Kaye Ballard, American actress, Died at 93

Kaye Ballard was born  Catherine Gloria Balotta on November 20, 1925, and died on January 21, 2019.

She was an American musical theatre and television actress, comedian and singer.

 

She started herself as a musical comedian in the 1940s, joining the Spike Jones touring revue of entertainers. 

She loved playing broad physical comedy as well as stand-up dialogue routines, Ballard became familiar in television and stage productions. 

Apparently,  phrase her mother had used when Kaye was a child, "Good luck with your MOUTH!", became her catchphrase in her sketches and on television. 

She made her television debut on Henry Morgan's Great Talent Hunt,a short-lived NBC program hosted by Henry Morgan which first aired January 26, 1951. 

During 1954, Kaye was the first person to record the song "Fly Me to the Moon".

Ballard died at her home in Rancho Mirage, California on January 21, 2019, at the age of 93.

 

She was in the 2012 cabaret show Doin' It for Love, which premiered in Austin, Texas, at the historic Paramount Theatre. 

Kaye Ballard died at her home in Rancho Mirage, California 93 years old.