Ancestry of
Lucille Ball
TV Actress - “I Love Lucy”
Who was Lucille Ball?
Lucille Ball was an American movie and television actress who is most remembered for her comedic roles. She is especially remembered for her role as Lucy Ricardo in the I Love Lucy television show. She was married fellow entertainer Desi Arnaz who co-starred in the show as Ricky Ricardo. Their production company Desilu Productions would go on to produce other hit shows such as Star Trek and The Dick Van Dyke Show. Ironically Dick Van Dyke has a kinship to Lucille Ball (see kinship charts). As head of Desilu Productions, Lucille Ball would become the first woman to run a major television studio.
A little known fact about Lucille Ball is that she was a registered Communist. In the 1930s Lucille registered her party affiliation as Communist. Later in the 1950s, Lucille gave testimony to the House Committee on Un-American Activities and stated that she was not a Communist and had registered to vote Communist at the insistence of her socialist grandfather.
Famous Kin
Lucille Ball is kin to a number of U. S. presidents and first ladies, including but not limited to Calvin Coolidge, his wife Grace (Goodhue) Coolidge, Franklin Pierce, and Ulysses S. Grant. Some of her closer kin include Declaration of Independence signer Oliver Wolcott, poet Robert Frost, and Red Cross founder Clara Barton. She has a kinship to fellow comedic actor Dick Van Dyke, and to movie actors Humphrey Bogart and Clint Eastwood.
Some of the most recently added connections of famous kin for Lucille Ball
Melville Fuller
8th Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court
19th cousin 2 times removed
via Sir Hugh I de Audley
Melville Fuller
8th Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court
8th cousin 4 times removed
via William Curtis
Alvan T. Fuller
50th Governor of Massachusetts
8th cousin 3 times removed
via Richard Gould of Bovingdon
Melville Fuller
8th Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court
6th cousin 4 times removed
via Zaccheus Gould
Melville Fuller
8th Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court
16th cousin 5 times removed
via Henry Plantagenet
Melville Fuller
8th Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court
17th cousin 4 times removed
via Sir Maurice de Berkeley
Melville Fuller
8th Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court
6th cousin 2 times removed
via Thomas Flagg
Benjamin Apthorp Gould
Founder of The Astronomical Journal
5th cousin 5 times removed
via Zaccheus Gould
Benjamin Apthorp Gould
Founder of The Astronomical Journal
5th cousin 3 times removed
via Thomas Flagg
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