Comedy legend Lucille Ball was born in this day in 1911. LIFE first profiled her in '42, calling her 'generous, funny, extremely sensitive, and a crack poker player...' For more rare LucilleBall photos from our archive: (J. Florea, '42/LIFE Pict. Coll.)
Here, LIFE.com presents photos—none of which ever ran in LIFE—of Lucille Ball, including a surprisingly sultry 1942 portrait by, made when Ball was known as “Queen of the B’s” for the string of sub-par films that had failed to make her a star. Years of dues-paying hard work are apparent in her eyes. And yet, there is something sweetly defiant, too, about her look: a sense that, with a little luck, her big break is just around the corner.Lucille Ball, 1942.
Lucille Ball in costume for the extravagant dream sequence set in 18th-century France at the center of DuBarry Was a Lady, 1943.Lucille Ball plays upon her modeling past for Lured, a comic thriller in which she starred as a woman who agrees to pose as bait for a serial killer, 1946.Lucille Ball signs autographs for admiring seamen at one of the January 1944 galas celebrating President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s 62nd birthday.
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