1. She attended acting school in New York City … with Bette Davis.
2. In 1986, Lucy attempted a comeback with the dismal Aaron Spelling-produced ABC sitcom ‘Life With Lucy’ in 1986. The show, which found Lucy playing Lucy Barker, a widowed grandma who helped run her late husband’s hardware store, also featured her ‘The Lucy Show’ and ‘Here’s Lucy’ co-star Gale Gordon, but the rest of the cast was so forgettable that the comedy only aired for eight episodes before plummeting ratings led to its cancellation.
3. Lucy was a big fan of Betty White and ‘The Golden Girls,’ and appeared with White on various versions of the game show ‘Password.’ Lucy’s mother, DeDe, was a close friend of Betty White’s mother, Tess.
4. Lucy was an uncredited producer on the 1983 Tom Cruise football drama ‘All the Right Moves.’ Her second husband, Gary Morton, had co-produced the film via Lucy’s Lucille Ball Production
5. After two decades spent trying to become a movie superstar, Lucille Ball was 40 years old when she finally became a Hollywood player with the debut of ‘I Love Lucy’ in 1951.
