life:

We know her as the wacky redhead who, likely as not, has pie on her face. But Lucille Ball was a master of the makeover, an expert at looking her part when she was a cunning TV executive, a grand dame at the ball, a mom at home with her kids, or, of course, the rubber-faced, double-taking Lucy we loved. Here, Ball at 27, on the set of radio program, ‘The Phil Baker Show’, in 1938.

Lucille Ball’s Many Faces