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| Gilda Radner |
| From her earliest days doing improv, to her later television and film career, Gilda Radner helped set the standard for female comedians. Though she was only 43 when she succumbed to ovarian cancer, she left behind a group of hilarious characters, still today, including Baba Wawa, Emily Litella, and Rosanne Rosanadanna. After and early marraige to guitarist G.E. Smith, she married actor Gene Wilder, and the couple appeared in two movies before she died. Radner Published abook about her struggle with cancer and did much work to educate women about the disease. |
| What you DONT know: |
| *Radner was romantically involved with Bill Murray *SNL veteran Mike Myers appeared in a commercial with Radner when he was 8. *In 1964 Radner went off tothe University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, she planned to major in Public Speaking and oral interpretation, but college was cut short when she followed her sculptor boyfriend to Toronto, Canada. *One of Radners most famous characters, Emily Litella , was based on her nanny. (Dibby!) *HEr first marraige, to guitarist G.E. Smith, who would later become the music director , ended amicably when she met Gene Wilder on the set of Hanky Panky. *Radner was the first person hired for Saturday Night. *John Belushi convinced her to come to New York to work for the National Lampoon show. |
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