Lucille Ball
  • Tasty TV: 'Sandra's Halloween Wonderland'

    ...play the Mad Hatter, and I talk to myself ... which is funny." Additionally, Lee appears as Cher and Lucille Ball . And, of course, Halloween-flavored recipes are included. "You can't have a Halloween party without magical......

  • Lucille Ball at 100: 'I Love Lucy' still a shining example of why a live audience can work

    The legendary comedian proved time and time again that there is finesse to interacting with a crowd....

  • Television 'Pioneers' reflect again

    ...such as producer Gene Roddenberry 's arguments with NBC executives over how to do "Star Trek," or Lucille Ball walking into her Desilu studio. So much of the content is authentic, sticking with still photos of the actual individuals......

  • Tracy Morgan works 'Blue' in raunchy HBO special

    ...projects, and my father. And then you had Richard Pryor and Eddie (Murphy) and Carol Burnett and Lucille Ball and Jackie Gleason , after my father and uncles. Family on both sides is very funny. My father was Richard......

  • 'The Lucy Show": The Official Second Season'

    After "I Love Lucy" ended, Lucille Ball returned to series television and had another healthy run on CBS, as verified by this second of the six years of this sitcom......

  • 'I Love Lucy: The Movie'

    ...first-season television episodes were re-edited and augmented with new scenes to create a flowing story ... but Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz ultimately decided to hold onto it at the time, so as not to compete with their 1953 movie......

  • 1950s sitcom star Gale Storm dies

    ...mischievous Margie. A 1953 poll of the most popular TV stars listed Storm at No. 2, behind TV comedy queen Lucille Ball . After "My Little Margie" ended, Storm starred in "The Gale Storm Show: Oh! Susanna," in which she played......

  • Bea Arthur, star of 'Golden Girls' and 'Maude,' dies at 86

    ...said Arthur "delivers a line as if someone had put lye in her martinis." When "Mame" came to the screen, Lucille Ball , who replaced Lansbury as the lead character, insisted on having Arthur as Vera, even though Arthur was upset......

  • 'Rear Window' Screenwriter John Michael Hayes Dies

    ...Hayes continued his radio career, writing for radio dramas "The Adventures of Sam Spade," "Inner Sanctum" and Lucille Ball 's "My Favorite Husband" in Hollywood. On the strength of Hayes' radio work, Universal-International Pictures......

  • 'I Love Lucy' Co-Creator Dies

    ...Los Angeles home of natural causes. He'd been in ill health for the past few weeks. After first teaming with Lucille Ball on her radio show "My Favorite Husband," Carroll, writing partner Madelyn Pugh Davis and another writer, Jess......

  • Duff Dolled Up for Barbie

    ...celebrity Barbies include dolls of Reese Witherspoon (a la "Legally Blonde"), Beyonce Knowles and Lucille Ball . Duff first won fans as the klutzy "Lizzie Mcguire" on the Disney Channel. Since then, she's starred in......

  • Leno fails to see the humor in joke books

    ...uttered by Leno and other comedians, including Ellen DeGeneres , Joan Rivers , Jerry Seinfeld , Lucille Ball and Tim Allen. The suit, filed in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles , said that Brown and her publishers......

  • Film Sweetheart June Allyson Dies at 88

    ...the spunky Allyson was buoyed by her ability to form close friendships. Among those who befriended her were Lucille Ball , who was the star of the 1943 film version of "Best Foot Forward," and Mickey Rooney and Garland, who......