Author Sarah Royal and the cover of her new book A.K.A. Lucy: The Dynamic and Determined Life of Lucille Ball In this interview, Michaela Owens talks to Sarah Royal, a pop-culture historian and the author of a new book on everybody’s favorite redhead, the one and only Lucille Ball. A television pioneer, comedy legend, and… Read more »
In 1942, about a decade before she would step into the role of Lucy Ricardo, Lucille Ball was ending a run as “the RKO comedy bombshell” and moving up into MGM’s glitz-and-glam musical comedy world. The height of Ball’s Hollywood stardom was in the early- to mid-1940s, and yet her success in Hollywood cinema pales… Read more »