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Oh Lucy! Google Doodle loves you today. Google celebrates the star of ‘I Love Lucy’, Lucille Ball today with a Doodle which plays a clip from the series when clicked. The Google logo gets a complete makeover for this one as a retro TV logo replaces the usual logo font.

Born August 6, 1911, Lucille Ball was an iconic TV and movie star whose career spanned from the 1940s up until the 1970s, one of Hollywood’s longest careers. The hit 1950′s show lasted from 1951-57 and led to several spinoffs, two of them being similarly successful namely ‘The Lucy Show’ and ‘Here’s Lucy’. Her last attempt was her failed attempt with a 1986′s ‘Life With Lucy’ which only aired 8 episodes.

She received 13 Emmy nominations for her work and won four along with others including the Crystal Award, the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award, and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Kennedy Center Honors in 1986.

She charmed millions with humor, her signature vibrant red hair and blue eyes. Ball died on April 26, 1989 at age 77, she is gone but definitely not forgotten. the actress would have been a hundred years old today.

Faridah D. Seriki

Faridah Seriki has been interested in technology since she got her hands on a desktop when she was 8. She founded Technesstivity after releasing a successful blog she made for class combining her passion for both journalism and technology. Faridah graduated from Vivian Fowler in 2009 and now lives in New York where she is a Broadcast Journalism major with a minor in Computer Science at Hofstra University.

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