Phyllis Diller
Comedian
Legendary wild-haired actress and comedienne who is known for her outrageous and self-deprecating sense of humor.
She was a housewife, mother, and advertising copywriter before she got into show business. In the mid-1950's she was featured on an episode of Groucho Marx's You Bet Your Life, as a game show contestant.
She provided the voice of the Queen in Pixar's animated movie A Bug's Life.
She had six children with her on-and-off-again, first husband, Sherwood Anderson Diller. She married her second husband, Warde Donovan, in 1965.
She was classmates with Hugh Downs.