Elaine Stritch DEAD At 89

Elaine Stritch has died. She was 89.

Stritch starred in a recent Netflix documentary chronicling her life.

Stritch made her professional stage debut in 1944 and her Broadway debut in the comedy Loco in 1946. Notable Broadway credits include her Tony Award nominated roles in the original production of William Inge’s 1955 play Bus Stop, Noël Coward’s 1961 musical Sail Away, Stephen Sondheim’s 1970 musical Company, which includes her performance of the song “The Ladies Who Lunch”, the 1996 revival of the Edward Albee play A Delicate Balance and her 2001 Tony Award winning one-woman show Elaine Stritch at Liberty. Her earliest television appearances were in The Growing Paynes (1949) and the Goodyear Television Playhouse (1953-55). She also appeared on episodes of The Ed Sullivan Show in 1954. She was the first and original Trixie Norton in the pilot for Honeymooners sketch with Jackie Gleason, Art Carney and Pert Kelton. Early in her career, she appeared in Three Violent People (1956) starring Charlton Heston, as the hotel proprietor pal of Anne Baxter, and then co-starred opposite Rock Hudson and Jennifer Jones in the David O. Selznick remake of A Farewell to Arms (1957) as Hudson’s nurse. source

 
Our thoughts and prayers go out to Elaine’s family and friends at this difficult time.