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News LUCY-DESI CENTER’S LEGACY OF LAUGHTER SELLS OUT IN BOULDER CITY, NEVADA! Release Date Thursday, March 8, 2007
Jamestown, NY -- The audience in a sold-out house laughed and learned at last Saturday (March 3) evening’s Legacy of Laughter (LOL) at the Historic Boulder Theatre in Boulder City, Nevada. A program of the Lucille Ball-Desi Arnaz Center in Jamestown, New York, the event was an interactive celebration and exploration of the healing power of humor.
The LOLs were developed by Lucy-Desi Center president Lucie Arnaz following her and Center vice-president Desi Arnaz, Jr.’s search for a way to explore, extend and celebrate the impact that humor has on the world. Previous LOLs were held in Jamestown – Lucille Ball’s hometown – and Los Angeles. For each event, Ms. Arnaz moderates a panel of professionals who write, produce, research or use comedy.
The brother and sister team co-produced the most recent LOL held in the theatre Desi owns. Panelists were:
Desi Arnaz, Jr. - musician, actor, producer, who, with his wife Amy, owns and operates the Boulder City Ballet Company and the Historic Boulder Theatre
Sean Astin - actor (The Goonies, Rudy, Memphis Belle, Lord of the Rings), Academy Award nominated director (Kangaroo Court), and member of the Directors Guild of America, the Screen Actors Guild, and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists
Christina Carroll - artist who studied at Connecticut College, DeCordova Museum School, Boston Museum School, and Sir John Cass School of Art in London, and daughter of Bob Carroll, Jr., who, with others, wrote every episode of “I Love Lucy”
Jim Dunnigan - longtime resident of Boulder City and award-winning family and crisis intervention counselor who has helped many people deal with addiction and crisis through application of the 12 Step Program
Sebastien Gendry - author, educator and motivational speaker who is the founder and director of the American School of Laughter Yoga and the Laugh Angeles Foundation
By listening, asking questions, and practicing Laughter Yoga exercises, the audience was informed, inspired and engaged throughout the evening.
Continuing to fulfill the Center’s mission to preserve and celebrate the legacy of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz and enrich the world through the healing powers of love and laughter, the next Legacy of Laughter will be held during Lucy-Desi Days Memorial Day Weekend Festival, May 25-27, in Jamestown.
FRED BALL, LUCILLE BALL'S BROTHER, DIES Release Date Tuesday, February 5, 2007
Jamestown, NY – At the request of his family, the Lucille Ball-Desi Arnaz Center, in his hometown, Jamestown, New York, sadly announces the passing of Fred Ball at his home in Cottonwood, Arizona earlier today.
Mr. Ball was born on July 17, 1915, in Jamestown, the son of Henry and Desiree (Hunt) Ball, and younger brother of comedienne Lucille Ball. He left Jamestown to join his sister in California in the 1930’s, where he later traveled with his brother-in-law Desi Arnaz and his band and worked at Desilu Productions, the studio that produced Mission Impossible, Star Trek, and The Untouchables, as well as “I Love Lucy”. In recent years, he and his wife operated a motel in Cottonwood, Arizona.
From her home in New York City, Lucie Arnaz said, “It was always special to us that Uncle Fred and I shared the same birthday. In addition to being my mother’s brother, he was also a close friend of my father. I like to think that they are all enjoying a wonderful reunion right now.”
Mr. Ball had requested that his ashes be interred in Jamestown’s Lake View Cemetery along with his sister, parents, grandparents and other family.
This is a profile all about saluting one of the greatest...
Mrs. Lucille Ball.
She was born Lucille Desiree' Ball in Jamestown, NY on August 6, 1911 to Henry Ball and Desiree' Hunt Ball (DeDe). As soon as her mother could travel again they moved back to Montana. She was an only child for four years, being the center of her parents affection. Her mother was five months pregnant with her brother, Freddy, when her father fell ill. Her father never recovered, it turned into typhoid fever and he died shortly after. He was only twenty-eight and Lucy was not yet four. They returned to Jamestown and her brother was born four months after her father passed. Her mother soon remarried and moved places with her stepfather Ed Peterson. Young lucy had to leave her brother and cousin and move in with ed's parents. She had an awful time in that cold environment for years. She finally moved back to her house where her grandmother died shortly after.
Growing up in Jamestown, New York, her grandfather used to take her to see the vaudeville acts. She absolutely loved them. Lucille always wanted to be like those great comedians and comidennes, she didn't think she was funny but she would do almost anything. Then tragedy struck even worse when a little boy was shot in there back yard by a little girl, the family sued her grandfather because he was the only adult there at the time supervising. Her grandfather went to jail even thought it wasn't his fault, lucy's family lost everything, he was released after a while, but he was never the same. Lucy then begged her mother to send her to New York to a school for actresses. She stayed there for a while but the star pupel, Bette Davis, made it impossible for anyone to succeed there. Lucille had a terrible time there, it made her shy and selfconsicious. She said many years later that the school traumitizied her, and was a horrible school. Anyway she soon returned home when the school wrote her mother and told her that she was wasting her money. Lucy was terribly homesick anyway, so she went back to regular school in Jamestown. Years past and lucy return to New York city where she had several jobs at a fashion boutique, modeling for Hattie Carnigie and posed as a chesterfield cigeratte girl. One day lucy was modeling on a stage and she collapsed. Hattie took her to a hospital and they said she would never be able to walk again. But that didn't stop lucy and she went home to rest and get better, and after two years she got better and was off to NYC agian, working for Hattie. One day a lady came up to her in the street and said they were leaving for Hollywood the day after tomorrow. One girl had just dropped out of the group and they needed a replacement. And since lucy had modeled for several places and been a cigeratte girl, she was the right type. Bam, just like that Lucy was on her way to Hollywood to be a Goldwyn girl for Samuel Goldwyn himself in his new picture, Roman Scandels.
This film took a long time to film, it was supposed to only take six weeks to film but instead it stretched to six months. So in the meantime lucy made sure she was always in the right place when someone needed an extra. She stared in many films before Roman Scandels ever finished, like blood money, the bowery, and broadway through a keyhole. She was told she wasn't the prettiest out of all the goldwyn girls, but she found that she got many parts because she would do anything for a part. If a producer needed a girl to get a pie in the face or something where they got dirty, all the other girls were to pretty and sophisticated to do it so the producer would see lucy and say,
what about her, if the other girls won't do it, ask her, she'll do it".
That's how she got her start by being the one who didn't care whether she got down and dirty, or that no one could recognize her with the pie or mud on her face, she was just happy to be in the show. So she was in many movies, and after a while this got tiring because she wasn't getting anywhere in show business. Her first big break was The affairs of Annabel and Stage door. But still she was getting small parts, and people still didn't know who she was. They used to say she was the queen of the B pictures and "Lucille Ball deserves better parts then she been given."
When she was a Goldwyn she would get loaned out to different studios like 20th Century-FOX all the time. That's how hollywood worked in the 1930's, sometimes lucy wouldn't even know who was in the picture with her, or nobody would even bother to tell her the title, they just told her to show up at a certain time and day, and walk through a scene and say one line maybe and leave. She said in her book that "I never knew I was in Broadway Through a keyhole with Russ columbio until a few weeks ago, when i saw the film for the first time". Now Broadway through a keyhole was made in 1933 and she wrote her book in 1964. She was so worried about her career, that she put romance aside for a while. She was so determined to earn enough money to bring her family to hollywood and live with her. She had brief walk in parts but like i said before it wasn't getting her anywhere.
After being in Hollywood for about a year she went about home to jamestown and stayed with grandma peterson, her stepfather ed's mother, and even though no one really knew her yet, jamestown was making a huge deal out of the premire of Roman Scandels. To them Lucille Ball was a wonderful success and big time celebrity in Jamestown...they were so completely proud of her.
At Columbia, Lucy was making seventy-five dollars a week, every week she would take her check and put it in her "survival" account. When her brother, freddy, graduated he moved up to california to live with her and got a job at the Trocadero supper club. They rented a house on Ogden drive for eighty-five dollars a month. They got the house fixed, called her family, and invited up to live with her. So when she got off the phone, ten minutes later she got a call saying she had been fired from columbia, even though her mom, and grandpa, were on their way. That night her date told her that there was a showgirl call at RKO. So she went over to RKO and meet Bernard Newman, he likeed her height and manner, so she got the job. Which led to a three-month contract that turned into seven years.
She was only making fifty dollars a week RKO, which was later the site for Desilu Studios. On the set of Roberta, Lela Rogers, ginger rogers mother, got at call and was told, that they had hired four new models for the movie, "three of them may be star material. Then there's a kid named Lucille Ball. Don't pay any attention to her. Berny Newman hired her, I don't know why. She's great at parties, real funny kid, but I can't see any future for her in movies". Lela didn't care, she told lucy later, that she saw the twinkle in her eyes, she was great. Then when her contract ran out after a year studio didn't renew it, so when lucy told lela, lela said that "if lucy goes so do I". she said lucy was the best student she had, and she would manage lucy like she did ginger.
Lela always said not to let anyone see your temper. well one day lucy was getting her make up done by Mel Burns and he got a call that Katharine Hepburn was on her way down. So he rudely told Lucy to get out...he basically threw her out the door to say the least when kate got down there. Well after she was out she realized she left her eyebrow pencil in there, so she came back drinking her coffee and stuck her head through the talking whole in the dressing room, Mel ignored her completely. She asked three times, he made a stale remark , Lucy was boiling, Lucy said, "Suddenly the coffee cup left my hand and went sailing into the dressing room, narrowly missing Hepburn's celebrated head." They almost fired lucy for that but lela once again saved her. Then lucy was in a play, but the night of one of the performances, lela called lucy and said the star couldn't make it and lucy would have to play the lead that night. Lucy was wonderful, and after the performance lela told her it was a test and she would never face a more difficult task, even if lucy stayed in show business for fifty years.
Well lucy dated the producer of RKO at the time, who was married with children. He asked Lucy to marry him and eventually she got up the courage to turn him down. With his wounded pride, he lost all interest in lucy's career and her, then he made an announcement that "Lucille Ball would never again do an A picture at RKO. this almost ended her career entirely. So she became known as the "Queen of the B's" since B pictures were all she was getting to do. When lucy went to New York they told her to go see the broadway play "Too Many Girls" because she might get the lead in the movie version. But lucy fell on ice and had to go to the hospital. So she missed the play, but her friends who visited her in the hospital told her it was a great success and one of the stars "Desi Arnaz" was extremely handsome, and was a great singer and actor. So when she was able to get out of the hospital bed, her friend took her to see it..she said she couldn't take her eyes off Desi.
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