Before she became a star on I Love Lucy, Lucille Ball modeled and appeared in films where she learned how to enhance her beauty and hone her style. “I have an everyday religion that works for me,” she once said. “Love yourself first, and then everything else falls into line.”
1930
Lucille described her hair as “mousy brown” when she began working for RKO in the 1930s. On set, she took beauty advice from her acting coach, Lela Rogers, mother of Ginger Rogers.
1956
On/Love Lucy, her "most significant style collaborations were with Oscar-winning designer Elois Jenssen," Dr.Laura LaPlaca of the Lucille Ball Desi Arnaz Museum and National Comedy Center tells Closer.
1933
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