Lucille Ball From “I Love Lucy,” Up To $17 Million Per Year
Without Lucille Ball and her husband Desi Arnaz, there may be no residuals in television whatsoever. Ball and Arnaz owned their series outright, so they received all revenue from the show instead of the network. Thanks to their smarts, reruns were able to be shown because they kept recordings of the series, which wasn’t common practice back in the ’50s.