The clothes were exquisite and expensive but the women were department store buyers, full of talk and gossip. Lucy returned to modeling for a first-class clothing house, Jacksons on Thirty-Ninth Street and Seventh Avenue. With these words, Lucy persuaded her friend, Marion Strong, to return to New York City with her the following Spring. She was hailed a success, a true professional. While recuperating in Jamestown, Lucy was approached to play Aggie Lynch in the fast-paced melodrama Within the Law for the Jamestown Players. Hattie sent her to the doctor, and Lucy found out she had rheumatoid arthritis.Īfter some initial treatments, a discouraged Lucy returned home to Jamestown. It was at this time, while standing for a fitting that she felt excruciating pain in both legs. Getting little sleep and not eating right, she came down with pneumonia but needing the money, she hurried back to Hattie’s. Lucy began to meet some of the rich eligible bachelors in town and had many proposals but, at eighteen, marriage was the last thing on her mind. Of this time in her life, Ball said, “Hattie taught me how to slouch properly in a $1,000 hand-sewn sequin dress and how to wear a $40,000 sable coat as casually as rabbit.” She began to cram a stockpile of information that would serve her well in the coming years. Connie and Joan Bennett were frequent customers and this was the time Lucy decided to bleach her hair the color of Joan's platinum blonde. Watching all the society women, Lucy analyzed their styles, how they walked, moved, and what they wore and how they talked. Lucy learned to look and move with elegance and grace. Overnight, she found herself in a world of rich society women, glamorous movie stars, and free-spending men-about-town. She became a model at Hattie Carnegie’s internationally famous dress shop on East Forty-Ninth Street. Soon Lucy moved into an atmosphere of gilded elegance. The Belmont racetrack on Long Island inspired her name. 2013.Back in New York City with a new determination, Lucille Ball landed her first modeling job in a small wholesale coat place on Seventh Avenue.
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