- Co-founded the Los Angeles-based acting school The Faculty along with Tom Troupe, Dom DeLuise, John Erman and Charles Nelson Reilly.
- Remained fairly obscure for much of her career until a choice comedy role in the film Micki + Maude (1984) opened the door to a number of sardonic fun parts in film and TV.
- She was working in a secretarial job at Debbie Reynolds' rehearsal studios in North Hollywood when she was nabbed for the hilariously campy warden role in the cult stage hit "Women Behind Bars.".
- Often used tastelessly because of her coarse features and larger-than-life size, she was at one time a foil for The Three Stooges (as Larry Fine's wife).
- Developed a cult L.A. following in the early 1980s with the campy, small-scale musical "Women Behind Bars".
- Daughter of Hal Price.
- Harsh and thickset New Yorker singer/comedienne first noticed in 1960s Broadway musicals; later in slapstick films.
- Her older half-brother was Harry Franklin Price, Jr.
- Her beloved infamous stage role as the Matron in the cult L.A. production of "Women Behind Bars" was a direct take-off on Hope Emerson's grotesque role in the acclaimed women's prison film Caged (1950).
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