Will hopefully be cracking up the angels now, if such exist. Younger people probably don’t know of her, but she was very funny in her heyday. She was one of the original queens of the one liners. Here’s a sampling.

She was also a great example of recreating yourself at mid life. She started out as a budding starlet, then became a housewife, and then a very successful comedienne (and a talented pianist).

Now let’s see, first Tony Scott, then her. Following the rule of three, who’s next?

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Here’s her first television appearance, with Groucho, before she honed her act.

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And her final performance, not that long ago, at age 94.

The delivery is, unsurprisingly given her age, a little subdued, but she seemed sharp to the end. She was at her peak in the sixties and seventies, along with Milton Berle, Bob Hope, Jack Benny, Don Rickles, etc.