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Radner Gilda
Life Time
28 June 1946 - 20 May 1989
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One of the original "Unprepared for Primetime Players" on Live on Saturday Night, this talented comedian studied drama at the University of Michigan who then dropped out and moved to Toronto where she made her stage debut in the 1972 production of "Godspell." Lessons in the Second City Comedy Company shaped her comedy talents and led her to cast in SNL, where she created an entire gallery of funny and eccentric characters and won an Emmy for the 1977–78 season. Unlike her colleagues, no film was
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One of the original "Unprepared for Primetime Players" on Live on Saturday Night, this talented comedian studied drama at the University of Michigan who then dropped out and moved to Toronto where she made her stage debut in the 1972 production of "Godspell." Lessons in the Second City Comedy Company shaped her comedy talents and led her to cast in SNL, where she created an entire gallery of funny and eccentric characters and won an Emmy for the 1977–78 season. Unlike her colleagues, no film was ever made for her to use her talents (in the 1980s, Gilda Live was held up as a one-woman show). She met her husband Gene Wilder when they played together in Fraud (1982) and then they starred together in The Woman in Red (1984) and The Cursed Honeymoon (1986). Radner was diagnosed with cancer in 1989, just before the publication of her autobiography, It's Always Something.