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Elaine Stritch, Tart-Tongued Broadway Actress and Singer, Is Dead at 89
NYT ^ | 7/17/2014 | ROBERT BERKVIST and BRUCE WEBER

Posted on 07/17/2014 10:15:22 AM PDT by Borges

Elaine Stritch, the brassy, tart-tongued Broadway actress and singer who became a living emblem of show business durability and perhaps the leading interpreter of Stephen Sondheim’s wryly acrid musings on aging, died on Thursday at her home in Birmingham, Mich. She was 89.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: broadway; elainestritch; obituary
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1 posted on 07/17/2014 10:15:22 AM PDT by Borges
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To: Borges

Sassy til the end.


2 posted on 07/17/2014 10:17:52 AM PDT by morphing libertarian (Advanced technological development.)
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To: Borges

I just saw her in a “Law and Order” repeat.

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3 posted on 07/17/2014 10:18:25 AM PDT by Mears
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To: Borges

Liked her very much in the movie Out To Sea


4 posted on 07/17/2014 10:18:33 AM PDT by NRA1995 (I'd rather be a living "gun culture" member than a dead anti-gun candy-ass.)
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To: Borges

A truly wonderful actress. Rest in Peace, dear.................

5 posted on 07/17/2014 10:19:06 AM PDT by Red Badger ("An armed society is a polite society. " - Robert Heinlein................)
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To: morphing libertarian

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0834626/

Includes TV shows back to 1948.


6 posted on 07/17/2014 10:19:53 AM PDT by morphing libertarian (Advanced technological development.)
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To: Red Badger

7 posted on 07/17/2014 10:20:20 AM PDT by Borges
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To: Borges

never heard of her


8 posted on 07/17/2014 10:20:34 AM PDT by KingLudd
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To: KingLudd

Thanks for checking in.


9 posted on 07/17/2014 10:22:34 AM PDT by Borges
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To: morphing libertarian

Stritch made her stage debut at New York’s New School in 1944. The actress understudied Ethel Merman for “Call Me Madam” while simultaneously appearing in the 1952 revival of “Pal Joey”; later she starred in the national tour of “Call Me Madam.”

Her professional relationship with Sondheim lasted decades. She made famous Sondheim’s sneeringly witty tune “The Ladies Who Lunch” in 1970’s “Company,” sang his enduring “I’m Still Here” in her 2002 solo show and performed in a 2010 revue of his tunes called “At Home at the Carlyle: Elaine Stritch Singin’ Sondheim…One Song at a Time.” The actress appeared in Garth Drabinsky’s smash hit “Show Boat” in 1994 and in Edward Albee’s play “A Delicate Balance” in 1996.

In 2010 Stritch replaced Angela Lansbury as Madame Armfeldt in “A Little Night Music” on Broadway.

The actress was profiled in the 2013 feature documentary “Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me” (photo above), directed by Chiemi Karasawa.

SEE ALSO: Elaine Stritch: ‘I Didn’t Declare Retirement’


10 posted on 07/17/2014 10:23:33 AM PDT by morphing libertarian (Advanced technological development.)
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To: KingLudd

There’s one on every thread. LOL!


11 posted on 07/17/2014 10:24:07 AM PDT by morphing libertarian (Advanced technological development.)
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To: morphing libertarian

She was terrific on the Cosby Show.


12 posted on 07/17/2014 10:24:42 AM PDT by knittnmom (Save the earth! It's the only planet with chocolate!)
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Good job as Baldwin’s mother on 30 Rock.


13 posted on 07/17/2014 10:27:24 AM PDT by morphing libertarian (Advanced technological development.)
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To: Borges

She was in her late 40s in that photo from 1973. Very attractive lady. RIP


14 posted on 07/17/2014 10:28:32 AM PDT by Menehune56 ("Let them hate so long as they fear" (Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius (170 BC - 86 BC))
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To: Borges

“Here’s to the Ladies who lunch...”


15 posted on 07/17/2014 10:40:40 AM PDT by stanne
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To: Borges

Aw...Stritchy was such a card. Loved watching her interviews.


16 posted on 07/17/2014 10:43:13 AM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (Can anyone tell me who the head of the Muslim peace movement is?)
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To: Borges

“Screwed” was one of the funniest screw-ball comedy movies ever. She was still pretty good looking for as old as she was.


17 posted on 07/17/2014 10:46:32 AM PDT by Obadiah (None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.)
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To: morphing libertarian
Sassy til the end.

yes! sassy is the perfect word for her... loved her and her raspy voice... she even did a guest spot on the Cosby Show, and she was fantastic!

18 posted on 07/17/2014 11:09:19 AM PDT by latina4dubya (when i have money i buy books... if i have anything left, i buy 6-inch heels and a bottle of wine...)
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To: Borges

She spoke at my graduation from Cardinal Strich University. Cardinal Samuel Stritch (Chicago) was her late uncle.


19 posted on 07/17/2014 11:25:10 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
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To: Mears

So did I! I also liked her in “out to sea”

RIP.


20 posted on 07/17/2014 11:46:31 AM PDT by Gefn ("I am waiting for a rebirth of wonder ")
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