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Elaine Stritch (February 2, 1925 – July 17, 2014) was an American actress, singer, and comedienne, known for her work on Broadway and later, television. She made her professional stage debut in 1944 and appeared in numerous stage plays, musicals, feature films and television series. Stritch was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 1995.

Stritch made her Broadway debut in the 1946 comedy Loco and went on to receive four Tony Award nominations: for the William Inge play Bus Stop (1956); the Noël Coward musical Sail Away (1962); the Stephen Sondheim musical Company (1970), which included her performance of the song "The Ladies Who Lunch"; and for the revival of the Edward Albee play A Delicate Balance (1996). Her one-woman show Elaine Stritch at Liberty won the 2002 Tony Award for Best Special Theatrical Event.

Stritch relocated to London in the 1970s and starred in several West End productions, including Tennessee Williams' Small Craft Warnings (1973) and Neil Simon's The Gingerbread Lady (1974). She also starred with Donald Sinden in the ITV sitcom Two's Company (1975–79), which earned her a 1979 BAFTA TV Award nomination. She won an Emmy Award in 1993 for her guest role on Law & Order and another for the 2004 television documentary of her one-woman show Elaine Stritch at Liberty. From 2007 to 2012, she had a recurring role as Colleen Donaghy on the NBC sitcom 30 Rock, a role that won her a third Emmy in 2007.

Early lifeEdit

Stritch was born on February 2, 1925, in Detroit, Michigan,<ref>Tallmer, Jerry. Interview Template:Webarchive The Villager, May 26 – June 1, 2004</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> the youngest daughter of Mildred (née Jobe), a homemaker, and George Joseph Stritch, an executive with B.F. Goodrich.<ref name=filmref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> She had two older sisters, Georgene and Sally.<ref>1940 United States FederalCensus</ref> Her Catholic family was well-off.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref name=autogenerated1>Template:Cite news</ref> Her father was of Irish descent, while her mother had Welsh ancestry. Cardinal Samuel Stritch, Archbishop of Chicago from 1940 to 1958, was one of her cousins.<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref> She trained at the Dramatic Workshop of The New School for Social Research in New York City under Erwin Piscator,<ref name=tcm>"Elaine Stritch Biography"Template:Dead linkTemplate:Cbignore tcm.com, accessed August 31, 2009</ref> alongside Marlon Brando, Bea Arthur, and Harry Belafonte.<ref>Porter, Darwin. (2005). Brando unzipped, pp. 5, 12, 18. Blood Moon Productions, Ltd.; Template:ISBN</ref>

CareerEdit

Early stage careerEdit

Stritch made her stage debut in 1944. Her later Broadway debut was in Loco in 1946, directed by Jed Harris,<ref>"'Loco' Listing", IBDb.com; accessed May 22, 2012</ref> followed soon after by Made in Heaven (as a replacement),<ref>"'Made in Heaven' Listing", IBDb.com; accessed May 22, 2012.</ref> and then Angel in the Wings (1947), a revue in which she performed comedy sketches and the song "Civilization".<ref name=pbs>Elaine Stritch profile Template:Webarchive, pbs.org, accessed May 22, 2012.</ref>

Stritch understudied Ethel Merman for Call Me Madam, and, at the same time, appeared in the 1952 revival of Pal Joey, singing "Zip".<ref name=pbs/> Stritch later starred in the national tour of Call Me Madam, and appeared in a supporting role in the original Broadway production of William Inge's play Bus Stop. In 1958 she originated the leading role of Maggie Harris in the musical Goldilocks.

She starred in Noël Coward's Sail Away on Broadway in 1961. Stritch started in the show in a "relatively minor role and was only promoted over the title and given virtually all the best songs when it was reckoned that the leading lady...although excellent, was rather too operatic for a musical comedy".<ref>Sheridan Morley "Chapter:Pomp and Circumstance", Noël Coward, Haus Publishing, 2005; Template:ISBN, p. 126</ref> During out-of-town tryouts in Boston, Coward was "unsure about the dramatic talents" of one of the leads, opera singer Jean Fenn.<ref name=noel>Hoare, Philip. "Sail Away", Noel Coward: A Biography, University of Chicago Press, 1998, Template:ISBN, p. 472</ref>

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Joe Layton suggested "What would happen if...we just eliminated [Fenn's] role and gave everything to Stritch? The show was very old-fashioned, and the thing that was working was Elaine Stritch. Every time she went on stage [she] was a sensation." The reconstructed 'Sail Away' opened on Broadway at the Broadhurst Theatre on October 3, 1961",<ref name=noel/> with Stritch giving what Howard Taubman of The New York Times said "must be the performance of her career."<ref>Bruce Weber & Robert Berkvist. "'Elaine Stritch, Broadway’s Enduring Dame, Dies at 89" New York Times, July 17, 2014</ref>

In 1966, she played Ruth Sherwood in the musical Wonderful Town at New York's City Center, and appeared in an Off Broadway revival of Private Lives in 1968.

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Elaine Stritch, Harold Prince, and Jane Russell, on the set of the Broadway musical, Company (1970–72).

She was the original performer cast in the role of Joanne in Stephen Sondheim's Company (1970) on Broadway. After over a decade of successful runs in shows in New York, Stritch moved in 1972 to London, where she starred in the West End production of Company. On tour and in stock, Stritch appeared in such musicals as No, No, Nanette, The King and I, I Married an Angel, and in Mame as both Vera Charles (opposite Janet Blair) and Mame Dennis.

TelevisionEdit

Stritch's earliest television appearances were in The Growing Paynes (1949) and the Goodyear Television Playhouse (1953–55).<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> She also appeared on episodes of The Ed Sullivan Show in 1954.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> She was the first and original Trixie Norton in a Honeymooners sketch with Jackie Gleason, Art Carney and Pert Kelton. The character was originally a burlesque dancer, but the role was rewritten and recast after just one episode with the more wholesome looking Joyce Randolph playing the character as a housewife.<ref name=tcm/>

Stritch's other television credits included a number of dramatic programs in the 1950s and 1960s, including Studio One. In the 1960 television season, Stritch appeared in the role of writer Ruth Sherwood in the CBS sitcom My Sister Eileen, opposite Shirley Bonne<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> as her younger sister, Eileen Sherwood, an aspiring actress. The sisters, natives of Ohio, live in a brownstone apartment in Greenwich Village. The one-season series aired opposite Hawaiian Eye on ABC and Perry Como's Kraft Music Hall on NBC.

In 1975, Stritch starred in the British LWT comedy series Two's Company opposite Donald Sinden.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> She played Dorothy McNab, an American writer living in London who was known for her lurid and sensationalist thriller novels. Sinden played Robert, her English butler, who disapproved of practically everything Dorothy did and the series derived its comedy from the inevitable culture clash between Robert's very British stiff-upper-lip attitude and Dorothy's devil-may-care New York view of life. Two's Company was exceptionally well received in Britain and ran for four series until 1979.<ref name="telegraph.co.uk">Walker, Tim. "Donald Sinden's sadness at Elaine Stritch's death" The Telegraph, July 19, 2014, retrieved February 28, 2017</ref> In 1979, both Stritch and Sinden were nominated for a BAFTA TV Award for Two's Company, in the category "Best Light Entertainment Performance", losing out to Ronnie Barker.

In 1980, Stritch starred in another series for LWT, Nobody's Perfect (the British version of Maude—not to be confused with the 1980 American series of the same name, which aired in the UK as Hart of the Yard) playing Bill Hooper alongside Richard Griffiths as her husband Sam. Unsatisfied with the Anglicised scripts, Stritch herself adapted the original American scripts for all but one of the fourteen episodes (Griffiths handled the remaining one).<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

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Stritch in 1996

Other British television appearances by Stritch included Roald Dahl's Tales of the Unexpected. Although she appeared several times in different roles, perhaps her most memorable appearance was in the story "William and Mary", in which she played the wife of a man who has cheated death by having his brain preserved.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> She appeared on BBC 1's children's series, Jackanory,<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> reading, among other stories, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl.

After returning to the United States, she appeared on The Edge of Night as vinegary nanny Mrs. DeGroot, then was cast as a regular on the short-lived The Ellen Burstyn Show in 1986. She appeared as the stern schoolteacher Mrs. McGee on three episodes of The Cosby Show (1989–90). She had a recurring role in Law & Order (1992, 1997) as Lanie Stieglitz.<ref>"Elaine Stritch Films" imdb.com, retrieved February 28, 2017</ref> Other roles included Judge Grace Lema on Oz (1998); and Martha Albright (mother of Jane Curtin's character) on two episodes of 3rd Rock From the Sun (1997, 2001), alongside her Broadway co-star George Grizzard, who played George Albright. On April 26, 2007, she began guest appearances on the NBC sitcom 30 Rock as Colleen, the fearsome mother of Alec Baldwin's lead character, Jack Donaghy.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Stritch was reportedly considered for the role of Dorothy Zbornak on The Golden Girls but, as she related in her show Elaine Stritch at Liberty, she "blew her audition".<ref>Bloom, Ken; Vlastnik, Frank; Lithgow, John (2007). Sitcoms: The 101 Greatest TV Comedies of All Time. Black Dog Publishing; Template:ISBN, pp. 136–37</ref> The role was cast with Beatrice Arthur. She was seen on One Life to Live (1993), replacing fellow stage legend Eileen Heckart as Wilma Bern. In 1996, she appeared on an episode of Late Show with David Letterman as a woman who believes host David Letterman is her pool boy.<ref name="letterman">Evans, Bradford. "Here’s Elaine Stritch Yelling at Her Pool Boy David Letterman in a Classic Clip" Vulture, July 17, 2014, retrieved February 19, 2022</ref>

Film rolesEdit

Stritch appeared in more films in her later years than the early part of her career. In an interview in 1988, it was noted that "Making movies is challenging to Stritch since she considers herself a novice." She said: "I'm fascinated with it. And I want to do more of them." She was asked why she waited so long to make movies since she apparently enjoys it so much. "You do a movie for, like, three months and then you're finished. You do a part in a play and it's like going into a roomful of audiences for a year."<ref name=mcall>Willistein, Paul."Stage Star Elaine Stritch Wrapped Up In A New Career", mcall.com, December 3, 1988.</ref>

Early in her career, she appeared in Three Violent People (1956) starring Charlton Heston, as the hotel proprietor pal of Anne Baxter,<ref>"'Three Violent People' Listing" Internet Movie Database, accessed May 21, 2012</ref> 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.<ref>Crowther, Bosley. "Review. A Farewell to Arms (1957)", The New York Times, January 25, 1958</ref> In The Perfect Furlough, she co-starred opposite Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh. She had a showy role as the lesbian proprietor of a bar in the cult film Who Killed Teddy Bear? (1965), which starred Sal Mineo.<ref>Anderson, Melissa. "'Who Killed Teddy Bear', A Fascinating Chronicle of Wagner-era Times Square" Template:Webarchive Village Voice, January 19, 2010</ref> She played a "tough-as-nails" nurse in the remake of The Spiral Staircase (1975)<ref>Pfeiffer, Lee."Review" cinemaretro.com, accessed May 21, 2012</ref> and was praised for her performance in Providence (1977).<ref>Canby, Vincent. "Movie Review 'Providence' (1977). Movie House, Yes, The Movie, No:Fake Feathers The New York Times, January 26, 1977.</ref>

When she returned to the United States in the mid-1980s from London, Woody Allen cast her as the former movie star mother in his drama September (1987). People magazine called her performance "acclaimed" and wrote "Though the movie has received mixed reviews, Stritch's roaring presence, like Godzilla in a stalled elevator, can't be ignored."<ref>Stark, John. "Alone in the September of Her Years, Elaine Stritch Beats Booze to Score a Comeback in a Woody Allen Drama" People, January 11, 1988</ref> Allen later cast her in his comedy Small Time Crooks (2000) in which she played a "snobby socialite". Rex Reed wrote of her performance: "Elaine Stritch can still stop you in your tracks with a meaningless, drop-dead one-liner (which is all she gets here)."<ref>Reed, Rex. "Small-Time Woody, Expert Tracey", New York Observer, May 22, 2000, ARTS&ENTERTAINMENT; On The Town With Rex Reed</ref>

She joined the ensemble of Cocoon: The Return (1988) as an apartment manager who helps widowed Jack Gilford get over his wife's death. Among her co-stars were former Goldilocks co-star Don Ameche and Gwen Verdon.<ref name=mcall/> She appeared in Out to Sea (1997) as Dyan Cannon's wise-cracking mother and "danced up a storm" with the other characters.<ref>"Martha Coolidge Biography" Template:Webarchive officialmarthacoolidge.com, accessed May 21, 2012</ref> She played Winona Ryder's loving grandmother in the film Autumn in New York (2000).<ref>Holden, Stephen. "Film Review; May–December Romance? Or Simply Hot and Cold?" The New York Times, August 12, 2000, retrieved February 28, 2017</ref>

Stritch had a rare co-starring role in the comedy Screwed (2000), playing Miss Crock, who becomes the intended victim of a kidnapping by her disgruntled butler (Norm Macdonald).<ref>Leydon, Joe. " 'Screwed' Review" Variety, May 15, 2000, retrieved February 28, 2017</ref> She appeared in the comedy Monster in Law (2005) starring Jennifer Lopez and Jane Fonda, playing Fonda's mother-in-law.<ref>Travers, Peters. Monster-in-Law Template:Webarchive Rolling Stone, May 5, 2005, retrieved February 28, 2017</ref>

BBC RadioEdit

In 1982, Stritch appeared on an edition of the long-running BBC Radio comedy series Just a Minute alongside Kenneth Williams, Clement Freud and Barry Cryer. The show was described by long-time chairman Nicholas Parsons as being among the most memorable because of the way Stritch stretched the show's rules. She described Kenneth Williams as capable of making "one word into a three-act play".<ref>Eyre, Hermione."Kenneth Williams: Michael Sheen carries on his camping" The Independent (London), March 5, 2006</ref>

Later stage workEdit

After her husband, John Bay, died from brain cancer in 1982,<ref>York, Peter."Elaine Stritch: Drama queen", The Independent (London), September 29, 2002</ref> Stritch returned to America, and after a further lull in her career and struggles with alcoholism,<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Stritch began performing again. She appeared in a one-night only concert of Company in 1993 and as Parthy in a Broadway revival of the musical Show Boat in 1994.

In 1996 she played Claire in a revival of Edward Albee's A Delicate Balance, with Variety writing: "Equally marvelous is Stritch, with a meatier role than her recent foray as Parthy in 'Show Boat.' To watch her succumb to the vast amounts of alcohol Claire ingests, folding and refolding her legs, slipping – no, oozing – onto the floor, her face crumpling like a paper bag, is to witness a different but equally winning kind of thespian expertise. It's a master class up there."<ref>Gerard, Jeremy. "A Delicate Balance", Daily Variety, April 22, 1996 (no page number)</ref>

Elaine Stritch at LibertyEdit

{{#invoke:Labelled list hatnote|labelledList|Main article|Main articles|Main page|Main pages}} Her one-woman show Elaine Stritch at Liberty, a summation of her life and career, premiered at New York's Public Theater, running from November 7 to December 30, 2001.<ref>Sommers, Michael. "It's curtains for 'Kate' and Elaine'", The Star-Ledger (Newark, New Jersey), December 28, 2001, p. 4</ref> It then ran on Broadway at the Neil Simon Theatre from February 21 to May 27, 2002, and then, also in 2002, at London's Old Vic Theatre.<ref name="telegraph.co.uk"/><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Newsweek noted:

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Now we see how At Liberty, the amazing one-woman show Stritch is moving to Broadway from the Public Theater this week, acquired the credit, "Constructed by John Lahr. Reconstructed by Elaine Stritch". "The reconstruction means I had the last say", she says. "Damn right I did." ... In case you didn't notice, Stritch is not the kind of woman who goes in for the sappy self-indulgence that pollutes most one-person shows. In fact, At Liberty is in a class by itself, a biting, hilarious and even touching tour-de-force tour of Stritch's career and life. Almost every nook and cranny of "At Liberty" holds a surprise. Turns out she dated Marlon Brando, Gig Young and Ben Gazzara, though she dropped Ben when Rock Hudson showed an interest in her. "And we all know what a bum decision that turned out to be", she says. And then there were the shows. A British writer recently called Stritch "Broadway's last first lady", and when you see her performing her signature numbers from Company and Pal Joey and hear her tell tales of working with Merman, Coward, Gloria Swanson and the rest, it's hard to argue. Especially since she does it all dressed in a long white shirt and form-fitting black tights. It's both a metaphor for her soul-baring musical and a sartorial kiss-my-rear gesture to anyone who thinks there isn't some life left in the 76-year-old diva. "Somebody said to me the other day, 'Is this the last thing you're going to do?'", says Stritch. "In your dreams! I can't wait to get back into an Yves Saint Laurent costume that isn't mine – but [that] will be when the show is over.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>{{#if:|{{#if:|}}

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A Little Night MusicEdit

Stritch appeared in the Broadway revival of the Sondheim-Wheeler musical A Little Night Music from July 2010 to January 2011, succeeding Angela Lansbury in the role of Madame Armfeldt,<ref>Gans, Andrew."Starry, Starry Night: Peters and Stritch Return to Broadway in Sondheim Revival" Template:Webarchive. Playbill, July 13, 2010.</ref><ref>McBride, Walter."Photo Coverage: Bernadette Peters and Elaine Stritch Open in A Little Night Music". Broadwayworld.com, July 14, 2010</ref> the mother who remembers her life as a courtesan in the song "Liaisons". The AP reviewer of the musical (with the two new leads) wrote "Devotees of Stritch, who earned her Sondheim stripes singing, memorably, 'The Ladies Who Lunch' in Company 40 years ago, will revel in how the actress, who earned a huge ovation before her first line at a recent preview, brings her famously salty, acerbic style to the role of Madame Armfeldt."<ref>Noveck, Jocelyn. "Legends class up revival of 'A Little Night Music' " Dallas News, August 8, 2010</ref>

The theatre critic for The Toronto Star wrote:

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Stritch offers a sophisticated gloss on her by now patented, plain-talking woman who reveals all the home truths everyone ever wanted (or didn't) to hear about themselves. When Stritch tears into her big set-piece, 'Liaisons', about all the affairs in her life, it's not just a witty catalogue of indiscretions but a deeply moving fast-forward through a life filled equally with love, loss, joy and regret.<ref>Ouzounian, Richard. "Bernadette Peters and Elaine Stritch: Making beautiful music in Manhattan", The Toronto Star, August 20, 2010.</ref>{{#if:|{{#if:|}}

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CabaretEdit

Stritch performed a cabaret act in New York City at the Cafe Carlyle in the Carlyle Hotel, where she was a resident from 2005 until she left New York in 2013. Her first show at the Carlyle was titled "At Home at the Carlyle". The New York Times reviewer wrote:

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Amazingly, none of the 16 songs she performs have ever been in her repertory, and just as amazingly, you don't miss signature numbers... [L]etting them go has allowed her to venture into more sensitive emotional territory. Interpreting stark, talk-sing versions of Rodgers and Hart's "He Was Too Good to Me", "Fifty Percent" from the musical Ballroom, and Kurt Weill and Ogden Nash's "That's Him", she comes into her own as a dramatic ballad singer.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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Between musical numbers, Stritch told stories from the world of stage and screen, tales from her everyday life and personal glimpses of her private tragedies and triumphs. She performed at the Cafe Carlyle in early 2010 and in fall 2011 in At Home at the Carlyle: Elaine Stritch Singin' Sondheim...One Song at a Time.<ref>Hetrick, Adam. "'Happy Birthday, Steve': Elaine Stritch Singin' Sondheim Returns to the Carlyle March 22" Template:Webarchive Playbill.com, March 22, 2010</ref>

Personal lifeEdit

Stritch was married to the actor John Bay from 1973 until his death in 1982. He was part of the family that owns the Bay's English Muffins company, and Stritch sent English muffins as gifts to friends. Said John Kenley: "Every Christmas, she still sends me English muffins."<ref>Brown, Tony. "John Kenley turns 100 on February 20, 2006", February 19, 2009</ref><ref>Musto, Michael."NY Mirror" Template:Webarchive, The Village Voice, January 3, 2006.</ref> When she was based in London, Stritch and her husband lived at the Savoy Hotel.<ref name=tcm/>

She was good friends with gossip columnist Liz Smith, with whom she shared a birthday (February 2).<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

In March 2013, Stritch announced she was leaving New York and relocating to Birmingham, Michigan, close to where she grew up.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Stritch was candid about her alcoholism.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> She took her first drink at 14 and began using it as a crutch before performances to vanquish her stage fright and insecurities. Her drinking worsened after Bay's death, and she sought help after experiencing problems with the effects of alcoholism, including the onset of diabetes. Elaine Stritch at Liberty discusses the topic at length.<ref name=autogenerated1/>

DeathEdit

Stritch died in her sleep at age 89 at her home in Birmingham, Michigan, on July 17, 2014. She suffered from diabetes and had stomach cancer. At the time of her death, three months after having had surgery for the disease, cancer was not cited as a cause of her death.<ref>"Elaine Stritch believed cancer was in remission", Express, July 19, 2014, accessed February 28, 2017</ref><ref>Reuters via amny, amnewyork, Friday-Sunday, July 18–20, 2014 edition, page 7.</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> She is buried at Memorial Park Cemetery in Skokie, Illinois.Template:Citation needed

Acting creditsEdit

TheatreEdit

Sources: FilmReference.com;<ref name=filmref/> Internet Broadway Database;<ref>"Elaine Stritch Broadway and Special Events" ibdb.com, retrieved February 28, 2017</ref> TCM<ref>"Elaine Stritch Overview Film and Television" tcm.com, retrieved February 28, 2017</ref>

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FilmographyEdit

Year Title Role Notes
1956 The Scarlet Hour Phyllis Rycker
Three Violent People Ruby LaSalle
1957 A Farewell to Arms Helen Ferguson
1958 The Perfect Furlough Liz Baker
1959 Kiss Her Goodbye Marge Carson
1965 Who Killed Teddy Bear Marian Freeman
1966 Too Many Thieves Miss G
1970 The Sidelong Glances of a Pigeon Kicker Tough Lady
Original Cast Album: Company Herself (Joanne) Documentary
1975 The Spiral Staircase Nurse Baker
1977 Providence Helen Wiener
1987 September Diane
1988 Cocoon: The Return Ruby Feinberg
1990 Sparks: The Price of Passion Marti Sparks
Cadillac Man Widow
1997 Out to Sea Mavis LaBreche
1998 Krippendorf's Tribe Irene Hargrove
2000 Screwed Virginia Crock
Small Time Crooks Chi Chi Potter
Autumn in New York Dolores "Dolly" Talbot
2003 Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There Herself Documentary
2004 Elaine Stritch at Liberty
2005 The Needs of Kim Stanley
Monster-in-Law Gertrude Fields
Romance & Cigarettes Grace Murder
2012 ParaNorman Grandma Babcock (voice)
2013 Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me Herself Documentary
2014 River of Fundament Eulogist
2018 Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age Herself Documentary†

TelevisionEdit

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Year Title Role Notes
1948 The Philco Television Playhouse Little Nettie Episode: "Angel in the Wings"
1949 The Growing Paynes Laraine Payne
1951 Once Upon a Tune Performer Episode: "Three Little Pigs"
1951 Rocky King, Detective Performer Episode: "No Soap"
1953 Kraft Television Theater Performer Episode: "A Cup of Kindness"
1953–1955 Goodyear Playhouse Various Characters Episodes: "Nothing to Sneeze At"
"Here's Father"
"Beloved Stranger"
1954 The Motorola Television Hour Hazel Beck Episode: "The Family Man"
1955 Norby Performer Episode: "Helen's Holiday"
1955 Appointment with Adventure Performer Episode: "Escape from Vienna"
1955 Mister Peepers Performer Episode: "Episode #4.27"
1955 Matinee Theatre Performer Episode: "Coming of Age"
1957 The Alcoa Hour Laura Episode: "He's for Me"
1958 The DuPont Show of the Month Aunt Bertha Episode: "The Red Mill"
1958 Climax! Kristie Crane Episode: "The Disappearance of Daphne"
1958 Studio One Shirley Episode: "The Left-Handed Welcome"
1959 True Story Lois Kirby Episode: "Episode dated 22 August 1959"
1959 Adventures in Paradise Ethel Forester Episode: "Haunted"
1960 Wagon Train Tracy Sadler Episode: "The Tracy Sadler Story"
1960 Alcoa Theater Ruth Sherwood Episode: "You Should Meet My Sister"
1960 Goodyear Theater Ruth Sherwood Episode: "You Should Meet My Sister"
1960–1961 My Sister Eileen Ruth Sherwood 27 Episodes
1963 The Doctors and the Nurses Irma Downey Episode: "The Witch of the East Wing"
1965–1966 The Trials of O'Brien Miss G 13 episodes
1971 The Powder Room Performer TV Movie
1973 Pollyanna Aunt Polly
1973–1979 Jackanory Storyteller 15 Episodes
1974 Dial M for Murder Geneva Episode: "If You Knew Susie"
1974 The Presidents Last Tape Priscilla TV Movie
1975 Shades of Greene Patience Episode: "Two Gentle People"
1975–1979 Two's Company Dorothy McNab 29 episodes
1979–1980 Tales of the Unexpected Mary Pearl
Pamela Beauchamp		 Episodes: "William and Mary
"My Lady Love, My Dove"
1980 Nobody's Perfect Bill Hooper 14 Episodes
1981 Christmas Spirits Julia Myerson TV Movie
1981 Trapper John, MD Dr. Mary Gerrard Episode: "Supernurse"
1983–1984 The Edge of Night Mrs. DeGroot 14 episodes
1986 Great Performances Hattie Walker Episode: "Follies in Concert"
1986 Stranded Maxine TV Movie
1986–1987 The Ellen Burstyn Show Sydney Brewer 13 episodes
1988 Tattingers Frany Episode: "Rest in Peas"
1989–1990 The Cosby Show Mrs. McGee 3 episodes
1990 The Secret Life of Archie's Wife Rowena Sharphorn TV Movie
Head of the Class Mrs. Hartman 2 episodes
American Playhouse Marianne Episode: "Sensibility and Sense"
Sparks: The Price of Passion Marti Sparks TV Movie
Steel Magnolias Ouiser Boudreaux TV Movie
1991 Chance of a Lifetime Sybil Sedgwick TV Movie
An Inconvenient Woman Rose TV Mini Series
1992; 1997 Law & Order Defense Attorney Lanie Stieglitz 2 episodes
1993 One Life to Live Wilma Bern #2
1995 Bless This House Sheila Episode: "Misery on 34th Street"
1997 3rd Rock from the Sun Martha Albright Episode: "Dick-in-Law"
1997-1998 Soul Man Mrs. Foster
1998 An Unexpected Life Lucinda Sadwich TV Movie
1998 Oz Judge Grace Lema Episode: "Losing Your Appeal"
2000-2003 EGG, the Arts Show Self/Narrator
2001 3rd Rock from the Sun Martha Albright Episode: "My Mother, My Dick"
2003 Life's a Bitch Mom
2007 Paradise Isabella TV Movie
2007–2012 30 Rock Colleen Donaghy 9 episodes
2014 Randy Cunningham: 9th Grade Ninja Ruth (voice) Episode: "Fudge Factory/Best Buds"†

Notes

† – Posthumous release/airing

Awards and honorsEdit

{{#invoke:Labelled list hatnote|labelledList|Main article|Main articles|Main page|Main pages}} The Tony Award for Best Special Theatrical Event was awarded to the producers of Elaine Stritch at Liberty. However, Stritch enthusiastically accepted the award at the 56th Tony Awards, later complaining that her acceptance speech was cut off by the strains of the orchestra, which left her feeling angry.<ref>Simonson, Robert. "Elaine Stritch Upset by Shortened Acceptance Speech" Playbill, June 03, 2002, retrieved December 03, 2019</ref>

The Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Variety, Music, or Comedy Special for the HBO special of Elaine Stritch at Liberty, was awarded to its producers.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Stritch was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 1995.<ref>Viagas, Robert. "Theatre Hall of Fame 1996" Playbill, January 30, 1996, retrieved February 28, 2017</ref>

In popular cultureEdit

Stritch's voice and vocal delivery are spoofed in the Forbidden Broadway songs "The Ladies Who Screech"<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> and "Stritch", parodies of "The Ladies Who Lunch" and "Zip", songs she performed in the musicals Company and Pal Joey.

In 2009, a parody by Bats Langley entitled "How the Stritch Stole Christmas" (loosely based on "How the Grinch Stole Christmas") appeared on YouTube.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

On The Big Gay Sketch Show in 2007, she was spoofed (portrayed by Nicol Paone) as a Wal-Mart greeter who is still a theater gal at heart.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> In a later episode, Stritch is spoofed as an airport security guard, who's still "on" and isn't able to tone down her over-the-top antics.<ref>Template:Cite episode</ref> In yet another episode, "Stritch" is promoting her self-titled perfume "Stritchy" in dramatic fashion when she is confronted by the real-life Elaine Stritch, who makes a cameo appearance.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Starting in 2024, her cover version of "Are You Havin' Any Fun?" was the soundtrack of a series of US TV commercials for the Volkswagen ID. Buzz.

ReferencesEdit

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