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Known to star the sitcoms The Lucy–Desi Comedy Hour, Here’s Lucy, I Love Lucy, Life with Lucy, and The Lucy Show, Lucille Ball is a popular American executive, model, comedienne and actress who enjoyed the limelight of showbiz success longer than what others did. She had an estimated net worth of $40 million.
Known to be one of those who had the longest careers in Hollywood, Lucille Ball enjoyed the limelight from the 1930s throughout the 1970s. Out of her 13 Emmy Award nominations, Ball won only 4. Lucille Ball was also a recipient of Women in Film Crystal Award, Governors Award from the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, Lifetime Achievement Award from the Kennedy Center Honors, and Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award.
Lucille Désirée Ball was born on August 6, 1911 in Jamestown, New York, USA. At age 77, she died of a thoracic aortic dissection on April 26, 1989 in Los Angeles, California, USA. Prior to her death, Lucille Ball had remarried twice. Her first marriage was with Desi Arnaz, a Cuban bandleader. The marriage resulted to divorce but earned her two children, Desiderio Alberto Arnaz IV and Lucie Désirée Arnaz. Though they didn’t have a child together, Lucille Ball had a 27-year marriage with her second husband Gary Morton.
Earnings & Financial Data
Date | Category | Description | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
1985 | Salary | Per episode salary from Life with Lucy | $150,000 |
1973 | Salary | Salary from Mame (+10% net profits) | $250,000 |
1967 | Salary | Salary from The Lucy Show (deferred compensation) | $1,100,000 |
1966 | Sale of Asset | Value of the Desilu Productions, consisting of 36 sound stages, 2000 employees and 62 acres adjacent to Paramount, which he sold to Gulf + Western Industries (he received $10 million while the other $7 million were distributed to the stockholders) | $17,000,000 |
1966 | Salary | Salary from The Lucy Show until 1968 | $384,000 |
1966 | Salary | Salary from A Guide for the Married Man for two days work | $10,000 |
1965 | Salary | Annual salary as President of Desilu Productions (1962-1967) | $100,000 |
1961 | Asset | Value of the Desi Arnaz's holdings in Desilu holdings he bought | $3,000,000 |
1961 | Divorce | Earnings from her divorce from Desi Arnaz (equal division of the television empire) | $10,000,000 |
1961 | Salary | Salary from The Danny Kaye Show with Lucille Ball | $100,000 |
1961 | Salary | Per episode salary from The Lucy Show | $15,000 |
1952 | Salary | Salary from The Long, Long Trailer ($150,000 on profits bonus) | $125,000 |
1950 | Salary | Per episode salary from I Love Lucy {+ 50% profits for the first 39 shows as well as ownership of the negatives to all future shows (1951-52)} | $2,000 |
1950 | Salary | Per episode salary from I Love Lucy | $3,500 |
1950 | Salary | Salary from The Magic Carpet | $85,000 |
1945 | Salary | Weekly salary from Two Smart People | $1,750 |
1941 | Salary | Weekly salary from The Big Street | $3,500 |
1940 | Salary | Salary from A Girl, a Guy, and a Gob | $12,500 |
1939 | Salary | Weekly salary from Dance, Girl, Dance | $3,500 |
1939 | Salary | Weekly salary from Too Many Girls | $1,500 |
1937 | Salary | Weekly salary from Go Chase Yourself | $2,000 |
1936 | Salary | Weekly salary from Don't Tell the Wife | $2,000 |
1934 | Salary | Weekly salary from Top Hat | $50 |