In her early 20s, when she was down to her last quarter in New York during the Depression, Ball defiantly bought a gardenia with it. Ball was 40 years old when the show started, and she had taken lots of hard knocks on the way up in show business. This sort of scheming and longing for freedom was a hallmark of Ball’s Lucy Ricardo on the classic television series, I Love Lucy, which ran from 1951 to 1957 and then forever after in reruns. “I got caught up in this silly clothesline, can you help me out?” “Mister, help me,” piped the three-year-old. The noise stopped one day, and Désirée went outside, where she saw Lucille talking to the milkman. As long as Désirée heard the metal runner moving back and forth on this clothesline, she knew that her rambunctious daughter was close by and not shaking things up. When she was three years old, Lucille Ball was always getting into mischief, and so her mother Désirée tied a leash around her waist and attached it to a pulley on a clothesline. In our column “Get to Know,” we discuss cultural icons of the past, whose legacy continues to influence art in our world today.
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