Lucille Desiree Ball was born in Jamestown, New York in August 6,1911. Her father's job made the family move often when she was a young child. “within three years after her birth, Lucille had moved from Jamestown to Anaconda, Montana, and then to Wyandotte, Michigan.” (Adler 2017). Her father had died of typhoid before she even turned five; from then on, she, her brother and mother lived with her grandparents in New York. Her grandfather enjoyed the theater and took the family to see vaudeville shows regularly; he encouraged Lucy to take part when she could. Ball dropped out of school at the age of 15 to pursue the arts and moved to new school in New York. When she cracked under the pressure and was too shy at her new school she went back…show more content… The program had reached unheard of records in ratings. “the birth of little Ricky had more views than president Eisenhower's inauguration address on TV.” (A&E Network, 2017). While television shows cannot run forever, but production studios can. Their production studio Desilu continued to produce shows including Our Miss Brooks, Make Room for Daddy, The Dick Van Dyke Show, The Untouchables, Star Trek, and Mission: Impossible. (A&E Network,2017). Marriages are hard work especially when both people are in show business and work together every day all day. Sometimes love is just not enough to keep a marriage together, that is why Ball and Arnaz divorced during 1960. She said that “Desi was the great love of my life. I will miss him until the day I die”. (Peter, 2017). Both remarried later in life. Lucy to comedian Gary Morton and Desi Arnaz married Edith Hirsch. Ball ended up buying out her ex-husband for control of their production company. This made her the first woman to run a major TV studio, which she eventually sold for 17 million dollars in 1967 to Gulf western. (A&E Network, 2017). Her career still soared high as she was in three more shows the Lucy show, here’s Lucy, and Life with Lucy.
