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 Sondheims wryly acrid musings on aging, died on Thursday at her home in Birmingham, Mich. She was 89.
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Sassy til the end.
I just saw her in a “Law and Order” repeat.
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Liked her very much in the movie Out To Sea
A truly wonderful actress. Rest in Peace, dear.................
never heard of her
Thanks for checking in.
Stritch made her stage debut at New Yorks 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 Sondheims sneeringly witty tune The Ladies Who Lunch in 1970s Company, sang his enduring Im 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 Drabinskys smash hit Show Boat in 1994 and in Edward Albees 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’
There’s one on every thread. LOL!
She was terrific on the Cosby Show.
Good job as Baldwin’s mother on 30 Rock.
She was in her late 40s in that photo from 1973. Very attractive lady. RIP
“Here’s to the Ladies who lunch...”
Aw...Stritchy was such a card. Loved watching her interviews.
“Screwed” was one of the funniest screw-ball comedy movies ever. She was still pretty good looking for as old as she was.
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!
She spoke at my graduation from Cardinal Strich University. Cardinal Samuel Stritch (Chicago) was her late uncle.
So did I! I also liked her in “out to sea”
RIP.
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