Lucille Ball Research Paper

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Lucille Ball was born on August 6, 1911 in Jamestown, New York. She had a hard childhood. They were very poor and had to move from New York, to Montana, to Michigan so her father could find work. When she was three, her father died. She says that was her first memory. Since her mom needed help with Lucy and her younger brother, Fred, they moved back to New York and lived with her mother’s parents. Lucy went to shows with her grandfather, and he encouraged her to be in plays. That was her first taste of what her career would be. When Lucy was six, her mom remarried, but her stepdad didn’t like the kids, so she had to move in with his very strict parents. They were so strict that she even got in trouble for looking at herself in the