This blonde soprano and dramatic stage player took a sharp career turn in mid-stream to become one of TV's best-loved second bananas. Vivian Vance's long-term stint supporting Lucille Ball earned her fame and honed her skills as a great comic.
The Kansas-born Vance was trained as a lyric soprano, and got her start at a community playhouse in Albuquerque, NM. She was only 19 when she made her… See Full Vivian Vance Biography