- Lucy had to convince CBS to allow Desi Arnaz to play her husband in "I Love Lucy".
- From 1955 until her death in 1989, Lucille Ball lived at 1000 North Roxbury Drive in Beverly Hills.
- There is a Lucille Ball-Desi Arnaz Center museum in Lucy's hometown of Jamestown, New York. The Little Theatre was renamed the Lucille Ball Little Theatre in her honor.
- Although best known for being a redhead, Lucy was actually born a brunette.
- In the summer of 2005, Lucille Ball was voted America's most beloved deceased star.
- Ball was among Time magazine's 100 Most Important People of the Century.
- Lucille Ball has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
- On August 6, 2001, on what would have been her ninetieth birthday, the United States Postal Service honored her with a commemorative postage stamp as part of its Legends of Hollywood series.
- Lucy is still known as "America's Favorite Redhead".
- Because of her liberated mindset and approval of the women's movement, Ball was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame.
- For many years, Lucille Ball (born 1911) hid the fact that she was six years older than hubby Desi (born 1917). They split the difference in years and claimed both were born in 1914.
- Lucy was once fired from her job at an ice cream store because she kept forgetting to put bananas in banana splits.
- The day after I Love Lucy's final taping, Lucy filed for divorce from Desi Arnaz. [edit]
- TV Guide voted Lucille Ball as the Greatest TV Star of All Time and later it commemorated the fiftieth anniversary of I Love Lucy with eight collector covers celebrating memorable scenes from the show and in another instance they named I Love Lucy the second best television program in American history, after Seinfeld.
- Lucille Ball once registered as a voter for the Communist party as a favor to her grandfather.
- Lucille died on April 26, 1989, which coincidentally was the 56th birthday of her friend, Carol Burnett.
- Lucy was the first woman to own her own film studio, Deslilu Productions.
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