Later, while auditioning for roles in Times Square under the stage names Montana Ball and Diane Belmont before settling on her given name, she scrounged to survive, including partaking in nude modeling and turning the occasional trick. “She developed a foul mouth to match his own and those of his hoodlum friends.” “Living with DaVita catalyzed some personality changes in her,” the authors write. “I Love Lucy” aired on CBS from 1951 to 1957. She later moved in with DaVita, who occasionally beat her, and shaped parts of her personality around his gangster ways. Perhaps you could find work as a soda jerk.”Īt 14, Ball wound up in a relationship with 23-year-old Johnny DaVita, who, the authors write, ran illegal booze in from Canada and functioned as the town gigolo. “You’re like a quarterback taking up ballet.
“You’re hopeless as a dancer,” Graham told her. Taking acting lessons in New York City as a teen, she was overshadowed by fellow student Bette Davis, who she found “snobby and intimidating.” She also studied dance under Martha Graham for several days before Graham asked her to drop the class. 6, 1911 in Jamestown, NY - yearned to perform from a young age. While “I Love Lucy” showcased the fun-loving, madcap couple, behind the scenes, there were extramarital affairs and plenty of scandal.īall - born Aug. Lucille Ball met Desi Arnaz in 1940 at RKO Pictures. Volume II is set for release later this year. The book, which is Volume 1 of the authors’ Ball/Arnaz bio, is 576 pages long and covers the years until the end of their marriage, documenting their careers, hardships, and many, many lovers in all their gossipy glory. “He didn’t deny that, but claimed, ‘It doesn’t mean a thing, my fooling around with some hookers. She accused him of having sex with two prostitutes the night before,” writes Porter in his new book with Danforth Price, “Lucille Ball & Desi Arnaz: They Weren’t Lucy & Ricky Ricardo,” (Blood Moon Productions, out now). “She shouted denunciations at him, at one point calling him.
In the late 1950s, Darwin Porter, student body president at the University of Miami, arranged “Lucy & Desi” Day at the school, a celebration of the country’s most popular entertainers and favorite couple, Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz.īut when he arrived to take them to the event, the snide and bickering couple he found resembled anything but America’s sweethearts.
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