Eighty-nine years ago today, Lucy arrived in California on the Super Chief along with a dozen other hopeful Hollywood starlets. Hollywood's newest Goldwyn Girl was on the path to a very bright future. "In my wildest dreams, I never expected to get to Hollywood, yet here I was, riding into the same station I'd heard DeDe describe so often, with a movie contract in my pocket-book, already creased with wrinkles from having been read so often. There was a big hoopla when we arrived at the Pasedena station, with a crush of photographers, press agents and studio people. I was wearing a black silk dress with a demure white collar, an outfit Constance Bennet made famous. The Hattie Carnegie dress was five years old, but I felt like a queen in it."—excerpt from Love, Lucy. #lucilleball #goldwyngirl #hollywoodorbust #superchief #train #pasedena #starlet #classichollywoodactress #hattiecarnegie #demure #hoopla #wildestdreams https://www.instagram.com/p/CgMzwEruZwZ/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
