Photos: We Love Lucy
It's been 62 years since the the first episode of the television show "I Love Lucy" made its debut to viewers across the country. Look at the gallery to see the one and only Lucille Ball's career throughout the years.
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In this undated image, comedian-actress Lucille Ball and her husband, musician-actor Desi Arnaz from the comedy series, "I Love Lucy," are shown. Ball, who died on April 26, 1989, would have celebrated her 100th birthday on Saturday, Aug. 6, 2011. (AP Photo/file)
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Vivian Vance, left, is Ethel Mertz, and Lucille Ball is the irrepressable Lucy Ricardo, in the "I Love Lucy Christmas Special", Nov. 1956, an episode of the original I Love Lucyîseries which has been specially colorized for this rebroadcast (only the second in 33 years. (AP Photo)
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The Ricardos and the Mertzes (from left: Vivian Vance, Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz and William Frawley) gather for the holidays for some happy memories in an undated photo, in the "I Love Lucy Christmas Special", an episode of the original I Love Lucy series which has been specially colorized for this rebroadcast (only the second in 33 years), Nov. 1956. (AP Photo)
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A group of movie actors, directors, producers and writers struck back through the air on Oct. 26, 1947, from Hollywood against the manner in which the Washington investigation of Un-American activities in being conducted. Among those speaking were (left to right) Myrna Loy, Fredric March and Lucille Ball. (AP Photo)
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First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, assisted by film actress Lucille Ball, right, cuts a birthday cake at President Roosevelt's birthday ball celebration for the benefit of the National Infantile Paralysis Foundation, at the Stage Door Canteen in Washington, D.C., Jan. 29, 1944. Rear center is Thomas P. Morgan, Jr., chairman of the Birthday Ball Committee. (AP Photo)
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Joan Fontaine receiving a piece of the presidentís birthday cake from Eleanor Roosevelt at the presidentís birthday ball in the Hotel Staler in Washington on Saturday, Jan. 29, 1944. Left to right: Brian Aherne, Walter Pidgeon, Miss Fontaine, Jinx Falkenberg, Mrs. Roosevelt, ìRedî Skelton and Lucille Ball. (AP Photo/GBF)
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In this photo taken by AP Images for CBS DVD, a general view of atmosphere is seen at the "Lucille Ball At 100 & 'I Love Lucy' At 60" opening gala at The Hollywood Museum in Los Angeles, on Thursday, Aug. 4, 2011. The event also celebrates the recently released "Best of I love Lucy" DVD collection from CBS Home Entertainment and Paramount Home Entertainment. (Casey Rodgers/AP Images for CBS DVD)
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Stage and television actor Desi Arnaz carries his bride, actress Lucille Ball, across the threshold of a theater dressing room in Greenwich, Conn., on Nov. 30, 1940. (AP Photo)
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Actress and comedian Lucille Ball, center, with her husband Desi Arnaz behind her, and actors Dick Powell, partially obscured by serviceman at far left, and Joan Blondell, are serenaded by Mexican servicemen at Ensenada, Mexico, March 24, 1942. (AP Photo)
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Jose Iturbi, playing the piano, Lucille Ball, Harpo Marx, on piano, and Fred Astaire, dancing on piano, rehearse backstage at the Madison Square Garden in New York City before going on in the Hollywood Bond Cavalcade Show on Sept. 11, 1943. (AP Photo)
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Band leader Desi Arnaz watches as his wife actress Lucille Ball dances with actor Van Johnson during a party at Ciro's in Hollywood, Feb. 13, 1946. (AP Photo)
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Eddie Cantor, right, talks with comedienne Lucille Ball, center, and her husband Desi Arnaz during dinner at Los Angeles' Brown Derby, Oct. 10, 1946. (AP Photo)
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Lucille Ball, who recently divorced Desi Arnaz, attends the annual SHARE charity party withn composer Jimmy Van Heusen in Hollwood, Calif. on May 13, 1960. The organization is composed of wives of film personalities. The party, with a boom town theme this year, raises money for mentally retarded children. (AP Photo/Harold P. Matosian)
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Gary Morton and Lucille Ball pose after their wedding at the Marble Collegiate Church in New York in this Nov. 20, 1961, photo. (AP Photo)
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Comedian-actress Lucille Ball, left, poses with Gary Coleman during a break in filming "The Lucille Ball Special" in Hollywood, Ca., on Monday, Nov. 19, 1979. Coleman has a guest spot on the television special. (AP Photo)
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Actress-comedian Lucille Ball, left, and actress-comedian Carol Burnett pose after Ball received the TV Guide Life Achievement Award at NBC studios in Burbank, Ca., on Nov. 21, 1982. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)
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A bevy of stars join Bob Hope on the stage of the Kennedy Center on May 20,1983 in Washington, during a rehearsal for a television spectacular. The television show to be aired by NBC on Monday night, May 23, 1983 in honor of Hope's 80th birthday. From left are: Flip Wilson; Lucille Ball; Phyllis Diller; Christie Brinkley; and Bob Hope. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds)
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Comedian-actress Lucille Ball, left, and Bob Hope clown around during taping of a Bob Hope television special at NBC Studios in Burbank Ca., on Sept. 7, 1985. (AP Photo/Liu Hueng Shing)
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The six Kennedy Center Honors Awards winners gather at the State Department in Washington D.C. on Saturday, Dec. 6, 1986. Front row, from left are, Jessica Tandy, Hume Cronyn and Lucille Ball. Back row, from left are, Ray Charles, Antony Tudor and Yehudi Menuhin. The honors are bestowed upon artists for their lifetime achievements in the performing arts. (AP Photo/Charles Tasnadi)
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Entertainer Lucille Ball and singer Ray Charles, recipients of the Kennedy Center Honors, react during comments made by U.S. President Ronald Reagan during a tribute to the performers at the White House on Sunday, Dec. 7, 1986. (AP Photo/Scott Stewart)
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The stars of Bob Hope's hour-long spectacular, to be seen on October 24, line up for a song in Los Angeles on Sept. 27, 1962 as Bing Crosby, left, starts off singing to Juliet Prowse, Hope, and Lucille Ball. (AP Photo)
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Actress Mary Tyler Moore, right, teams up with comedienne Lucille Ball at a party in New York, March 1, 1980. (AP Photo/Carlos Rene Perez)
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Lucille Ball and Red Skelton are shown in this 1986 file photo, backstage after Ms. Ball presented Skelton the Governors Award, given by the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences for outstanding achievement in the arts and sciences. (AP Photo/Douglas Pizac)
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In this March 3, 1987 file photo, entertainers Lucille Ball and Milton Berle, left, are shown at a party inaugurating the fourth annual Television Festival of the Museum of Broadcasting, in Los Angeles, Calif. Ball, who died on April 26, 1989, would have celebrated her 100th birthday on Saturday, Aug. 6, 2011. (AP Photo/Alison Wise, file)
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American actress Lucille Ball at the Oscars on March 20, 1989. She died from heart failure in Los Angeles, California, at the end of April 1989. (AP Photo)
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Singer Wayne Newton does a guest appearance with Lucille Ball on "The Lucy Show." Here they whoop it up in a barnyard for the December 27,1965, episode on CBS-TV. (AP Photo/str)
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Lucille Ball enjoys herself at a party inaugurating the Fourth Annual Television Festival of the Museum of Broadcasting in this March 4, 1987 photo. (AP Photo/Alison Wise)
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Comedienne Lucille Ball is seen, location unknown, 1978. (AP Photo)
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Lucille Ball is shown in this photo from May of 1987. (AP Photo)
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Alice Elliott, a post office clerk dressed as Lucille Ball, strikes a pose while displaying the new Lucille Ball postage stamps at the Danville Post Office in Danville, Pa., Tuesday, Aug. 7, 2001. Elliott plans to wear a different ``I Love Lucy'' outfit to work each day for the rest of the week to mark the release of the new stamp honoring Ball. The stamp was unveiled Monday at the Hollywood History Museum in Los Angeles, on what would have been her 90th birthday. (AP Photo/Bloomsburg Press Enterprise,Bill Hughes) AUGUST 8, 2001 A4 Photo by The Associated Press: She loves Lucy: Alice Elliott, a Danville, Pa., postal clerk, plans to wear ìI Love Lucyî outfits through this week to mark Mondayís release of a stamp honoring legendary comedienne Lucille Ball.