From Booklist
Americans really did love Lucille Ball. That love is manifested in the hundreds of magazine covers, advertisements, toys, and other memorabilia featuring the comedienne and lovingly documented here by megafan Wyman. The oversize volume showcases, mostly in color photos, more than 600 dolls, board games, movie posters, advertisements (in which Ball endorses everything from Philip Morris cigarettes to the Encyclopaedia Britannica), comic books, her record 36 TV Guide cover appearances, and rare and one-of-a-kind things such as studio-audience tickets, scripts, and items from her wardrobe. A final section spotlights more recent home videos, trading cards, fan club magazines, and commemorative plates from "the Lucy revival." As a bonus, Wyman lists the episodes of all Ball's radio and TV series, her radio and TV guest appearances and specials, and movies. Gordon Flagg


Midwest Book Review
Trivia blends with Lucy collectible displays in this lavish presentation, which showcases magazine covers, dolls, games, ads, and a host of Lucy memorabilia. A beautiful and detailed look at Lucy from the art and collectibles angle, this provides hours of entertainment and fun.

ANNOTATION

Illustrated with photos of Lucille Ball collectibles, stills from her unforgettable TV series, and packed with little-known trivia about every movie and TV show she appeared in, this irresistible volume celebrates that blue-eyed redhead we all know and love as Lucy. 624 illustrations, 392 in color.

FROM THE PUBLISHER

Illustrated with hundreds of Lucille Ball collectibles, plus stills from her unforgettable TV series, and packed with trivia about every movie and TV show she appeared in, this volume celebrates that blue-eyed redhead we all know and love as Lucy. Over the course of her fifty-year career, Lucille Ball appeared in eighty movies and starred in five television series. Now her legions of fans can revel in a book devoted to all the memorabilia her extraordinary popularity has generated. From the thirty-six TV Guide covers on which she appeared (more than anyone else) to Dixie-cup lids, from "I Love Lucy" pajamas to Little Ricky dolls, from board games to paper dolls, from vintage movie posters to Lucite paint ads, from Belgian cigar bands to collector's plates, more than 600 items are reproduced, most in full color. Author Ric Wyman, who has been collecting Lucy memorabilia for a decade, also provides a complete filmography and exhaustive radio and television credits, including the title of every episode of every series Lucy starred in and the date it first aired.

FROM THE CRITICS

BookList - Gordon Flagg