Lucille Désirée Ball Morton (August 6, 1911 – April 26, 1989) was
an American actress, comedian, model, film-studio executive, and
producer. She was best known as the star of the self-produced sitcoms
I Love Lucy, The Lucy–Desi Comedy Hour, The Lucy Show, and Here's
Lucy.[2]
Ball's career began in 1929 when she landed work as a model. Shortly
thereafter, she began her performing career on Broadway using the
stage names Diane Belmont and Dianne Belmont. She later appeared in
several minor film roles in the 1930s and 1940s as a contract player
for RKO Radio Pictures, being cast as a chorus girl or in similar
roles. During this time, she met Cuban bandleader Desi Arnaz, and the
two eloped in November 1940. In the 1950s, Ball ventured into
television. In 1951, she and Arnaz created the sitcom I Love Lucy, a
series that became one of the most beloved programs in television
history. The same year, Ball gave birth to their first child, Lucie
Arnaz,[3] followed by
Desi Arnaz, Jr.

Desi Arnaz, Jr. in 1953.[4] Ball and Arnaz
divorced in May 1960, and she married comedian
Gary Morton in 1961.[5]
In 1962, Ball became the first woman to run a major television studio,
Desilu Productions, which produced many popular television series,
including Mission: Impossible and Star Trek.[6] Ball did not back away
from acting completely, appearing in film and television roles for the
rest of her career until her death in April 1989 from an abdominal
aortic dissection at the age of 77.[7]
Ball was nominated for 13 Primetime Emmy Awards, winning four
times.[8] In 1977, Ball was among the first recipients of the Women in
Film Crystal Award.[9]
She was the recipient of the
Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award

Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award in
1979,[10] inducted into the
Television Hall of Fame in 1984, the
Lifetime Achievement Award from the
Kennedy Center Honors

Kennedy Center Honors in 1986,[11]
and the Governors Award from the Academy of Television Arts &
Sciences in 1989.[12]
Contents
1 Early life
2 Career
2.1 Teenage years and early career
2.2 Hollywood
2.3
I Love Lucy

I Love Lucy and Desilu
3 Later career
4 Testimony before the House Committee on Un-American Activities
5 Personal life
5.1 Marriage, children, and divorce
6 Illness and death
7 Recognition and legacy
8 Filmography and television work
9 Radio appearances
10 See also
11 References
12 Further reading
13 External links
Early life[edit]
Born at 69 Stewart Avenue, Jamestown, New York,[13] Lucille Désirée
Ball was the daughter of Henry Durrell Ball (1887–1915) and
Désirée "DeDe" Evelyn Ball (née Hunt; 1892–1977). Her family
lived in
Wyandotte, Michigan

Wyandotte, Michigan for a time.[14]
When she was three years old, her 27-year-old father died of typhoid
fever. She sometimes later claimed that she had been born in Butte,
Montana where her grandparents had lived.[15] 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 to
Anaconda, Montana, where they lived briefly, among other places, for
work.[16] Her family was Baptist, and her ancestry was mostly English,
and included small amounts of Scottish, French, and Irish.[17][18]
Some of her genealogy leads to the earliest settlers in the colonies,
including Elder John Crandall of Westerly, Rhode Island, and Edmund
Rice, an early emigrant from England to the Massachusetts Bay
Colony.[19][20]
Her father was a lineman for
Bell Telephone Company

Bell Telephone Company and was frequently
transferred because of his occupation. Within three years of her
birth, Lucille had moved with her parents from Jamestown to Anaconda,
Montana, and later to Trenton, New Jersey.[21] While DeDe Ball was
pregnant with her second child, Frederick, Henry Ball contracted
typhoid fever and died in February 1915.[22] 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.[23]
After Ball's father died, her mother returned to New York. Ball and
her brother, Fred Henry Ball (1915–2007), were raised by their
mother and maternal grandparents in Celoron, New York, a summer resort
village on Lake Chautauqua, just 2.5 miles west of downtown
Jamestown.[24] 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 which made Celoron Park an
entertainment destination.[16]
Four years after Henry Ball's death, DeDe Ball married Edward
Peterson. While her mother and stepfather looked for work in another
city, Lucy's stepfather’s parents cared for her brother and her.
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.[25]
Peterson was a Shriner. When his organization needed female
entertainers for the chorus line of their next show, he encouraged his
12-year-old stepdaughter to audition.[26] 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.[27] 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 the supervision of Ball's grandfather.
The family subsequently moved into a small apartment in Jamestown.[28]
Career[edit]
Teenage years and early career[edit]
In 1925, Ball, then only 14, started dating Johnny DeVita, a
21-year-old local hoodlum. DeDe was unhappy with the relationship, but
was unable to influence her daughter to end it. She expected the
romance to burn out in a few weeks, but that did not happen. After
about a year, DeDe tried to separate them by using Lucille's desire to
be in show business. Despite the family's meager finances, she
arranged for Lucille to go to the
John Murray Anderson

John Murray Anderson School for the
Dramatic Arts in New York City,[29][30] where
Bette Davis

Bette Davis was a fellow
student. Ball later said about that time in her life, "All I learned
in drama school was how to be frightened."[31] Ball's instructors felt
that she would not be successful in the entertainment business, and
were not afraid to say this in front of her, a criticism which Ball
did not enjoy hearing.
Ball was determined to prove her teachers wrong and returned to New
York City in 1928. Among her other jobs, in 1928 she began working for
Hattie Carnegie

Hattie Carnegie as an in-house model. Carnegie ordered Ball to dye her
then brown hair blonde and Ball complied. Of this time in her life
Ball said, "Hattie taught me how to slouch properly in a $1,000
hand-sewn sequin dress and how to wear a $40,000 sable coat as
casually as rabbit."[32][33]
Ball's career was thriving when she became ill with rheumatoid
arthritis, and was unable to work for two years.[34]
She moved back to
New York City

New York City in 1932 to resume her pursuit of a
career as an actress and supported herself by again working for
Carnegie[35] and as the Chesterfield cigarette girl. Using the name
Diane (sometimes spelled Dianne) Belmont, she started getting some
chorus work on Broadway,[36] but the work was not lasting. Ball was
hired – but then quickly fired – by theatre impresario
Earl Carroll, from his Vanities, and by Florenz Ziegfeld, from a
touring company of Rio Rita.[37]
Hollywood[edit]
After an uncredited stint as a Goldwyn Girl in
Roman Scandals

Roman Scandals (1933),
starring
Eddie Cantor

Eddie Cantor and Gloria Stuart, Ball moved permanently to
Hollywood to appear in films. She appeared in many small movie roles
in the 1930s as a contract player for RKO Radio Pictures, including a
two-reel comedy short with the
Three Stooges

Three Stooges (Three Little Pigskins,
1934) and a movie with the
Marx Brothers

Marx Brothers (Room Service, 1938). She can
also be seen as one of the featured models in the
Fred Astaire

Fred Astaire and
Ginger Rogers

Ginger Rogers film Roberta (1935), briefly as the flower girl in Top
Hat (1935), and in a brief supporting role at the beginning of Follow
the Fleet (1936),[38] another Astaire-Rogers film. Ball and Ginger
Rogers, who were distant maternal cousins, played aspiring actresses
in the film
Stage Door
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Stage Door (1937).[39]
In 1936, she landed the role she hoped would lead her to Broadway, in
the
Bartlett Cormack

Bartlett Cormack play Hey Diddle Diddle, a comedy set in a duplex
apartment in Hollywood. The play premiered in Princeton, New Jersey,
on January 21, 1937, with Ball playing the part of Julie Tucker, "one
of three roommates coping with neurotic directors, confused
executives, and grasping stars who interfere with the girls' ability
to get ahead".[40]
The play received good reviews, but problems existed, chiefly with its
star, Conway Tearle, who was in poor health. Cormack wanted to replace
him, but the producer, Anne Nichols, said the fault lay with the
character and insisted that the part needed to be reshaped and
rewritten. The two were unable to agree on a solution. The play was
scheduled to open on Broadway at the Vanderbilt Theatre, but closed
after one week in Washington, DC, when Tearle suddenly became gravely
ill.[41]
Ball once considered and auditioned for the role of Scarlett O'Hara
for Gone with the Wind (1939), but
Vivien Leigh

Vivien Leigh got the part, winning
an
Academy Award for Best Actress
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Academy Award for Best Actress for her role. Ball signed with
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in the 1940s, but never achieved major stardom
from her appearance in the studio's films.[42] She was known in many
Hollywood circles as "Queen of the B's"[citation needed] – a
title previously held by Fay Wray – starring in a number of
B-movies, such as
Five Came Back

Five Came Back (1939). Like many budding actresses,
Ball picked up radio work to earn side income, as well as gain
exposure. In 1937, she appeared regularly on The Phil Baker Show.
When that completed its run in 1938, Ball joined the cast of The
Wonder Show starring
Jack Haley

Jack Haley (best remembered as the
Tin Woodman

Tin Woodman in
The Wizard of Oz, 1939). Here she began her 50-year professional
relationship with Gale Gordon, who served as show announcer. The
Wonder Show lasted one season, with the final episode airing on April
7, 1939.[43] MGM producer
Arthur Freed purchased the Broadway hit
musical play DuBarry Was a Lady (1943) especially for Ann Sothern, but
when Sothern turned down the part, the choice role was awarded to
Ball, who in real life was Sothern's best friend. In 1946, Ball
starred in Lover Come Back. In 1947, she appeared in the murder
mystery
Lured

Lured as Sandra Carpenter, a
Taxi dancer

Taxi dancer in London.[39]
I Love Lucy

I Love Lucy and Desilu[edit]
A scene from the
I Love Lucy

I Love Lucy episode "Lucy Goes to Scotland", 1956
With
John Wayne

John Wayne in I Love Lucy, 1955
In 1948, Ball was cast as Liz Cugat (later "Cooper"), a wacky wife, in
My Favorite Husband, a radio program for CBS Radio.[39]
The program was successful, and CBS asked her to develop it for
television. She agreed, but insisted on working with her real-life
husband, Cuban bandleader Desi Arnaz. CBS executives were reluctant,
thinking the public would not accept an All-American redhead and a
Cuban as a couple. CBS was initially not impressed with the pilot
episode produced by the couple's
Desilu Productions

Desilu Productions company, so the
couple toured the road in a vaudeville act with Lucy as the zany
housewife wanting to get in Arnaz's show. The tour was a great
success, and CBS put
I Love Lucy

I Love Lucy into their lineup.[44]
I Love Lucy

I Love Lucy was not only a star vehicle for Lucille Ball, but also a
way for her to try to salvage her marriage to Arnaz, which had become
badly strained, in part because both had hectic performing schedules
which often kept them apart but mostly due to Desi's attraction to
other women.[citation needed]
Along the way, she created a television dynasty and reached several
"firsts". Ball was the first woman in television to be head of a
production company: Desilu, the company that Arnaz and she formed.
After their divorce, Ball bought out Arnaz's share of the studio, and
she proceeded to function as a very active studio head.[45] Desilu and
I Love Lucy

I Love Lucy pioneered a number of methods still in use in television
production today such as filming before a live studio audience with a
number of cameras, and distinct sets adjacent to each other.[39]
During this time, Ball taught a 32-week comedy workshop at the
Brandeis-Bardin Institute. Ball was quoted as saying, "You cannot
teach someone comedy; either they have it or they don't."[46]
Ball and Arnaz wanted to remain in their
Los Angeles

Los Angeles home, but the
time zone logistics made that broadcast norm impossible. Prime time in
L.A. was too late at night on the East Coast to air a major network
series, meaning the majority of the TV audience would be seeing not
only the inferior picture of kinescopes, but seeing them at least a
day later.[47]
Sponsor Philip Morris did not want to show day-old kinescopes to the
major markets on the East Coast, yet neither did they want to pay for
the extra cost that filming, processing, and editing would require,
pressuring Ball and Arnaz to relocate to New York City. Ball and Arnaz
offered to take a pay cut to finance filming, on the condition that
their company, Desilu, would retain the rights to that film once it
was aired. CBS relinquished the show rights to Desilu after initial
broadcast, not realizing they were giving away a valuable and durable
asset. In 1957, CBS bought the rights back for $1,000,000
($8.71 million in today's terms), which provided Ball and Arnaz
the down payment for the purchase of the former
RKO Pictures

RKO Pictures studios,
which became Desilu Studios.[48]
I Love Lucy

I Love Lucy dominated the ratings in the United States for most of its
run. (An attempt was made to adapt the show for radio; the cast and
writers adapted the memorable "Breaking the Lease" episode – in
which the Ricardos and Mertzes fall out over an argument, the Ricardos
threaten to move, but they are stuck in a firm lease – for a radio
audition disc that never aired, but has survived.)[49]
A scene in which Lucy and Ricky practice the tango, in the episode
"Lucy Does The Tango", evoked the longest recorded studio audience
laugh in the history of the show; it was so long, the sound editor had
to cut that particular part of the soundtrack in half.[50] During the
show's production breaks, Lucy and Desi starred together in two
feature films:
The Long, Long Trailer

The Long, Long Trailer (1954) and Forever, Darling
(1956). After
I Love Lucy

I Love Lucy ended its run in 1957, the main cast
continued to appear in occasional hour-long specials under the title
The Lucy–Desi Comedy Hour

The Lucy–Desi Comedy Hour until 1960.[citation needed]
Desilu produced several other popular shows, such as The Untouchables,
Star Trek, and Mission: Impossible. The studio was eventually sold for
$17,000,000 ($125 million in today's terms) and merged into
Paramount Pictures

Paramount Pictures in 1967.[51]
Later career[edit]
The 1960 Broadway musical Wildcat ended its run early when Ball became
too ill [clarification needed] to continue in the show.[52] The show
was the source of the song she made famous, "Hey, Look Me Over", which
she performed with
Paula Stewart

Paula Stewart on The Ed Sullivan Show. Ball hosted
a
CBS Radio

CBS Radio talk show entitled Let's
Talk

Talk to Lucy in 1964–65. She
also made a few more movies including Yours, Mine, and Ours (1968),
and the musical Mame (1974), and two more successful long-running
sitcoms for CBS:
The Lucy Show

The Lucy Show (1962–68), which costarred Vivian
Vance and Gale Gordon, and
Here's Lucy

Here's Lucy (1968–74), which also
featured Gordon, as well as Lucy's real-life children,
Lucie Arnaz

Lucie Arnaz and
Desi Arnaz, Jr.

Desi Arnaz, Jr. She appeared on the
Dick Cavett

Dick Cavett show in 1974 and spoke
of her history and life with Arnaz.[citation needed]
Ball's close friends in the business included perennial co-star Vivian
Vance and film stars Judy Garland, Ann Sothern, and Ginger Rogers, and
comedic television performers Jack Benny, Barbara Pepper, Mary Wickes
and Mary Jane Croft; all except Garland appeared at least once on her
various series. Former Broadway co-stars
Keith Andes

Keith Andes and Paula Stewart
also appeared at least once on her later sitcoms, as did Joan
Blondell,
Rich Little

Rich Little and Ann-Margret. Ball mentored actress and
singer Carole Cook, and befriended Barbara Eden, when Eden appeared on
an episode of I Love Lucy.[citation needed]
In 1966, Ball became a friend and mentor to Carol Burnett. After
having guested on Burnett's highly successful CBS-TV special Carol + 2
and having the younger performer reciprocate by appearing on The Lucy
Show, Ball reportedly offered Burnett her own sitcom called Here's
Agnes, to be produced by Desilu Productions. Burnett declined the
offer, not wanting to commit herself to a weekly series. The two
remained close friends until Ball's death in 1989. Ball sent flowers
every year on Burnett's birthday. When Burnett awoke on the day of her
56th birthday in 1989, she discovered via the morning news that
Lucille Ball

Lucille Ball had died. Later that afternoon, flowers arrived at
Burnett's house with a note reading, "Happy Birthday, Kid. Love,
Lucy."[53]
Ball was originally considered by
Frank Sinatra

Frank Sinatra for the role of Mrs.
Iselin in the Cold War thriller The Manchurian Candidate.
Director/producer John Frankenheimer, however, had worked with Angela
Lansbury in a mother role in All Fall Down and insisted on having her
for the part.[54]
Ball at her last public appearance at the
61st Academy Awards

61st Academy Awards in 1989,
four weeks before her death: Ball's husband
Gary Morton can be seen on
the left side of the photograph.
During the mid-1980s, Ball attempted to resurrect her television
career. In 1982, she hosted a two-part
Three's Company

Three's Company retrospective,
showing clips from the show's first five seasons, summarizing
memorable plotlines, and commenting on her love of the show.[55]
A 1985 dramatic made-for-TV film about an elderly homeless woman,
Stone Pillow, received mixed reviews. Her 1986 sitcom comeback Life
with Lucy, costarring her longtime foil
Gale Gordon

Gale Gordon and co-produced by
Ball, Gary Morton, and prolific producer/former actor Aaron Spelling
was cancelled less than two months into its run by ABC.[56] In
February 1988, Ball was named the Hasty Pudding Woman of the Year.[57]
In May 1988, Ball was hospitalized after suffering a mild heart
attack.[58] Her last public appearance, just one month before her
death, was at the 1989
Academy Awards

Academy Awards telecast in which she and fellow
presenter
Bob Hope

Bob Hope were given a standing ovation.[39]
Testimony before the House Committee on Un-American Activities[edit]
When Ball registered to vote in 1936, she listed her party affiliation
as Communist.[59] (She was registered as a Communist in 1938 as
well.)[60]
To sponsor the Communist Party's 1936 candidate for the California
State Assembly's 57th District, Ball signed a certificate stating, "I
am registered as affiliated with the Communist Party."[61] The same
year, she was appointed to the State
Central Committee of the
Communist Party of California, according to records of the California
Secretary of State. In 1937, Hollywood writer Rena Vale, a
self-identified former Communist, attended a Communist Party new
members' class at Ball's home, according to Vale's testimony before
the United States House of Representatives'
Special

Special House Un-American
Activities Committee (HUAC), on July 22, 1940.[62] Two years later,
Vale affirmed this testimony in a sworn deposition:
Within a few days after my third application to join the Communist
Party was made, I received a notice to attend a meeting on North Ogden
Drive, Hollywood; although it was a typed, unsigned note, merely
requesting my presence at the address at 8 o'clock in the evening on a
given day, I knew it was the long-awaited notice to attend Communist
Party new members classes ... on arrival at this address I found
several others present; an elderly man informed us that we were the
guests of the screen actress, Lucille Ball, and showed us various
pictures, books and other objects to establish that fact, and stated
she was glad to loan her home for a Communist Party new members class.
— Affidavit of Rena M. Vale, November 23, 1942. Joint Fact-Finding
Committee on Un-American Activities in California.
In a 1944
British Pathé

British Pathé newsreel, titled Fund Raising for Roosevelt,
Ball was featured prominently among several stage and film stars at
events in support of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's fundraising
campaign for the March of Dimes.[63] She stated that in the 1952 US
Presidential Election, she voted for Republican Dwight Eisenhower.[64]
On September 4, 1953, Ball met privately with HUAC investigator
William A. Wheeler in Hollywood and gave him sealed testimony. She
stated that she had registered to vote as a Communist "or intended to
vote the Communist Party ticket" in 1936 at her socialist
grandfather's insistence.[65] She stated she "at no time intended to
vote as a Communist",
Ball stated she has never been a member of the Communist Party "to her
knowledge" ... [She] did not know whether or not any meetings were
ever held at her home at 1344 North Ogden Drive; stated... [that if
she had been appointed] as a delegate to the State Central Committee
of the Communist Party of California in 1936 it was done without her
knowledge or consent; [and stated that she] did not recall signing the
document sponsoring EMIL FREED for the Communist Party nomination to
the office of member of the assembly for the 57th District ... A
review of the subject's file reflects no activity that would warrant
her inclusion on the Security Index.[66]
Immediately before the filming of episode 68 ("The Girls Go Into
Business") of I Love Lucy, Desi Arnaz, instead of his usual audience
warm-up, told the audience about Lucy and her grandfather. Reusing the
line he had first given to
Hedda Hopper

Hedda Hopper in an interview, he quipped:
"The only thing red about Lucy is her hair, and even that is not
legitimate."[67]
Personal life[edit]
Marriage, children, and divorce[edit]
In 1940, Ball met Cuban-born bandleader
Desi Arnaz

Desi Arnaz while filming the
Rodgers and Hart

Rodgers and Hart stage hit Too Many Girls. When they met again on the
second day, the two connected immediately and eloped the same year.
Although Arnaz was drafted into the Army in 1942, he ended up being
classified for limited service due to a knee injury.[68] As a result,
Arnaz stayed in Los Angeles, organizing and performing
USO

USO shows for
wounded GIs being brought back from the Pacific.
Ball filed for divorce in 1944, going so far as obtaining an
interlocutory decree; however, she and Arnaz reconciled, which
precluded the entry of a final decree.[citation needed]
Ball with husband
Desi Arnaz

Desi Arnaz in 1950s
On July 17, 1951, one month before her 40th birthday, Ball gave birth
to daughter Lucie Désirée Arnaz.[3] A year and a half later, Ball
gave birth to her second child, Desiderio Alberto Arnaz IV, known as
Desi Arnaz, Jr.[4] Before he was born,
I Love Lucy

I Love Lucy was a solid ratings
hit, and Ball and Arnaz wrote the pregnancy into the show. (Ball's
necessary and planned caesarean section in real life was scheduled for
the same date that her television character gave birth.)[4]
Several demands were made by CBS, insisting that a pregnant woman
could not be shown on television, nor could the word "pregnant" be
spoken on-air. After approval from several religious figures[69] the
network allowed the pregnancy storyline, but insisted that the word
"expecting" be used instead of "pregnant". (Arnaz garnered laughs when
he deliberately mispronounced it as "'spectin'".)[70] The episode's
official title was "Lucy Is Enceinte", borrowing the French word for
pregnant;[21] however, episode titles never appeared on the show.
The episode aired on the evening of January 19, 1953, with 44 million
viewers watching
Lucy Ricardo

Lucy Ricardo welcome little Ricky, while in real life
Ball delivered her second child, Desi Jr., that same day in Los
Angeles. The birth made the cover of the first issue of
TV Guide

TV Guide for
the week of April 3–9, 1953.[citation needed]
In October 1956, Ball, Arnaz, Vance, and
William Frawley

William Frawley all appeared
on a
Bob Hope

Bob Hope special on NBC, including a spoof of I Love Lucy, the
only time all four stars were together on a color telecast. By the end
of the 1950s, Desilu had become a large company, causing a good deal
of stress for both Ball and Arnaz.[citation needed]
On March 3, 1960, a day after Desi's 43rd birthday (and one day after
the filming of Lucy and Desi's last episode together), Ball filed
papers in Santa Monica Superior Court, claiming married life with Desi
was "a nightmare" and nothing at all as it appeared on I Love
Lucy.[71]
On May 4, 1960, just two months after filming that episode (the final
episode of The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour), the couple divorced. Until his
death in 1986, however, Arnaz and Ball remained friends and often
spoke very fondly of each other. Her real-life divorce indirectly
found its way into her later television series, as she was always cast
as an unmarried woman.[72][73]
The following year, Ball starred in the Broadway musical Wildcat,
which co-starred
Keith Andes

Keith Andes and Paula Stewart. It marked the
beginning of a 30-year friendship between Lucy and Stewart, who
introduced Lucy to second husband, Gary Morton, a
Borscht Belt

Borscht Belt comic
who was 13 years her junior.[5] According to Ball, Morton claimed he
had never seen an episode of
I Love Lucy

I Love Lucy due to his hectic work
schedule. Ball immediately installed Morton in her production company,
teaching him the television business and eventually promoting him to
producer. Morton played occasional bit parts on Ball's various
series.[74]
Ball was outspoken against the relationship her son had with actress
Patty Duke. Later, commenting on when her son dated Liza Minnelli, she
was quoted as saying, "I miss Liza, but you cannot domesticate
Liza."[75]
Illness and death[edit]
On April 18, 1989, Ball was at her home in Beverly Hills when she
complained of chest pains. An ambulance was called and she was rushed
to the emergency room of Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. She was
diagnosed with dissecting aortic aneurysm and underwent heart surgery
for nearly eight hours, including the transplant of a new aorta. The
surgery appeared to have been successful, and Ball began recovering
very quickly, even walking around her room with little assistance. She
received a flurry of get-well wishes from Hollywood, and across the
street from Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, the
Hard Rock Café

Hard Rock Café erected a
sign reading "Hard Rock Loves Lucy". However, shortly after dawn on
April 26, Ball awoke with severe back pains and soon lost
consciousness.[76][77]
Attempts to revive her proved unsuccessful and she died at
5:47 a.m. PDT. Doctors determined that Ball, who was 77 years
old, had succumbed to a second aortic rupture, this time in the
abdominal area, and that it was not directly related to her surgery
the previous week.[78]
Her body was cremated and the ashes were initially interred in Forest
Lawn – Hollywood Hills Cemetery in Los Angeles. However, in
2002, her children moved her remains to the Hunt family plot at Lake
View Cemetery in Jamestown, New York, where her parents, Henry and
Desirée (Hunt) Ball, and her grandparents are buried.[1]
Recognition and legacy[edit]
The
Lucille Ball

Lucille Ball Little Theatre in Ball's hometown of Jamestown, New
York
On February 8, 1960, Ball was awarded two stars on the Hollywood Walk
of Fame: one at 6436 Hollywood Boulevard for contributions to motion
pictures, and one at 6100 Hollywood Boulevard for television.[79]
Ball received many prestigious awards throughout her career, including
some posthumously such as the
Presidential Medal of Freedom

Presidential Medal of Freedom by
President
George H. W. Bush
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George H. W. Bush on July 6, 1989,[80] and The Women's
International Center's 'Living Legacy Award'.[81]
A Lucille Ball-
Desi Arnaz

Desi Arnaz Center museum is in Lucy's hometown of
Jamestown, New York. The Little Theatre was renamed the Lucille Ball
Little Theatre in her honor.[82] Ball was among Time magazine's "100
Most Important People of the Century".[83]
On June 7, 1990,
Universal Studios Florida

Universal Studios Florida opened a walk-through
attraction dedicated to Ball, Lucy - A Tribute, which featured clips
of shows, as well as various pieces of trivia about her, along with
items owned by or associated with Lucille, and an interactive quiz for
guests. The attraction was permanently closed on August 17,
2015.[84][85]
On August 6, 2001, which would have been her 90th birthday, the United
States Postal Service honored her with a commemorative postage stamp
as part of its Legends of Hollywood series.[86]
Ball appeared on the cover of
TV Guide

TV Guide more than any other person; she
appeared on 39 covers, including the first cover in 1953 with her baby
son, Desi Arnaz, Jr.[87]
TV Guide

TV Guide voted
Lucille Ball

Lucille Ball as the 'Greatest
TV Star of All Time' and it later commemorated the 50th anniversary of
I Love Lucy

I Love Lucy with eight collector covers celebrating memorable scenes
from the show. In another instance it named
I Love Lucy

I Love Lucy the
second-best television program in American history, after
Seinfeld.[88]
Due to her support for the Women's Movement, Ball was inducted into
the
National Women's Hall of Fame

National Women's Hall of Fame in 2001.[89]
Ball's
Hollywood Walk of Fame

Hollywood Walk of Fame star for her television work
The Friars Club named a room in its New York clubhouse for Lucille
Ball (the
Lucille Ball

Lucille Ball Room).[90] She was posthumously awarded the
'Legacy of Laughter' award at the fifth Annual
TV Land Awards

TV Land Awards in
2007.[91] In November 2007,
Lucille Ball

Lucille Ball was chosen as number two on a
list of the '50 Greatest TV Icons'; a public poll, however, chose her
as number one.[92]
On August 6, 2011, which would have been her 100th birthday, Google
honored Ball with an interactive doodle on their homepage, which
displayed six classic moments from I Love Lucy.[93] On the same day, a
total of 915 Ball look-alikes converged on Jamestown to celebrate the
birthday and set a new world record for such a gathering.[94]
Since 2009, a statue of Ball has been on display in Celoron, New York.
Residents deemed that statue "scary" and not accurate, earning it the
nickname "Scary Lucy".[95] On August 1, 2016, it was announced that a
new statue of Ball would replace it. The new statue replaced the old
one on August 6, 2016.[96] However, since the old statue became a
local tourist attraction after receiving media attention, it was
placed 75 yards from its original location so visitors could visit
both statues.[97]
In 2015, it was announced that Ball would be played by Cate Blanchett
in an untitled biographical film, to be written by Aaron Sorkin.[98]
Ball was portrayed by Gillian Anderson, as her character Lucy Ricardo,
in the American Gods episode "The Secret of Spoons" (2017).[99]
I Love Lucy: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Sitcom, a comedy
about how Ball and
Desi Arnaz

Desi Arnaz battled to get their sitcom on the air,
will have its world premiere in
Los Angeles

Los Angeles on July 12-15, 2018. The
play, from Gregg Oppenheimer (son of
I Love Lucy

I Love Lucy creator-producer-head
writer Jess Oppenheimer), will be recorded in front of a live audience
for radio broadcast and online distribution. [100]
Filmography and television work[edit]
Main article:
Lucille Ball

Lucille Ball performances
Radio appearances[edit]
Year
Program
Episode/source
1944
Suspense
"Dime a Dance"[101]
1944
Suspense
"The Ten Grand"[102]
1944
Lux Radio Theatre
"Lucky Partners"
1945
Suspense
"A Shroud for Sarah"[103]
1947
Suspense
"Taxi Dancer"
1947
Lux Radio Theatre
"The Dark Corner"
1951
Screen Directors Playhouse
Bachelor Mother[104]
1948-51
My Favorite Husband
7/5/48 - 3/24/51
See also[edit]
United States portal
Biography portal
Television portal
Film portal
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Citations – books
Ball, Lucille (1996). Hoffman, Betty Hannah, ed. Love, Lucy. New York:
Putnam. ISBN 978-0-399-14205-5. OCLC 231698725.
Ball, Lucille (1997). Hoffman, Betty Hannah, ed. Love, Lucy. New York:
Berkly. ISBN 978-0-425-17731-0. OCLC 52255505.
Brady, Kathleen (2001). Lucille: the life of Lucille Ball. New York:
Billboard Books. p. 20. ISBN 0-8230-8913-4.
Harris, Warren C. (1991). Lucy and Desi: the legendary love story of
television’s most famous couple. New York: Simon &
Schuster. ISBN 978-0-671-74709-1.
Herringshaw, DeAnn (2011). Lucille Ball: Actress &
Comedienne. Edina, MN: ABDO. ISBN 978-1-61787-664-6.
Kanfer, Stefan (2003). Ball of Fire: The Tumultuous Life and Comic Art
of Lucille Ball. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.
ISBN 0-375-41315-4.
Karol, Michael A. (2004). The
Lucille Ball

Lucille Ball Quiz Book. United States:
iUniverse. ISBN 978-0-595-31857-5.
Sanders, Coyne Steven; Gilbert, Thomas W. (1993). Desilu: The Story of
Lucille Ball

Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz. HarperCollins.
ISBN 978-0-688-13514-0.
Sanders, Coyne Steven; Gilbert, Thomas W. (2001). Desilu: The Story of
Lucille Ball

Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz. New York: HarperEntertainment.
ISBN 0-688-13514-5. OCLC 48543617.
Further reading[edit]
Karol, Michael (2003). Lucy in Print; ISBN 0-595-29321-2
Karol, Michael (2005). The Comic DNA of Lucille Ball: Interpreting the
Icon; ISBN 0-595-37951-6
McClay, Michael (1995). I Love Lucy: The Complete Picture History of
the Most Popular TV Show Ever; ISBN 0-446-51750-X (hardcover)
Meeks, Eric G. (2011). P.S. I Love Lucy: The Story of
Lucille Ball

Lucille Ball in
Palm Springs. Horotio Limburger Oglethorpe. p. 45.
ISBN 978-1468098549.
Pugh Davis, Madelyn; with Carroll Jr., Bob (2005). Laughing With Lucy:
My Life With America's Leading Lady of Comedy;
ISBN 978-1-57860-247-6
Sheridan, James & Barry Monush (2011).
Lucille Ball

Lucille Ball FAQ:
Everything Left to Know About America's Favorite Redhead;
ISBN 978-1-61774-082-4
Young, Jordan R. (1999). The Laugh Crafters: Comedy Writing in Radio
& TV's Golden Age. Beverly Hills: Past Times Publishing;
ISBN 0-940410-37-0
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FBI Records: The Vault -
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Flint, Peter B. (April 27, 1989). "Lucille Ball, Spirited Doyenne Of
TV Comedies, Dies at 77". Obituary. The New York Times.
"Celebrating
Lucille Ball

Lucille Ball at 100: Unpublished Photos". Sideshow.
LIFE.
"Lucille Ball". Doodle. Google.
Norwood, Arlisha. "Lucille Ball", National Women's History Museum.
2017.
"Orson Welles Radio Almanac". Internet Archive. Recordings. 1944.
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Helen Hunt (1999)
Patricia Heaton

Patricia Heaton (2000)
Patricia Heaton

Patricia Heaton (2001)
Jennifer Aniston

Jennifer Aniston (2002)
Debra Messing

Debra Messing (2003)
Sarah Jessica Parker

Sarah Jessica Parker (2004)
Felicity Huffman

Felicity Huffman (2005)
Julia Louis-Dreyfus

Julia Louis-Dreyfus (2006)
America Ferrera

America Ferrera (2007)
Tina Fey
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Tina Fey (2008)
Toni Collette
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Toni Collette (2009)
Edie Falco

Edie Falco (2010)
Melissa McCarthy

Melissa McCarthy (2011)
Julia Louis-Dreyfus

Julia Louis-Dreyfus (2012)
Julia Louis-Dreyfus

Julia Louis-Dreyfus (2013)
Julia Louis-Dreyfus

Julia Louis-Dreyfus (2014)
Julia Louis-Dreyfus

Julia Louis-Dreyfus (2015)
Julia Louis-Dreyfus

Julia Louis-Dreyfus (2016)
Julia Louis-Dreyfus

Julia Louis-Dreyfus (2017)
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Hasty Pudding Woman of the Year
1951–1975
Gertrude Lawrence

Gertrude Lawrence (1951)
Barbara Bel Geddes

Barbara Bel Geddes (1952)
Mamie Eisenhower

Mamie Eisenhower (1953)
Shirley Booth

Shirley Booth (1954)
Debbie Reynolds

Debbie Reynolds (1955)
Peggy Ann Garner

Peggy Ann Garner (1956)
Carroll Baker

Carroll Baker (1957)
Katharine Hepburn

Katharine Hepburn (1958)
Joanne Woodward

Joanne Woodward (1959)
Carol Lawrence

Carol Lawrence (1960)
Jane Fonda

Jane Fonda (1961)
Piper Laurie

Piper Laurie (1962)
Shirley MacLaine

Shirley MacLaine (1963)
Rosalind Russell

Rosalind Russell (1964)
Lee Remick

Lee Remick (1965)
Ethel Merman

Ethel Merman (1966)
Lauren Bacall
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Lauren Bacall (1967)
Angela Lansbury
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Angela Lansbury (1968)
Carol Burnett

Carol Burnett (1969)
Dionne Warwick

Dionne Warwick (1970)
Carol Channing

Carol Channing (1971)
Ruby Keeler

Ruby Keeler (1972)
Liza Minnelli

Liza Minnelli (1973)
Faye Dunaway

Faye Dunaway (1974)
Valerie Harper

Valerie Harper (1975)
1976–2000
Bette Midler

Bette Midler (1976)
Elizabeth Taylor

Elizabeth Taylor (1977)
Beverly Sills

Beverly Sills (1978)
Candice Bergen

Candice Bergen (1979)
Meryl Streep

Meryl Streep (1980)
Mary Tyler Moore

Mary Tyler Moore (1981)
Ella Fitzgerald
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Ella Fitzgerald (1982)
Julie Andrews

Julie Andrews (1983)
Joan Rivers

Joan Rivers (1984)
Cher

Cher (1985)
Sally Field

Sally Field (1986)
Bernadette Peters

Bernadette Peters (1987)
Lucille Ball

Lucille Ball (1988)
Kathleen Turner

Kathleen Turner (1989)
Glenn Close

Glenn Close (1990)
Diane Keaton
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Diane Keaton (1991)
Jodie Foster
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Jodie Foster (1992)
Whoopi Goldberg

Whoopi Goldberg (1993)
Meg Ryan

Meg Ryan (1994)
Michelle Pfeiffer

Michelle Pfeiffer (1995)
Susan Sarandon

Susan Sarandon (1996)
Julia Roberts
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Julia Roberts (1997)
Sigourney Weaver
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Sigourney Weaver (1998)
Goldie Hawn

Goldie Hawn (1999)
Jamie Lee Curtis

Jamie Lee Curtis (2000)
2001–present
Drew Barrymore

Drew Barrymore (2001)
Sarah Jessica Parker

Sarah Jessica Parker (2002)
Anjelica Huston
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Anjelica Huston (2003)
Sandra Bullock
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Sandra Bullock (2004)
Catherine Zeta-Jones

Catherine Zeta-Jones (2005)
Halle Berry

Halle Berry (2006)
Scarlett Johansson

Scarlett Johansson (2007)
Charlize Theron

Charlize Theron (2008)
Renée Zellweger
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Renée Zellweger (2009)
Anne Hathaway

Anne Hathaway (2010)
Julianne Moore
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Julianne Moore (2011)
Claire Danes

Claire Danes (2012)
Marion Cotillard

Marion Cotillard (2013)
Helen Mirren

Helen Mirren (2014)
Amy Poehler
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Amy Poehler (2015)
Kerry Washington

Kerry Washington (2016)
Octavia Spencer

Octavia Spencer (2017)
Mila Kunis

Mila Kunis (2018)
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Kennedy Center Honorees (1980s)
1980
Leonard Bernstein
James Cagney
Agnes de Mille
Lynn Fontanne
Leontyne Price
1981
Count Basie
Cary Grant
Helen Hayes
Jerome Robbins
Rudolf Serkin
1982
George Abbott
Lillian Gish
Benny Goodman
Gene Kelly
Eugene Ormandy
1983
Katherine Dunham
Elia Kazan
Frank Sinatra
James Stewart
Virgil Thomson
1984
Lena Horne
Danny Kaye
Gian Carlo Menotti
Arthur Miller
Isaac Stern
1985
Merce Cunningham
Irene Dunne
Bob Hope
Alan Jay Lerner

Alan Jay Lerner & Frederick Loewe
Beverly Sills
1986
Lucille Ball
Hume Cronyn

Hume Cronyn & Jessica Tandy
Yehudi Menuhin
Antony Tudor
Ray Charles
1987
Perry Como
Bette Davis
Sammy Davis Jr.
Nathan Milstein
Alwin Nikolais
1988
Alvin Ailey
George Burns
Myrna Loy
Alexander Schneider
Roger L. Stevens
1989
Harry Belafonte
Claudette Colbert
Alexandra Danilova
Mary Martin
William Schuman
Complete list
1970s
1980s
1990s
2000s
2010s
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TCA Career Achievement Award
Grant Tinker

Grant Tinker (1985)
Walter Cronkite

Walter Cronkite (1986)
Hill Street Blues

Hill Street Blues (1987)
David Brinkley

David Brinkley (1988)
Lucille Ball

Lucille Ball (1989)
Jim Henson
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Jim Henson (1990)
Brandon Tartikoff

Brandon Tartikoff (1991)
Johnny Carson

Johnny Carson (1992)
Bob Hope

Bob Hope (1993)
Charles Kuralt

Charles Kuralt (1994)
Ted Turner

Ted Turner (1995)
Angela Lansbury
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Angela Lansbury (1996)
Fred Rogers

Fred Rogers (1997)
Roone Arledge (1998)
Norman Lear

Norman Lear (1999)
Dick Van Dyke

Dick Van Dyke (2000)
Sid Caesar

Sid Caesar (2001)
Bill Cosby

Bill Cosby (2002)
Carl Reiner

Carl Reiner (2003)
Don Hewitt

Don Hewitt (2004)
Bob Newhart

Bob Newhart (2005)
Carol Burnett

Carol Burnett (2006)
Mary Tyler Moore

Mary Tyler Moore (2007)
Lorne Michaels
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Lorne Michaels (2008)
Betty White

Betty White (2009)
James Garner

James Garner (2010)
Oprah Winfrey

Oprah Winfrey (2011)
David Letterman
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David Letterman (2012)
Barbara Walters

Barbara Walters (2013)
James Burrows (2014)
James L. Brooks

James L. Brooks (2015)
Lily Tomlin

Lily Tomlin (2016)
Ken Burns

Ken Burns (2017)
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Television Hall of Fame Class of 1984
Lucille Ball
Milton Berle
Paddy Chayefsky
Norman Lear
Edward R. Murrow
William S. Paley
David Sarnoff
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Inductees to the National Women's Hall of Fame
1970–1979
1973
Jane Addams
Marian Anderson
Susan B. Anthony
Clara Barton
Mary McLeod Bethune
Elizabeth Blackwell
Pearl S. Buck
Rachel Carson
Mary Cassatt
Emily Dickinson
Amelia Earhart
Alice Hamilton
Helen Hayes
Helen Keller
Eleanor Roosevelt
Florence Sabin
Margaret Chase Smith
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Helen Brooke Taussig
Harriet Tubman
1976
Abigail Adams
Margaret Mead
Mildred "Babe" Didrikson Zaharias
1979
Dorothea Dix
Juliette Gordon Low
Alice Paul
Elizabeth Bayley Seton
1980–1989
1981
Margaret Sanger
Sojourner Truth
1982
Carrie Chapman Catt
Frances Perkins
1983
Belva Lockwood
Lucretia Mott
1984
Mary "Mother" Harris Jones
Bessie Smith
1986
Barbara McClintock
Lucy Stone
Harriet Beecher Stowe
1988
Gwendolyn Brooks
Willa Cather
Sally Ride
Ida B. Wells-Barnett
1990–1999
1990
Margaret Bourke-White
Barbara Jordan
Billie Jean King
Florence B. Seibert
1991
Gertrude Belle Elion
1993
Ethel Percy Andrus
Antoinette Blackwell
Emily Blackwell
Shirley Chisholm
Jacqueline Cochran
Ruth Colvin
Marian Wright Edelman
Alice Evans
Betty Friedan
Ella Grasso
Martha Wright Griffiths
Fannie Lou Hamer
Dorothy Height
Dolores Huerta
Mary Jacobi
Mae Jemison
Mary Lyon
Mary Mahoney
Wilma Mankiller
Constance Baker Motley
Georgia O'Keeffe
Annie Oakley
Rosa Parks
Esther Peterson
Jeannette Rankin
Ellen Swallow Richards
Elaine Roulet
Katherine Siva Saubel
Gloria Steinem
Helen Stephens
Lillian Wald
Madam C. J. Walker
Faye Wattleton
Rosalyn S. Yalow
Gloria Yerkovich
1994
Bella Abzug
Ella Baker
Myra Bradwell
Annie Jump Cannon
Jane Cunningham Croly
Catherine East
Geraldine Ferraro
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Grace Hopper
Helen LaKelly Hunt
Zora Neale Hurston
Anne Hutchinson
Frances Wisebart Jacobs
Susette La Flesche
Louise McManus
Maria Mitchell
Antonia Novello
Linda Richards
Wilma Rudolph
Betty Bone Schiess
Muriel Siebert
Nettie Stevens
Oprah Winfrey
Sarah Winnemucca
Fanny Wright
1995
Virginia Apgar
Ann Bancroft
Amelia Bloomer
Mary Breckinridge
Eileen Collins
Elizabeth Hanford Dole
Anne Dallas Dudley
Mary Baker Eddy
Ella Fitzgerald
Margaret Fuller
Matilda Joslyn Gage
Lillian Moller Gilbreth
Nannerl O. Keohane
Maggie Kuhn
Sandra Day O'Connor
Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin
Pat Schroeder
Hannah Greenebaum Solomon
1996
Louisa May Alcott
Charlotte Anne Bunch
Frances Xavier Cabrini
Mary A. Hallaren
Oveta Culp Hobby
Wilhelmina Cole Holladay
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Maria Goeppert-Mayer
Ernestine Louise Potowski Rose
Maria Tallchief
Edith Wharton
1998
Madeleine Albright
Maya Angelou
Nellie Bly
Lydia Moss Bradley
Mary Steichen Calderone
Mary Ann Shadd

Mary Ann Shadd Cary
Joan Ganz Cooney
Gerty Cori
Sarah Grimké
Julia Ward Howe
Shirley Ann Jackson
Shannon Lucid
Katharine Dexter McCormick
Rozanne L. Ridgway
Edith Nourse Rogers
Felice Schwartz
Eunice Kennedy Shriver
Beverly Sills
Florence Wald
Angelina Grimké

Angelina Grimké Weld
Chien-Shiung Wu
2000–2009
2000
Faye Glenn Abdellah
Emma Smith DeVoe
Marjory Stoneman Douglas
Mary Dyer
Sylvia A. Earle
Crystal Eastman
Jeanne Holm
Leontine T. Kelly
Frances Oldham Kelsey
Kate Mullany
Janet Reno
Anna Howard Shaw
Sophia Smith
Ida Tarbell
Wilma L. Vaught
Mary Edwards Walker
Annie Dodge Wauneka
Eudora Welty
Frances E. Willard
2001
Dorothy H. Andersen
Lucille Ball
Rosalynn Carter
Lydia Maria Child
Bessie Coleman
Dorothy Day
Marian de Forest
Althea Gibson
Beatrice A. Hicks
Barbara Holdridge
Harriet Williams Russell Strong
Emily Howell Warner
Victoria Woodhull
2002
Paulina Kellogg Wright Davis
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Katharine Graham
Bertha Holt
Mary Engle Pennington
Mercy Otis Warren
2003
Linda G. Alvarado
Donna de Varona
Gertrude Ederle
Martha Matilda Harper
Patricia Roberts Harris
Stephanie L. Kwolek
Dorothea Lange
Mildred Robbins Leet
Patsy Takemoto Mink
Sacagawea
Anne Sullivan
Sheila E. Widnall
2005
Florence Ellinwood Allen
Ruth Fulton Benedict
Betty Bumpers
Hillary Clinton
Rita Rossi Colwell
Mother Marianne Cope
Maya Y. Lin
Patricia A. Locke
Blanche Stuart Scott
Mary Burnett Talbert
2007
Eleanor K. Baum
Julia Child
Martha Coffin Pelham Wright
Swanee Hunt
Winona LaDuke
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
Judith L. Pipher
Catherine Filene Shouse
Henrietta Szold
2009
Louise Bourgeois
Mildred Cohn
Karen DeCrow
Susan Kelly-Dreiss
Allie B. Latimer
Emma Lazarus
Ruth Patrick
Rebecca Talbot Perkins
Susan Solomon
Kate Stoneman
2010–2019
2011
St. Katharine Drexel
Dorothy Harrison Eustis
Loretta C. Ford
Abby Kelley

Abby Kelley Foster
Helen Murray Free
Billie Holiday
Coretta Scott King
Lilly Ledbetter
Barbara A. Mikulski
Donna E. Shalala
Kathrine Switzer
2013
Betty Ford
Ina May Gaskin
Julie Krone
Kate Millett
Nancy Pelosi
Mary Joseph Rogers
Bernice Sandler
Anna Schwartz
Emma Willard
2015
Tenley Albright
Nancy Brinker
Martha Graham
Marcia Greenberger
Barbara Iglewski
Jean Kilbourne
Carlotta Walls LaNier
Philippa Marrack
Mary Harriman Rumsey
Eleanor Smeal
2017
Matilda Cuomo
Temple Grandin
Lorraine Hansberry
Victoria Jackson
Sherry Lansing
Clare Boothe Luce
Aimee Mullins
Carol Mutter
Janet Rowley
Alice Waters
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