The comedian, forever known for playing the frumpy Gladys Ormphby, also was a Broadway star and a 'Sesame Street' stalwart.

She had other roles onstage and on TV, but none more memorable than the wary spinster fending off male advances on that raucous sketch show. Ruth Buzzi as her best-known character, Gladys Ormphby ...

There were three people who appeared on every episode of “Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In” and the prime-time special that kicked ...

In' legend died after a long illness.

Her dour Gladys Ormphby became one of the show’s enduring gags and, for a time, a surprise feminist symbol as a woman who won ...

Vincent Victoria is a playwright, director, filmmaker, actor, and fashion icon who has been producing work in the Houston ...

In 1961, when she was playing the secretary Agnes Gooch in a production of Auntie Mame in Pennsylvania, she over-emphasized the schlumpiness of that character, and that would serve as the template ...

She landed the part of frumpy Agnes Gooch in a 1960 summer stock production of the comedy “Auntie Mame” in western Pennsylvania. She toyed with various looks until one stuck: wearing a hairnet ...

The night featured: A lover of old movies, Jennifer Holliday fell for Rosalind Russell’s portrayal of Auntie Mame when she first saw it nearly 30 years ago. After hearing Jerry ...