Lucille Ball Jitterbug Bite (1940 Dance Girl)

Television comedienne and film actress. Born on August 6, 1911, in Jamestown, New York, to Henry Durrell Ball and his wife Desiree. The oldest of the couple s two children (a brother Fred, was born in 1915), Lucille s childhood was a bit of a hardscrabble affair, one shaped by tragedy and a lack of money. Ball s father Henry, or Had as he was known to his family, was an electrician and not long after his daughter s birth he relocated the family to Montana for work. Then it was off to Michigan, where Had to