“[She] began her astonishingly prolific eight-decade career performing radio plays as a child in Iowa. She appeared in Shakespearean comedy and Eugene O’Neill melodrama on Broadway in the 1950s, was a television mainstay from the dawn of the medium” — not to mention her now-legendary big-screen performances in The Last Picture Show and Young Frankenstein — “and, at 82, became the oldest female contestant on Dancing With the Stars. In the industriousness she displayed into her senior years, she was matched perhaps only by comedian Betty White.” – The Washington Post
