It seems as though there was no stone in Hollywood that Lucille left unturned. As far back as the 1930s, she was working with some of the biggest names of the time. One of her earliest works was alongside the Three Stooges on the film Three Little Pigskins.

She worked with Katherine Hepburn on the 1937 film Stage Door. Too Many Girls was where she met her first husband, Desi Arnaz. And she even auditioned for the role of Scarlett O'Hara in the famed 1939 film Gone With the Wind.

Of course, Lucille's biggest claim to fame is her namesake television show I Love Lucy. Alongside Desi, who played Ricky Ricardo, the duo became an instant classic. Decades after it went off the air and all of its stars passed away, I Love Lucy is still enthralling fans worldwide.

Even in her later years, Lucille still was very active in the film industry. In founding Desilu Productions in 1962, Lucille got the ball rolling for some of the biggest productions of the latter half of the 20th century, such as Mission: Impossible and Star Trek.

During her commendable career, Lucille won five Emmys, the Women in Film Crystal Award, the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award, the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Kennedy Center Honors, and the Governors Award from the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences.

She was also given two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and was even inducted into the Television Hall of Fame. The iconic actress died on April 26, 1989, in Los Angeles from a ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm at the age of 77.