Lucille, Kathleen Brady
Lucille, Kathleen Brady
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Lucille
The Life of Lucille Ball

Author: Kathleen Brady

Narrator: C. M. Hrbert

Unabridged: 12 hr 49 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/01/2007

Synopsis

In twenty years of show business, Lucille Ball had only modest and sporadic success. Her television program, I Love Lucy, was her last chance to fulfill the ambition that had sustained her through the frustrations of her professional life and the anguish of a failing marriage. The role of Lucy Ricardo revealed her true gifts, but it changed her life immeasurably, and the remarkable individual who was Lucille Ball became slowly obscured in the shadows of Lucy.This definitive portrait of Lucille is based on the recollections of fellow performers like Milton Berle, Ginger Rogers, Bob Hope, and Katherine Hepburn; her closest friends and family; and Lucille herself. From her childhood, when her virtual abandonment instilled in her a relentless drive for love and attention, through her struggling years in Hollywood and her troubled relationship with Desi Arnaz, Brady vividly recounts the story of this passionate and vulnerable woman.

About Kathleen Brady

Kathleen Brady is co-chairman of the Biography Seminar at New York University. She has covered television and the media for Time magazine. For her biography of the investigative journalist Ida Tarbell, she was named a Fellow of the Society of American Historians. She was featured on the PBS television series, “The Prize,” and on A&E’s “Biography” of the Rockefeller family.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Christine

Lucille Ball is my hero and this is well written, but the fact that the biographer portrayed her as a bit of a monster was very upsetting. I just don't want to believe half of what the author had to say-I don't think she fell enough in love with her subject.......more

Goodreads review by Cynthia

A very professional biography - clearly written, fascinating and, ultimately sad. It is another life governed and ruled by ambition, and desire for fame and the accolates of both peers and fans. It is another success story, a wildly successful story, because Lucille Ball was indeed America's favorit......more

Goodreads review by Maureen

This was a heavily researched, well written biography and it doesn't pull any punches with its subject--it never tries to skirt the truth to paint Lucy in a better light. It is dense but that's a sign of how well researched it is and full of detail. It's truthfully a bit sad (and disappointing) to l......more

Goodreads review by Pamela

I am a HUGE Lucy and Desi fan and I loved this book. What an amazing life she led. It was so fascinating to see the other side of her that we wouldn't know from her famous character. A must read for any fan.......more

Goodreads review by Malcolm

Ball was one of a kind & the first female performer to achieve real power in the early days of television. A gifted comic she never quite found her place in movies, partly because the studios didn't really know what to do with her. But once she created her harried housewife character in I Love Lucy......more

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