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| children = Lucie Arnaz Desi Arnaz Jr. | relatives = Fred Ball (brother) | signature = Lucy signature cropped.svg | signature_size = 125px }} Lucille Désirée Ball (August 6, 1911 – April 26, 1989) was an American actress, comedienne, model, film studio executive, and TV producer. She was the star of the sitcoms ''I Love Lucy'', ''The Lucy–Desi Comedy Hour'', ''The Lucy Show'', ''Here's Lucy'', and ''Life with Lucy''.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Lucille Ball Bio )〕 Ball's career in the spotlight began in 1929, when she landed work as a model. Shortly thereafter, Lucille began her performing career on Broadway using the stage name Diane Belmont and Dianne Belmont. She performed many small movie roles in the 1930s and 1940s as a contract player for RKO Radio Pictures, being cast as a chorus girl, or in similar roles. In the midst of her work as a contract player for RKO, Ball met Cuban bandleader Desi Arnaz. The two eloped on November 30, 1940. During the 1950s, Lucille Ball became a television star. In 1951, Ball and Arnaz created the television series ''I Love Lucy'', a show that would go on to be one of the most beloved programs in television history. On July 17, 1951, at almost forty years of age, Ball gave birth to their first child, Lucie Désirée Arnaz.〔 A year and a half later, she gave birth to their second child, Desiderio Alberto Arnaz IV, known as Desi Arnaz, Jr.〔 Ball and Arnaz divorced on May 4, 1960. In 1962, Ball became the first woman to run a major television studio, Desilu. Her studio produced many successful and popular television series, including ''Mission: Impossible'' and ''Star Trek''.〔"Arnaz Quits Presidency Of Desilu; Former Wife, Lucille Ball, Gets Post", ''Wall Street Journal'', November 9, 1962, p. 18.〕 She continued making film and television appearances for most of the rest of her life, albeit without ever attaining the success she enjoyed in the 1950s. Ball was nominated for an Emmy Award thirteen times and won four times. In 1977, Ball was among the first recipients of the Women in Film Crystal Award.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://wif.org/past-recipients )〕 She was the recipient of the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award in 1979,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Cecil B. DeMille Award )〕 the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Kennedy Center Honors in 1986,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=List of Kennedy Center Honorees )〕 and the Governors Award from the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences in 1989.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Hall of Fame Archives: Inductees )〕 On April 26, 1989, at the age of 77, Ball died of an abdominal aortic dissection. At the time of her death, she had been married to standup comedian Gary Morton, her business partner and second husband, for more than 27 years. ==Early life== Born in Jamestown, New York, Lucille Ball was the daughter of Désirée "DeDe" Evelyn (née Hunt; September 21, 1892 – July 20, 1977) and Henry Durrell Ball (September 16, 1887 – February 28, 1915). Following her father's death from typhoid fever in 1915, she and her family moved to nearby Celoron and lived there with her grandparents. She sometimes later claimed that she had been born in Butte, Montana. A number of magazines reported inaccurately that she had decided that Montana was a more romantic place to be born than New York and repeated a fantasy of a “Western childhood”; in fact, her father had moved the family there briefly, among other places, for work.〔Higham , C. (1986). ''Lucy: The life of Lucille Ball'', New York: St. Martin's Press.〕 Her family was Baptist, and her ancestry was mostly English, but included small amounts of Scottish, French, and Irish. Some of her genealogy leads to the earliest settlers in the colonies, including Englishman Edmund Rice, an early immigrant to Massachusetts Bay Colony.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nychauta/CEMETERY/ForestHill/LucilleBall.html )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Isaac Ball (1747- ?) )〕 Her father, a telephone lineman for Bell Telephone Company, was frequently transferred because of his occupation. Within three years of her birth, Lucille had moved with her parents from Jamestown to Anaconda and then later to Trenton.〔 While DeDe Ball was pregnant with her second child, Frederick, Henry Ball contracted typhoid fever and died in February 1915. Ball recalled little from the day her father died, but remembered a bird getting trapped in the house. From that day forward, she suffered from ornithophobia. After her father died, her mother returned to New York and her parents. Ball and her brother, Fred Henry Ball (July 17, 1915 – February 5, 2007), were raised by their mother and maternal grandparents in Celoron, New York, a summer resort village on Lake Chautauqua, just west of Jamestown.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.notablebiographies.com/Ba-Be/Ball-Lucille.html )〕 Lucy loved Celoron Park, one of the best amusement areas in the United States at that time. Its boardwalk had a ramp to the lake that served as a children’s slide, the Pier Ballroom, a roller-coaster, a bandstand, and a stage where vaudeville, concerts, and regular theatrical shows were presented, all of which made Celoron Park an entertainment destination.〔 Four years after the death of her father, Ball’s mother was remarried to Edward Peterson. While her mother and stepfather looked for work in another city, Ball and her brother were cared for by her stepfather’s parents. Ball’s new guardians were a puritanical Swedish couple who banished all mirrors from the house except for one over the bathroom sink. When the young Ball was caught admiring herself in it, she was severely chastised for being vain. This period of time affected Ball so deeply that, in later life, she claimed that it lasted seven or eight years. Peterson was a Shriner. When his organization needed female entertainers for the chorus line of their next show, he encouraged his twelve-year-old stepdaughter to audition. While Ball was onstage, she realized performing was a great way to gain praise and recognition. Her appetite for recognition had thus been awakened at an early age. In 1927, her family suffered misfortune. Their house and furnishings were lost to settle a financial legal judgment after a neighborhood boy was accidentally shot and paralyzed by someone target shooting in their yard under Ball's grandfather's supervision. The family subsequently moved into a small apartment in Jamestown. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Lucille Ball」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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