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Article: GILDA RADNER, ORIGINAL CAST MEMBER OF 'SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE;' AT 42
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- May 21, 1989
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LOS ANGELES - Comedian Gilda Radner, who rose to stardom
with her goofy characters as part of the first cast of "Saturday
Night Live," died early yesterday of cancer, a hospital official
said. She was 42.
Miss Radner, who was diagnosed with ovarian cancer about 2 1/
2 years ago, died about 6:20 a.m. at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center,
said hospital spokesman Ron Wise. Her husband of five years,
actor-filmmaker Gene Wilder, was at her side.
On "Saturday Night Live," which premiered on NBC in 1975,
Miss Radner created such characters as the scatterbrained
broadcaster Roseanne Roseannadanna, whose catch phrase, "It's
always something," became the title of a book she wrote detailing
her ...