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 0571220304
- ISBN13 9780571220304
- Publish Date 16 October 2003 (first published 19 August 2003)
- Publish Status Transferred
- Out of Print 10 October 2005
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Faber & Faber
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 386
- Language English