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Lucille Ball
Lucille Désirée Ball (August 6, 1911 – April 26, 1989) was an American comedienne, film, television, stage and radio actress, model, film and television executive, and star of the sitcoms I Love Lucy, The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour, The Lucy Show and Here's Lucy. One of the most popular and influential...
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Critic's Choice
Critic's Choice is a 1963 film directed by Don Weis.
Based on the 1960 Broadway play of the same name by Ira Levin, the movie starred Bob Hope and Lucille Ball and included Rip Torn, Marilyn Maxwell, Jim Backus, Marie Windsor and Jerome Cowan in the...
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Five Came Back
Five Came Back is a 1939 melodrama and a precursor of the disaster film genre. A B movie with an A-level cast and crew, the film boasts direction by John Farrow, photography by renowned film noir cinematographer Nicholas Musuraca, and a screenplay...
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Room Service
Room Service (1938) is an RKO film comedy starring the Marx Brothers and based on the 1937 play of the same name by Allen Boretz and John Murray. It co-stars Lucille Ball, Ann Miller, Alexander Asro, and Frank Albertson.
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The Dark Corner
The Dark Corner is a 1946 film noir directed by Henry Hathaway and starring Lucille Ball, Mark Stevens and Clifton Webb. The film is an example of a classic film noir and features a rare dramatic role for Ball.
Ex con turned private investigator...
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The Facts of Life
The Facts of Life is a 1960 romantic comedy starring Bob Hope and Lucille Ball as middle-aged people who have an affair despite being married to other people. Written, directed, and produced by the longtime Hope associates Melvin Frank and Norman...
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The Long, Long Trailer
The Long, Long Trailer is a novel by Clinton Twiss from the 1950s. It is about a couple who buy a new travel trailer home and spend a year traveling across the United States.
The novel was made into a movie in 1954 starring Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz,...
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Three Little Pigskins
Three Little Pigskins is the fourth short subject starring American slapstick comedy team the Three Stooges. The trio made a total of 190 shorts for Columbia Pictures between 1934 and 1959.
Starting out the short film as bums dressed as football...
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Yours, Mine and Ours
Yours, Mine and Ours is a 1968 film, directed by Melville Shavelson and starring Lucille Ball, Henry Fonda and Van Johnson. Before its release, it had three other working titles: The Beardsley Story, Full House, and His, Hers, and Theirs.
It was...
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Ziegfeld Follies
Ziegfeld Follies (MGM) is a 1946 Hollywood musical comedy film, directed by Roy Del Ruth and Vincente Minnelli, starring many of MGM leading talents, including Fred Astaire, Lucille Ball, Lucille Bremer, Judy Garland, Kathryn Grayson, Lena Horne,...
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Having Wonderful Time
Having Wonderful Time is a 1938 romantic comedy film released by RKO Radio Pictures.
A bored New York office girl (Ginger Rogers), goes to a camp in the Catskill Mountains called Camp Carefree, for rest and to get away from the noise, busy, city...
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Mame
Mame is a 1974 American musical film based on the 1966 Broadway musical of the same name, and starring Lucille Ball.
The film focuses on eccentric Mame Dennis, whose madcap life is disrupted when her deceased brother's son Patrick is entrusted to...
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The Fuller Brush Girl
The Fuller Brush Girl is a 1950 slapstick comedy starring Lucille Ball and directed by Lloyd Bacon. Animator Frank Tashlin wrote the script. Ball plays a quirky door-to-door cosmetics salesperson for the Fuller Brush Company. The film also stars...
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Abbott and Costello in Hollywood
Abbott and Costello in Hollywood is a 1945 film starring the comedy team of Abbott and Costello. This film's full onscreen title is Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Hollywood.
A barber, Buzz Curtis (Bud Abbott), and a porter, Abercrombie (Lou Costello...
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Best Foot Forward
Best Foot Forward is a 1943 American film adapted from the 1941 Broadway musical comedy of the same title. The film was released by MGM, directed by Edward Buzzell, and starring Lucille Ball, William Gaxton, Virginia Weidler, Chill Wills, June...
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I Dream Too Much
I Dream Too Much is a 1935 romantic comedy film, directed by John Cromwell. It stars Henry Fonda, Lily Pons, and Lucille Ball in one of her earliest roles. It has been described as a "somewhat wispy operetta."
Annette Monard Street (played by Pons)...
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Sorrowful Jones
Sorrowful Jones is a 1949 film directed by Sidney Lanfield. The film stars Lucille Ball and Bob Hope.
Sorrowful Jones was a remake of a 1934 Shirley Temple film, Little Miss Marker. In the film, a young girl is left with the notoriously cheap...
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I Love Lucy
I Love Lucy, aka I Love Lucy: The Movie is a 1953 feature film spin-off of the sitcom I Love Lucy. Except for one test screening in Bakersfield, California, the film was never theatrically released and was shelved.
Shortly after the end of the first...
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Twelve Crowded Hours
Twelve Crowded Hours is a 1939 film starring Richard Dix and Lucille Ball.
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DuBarry Was a Lady
DuBarry Was a Lady (1939) is a Broadway musical, starring Bert Lahr, Ethel Merman and Betty Grable with music and lyrics by Cole Porter, and the book by Herbert Fields and B.G. DeSylva. The song "Friendship" was one of the highlights. The musical...
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Bunker Bean
Bunker Bean is a 1936 black-and-white comedy movie directed by William Hamilton and Edward Kelly, produced by William Sistrom starring Owen Davis Jr as the title character. The cast included Lucille Ball as Mrs Kelly.
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Dance, Girl, Dance
Dance, Girl, Dance is a film released in 1940, directed by Dorothy Arzner.
In 2007, Dance, Girl, Dance was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or...
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Fancy Pants
Fancy Pants is a 1950 American comedy film, directed by George Marshall starring Lucille Ball and Bob Hope.
A B-grade stage actor who always messes up the role of a butler by spilling a tray's contents onto an actress because he's kinda creepy (once...
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Stage Door
Stage Door (1937) is a RKO film, adapted from the play by the same name, that tells the story of several would-be actresses who live together in a boarding house at 158 West 58th Street in New York City. The film stars Katharine Hepburn, Ginger...
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Lured
Lured (also known as Personal Column in the UK) is the title of a 1947 film noir released by United Artists, directed by Douglas Sirk, and starring Lucille Ball, George Sanders, Boris Karloff, Charles Coburn, and Cedric Hardwicke.
Ball plays Sandra...
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Miss Grant Takes Richmond
Miss Grant Takes Richmond is a 1949 comedy film starring Lucille Ball and William Holden, directed by Lloyd Bacon and released by Columbia Pictures. The film was released under the title Innocence is Bliss in the UK.
For Ellen Grant (Ball), the...
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Beauty for the Asking
Beauty for the Asking is a 1939 film drama produced by RKO Pictures, and starring Lucille Ball and Patrick Knowles.
It tells the story of Jean Russell (Ball), who becomes romantically involved with a wealthy married man (Knowles) who later spurns...
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Forever, Darling
Forever, Darling (1956) is a American romantic comedy film with fantasy overtones, starring Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz, and James Mason, and directed by Alexander Hall. The original screenplay by Helen Deutsch focuses on a married couple whose...
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Stone Pillow
Stone Pillow was a 1985 television movie, directed by George Schaefer, in which Lucille Ball, in an attempt to make a dramatic "breakout" from her years in comedy, portrayed an older homeless woman with few resources and even fewer options. The...
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Meet the People
Meet the People was a 1944 MGM patriotic film made during World War II with Lucille Ball and Dick Powell about a woman who works at a factory.
It features Vaughn Monroe and his orchestra, as well as Spike Jones and his City Slickers.
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Easy Living
Easy Living (1949) is a drama film directed by renowned horror and film noir director Jacques Tourneur, starring Victor Mature, Lizabeth Scott and Lucille Ball. The film features the real-life LA Rams football team.
The film tells the story of...
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Lucy in London
Lucy in London is a 1966 prime-time TV special produced and directed by Steve Binder and sponsored by Monsanto Company. The program starred Lucille Ball, Anthony Newley and the Dave Clark Five and was filmed entirely on location in London.
Lucy...
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Hollywood Party
Hollywood Party (1934) is a musical film starring Jimmy Durante. It was directed by Roy Rowland and distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The film wasn't a financial or critical success and is mostly remembered today because it features 31 stars such...
