Elaine Stritch
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Biography
2 February 1925, Detroit, Michigan, USA. An inimitable actress and singer with a magnetic appeal, who has combined a career in the musical theatre with another in drama, films and on television. Stritch has been called caustic, sardonic, witty, tough, and much else besides. She is said to have sung for the first time on stage in the Long Island revue The Shape Of Things!, in June 1947, and a few months later introduced Civilization (Bongo, Bongo, Bongo) on Broadway in another revue,... Read more