Complex sentence: Benaderet was Lucille Ball's first choice as Ethel Mertz for "I Love Lucy", and Ball said in a 1984 interview that she had "no other picture of anyone" for the part.
Split into simpler sentences: Benaderet was Lucille Ball's first choice as Ethel Mertz for "I Love Lucy". Edelman & Kupferberg (1999), p.140-141 Ball said in a 1984 interview that she had "no other picture of anyone" for the part.