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TELEVISION STAR

Hollywood Walk of Fame Star GILDA RADNER

Gilda Radner


Television Category Star
  • Ceremony was on June 27, 2003

Television Star for Gilda Radner


NO GILDA RADNER CHRISTMAS MOVIES

Ripley's Obituary Gilda Radner
1989

Gilda Radner


dies of cancer

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Comedian Gilda Radner, one of the original stars of "Saturday Night Live" and the creator of such memorable characters as Roseanne Roseannadana and Emily Litella, died of cancer Saturday: She was 42
Miss Radner died in her sleep about 6:20 a.m. at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, hospital spokesman Ron Wise said. Her husband, actor Gene Wilder, was at her side.
She had been diagnosed with ovarian cancer in 1986 and underwent nine months of chemotherapy, which by 1988 had sent the disease into remission. She had radiation therapy and other treatments, including surgery, as recently as February and re-entered the hospital on Wednesday, Wise said.
In recent years Miss Radner appeared in several movies but she was best known for her roles on NBC's "Saturday Night Live" for five years ending in 1980, with such stars as Dan Aykroyd, Chevy Chase, Jane Curtin, Laraine Newman, Garrett Morris, Bill Murray, and the late John Belushi.
Word of Miss Radner's death "stunned" everyone on the set of "Saturday Night Live," said executive producer Lorne Michaels, who added that the night's show would pay tribute to her.
As the obnoxious, nasal-voiced TV news commentator Roseanne Roseannadana, her catch-phrase was "It's always something," which became the title of her book on cancer.
She also created Baba Wawa, a spoof of news interviewer Barbara Walters, and nerdy teenager Lisa Lupner. There also was Emily Litella, the dowdy, bewildered commentator whose misguided news opinion pieces on such topics as "violins on television" always ended with the phrase, "Never mind."
The show brought her an Emmy Award for outstanding performance by an actress in a variety series.

In addition to Wilder, 53, survivors include her mother and a brother.
Born on June 28, 1946, in Detroit Miss Radner attended the University of Michigan. She began her entertainment career in the Toronto company of "Godspell," then became a member of the Toronto branch of the Second City troupe, the improvisational group that gave several "Saturday Night" stars their starts.
She was a writer and performer for the New York-based "National Lampoon Radio Hour" and its stage counterpart, the "National Lampoon Show," in the early 1970s. In 1975, she was chosen for the original cast of "Saturday Night Live, staying with the groundbreaking late-night comedy show until 1980.

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