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Showing posts with label Lucille Ball. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lucille Ball. Show all posts

Wednesday, June 3, 2015

Lucy - The Great Redhead Of The Galaxy

If creator, writer and producer Gene Roddenberry is known affectionately as The Great Bird Of The Galaxy, then Lucille Ball, whose Desilu studio produced Star Trek, must be The Great Redhead of The Galaxy.


It's said that Lucy took such pride in her television shows, she was even known to push a broom to clean the sets, and swept up on the Trek sets more than once.  Talk about a hands on boss.  The next time you laugh out loud watching I Love Lucy or catch one of your favorite Star Trek tales, remember, that if it wasn't for Lucille Ball's wild comedy, Roddenberry's great space race may never have blasted off at warp speed.

Wednesday, May 7, 2014

Lucille Ball - The Mother of Star Trek

Lucille Ball, beloved star of I Love Lucy and dozens of feature films, was one of Hollywood's greatest comedians.  Lucy, as adoring fans call her, was also co-founder of the Desilu studio - with husband Desi Arnaz - which produced Gene Roddenberry's Star Trek for NBC.  If Roddenberry is Starship Enterprise's founding father, Lucy is its founding mother.


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