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Lucille Ball and Ginger Rogers: Inside Their ‘Warm and Wonderful’ Friendship


Hollywood icons Lucille Ball and Ginger Rogers shared a 'warm and wonderful' friendship that lasted for decades, despite taking different career paths.

Get back to the In 1935, Lucille Ball and Ginger Rogers went on a double date with Henry Fonda and Jimmy Stewart. “Lela had a wonderful eye for talent,” says Geoffrey Mark Fidelman, author of The Lucy Book: A Complete Guide to Her Five Decades on Television. “There was no time to make jokes.” After small roles in some of Ginger’s films, including Top Ha t, Lucille landed a major part in 1937’s Stage Door.

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