Biografia

Had won nine Emmy Awards (including one Daytime Emmy Award), more than any actor or actress.

Miss Chicago of 1946 - Miss America contest.

Posed "au naturel" on the cover of "Alternative Medicine Digest" (issue 15, 1997) body painted with images of fruit adorning her nakedness. This was a parody, or imitation, of the famous Demi Moore body painted nude Vanity Fair photo.

One son, Bryan Englund, passed away from an overdose of ulcer medication on February 25, 1986.

She appeared with Madeline Kahn in five films: Frankenstein Junior (1974), Alta tensione (1977), Ecco il film dei Muppet (1979), La pazza storia del mondo (1981) and Mio mini Pony - Il film (1986).

[on receiving the Best Supporting Actress Oscar, 1972] I'm at a point where I'm free to go out and have a little fun with my career. Some Oscar winners have dropped out of sight, as if they were standing on a trapdoor. Others picked it up and ran with it. I'm going to run with it.

If you brush your teeth, you don't want to eat something right after because your mouth feels so fresh. So brushing your teeth actually prevents you from eating until later.

When something is truly funny, it's funny all the time.

The reason I am a good actress, I think, is because the times when I didn't have a good part and you think, "What the hell do you do with it?" You have to figure something out.

If I were to do some outlandish role, I always made sure I'd be on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1962) to show that I wasn't that person that I played. I'd be myself. And so people got to know me, I think, and I think they know that I'm honest and truthful and real.