Lucille Ball was a four-time Emmy Award winner. She won Best Actress three times and once for Best Comedienne.
She received 13 nominations during her career and won four Emmy Awards: one for Best Comedienne in 1953, Best Actress in 1956 and Best Actress in a Leading Roll in a Comedy Series in 1967 and 1968.
Lucille Ball Was Very Particular
Lucille had her quirks, she wasn’t your typical woman. For example, when she started auditioning for Broadway, she used to go by the name 'Diane Belmont'.
The name came from a racetrack in New York called Belmont Racetrack, which she loved dearly.
She Wanted to Keep a Little Magic in the World
During the I Love Lucy episode with Superman, she strictly forebode George Reeve’s (who played Superman at the time) name to appear in the end credits, because she wanted children who were watching to believe Superman was real.
We guess it was her own way of trying to keep a little magic in the world, at least for those who still didn't know any better.
The Show Was More Important Than a Paycheck
I Love Lucy was so important to Lucille and Desi that they were always trying to find new ways to make it better. They decided they wanted the show to be produced and filmed with better materials (e.g. more expensive celluloid film, etc.)
When they talked to producers about receiving a higher budget for this, the producers refused. So, Lucille and Desi decided to take a cut from their own salaries to make it happen. Afterward, she made a deal to ensure she and Desi had ownership rights to whatever was produced.
Lucille Ball and the Salem Witchcraft Trials
According to a report on NPR (National Public Radio), the adorable Lucille was apparently a descendant from the witches connected to the trials. The Salem Witch Trials were a sequence of trials and prosecution of people that were charged with doing witchcraft, from 1692 to 1963. The trials took place in Salem, Massachusetts, and out of the more than 200 people accused, 19 of them were convicted and hanged.
The report claimed that many American icons were related to the witches, including Clara Barton, Walt Disney, and, effectively, Lucille Ball.