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- Birth nameZelda Berkowitz
- Zelda Kaplan was born on June 20, 1916 in Flemington, New Jersey, USA. She was an actress, known for The Imperialists Are Still Alive! (2010), Keep It Clean (2007) and Beyond the Ladies Room Door (2005). She was married to Samuel Kaplan. She died on February 15, 2012 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA.
- SpouseSamuel Kaplan(? - 1969) (divorced)
- Was one of FHM's 50 most eligible women of 2004.
- Died after fainting in her front-row seat at a fashion show showcasing fashions by designer Joanna Mastroianni held in New York City's Bryant Park during that city's annual Fashion Week festivities.
- She was always seated in the front row of fashion shows in New York City and was an avid club goer in New York City until her death.
- She traveled around the world to Mali, Ghana, and Ethiopia (Africa and Southeast Asia) in search of woodcarvings and fabrics from which she made her designs. She made many trips on behalf of the World Culture Society organization that she founded and financed.
- She married three times, once for 11 months. She was married to Dr Samuel Kaplan who persuaded her to move to Miami, Florida which she saw as a cultural desert. They divorced in the late 1960s where she moved to New York City to get a job as a ballroom dance instructor and an art gallery framer.
- [on her upbringing] I don't like to talk about my past because I was so conventional and middle-class. It was boring.
- To me the dancing that young people do in the clubs is exercise.
- I'm a curious person. I want to keep learning until it's over. And when it's over, it's over.
- So many Americans want to look like everybody else. I don't think people should be happy to be a clone.
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