The Real Story of Lucille Ball

by Eleanor Harris

Overview

The difficult early years…

The truth about her and Desi…

What’s behind I Love Lucy…

First published in 1954, this is the full story of the actress who struggled to achieve stardom in the savagely competitive world of Hollywood and then went on to top place in television. And the story of the woman who won the harder battle of preserving the things she loved—marriage, home, and family—against the unceasing demands of success.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781787207509
Publisher:	Papamoa Press
Publication date:	07/31/2017
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	98
Sales rank:	210,384
File size:	6 MB

About the Author

Eleanor Harris (November 26, 1912 - October 30, 1997) was an American writer who is best known for her work on Every Girl Should Be Married (1948), Kidnapped (1938) and The Jack Paar Tonight Show (1957).

Born in Brooklyn, New York as Eleanor Sallée Harris, she grew up in Beverly Hills in a family of seven, all of whom were also writers. She attended Stanford University and landed a job as a junior writer at Twentieth Century Fox within a week of graduation. However, believing she didn’t have that ‘killer instinct’ for script writing, she moved to New York and eventually pursued a career in writing magazine articles instead. Her first article, ‘Don’t Stop, Don’t Look, Just Marry,’ sold to Cosmopolitan and was subsequently also included in a textbook on magazine writing. From 1947 onwards, she wrote articles for most of the major magazines, including profiles on such people as Adlai Stevenson, Princess Margaret, and actors and actresses of the time. She wrote numerous articles on the Arnaz family throughout the years for such magazines as Look, McCall’s, and The Reader’s Digest.

Harris was married to Jack R. Howard from 1964 until her death in 1997 in New York City, aged 84.