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The Never-Shy Broadway Actress Elaine Stritch, 89, Dies in Birmingham

July 17, 2014, 3:23 PM

Elaine Stritch, the never-shy Broadway actress and singer who came to suburban Detroit to live out the remainder of her life, died Thursday at her home, The New York Times reports. She was 89.

She died at the Birmingham condo apartment where she had moved to from New York in April 2013. She had spent many years living in the Carlyle Hotel in Manhattan.

Bruce Weber and Robert Berkvist of the Times writte:

Ms. Stritch’s career began in the 1940s and spanned almost 70 years. She made her fair share of appearances in movies, including Woody Allen’s “September” (1987) and “Small Time Crooks” (2000), and on television; well into her 80s, she had a recurring role on the NBC comedy “30 Rock” as the domineering mother of the television executive played by Alec Baldwin. But the stage was her true professional home, where, whether in musicals, nonmusical dramas or solo cabaret shows, she drew audiences to her with her whiskey voice, her seen-it-all manner and the blunt charisma of a star.

Earlier at Deadline Detroit:

 


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