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As a movie actress Lucille Ball was in her own words queen of the Bpluses But on the small screen she was a superstararguably the funniest and most enduring in the history of TV In this exemplary biography Stefan Kanfer explores the roots of Lucys genius and places it in the context of her conflicted and sometimes bitter personal life
Ball of Fire gives us Lucy in all her contradictions Here is the beauty who became a master of knockdown slapstick the control freak whose comic alter ego thrived on chaos the worshipful TV housewife whose real marriage ended in public disaster Here too is an intimate view of the dawn of television and of the America that embraced it Charming informative touching and laughoutloud funny this is the book Lucys fans have been waiting for
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