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Article: Lucille: The Life of Lucille Ball.
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- Video Age International
- Article date:
- April 1, 1995
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Not Always a Ball For Lucy
Kathleen Brady's Lucille: The Life of Lucille Ball (Hyperion, 397 pp.) is a pleasure to read as her accounts of film and comic TV actress Lucille Ball's life are masterfully written and full of first-hand and often funny anecdotes from Ball's friends and family as well as Ball herself. Brady interviewed more than 150 people for the biography, including Ball shortly before her death.
Although many claim they know about Ball's life, particularly her tumultuous relationship with Desi Arnaz, Brady offers a detailed look at her meager "beginnings" before Arnaz entered the picture. And it was during these humble beginnings when money was ...