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Lucille: The Life of Lucille Ball (Paperback)

by Kathleen Brady (Author)
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  • Paperback: 424 pages
  • Publisher: Billboard Books,U.S.; New edition edition (1 April 2001)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0823089134
  • ISBN-13: 978-0823089130
  • Product Dimensions: 23 x 15.6 x 3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 731,917 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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A biography of Lucille Ball, one of the most revered actresses in television history. Moving beyond the typical celebrity biography, Kathleen Brady seeks to separate the actress from Lucy Ricardo, the antic, enduring character she created on "I Love Lucy". She reveals that Lucille's life was a roller coaster, going from disaster to victory and triumph to tragedy. As a star, she felt she had to work hard to maintain her popularity, and was also conscious that what her fans wanted from her was not herself, but Lucy Ricardo. New to this edition is an introductory essay focusing on the place of the character of Lucy Ricardo in the history of comedy, going back to the traditions of the Italian commedia dell'arte and forward to the end of the 20th century. In this essay, Lucille Ball is compared to other key female figures in comedy like Mabel Normand, Mae West, Frannie Brice, Gilda Radner and Fran Drescher. The new edition also includes some photographs from various sources.

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2.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing Telling of Miss Ball's Interesting Life, 19 Aug 2008
By Graceann Macleod "Books Fuel My Life" (London, UK) - See all my reviews
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I had been looking forward to this biography, and found myself quite disappointed by the result. The first red flag was a rookie mistake located on the second page of the introduction, and then another on the third (Buster Keaton didn't work for Sennett - five minutes of research would reveal this to a conscientious writer; nor were Lucille Ball and Vivian Vance the first female comedy team - Hal Roach gave us Todd & Pitts a good 20 years prior to Ball & Vance). When these clear mistakes are at the very beginning, one has to wonder what else is in error throughout the book (the topless photo purported to be Lucille, but clearly not, for instance).

Aside from that, this book paints Lucille in a fairly monstrous light, with only glimmers of her generosity and kindness. She herself indicated that she wasn't a funny person, but that it was her writers who made her work SEEM funny, so that's not what's at issue here. The discussions of her seemingly endless tantrums, fits and petty jealousies are piled on until Lucille reads like "Lucy Dearest." Desi, Sr. and her children don't come off much better, and even Gary Morton, who loved her for the last 28 years of her life, doesn't emerge unscathed.

I wanted to read an even-handed biography of Lucy, and a complete one, one that covered her early career in some detail and dealt with her life after I Love Lucy in more than just glancing copy. The bulk of the book is made up of her admittedly iconic 1950's series, but I don't feel as if I learned anything more about Lucille Ball than I knew before I opened the pages, and even more problematic, I don't know what, if any, of the work I can believe. This one is for the completists, I'm afraid, and not to be read as a definitive work on the complex woman who was Lucille Ball.
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