Lucille Désirée Ball was born on August 6th 1911. She started her career as a model and entered Broadway than the movies but little did she know she would be forever known as the queen of TV comedy, starring in I Love Lucy, The Lucy Show and Here's Lucy.
Now as a special tribute to the Queen of Comedy for her birthday month we are counting down our Top 7 favorite Lucille Ball films.
7. Du Barry Was a Lady (1943) A nightclub's coatroom attendant (Red Skelton) who's in love with the club's singer (Lucille Ball) accidentally sips a drugged drink that makes him dream he's French King Louis XV, courting the infamous Madame Du Barry.
6. The Facts of Life (1960) The Gilberts and the Weavers are neighbors and friends. Even though Larry (Bob Hope) and Kitty (Lucille Ball) always seem to get on each other's nerves. When the annual vacation time arrives, only Larry and Kitty are at the hotel, stuck together they soon fall in love.
5. The Fuller Brush Girl (1950) Humphrey Briggs (Eddie Albert, Green Acres) and his girlfriend, Sally Elliot (Lucille Ball) have dreams of owning their own house. Sally decides to try her luck as a Fuller Brush Girl to earn additional money only to get caught up in a murder mystery.
4. Your Mine and Ours (1968) A widower (Henry Fonda) with ten children and a widow (Lucille Ball) with eight children meet, fall in love and decide to get married. But its not happily ever after just yet as they must work to get the family all on the same page.
3. Fancy Pants (1950) An American actor (Bob Hope) is hired to refine a man and headstrong daughter (Lucille Ball).
2. The Long Long Trailer (1953) Newlyweds Nicky (Desi Arnaz) and Tacy (Lucille Ball) decided to start their lives together not in an apartment, not in a house, but in a trailer.
1. Stone Pillow (1985) A New York social worker (Daphne Zuniga) learns from an elderly bag lady (Lucille Ball) who roams the streets and lives in a doorway.
The world will always remember Lucille Ball as the Queen of Comedy and deservedly so. She is a comedy icon and legend. But as you can see our favorite Lucille Ball film is the drama. I wish she would have been given more opportunity to stretch her dramatic wings.
Classic Cinema Plus remembers her on the month of her Birthday. The year of this writing she would be 111 if she would have lived but sadly she passed away at 77 years of age. But she left behind a legacy of great films that will be enjoyed for generations to come.
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