In 1929, Lucy landed work as a model and later began her performing career on Broadway using the stage name "Diane Belmont". She appeared in many small movie roles in the 1930s as a contract player for RKO Radio Pictures. Ball was labeled as the "Queen of the B's" (referring to her many roles in B-films).
In 1951, Lucy was pivotal in the creation of the television series I Love Lucy. The show co-starred her then husband, Desi Arnaz as Ricky Ricardo and Vivian Vance and William Frawley as Ethel and Fred Mertz, the Ricardos' lovable landlords. After the show ended in 1960, Lucy went on to star in two more successful television series: The Lucy Show, which ran on CBS from 1962 to 1968, and Here's Lucy from 1968 to 1974. Her last attempt at a television series was a 1986 show called Life With Lucy. The show proved to be a critical and commercial flop which was canceled less than two months into its run by ABC.
Lucy met and eloped with Cuban bandleader Desi Arnaz in 1940. On July 17, 1951, she gave birth to their first child, Lucie Desiree Arnaz. A year and a half later, Lucy gave birth to their second child, Desiderio Alberto Arnaz IV, known as Desi Arnaz, Jr. Lucy and Desi divorced on May 4, 1960. On April 26, 1989, Lucille Ball died at age seventy-seven. At the time of her death, she had been married to her second husband, standup comedian and business partner Gary Morton, for twenty-eight years.
Her father, a telephone lineman for Anaconda Copper, was frequently transferred because of his occupation, and within three years of her birth, Lucille had moved many times, from Jamestown to Anaconda, Montana, and then to Wyandotte, Michigan. While DeDe Ball was pregnant with her second child, Frederick, Henry Ball contracted typhoid fever and died in February 1915. After her father died, Lucy and her brother Fred were raised by her mother and grandparents. Her grandfather, Fred C. Hunt, was an eccentric socialist who also enjoyed the theater. He frequently took the family to vaudeville shows and encouraged young Lucy to take part in both her own and school plays.
In 1927, Lucy dated a gangster's son by the name of Johnny DeVita. Because of this relationship, her mother decided to ship Ball off to the John Murray Anderson School for the Dramatic Arts in New York City. There, Lucy attended with fellow actress, Bette Davis. She went home a few weeks later when drama coaches told her that she "had no future at all as a performer".
Lucille Memorial Cemetery is located about 0.6 miles east of Palmer off of Interstate 45. The cemetery is much larger than it looks, and actually extends all the way east to the home located there.
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