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Lucille Ball became a redhead in 1942 when MGM hairdressers sought something more distinctive than her natural brown-dyed-blonde. She held her own in B movies and such classy fare as Stage Door with Katharine Hepburn and Ginger Rogers. But by the end of the 1940’s, when she herself was approaching 40, her movie career was all but finished.

Husband Desi urged her to try television and CBS took a chance on the unlikely couple who insisted on creative control and full ownership of the program. I Love Lucy launched Desilu Productions, which would become one of television’s most successful independent producers. The show that made us all love Lucy explored common themes: married life, the clash between career and home, loyalty and friendship, while reflecting the important social trends of the 1950’s.

As a comedian she was lithe and inventive. Her comic timing was unmatched. She was a relentless perfectionist, and her devotion to the truth of her character never wavered. Desi was an unrepentant philanderer, and their marriage was far more tempestuous

off-screen than could be displayed for a television audience, but the emotional electricity between them on-screen was real. In the episode where Lucy finds out she’s pregnant, she can't find a way to tell Ricky because he’s too busy. Finally, she takes a table at his nightclub show and passes him an anonymous note asking that he sing a song, “We're Having a Baby,” to the father-to-be. As Ricky roams the room looking for the happy couple, he spies Lucy and moves on. Then he does a heartrending double take, glides to his knees and asks, voice cracking, whether it's true. Finishing the scene together onstage, they are overcome by the real emotion of their own impending baby. Director William Asher, dismayed by the unrehearsed tears, even shot a second, more upbeat take. Luckily he used the first one; it's the most touching moment in sitcom history.

The series ended in 1957 still at No. 1. In 1960 Lucy and Desi divorced and Lucy returned to television with The Lucy Show and Here’s Lucy. She made a few more movies, including Mame in 1974 and attempted a final television comeback in 1986 with the short-lived Life With Lucy before her death in 1989.

She had an elastic face and rubbery lips, which made her seem rather clownish. Those expressive features, combined with her booming smoker’s voice and her less-than-subtle body language, defined her as a sensuous woman. One who felt things and reacted to them completely. The startling blast of laughter; the shouting and waving; the face-crumpled howling sob—this is beauty. This is grace. When a woman fully expresses herself, shamelessly, she is exquisite. She will never be forgotten.