Lucille Desiree Ball: A Brief Biography

Lucille always worked hard in school got a scholarship. Worked in a hospital for both her intern year and residency years at the children's hospital in Montréal. She wasn't accepted in any U.S. schools because she was a woman so she just applied in France where she was accepted. While working as an intern, she meet Piero, who was also an intern there he asked if she would help him in Uganda and did go with him where she help alot half of them were under the age of six, she the contracted HIV/AIDS when something pierced her through her glove while operating she later died. Despite 20 years of civil war they built a modern 500 bed hospital. The hospital that they built continues to grow and is one of the largest medical centers in Uganda also became a research center and treatment for AIDS. Teasdale and Corti left a fitting

Even in this day in age, nearly 70 years later, people all over still know and love Lucille Ball and her iconic television series, I Love Lucy. After buying Desilu from her ex-husband, Lucille Ball became the first woman in history to own her company. She also realistically portrayed her character because when Lucille was pregnant so was Lucy. Ball is known as one of the most influential women today because she opened the door for future women in comedy. Throughout her lifespan, Lucille Ball continually opened the door for women in comedy and television, changed the way women were perceived in the media, and was even the first woman to own a television studio.

Rosa Parks is a civil rights activist and is a tragic hero known for her Strength, bravery, wisdom, peace and perseverance taking a major role in the Montgomery bus boycott and standing up against oppression, She and many others stood up for their rights, She refused to surrender her seat on a segregated Montgomery Alabama city bus on the day of December 1, 1955 which began the 381 day long Montgomery Bus Boycott which then helped launch the nation wide efforts to end segregation of public facilities.

Bessie Coleman left a legacy not just in Texas but in the United States that few pilots could ever achieve. She may not have been the first African American to earn a pilot's license but she was the first female African American. When people hear of famous African Americans their first thought automatically goes to Rosa Parks or Martin Luther King Jr but nobody has heard of Bessie Coleman. It is thought that Bessie’s life was shaped by the tragedies she endured. First Bessie was born in early 1892 to illiterate parents that were both English-born slaves and that were children of slaves. Bessie’s father left her and his family in 1901. Her mother and two older brothers went to work later that year. Second, being African American during that time made it difficult for Coleman and her family to accomplish anything. Because of these reasons Bessie lived a life of hardships and tribulations. (notablebiographies.com)

What is an American icon? According to Webster's Dictionary, it is a person or thing that is idolized. It is someone who, by mention of their name, will remind people of who they are and what they are famous for. Synonyms include "representation" and "symbol." When you hear the name Lucille Ball or “I Love Lucy” you probably think of a skittish red head who had eccentric expressions and made America laugh. Lucille Desiree Ball was, and still is, an American icon because of what she represented in all four of her shows, how she changed the television and movie industry, and her fashion sense which created a well-known look for herself.

Her career plan wasn't really planned out the same way through high school. “I joined the Air Force because I wanted to travel the world after I had traveled to Spain and France to see a friend and got the travel bug in me.” This shows things don't always go how you want them too because cause she didn’t plan on joining the Air Force. Her biggest role model during high school was her E.L.A teacher. She was her role model because she was a strict teacher but she was fair. This shows that you don't have to have someone famous to inspire

In the early 1940’s Lucille (Lucy) Kohrt (Ingwerson) was born. She was born in Germany, but moved to Iowa right after her first birthday. Her mother and father decided that they were going to take their 2 children and start a new life in America. When they made it to Iowa they stayed in hotels for a few months, but eventually found a farm that would be perfect for a growing family. A few years later her parents had another son and later, a daughter. Farm life was good for the Kohrt family and they had a lot to be thankful for.

Oprah Gail Winfrey was born on January 29, 1954 in Kosciusko, Mississippi to the unwed Vernita Lee and Vernon Winfrey at a time when illegitimate children were highly frowned upon. Soon after Oprah’s birth, her parents separated; her father, who was in the military, moved to Nashville and remarried; while her mother moved north in search of employment and a fresh start, leaving Oprah to be raised by her grandparents. From an early age Oprah exhibited elevated intelligence, her grandmother, Hattie Mae Lee, encouraged her curious mind teaching her how to read at an early age and pruning her developing speaking skill which she put to practice in church by reciting bible verses and sermons. When she started school, she was allowed to skip ahead to first grade and then third grade because she already knew how to read and write. Then at the age of six, her grandmother became ill and Oprah was sent to live with her mother

"Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world." That quote was one that Lucille Ball lived by throughout her twisted and turbulent life. As one of the most recognized faces in the world, she is known to millions simply as Lucy. She went from waitress and salesgirl to model to Goldwyn Girl to radio clown to an unlikely leading lady in a ground-breaking sitcom that is still seen in regular syndicated reruns more than 40 years after the series ended. Beyond being a television legend, she was the first woman president of a major Hollywood studio—a studio she co-founded. This is the life and times of Lucille Ball.

Before there were women like Oprah Winfrey or Ellen DeGeneres, there was a Lucille Ball. A woman running her own television show, production network, while also maintaining the role as a mother and a wife. Lucille was one of the influential women of her time, impacting society anywhere from interracial dating and marriages, her television show and her pregnancy and what it represented. Lucille Ball paved the road for a woman following a career in comedy, expanding acceptance for women's priorities to not always be that of her physical appearance, and the betterment of her husband and children's lives. In the 1950’s a woman who focused on her own career advancement and self-betterment was often considered selfish and self-centered, and Lucille Ball was one of the women to prove that stereotype wrong. With so little women at the time in the workplace and drastically fewer women with upper-level positions, Lucille Ball stands out.

“The only tired I was, was tired of giving in” (Parks). I was tired, tired of being oppressed, and tired of being stepped on by the law, and my fellow people. That was the only tired i felt. The Montgomery Bus protest sparked a fire that would be felt throughout the entire country, and it was the spark that ignited the fire of the civil rights movement that shook the world. The boycott was the first of it, once light was shown on the problem, she began travelling cross country spreading information about civil rights, and sparking more peaceful protest. Rosa Parks was an important figure that changed the direction of the United States of America. She was trying to get home from work that day, but she turned into an icon for the civil rights movement, and shined a light on the unfair treatment of african americans.

On January 17, 1922, Betty Marion White was born an only child to homemaker Christine Tess and lighting company executive Horace Logan in Oak Park, Illinois. The family struggled considerably during the Great Depression, compelling White’s father to build and sell radios to earn extra income. As a teenager, Betty White had aspirations to become a forest ranger (“Betty White”). Unfortunately, women were not accepted to be forest rangers during that time. White took advantage of her writing talent and consequently decided to pursue a writing career. In high school, Betty White even created her senior class play (“Betty White”). At first she appeared in theater and radio, but in 1949 White became a part of the Al Jarvis Variety Show. Betty was initially hired to handle

In 1919 I toured the United States with the Jones Family Band and the Dixie Steppers, performing various comic skits. I was almost always rejected as a black woman; they would always say I was “too skinny and too dark”, how dare them I was just as good as anyone else, I was better. In 1922 I joined the tour of Shuffle Along; the 1st all-black Broadway musical and then I arrived in Paris in 1925 to become a dancer in La Revue Negre. After I did La Revue Negre I became popular. It afforded me quite a salary. I bought lots of clothes, jewelry, and lots of pets. I owned a leopard once, a chimpanzee, a pig, a snake and the list goes on, you name it and I had it.

One of the most influential and inspirational women of all time was Rosa Parks. By one action she helped change the lives of a majority of African Americans and more importantly society as a whole. Rosa Parks sparked the attention of America when she refused to settle for the black (lower class)standards. Not only did she help change the lives for many African Americans but she helped equality for all men and women in the United States. By one brave women our world will be forever thankful.

Stella grew up along her parents and played the roles of both boys and girls. When studying her acting she didn’t have much time for school but she did attend a public school in New York. Her first debut was in London, England when she was 18 as Naiome in Elisa Ben Avia with her father’s company. She made her first debut in the English-language was on Broadway in 1922 as the butterfly in The World We Live In. In 1940’s she started teaching acting at the New School for Social Research in New City. She kept teaching at that studio until 1949 and decided to start her own studio known as the Stella Adler Conservatory of Acting (before that it was the Stella Adler Theatre Studio). While teaching at her own school, she also taught at Yale University’s School of Drama for a year and a half. Adler mentored many accomplished personalities such as Marlon Brando, Judy Garland, Elizabeth Taylor, Dolores del Rìo, Robert De Niro, Elaine Stritch, Martin Sheen, Manu Tupou, Harvey Keitel, Melaine Griffith, Peter Bogdanovich, and Warren Beatty by teaching them the many principles of contemperary theatre like characterization and script. As her career and she started getting older she stopped performing in 1961. Also with her acting she also was an associate producer for MGM (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studio. She also directed commercial theatre and she also wrote The Technique of