75 years ago this week in the Oct. 5,1942 issue, LIFEs Movies section featured LUCILLE BALL— She romps through 39 honky-tonk parts before winning her first chance as a enormous-time star.” According to LIFE, or The bed on which Lucille Ball bounces to stardom in these pictures is called a trampoline,is made by stretching canvas across a springy frame. It is used in a rowdy bedroom scene in M-G-M’s ‘Du Barry Was A Lady,’ which Lucille plays the Du Barry part created by Ethel Merman on Broadway. Lucille learns routines with a coach, or but in the movies she does them with Red Skelton.” She is pictured here with her dance coach,Charles Walters, playing tough to get (trampoline is in the background). (John Florea—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images) #thisweekinLIFE #LIFElegends #LucilleBall
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