Lucille Ball

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  • Lucille Ball was born

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  • Lucy attends a New York drama school

  • Returns to New York and becomes the Chesterfield cigarettes poster girl

  • Signs movie contract with Samuel Goldwyn and moves to Hollywood

  • Meets Desi Arnaz on the set of Too Many Girls

  • Lucille and Dezi Arnez get married marry

  • I Love Lucy premieres on CBS, three months after birth of Lucie Arnaz

  • I Love Lucy ends after 179 episodes, to be followed that fall by one-hour shows called The Lucille Ball-Desi Arnaz Show (1957-60)

  • Lucy and Desi divorce after their series ends

  • Lucy marries producer Gary Morton

  • The Lucy Show (later called Here's Lucy) debuts with Lucy and Vivian Vance; Lucy buys out Desi and becomes Desilu Productions president

  • ABC cancels her sitcom comeback, Life with Lucy, after eight weeks

  • Desi dies of lung cancer

  • Lucille Ball dies