EARLY FAMILY COMEDIES
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Lucille Ball
Lucille Ball
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This page: Lucille Ball human hair orange-red wig on a lace foundation (top left) custom made for Lucy circa 1960s for Here’s Lucy; a Lucille Ball rare vintage photograph (top right) largely signed in blue ballpoint: “This script certainly is lousy but you’re nice - Lucille”; and a Lucy Ricardo (Lucille Ball) costume sketch (lower left) of a chartreuse blouse & long brown skirt ensemble signed by costume designer Elois Jenssen in lower right and approved for construction “OK, LB” by Lucille Ball in lower left for I Love Lucy. Opposite page: Lucy Ricardo (Lucille Ball) signature polka-dot jacket & dress ensemble (along left) featured in the “Lucy Goes to Mexico” episode of I Love Lucy , which by 1957 the series had changed its thirty minute format and was retitled The Lucy- Desi Comedy Hour ; and a Lucy double-strand of vintage pearls circa 1950s/1960 (middle left). The
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costume sketch was acqu i red f rom the e s t a t e o f s e r i e s cos t ume des i gne r Elois Jenssen, the polka-dot dress from t h e MGM s t u d i o auction, and the wig from Lucy’s daughter, Lucie Arnaz.
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