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As a movie actress Lucille Ball was, in her own words, queen of the B-pluses. But on the small screen she was a superstar--arguably the funniest and most enduring in the history of TV. In this exemplary biography, Stefan Kanfer explores the roots of Lucy's genius and places it in the context of her conflicted and sometimes bitter personal life. Ball of Fire gives us Lucy in all her contradictions. Here is the beauty who became a master of knock-down slapstick; the control freak whose comic alter ego thrived on chaos, the worshipful TV housewife whose real marriage ended in public disaster. Here, too, is an intimate view of the dawn of television and of the America that embraced it. Charming, informative, touching. and laugh-out-loud funny, this is the book Lucy's fans have been waiting for.

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Stefan Kanfer was a journalist, critic, and editor, as well as the author of sixteen books, including the bestselling biographies Groucho and Ball of Fire. Kanfer, the first by-lined cinema critic for the New York Times, was the recipient of many writing awards and was named a Literary Lion of the New York Public Library. He died in 2018. Nan McNamara has performed on stage, television, film, and behind the microphone in voice-overs for over twenty years. Her passion is to tell good stories--no matter what the medium. Originally from St. Paul, Nan received a BA cum laude in theater.

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