Cast: Lucille Ball

Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Lucille Ball. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.


Stage Door

1937 · Movie · 92 min. · United States

Direction Gregory La Cava

Cast Katharine Hepburn · Ginger Rogers · Adolphe Menjou · Andrea Leeds

Synopsis Terry Randall, rich society beauty, has decided to see if she can break into the Broadway theatre scene without her family connections. She goes to live in a theatrical boarding house and finds her life caught up with those of...

7.5

2K votes

7.5

2K votes

Top Hat

1935 · Movie · 99 min. · United States

Direction Mark Sandrich

Cast Fred Astaire · Ginger Rogers · Edward Everett Horton · Helen Broderick

Synopsis In Top Hat (1935), a charming American dancer, Jerry Travers, travels to London to star in a new show. There, he meets the lovely Dale Tremont, and their instant spark leads to a whirlwind of romantic misunderstandings. After Jerry's tap-dancing...

7.4

7K votes

7.4

7K votes

Room Service

1938 · Movie · 78 min. · United States

Direction William A. Seiter

Cast The Marx Brothers · Groucho Marx · Harpo Marx · Chico Marx

Synopsis Room Service (1938) follows a struggling Broadway producer, Miller, who checks into a hotel with his unpaid cast and crew, hoping to secure funding for his play. As the hotel manager demands payment, Miller devises a series of frantic schemes...

7.2

6K votes

7.2

6K votes

The Dark Corner

1946 · Movie · 99 min. · United States

Direction Henry Hathaway

Cast Lucille Ball · Clifton Webb · William Bendix · Mark Stevens

Synopsis Private investigator Bradford Galt has moved to New York from San Fransisco after serving a jail term on account of his lawyer partner Tony Jardine. When he finds someone is tailing - and possibly trying to kill him, Galt believes...

6.9

656 votes

6.9

656 votes

The Whole Town's Talking

1935 · Movie · 93 min. · United States

Direction John Ford

Cast Edward G. Robinson · Jean Arthur · Arthur Hohl · Arthur Byron

Synopsis Ordinary man-in-the-street Arthur Ferguson Jones leads a very straightforward life. He's never late for work and nothing interesting ever happens to him. One day everything changes: he oversleeps and is fired as an example, he's then mistaken for evil criminal...

6.8

521 votes

6.8

521 votes

Five Came Back

1939 · Movie · 75 min. · United States

Direction John Farrow

Cast Chester Morris · Lucille Ball · Wendy Barrie · John Carradine

Synopsis After their airplane crashes in the South American jungle, the passengers and crew must survive until the repairs can be made. Apart from the two pilots there is an elderly couple, a gangster traveling with a young boy, a bounty...

6.5

90 votes

6.5

90 votes

The Big Parade of Comedy

1964 · Documentary · 90 min. · United States

Direction Robert Youngson

Cast Clark Gable · Greta Garbo · Jean Harlow · Cary Grant

Synopsis A compilation of scenes from classic MGM comedies from the silent era up to 1948's "A Southern Yankee." Among the films showcased are "The Thin Man," "A Night at the Opera," "Dinner at Eight" and "Bonnie Scotland."

6.5

24 votes

6.5

24 votes

I Love Lucy (TV Series)

1951 · Series · 25 min. · United States

Direction William Asher · James V. Kern · Ralph Levy · Marc Daniels

Cast Lucille Ball · Desi Arnaz · Vivian Vance · William Frawley

Synopsis TV Series (1951-1957). 6 Seasons. 181 Episodes. A daffy woman constantly strives to become a star along with her bandleader husband and gets herself in the strangest situations. Cuban Bandleader Ricky Ricardo would be happy if his wife Lucy would...

6.5

587 votes

6.5

587 votes

Broadway Bill

1934 · Movie · 104 min. · United States

Direction Frank Capra

Cast Warner Baxter · Myrna Loy · Walter Connolly · Helen Vinson

Synopsis This comedy-drama was directed, and then -- over twenty years later -- remade, by Frank Capra. Dan Brooks cares more about his thoroughbred Broadway Bill than for his wife Margaret or his job at father-in-law J. L. Higgins's business. When...

6.5

294 votes

6.5

294 votes

Ziegfeld Follies

1945 · Movie · 110 min. · United States

Direction Vincente Minnelli · Lemuel Ayers · Roy Del Ruth · Robert Lewis

Cast Fred Astaire · William Powell · Judy Garland · Lucille Ball

Synopsis The late, great impresario Florenz Ziegfeld looks down from heaven and ordains a new revue in his grand old style.

6.4

313 votes

6.4

313 votes

6.4

197 votes

Lured

1947 · Movie · 109 min. · United States

Direction Douglas Sirk

Cast George Sanders · Lucille Ball · Charles Coburn · Boris Karloff

Synopsis Before being forever associated with melodrama, acclaimed director Douglas Sirk dabbled in other genres. LURED, a good example of this, is a witty and stylish thriller about a serial killer terrorizing the streets of London. Lucille Ball stars as Sandra,...

6.4

824 votes

6.4

824 votes

Easy Living

1949 · Movie · 77 min. · United States

Direction Jacques Tourneur

Cast Victor Mature · Lucille Ball · Lizabeth Scott · Sonny Tufts

Synopsis Pete Wilson is on top. He is the highest paid professional football player in the league. He has seen other players come and go, but he was MVP last year and the future looks rosy. His wife, Liza, is there...

6.4

153 votes

6.4

153 votes

6.4

502 votes

Roberta

1935 · Movie · 106 min. · United States

Direction William A. Seiter

Cast Irene Dunne · Fred Astaire · Ginger Rogers · Randolph Scott

Synopsis Football player John Kent tags along as Huck Haines and the Wabash Indianians travel to an engagement in Paris, only to lose it immediately. John and company visit his aunt, owner of a posh fashion house run by her assistant,...

6.3

170 votes

6.3

170 votes

Mame

1974 · Movie · 132 min. · United States

Direction Gene Saks

Cast Lucille Ball · Bea Arthur · Robert Preston · Bruce Davison

Synopsis The musical revolves around the antics of Mame Dennis, a fun-loving, wealthy eccentric with a flare for life and a razor sharp wit. Her life is suddenly changed when she becomes the guardian of her late brother's only child, Patrick...

6.3

40 votes

6.3

40 votes

Without Love

1945 · Movie · 111 min. · United States

Direction Harold S. Bucquet

Cast Spencer Tracy · Katharine Hepburn · Lucille Ball · Keenan Wynn

Synopsis A widow allows a scientist to set up a laboratory in her basement to conduct secret wartime experiments. Both are disillusioned with love and decide to marry for convenience.

6.2

380 votes

6.2

380 votes

A Guide for the Married Man

1967 · Movie · 91 min. · United States

6.0

348 votes

6.0

348 votes

Joy of Living

1938 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction Tay Garnett

Cast Irene Dunne · Douglas Fairbanks Jr. · Alice Brady · Guy Kibbee

Synopsis A young stage star is at the prime of her career. She lives an intensely hectic life, chock full of promotional appearances and shallow, greedy family members. But all this begins to change when a young millionaire rescues her from...

6.0

55 votes

6.0

55 votes

The Long, Long Trailer

1953 · Movie · 103 min. · United States

Direction Vincente Minnelli

Cast Lucille Ball · Desi Arnaz · Marjorie Main · Keenan Wynn

Synopsis Nicky and Tacy are going to be married. Nicky wants to save up money for a house, but Tacy dreams of starting off with their own home on wheels--a trailer. After the two are hitched, they hitch up their trailer...

6.0

164 votes

6.0

164 votes