Gilda Radner

Gilda Radner is famous for creating her zany, larger-than-life characters on Saturday Night Live, and later, for her own strength of character in her fight against ovarian cancer, which she went public with in her autobiography, It's Always Something. Her Not-So-Ready-for-Prime-Time days earned her the chance to showcase her stuff on Broadway in her own one-person-show, Gilda Radner: Live From New York. Referred to as the Sweetheart of American Comedy, her characterizations of snot-nosed geek (predecessor to Mary Catherine Gallagher of Superstar fame, most definitely) Lisa Lo...