Phyllis Diller ( born Phyllis Ada Driver ); July 17, 1917 - August 20, 2012 ) is an American comedian, one of the first female comedians on American television.
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| Date of Birth | July 17, 1917 |
| Place of Birth | Lyme , Ohio , USA |
| Date of death | August 20, 2012 (95 years old) |
| Place of death | Los Angeles , USA |
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| Profession | actress , comedian |
| Career | 1958-2012 |
| Awards | [d] [d] ( 2000 ) |
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Biography
Phyllis Driver was born in , Ohio, on July 17, 1917, in the family of Perry Marcus Driver and his wife Ada Romsche. After graduating from high school, she studied for three years at the Music Conservatory in Chicago .
For the first thirty years of her life, the Phillies was an ordinary married housewife and the mother of five children, who lived in a small town in Michigan . She first appeared on television in the early 1950s in the Jack Paar Show, and shortly afterwards appeared in the comedy show of Groucho Marx . After moving to the California city of Alamida , Phyllis began performing at the legendary The Purple Onion club in San Francisco , where she first showed her comedian talent.
Phyllis attracted public attention in the early 1960s when she appeared with Bob Hope in several television comedy shows and three comedy films. Despite the fact that the films failed at the box office, Hope invited the Dealer with him to perform in Vietnam , where there was a military conflict at that time. After that, she returned again on television, where she became a frequent guest in many television shows, and in 1967 she was awarded the Golden Globe Award in the category of Best Television Actress. On television, Dealer became the creator of the image of a housewife, poorly combed, usually in a short dress and often smoking cigarettes through the mouthpiece. Phyllis also appeared repeatedly in Broadway productions, and also took part in voicing cartoons, including “The Nutcracker Prince” (1990), “ Snow White 2: And They Lived Happily ” (1990) and “ The Adventures of Flick ” (1999).
Phyllis never hid the fact that she often resorted to the services of plastic surgeons. She did her first operation at the age of 55, and since then she repeated it another fifteen times [1] . In the late 1990s, she began to have health problems, in particular in 1999, she had a heart attack . Because of this, she had to limit her appearance on television shows. But despite this, she still occasionally appeared in films and on television.
Phyllis Diller died in a dream at her home in Los Angeles on August 20, 2012 at the age of 95 years [2] .
Notes
- ↑ Lampshade , p. 233
- ↑ Jessica Shaw. Phyllis Diller dies at 95 . Entertainment Weekly (August 20, 2012). Date of treatment August 20, 2012. Archived August 21, 2012.
Links
- Wikimedia Commons has media related to Phyllis Diller
- Phyllis Diller on the Internet Movie Database
- Phyllis Diller on the Internet Broadway Database