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Kaye Ballard, also credited as "Kay Ballard," born
Catherine Gloria Balotta on
November 20,
1925, in
Cleveland, Ohio, to an
Italian immigrant father, is an actress who has appeared on
Broadway and on television. From 1967 to 1969, she co-starred in the NBC sitcom,
The Mothers-in-Law, with
Eve Arden.
Ballard established herself as a musical comedienne in the 1940s, joining the
Spike Jones touring revue of entertainers. Capable of playing broad physical comedy as well as stand-up dialogue routines, she became a familiar face in television and stage productions. In 1957, she and
Alice Ghostley played the two ugly stepsisters in the live telecast of
Rodgers & Hammerstein's
Cinderella, starring
Julie Andrews in the title role.
She has also made appearances on the American television game show
Match Game, and in 1976 was a guest star on
The Muppet Show.
On Broadway, she's starred as Helen in
The Golden Apple, where she introduced the now classic "Lazy Afternoon." She also portrayed Rosalie in
Carnival! (with
Jerry Orbach), and Ruth in
Joseph Papp's production of
The Pirates of Penzance. She closed out-of-town in
Marc Blitzstein's
Reuben, Reuben and played Hattie Walker in the Paper Mill Playhouse's 1998 revival of
Stephen Sondheim's
Follies. She also appeared as
Molly Goldberg in an unsuccessful musical adaptation of the popular radio serial. In
2005, she appeared in a road-company production of
Nunsense, which was written by
Dan Goggin. She recently completed her autobiography,
How I Lost 10 Pounds in 53 Years.
Over the years she's made numerous recordings. In 1958 she recorded for MGM THE FANNY BRICE STORY
IN SONG which got the ball rolling for a Broadway musical. She also recorded an album for
United Artists entitled BOO HOO, HA HA. She can also be heard on various Ben Bagley Revisited
albums as well as the soundtrack album of THE GIRL MOST LIKELY.
She survived
breast cancer and has never married. On the DVD release of the 1957 CINDERELLA,
Kaye is featured in the bonus features part of the CD as well.
Filmography
- The Girl Most Likely (1957)
- A House Is Not a Home (1964)
- Which Way to the Front? (1970)
- The Ritz (1976)
- Freaky Friday (1976)
- Falling in Love Again (1980)
- Pandemonium (1982)
- The Perils of P.K. (1986)
- Tiger Warsaw (1988)
- Eternity (1989)
- Modern Love (1990)
- Fate (1990)
- Joey Takes a Cab (1991)
- Ava's Magical Adventure (1994)
- The Modern Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1998)
- Baby Geniuses (1999)
- Little Insects (2000) (voice)
- The Million Dollar Kid (2000)
- (2003) (documentary)
- The Pool of Desire (2004) (short subject)
- Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age (2007) (documentary)
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