Yes, it is true. Long before Lucille Ball delighted television audiences as the wacky red-headed housewife to a Cuban bandleader, she made a number of movies, including four in which she starred with comedian Bob Hope. One of them, the duo’s second film together, was the 1950 Fancy Pants, a musical western that was adapted…
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Lucille Ball’s Early Hollywood Film Career
Before she was the zany red-headed sitcom star of the 1950s and 1960s, actress Lucille Ball appeared on the Broadway stage and on radio, but it took a while for Ball to get her Hollywood movie career off the ground. And almost as soon as it did, she transitioned to television. During the 1930s and…