judy Garland
Favorite entertainers: Bob Hope, Maurice Chevalier, Tommy Tune
Favorite flowers: Red and white carnations, liliac, yellow roses, gladiolas
Favorite colors: Mauve, aquamarine, purple, chocolate brown
Favorite foods: tapioca pudding, Jell-O, peanut butter sandwich, franks and beans, grilled cheese sandwich, Waldorf salad, chicken chop suey, raspberries
Favorite "I Love Lucy" episodes: Queen of the Gypsies (all-time favorite), The Chocolate Factory, Lucy does a TV Commercial, Grape Stomping scene, Lucy meets William Holden, Lucy Gives Birth scene

You'll always be remembered dearly!

Instagram Pictures: Desi and Lucy

These two pictures have been posted on my Instagram account, @WeLoveLucilleBall. Follow this account for daily updates of Lucy's pictures and fun facts!

Here are Desi and Lucy at the chapel where they remarried.

Desi and Lucy had been married for 10 years, but they remained childless. "We have tried all ways humanly possible but we remain childless," Desi lamented. "Lucy had been checked and there's nothing wrong with her. I thought it was my fault, but there's nothing wrong with me too." Desi's mother, Dolores, was a devout catholic and was convinced that the couple remained childless because having eloped some 10 years ago, God had not sanctioned the marriage. Dolores wanted them to remarry in a church and with God's blessings, Lucy would definitely be pregnant. Desi loved the idea. He wanted to convince Lucy that he was totally in love with her, and with his knees bent, he proposed romantically to Lucy. Overwhelmed with emotions, Lucy agreed immediately.

He loved Lucy.

HAPPY 101st BIRTHDAY, MISS LUCILLE BALL!

Happy 101st Birthday, Miss Lucille Ball!

6 AUGUST 2012

It's 12am Singapore time, and I'll like to wish my idol, my companion, my loveliest woman a happy birthday!

Today marks the 101st year since a great woman was brought into this world. I remember vividly how I've written a post on her death anniversary, which seems like yesterday. In just a blink of an eye, 26 April jumped to 6 August, indicating that Lucy's physical traces are further and further away from us.

However, this also means that my affair with her has grown! In fact, our first anniversary will be arriving mid August- that's when my American Pluralism instructor introduced me to this wonderful comedian and actress.

Lucille's comedic talent, determination and optimism have been instrumental in helping me cope with my life. In all honesty, my life is tumultuous and full of myriads of moments where I inevitably face terrible misfortunes. Sometimes, I cave into periods of self-pitying, but since Miss Lucille Ball became my role model, I find these moments becoming fleeting and brief. Before and after a battle, I would habitually watch an episode of I Love Lucy, or if time allows, I would watch an old black and white movie of hers. Miraculously, I would find my mood improving tenfold!

Just like how Lucy looked up to Carole Lombard as her inspiration, I do look up to Lucy whenever I face problems. Even dead for 23 years, Lucy never failed to help me sharpen my perspectives- on love, on life, on anything under the sun. I plan to be visiting her grave in Jamestown, New York, with my best friend and closest friends in 2014, and I wish with all my heart that this dream will come true.

Lucy was a complicated person when alive. I can really relate to her in this way because people around me call me Miss Complicated. Most of the time, I think and do things where outsiders would not understand, nor do they care to, and only those loved ones who are really emotionally synchronized with me will really know the real me, stripped of all facades and layers. I hate to have to explain myself to others, because I will feel awfully exposed, vulnerable and weak. Nonetheless, I have a tendency to read people because I know how horrible it is not to be read, or to be misread.

I find it therapeutic whenever I read Lucy. I can safely say that I'm one of the top 10 people in the world outside her family who knows Lucy well. It is a pleasure to answer readers' and followers' questions like "was Lucy rude towards air stewardesses?" and "I heard Lucy was a bitch to work with, is that true?" and "did Lucy get over her divorce?" and "why did Lucy feel an estrangement towards her children?" and so on. Miss Ball had been misunderstood by people who have been fed by gossips. Additionally, the strong and mighty Lucy never put the misconceptions to sleep while alive. Having done an extensive amount of research, I take it upon myself to set the record straight.

If only I was this obsessed with my studies, I would have been Albert Einstein's apprentice. Ha!

I love you, Lucy!
Happy 101st birthday, and I sincerely hope that just like how Ricky and Lucy Ricardo would end a story happily, Desi Arnaz and you are holding hands in heaven and smiling down at me.