QUICK!  LOVE IS HER FAVORITE CAREER

November 27, 1950

The November 27, 1950 issue of Quick featured Lucille Ball on its cover. 

Quick was published by Cowles Magazines, Inc., from 1949 to 1953. They also published Life. Readers were encouraged to “Get Quick on your newsstand an carry it in your pocket or your purse… and read it wherever you are”. A new Quick Magazine was first published in November 2010.

This was the first of Ball’s three appearances on the Quick cover. She reappeared on October 13, 1952 and April 13, 1953, shortly before its final issue.  

When this issue was published, Ball was the star of the radio program “My Favorite Husband,” then 13 episodes into its third and final season on CBS Radio.  Ball knew that the show (or some version of it) was headed toward television and was petitioning for her husband Desi Arnaz to be part of the visual version. 

The inside article “Love Is Her Favorite Career” discusses her ten-year marriage to bandleader Deis Arnaz. 

[Note: The remainder of this article was not available in a copy suitable for viewing online, so it has been omitted.]

On the same date this issue of Quick was published, Ball was in US cinemas with her latest film, The Fuller Brush Girl, a sequel to The Fuller Brush Man starring Red Skelton.  The film was released on September 15, 1950. 

November 27, 1950 newspapers also revealed that Lucille Ball had been cast in Cecil B. De Mille’s circus epic The Greatest Show on Earth as an elephant trainer. When filming began on January 31, 1951, however, Lucille Ball was not among the cast. She withdrew due to her pregnancy.  The role of Angel was assumed by Gloria Grahame.  Ball revisited the property by producing and acting in a television version of the film in 1963. Instead of elephants, her character trained horses.  The story comes full circle when the child she was expecting in 1950 (Lucie Arnaz) was one of the celebrities on “Circus of the Stars” (1977) with Lucille Ball as Ringmaster. Naturally, Lucie worked with elephants, much to the pride of her mother.