To viewers worldwide Lucille Ball remains the ultimate screwball housewife, getting in and out of outlandish scrapes with hilarious finesse. Stefan Kanfer's biography looks behind the image, tracing Ball's comedic genius to its beginnings in a lonely childhood in upstate New York. En route Kanfer chronicles the runaway success of the sitcom "I Love Lucy", the fiery marriage and eventual split from Desi - the Cuban bandleader who made her famous - and Ball's struggles to manage both a business empire and her own rebellious children.
- ISBN10 0375413154
- ISBN13 9780375413155
- Publish Date 19 August 2003
- Publish Status Remaindered
- Out of Print 12 November 2014
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Alfred A. Knopf
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 361
- Language English