Abdominal aortic aneurysm
Actress Lucille Ball died April 26, 1989 from an abdominal aortic aneurysm. At the time of her death, she was in Cedars-Sinai Medical Center recovering from emergency surgery performed just six days earlier because of a dissecting aortic aneurysm near her heart. Ball was at increased risk, as she had been a heavy smoker for decades.
Lucille Ball
Ball was the lead actress in a number of comedy television specials to about 1980, including "Lucy Calls the President" which featured Vivian Vance, Gale Gordon and Mary Jane Croft, and "Lucy Moves to NBC", a special depicting a fictionalization of her move to the NBC television network.
During the mid-1980s, Ball attempted to resurrect her television career. In 1982, she hosted a two-part "Three's Company" retrospective, showing clips from the show's first five seasons, summarizing memorable plotlines, and commenting on her love of the show.