Phyllis Ada Driver (July 17, 1917 - August 20, 2012), better known as Phyllis Diller , is an American actress and stand-up comedian, famous for his eccentricity. the stage persona, his self-deprecating humor, his wild hair and clothes, and his excessive laughter and chuckle.
Diller is an innovative stand-up comic - one of the first female comics to become a household name in the US. He paved the way for Joan Rivers, Roseanne Barr, and Ellen DeGeneres, among them, who appreciated his influence. Diller has many gay followers and is considered a gay icon. He was also one of the first celebrities to openly fight for plastic surgery, where he was recognized by industry.
Diller worked in over 40 films, starting with 1961's Splendor in the Grass . She appears in many television series, often in brilliant acting, but also includes her own sitcom and variety show. Some of the credits are The Night Gallery, Muppet Show, The Love Boat, Cybill , and Boston Legal , plus the eleven Seasons The Bold and the Beautiful . Her acting roles include the monster's wife at the Mad Gusts Festival, Queen in Insect Life, Grandma's Neutron at Jimmy Neutron's Adventure: Boy Genius </i>, and Thelma Griffin at > Family Guy .
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Diller was born Phyllis Ada Driver in Lima, Ohio on July 17, 1917, the only child of Perry Marcus Driver (1862-1948), insurance agent, and Frances Ada (nÃÆ' Â © e Romshe; 1881-1949). He has German and Irish descent (the name "Driver" has been changed from "Treiber" several generations before). He was brought up Methodist but later became an atheist. Her parents were older than most when she was born (55 and 38, respectively) and Diller attended the funeral some while growing up. Exposure to death at a young age led him to an early awards for life and he later realized that comedy is a form of therapy.
He studied at Lima's High School in Lima and found he had a humorous talent from the beginning. Though he is not a class clown, calling himself a "quiet and dedicated" student, he likes to make people laugh once school is over. Diller studied piano for three years at the Sherwood Music Conservatory of Columbia College Chicago but decided against the music career and moved to Bluffton College where he studied literature, history, psychology, and philosophy. He met Sherwood Diller in Bluffton and they married in 1939. Diller did not finish school and especially a housewife, caring for their five children (the sixth child died in infancy).
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Careers
1950s
After moving to Alameda, California, Diller began working on broadcasting in 1952 on KROW radio in Oakland, California. In November of that year, he filmed several fifteen-minute segments for the Bay Area Phyllis Dillis TV series, Homely Friendmaker - wearing house clothes to offer unreasonable "suggestions" to housewives. Diller also works as a copywriter at KSFO radio in San Francisco and a vocalist for a music-review TV show called Pop Club , hosted by Don Sherwood.
With the encouragement of her husband, Diller debuted as a stand-up comedian at the age of 37 at San Francisco North Beach's basement club, The Purple Onion, on March 7, 1955. Until then, he just tried his jokes for fellow PTA mothers at nearby Edison Elementary School. Her first professional performance was successful and a two-week reservation stretched for 89 consecutive weeks. Diller had found his call and ultimately financial success while his husband's business career failed. He explained, "I became a stand-up comedian because I have a husband who is sitting around."
In a 1986 NPR interview, Diller said he did not know what he was doing when he started playing clubs and at first he never saw another woman on the comedy circuit. With no female role models in the male-dominated industry, he initially used props and drawings from his educational and work background as a basis for classical music concerts and suggestions for insinuating and spoofing. He writes his own material and keeps filing cabinets full of his jokes, honing his nightclub action. Sid Caesar, Milton Berle, and Jonathan Winters were early influences, but Diller developed a single comedy persona - a surreal version of femininity. This unreasonable caricature with tawdry loose dresses and huge handsome hair make fun of his lack of sex appeal while holding a cigarette (with a wooden cigarette because he does not smoke), pronouncing humor with a warm laugh to show that he was in on a joke. At that moment, Diller said, "They do not know who I am.It's like - 'Get a stick and kill it before multiplying!'"
His first national television appearance was as a contestant on Groucho Marx quiz show You You Bet Your Life in 1958. Some reservations at Jack Paar Tonight lead to appearances on The Ed Sullivan Show , which brings its national edge as he continues to perform throughout the US.
Beginning in 1959 and throughout the 1960s, he released several comedy albums, including the title of "Wet Toe" on Hot Socket! , Are You Ready for Phyllis Diller? , and > The Beautiful Phyllis Diller .
1960s
In the early 60s, Diller performed at Bon Soir in Greenwich Village, where the rising Barbra Streisand was his opening act. She was offered a film job and became famous after starring with her mentor, Bob Hope, who described it as "a Warhol car spare part picked up along the freeway." They work together in movies like Boy, Do I Get The Wrong Number! , Eight in Lam , and Private Navy Sgt. O'Farrell , all critically criticized, but Boy... did well at the box office. Diller accompanied the Expectations to Vietnam in 1966 with his USO entourage during the height of the Vietnam War.
She appears regularly as a special guest on many television programs, including What's My Line? Mystery Guests. The blindfolded panel on the night's broadcasts included Sammy Davis, Jr., and they were able to distinguish Diller's identity with three guesses. Diller makes cameo appearances on a regular basis, making his distinctive jokes about Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In. Feeling self-deprecating in error, Diller's typical joke made him run after the garbage truck pulled away from the sidewalk. "Am I late for the garbage?" he will scream. Driver's reply: "No, jump right!" He became semi-regular at The Hollywood Squares, beginning in 1967, appearing in 28 episodes until 1980.
Diller continues to work in movies, making cameo appearances as Texas Guinan, hostess of the wisecracking club at Splendor in the Grass. Throughout the 1960s, he appeared in more than a dozen, usually low-budget films. He also started a career in sound work, casting votes from Monster's Mate at Mad Monster Party (1967).
Diller also starred in the short-lived TV series The Pruitts of Southampton (1966-1967); then titled The Phyllis Diller Show , a half hour sitcom on ABC. He received a Golden Globe nomination in 1967 for his role in Pruitts. Diller hosted various events in 1968 titled The Beautiful Phyllis Diller Show .
Starting on December 26, 1969, he spent three months at Halo, Dolly! (across from Richard Deacon), as the second to last replacement for Carol Channing in the title role, which includes Ginger Rogers, Martha Raye, Betty Grable, and Pearl Bailey. After Diller's duty, Ethel Merman took over the role until the end of the series that was run in December 1970.
1970-2012
Diller continued to work on television throughout the '70s and' 80s, appearing as a judge on the premiere and subsequent episodes of The Gong Show and as a panelist at the Match Game PM show. She is also a guest star on Night Love Gallery, Love American Style, The Muppet Show and The Love Boat. Between 1999 and 2003 he played a role in 7th Heaven and The Drew Carey Show .
His successful career as a voice actor continued when Diller became a guest on "A Good Medium is Rare," a 1972 episode of The New Scooby-Doo Movies . In 1998, Diller gave the Queen a voice on A Bug's Life . Among other animated films are The Nutcracker Prince (1990, as Mousequeen), Happily Ever After (1990, as Mother Nature), and Casper's Scare School (2006, as Aunt Spitzy).
She voiced characters on several television series, including Robot Chicken , Family Guy , Wait Until Your Dad Gets Home , Captain Planet > i>, Cattle and Chicken , Hey Arnold! as Arnold's grandfather, Mitzi, The Powerpuff Girls , Animaniacs , Jimmy Neutron as Jimmy's grandmother, The Wild Thornberrys , and King of the Hill . She also served as Peter Griffin's mother, Thelma, at Family Guy in 2006.
Retirement
Citing his advanced age and lack of "lasting energy", Diller retired from stand-up in 2002. His last appearance was at Suncoast that year in Las Vegas, Nevada. As he states, "If you can not dance for comedy, forget it.This is music." The 2004 documentary Goodnight, We Love You: The Life and Legend of Phyllis Diller , directed by Gregg Barson, was shot on the night of his last performance. It follows Diller to a press conference, backstage, and to his home, to cover his career story. Rip Taylor, Don Rickles, Roseanne Barr, Red Buttons, Jo Anne Worley and Lily Tomlin are featured, discussing Diller's legacy of comedy.
Although retired from the stand-up circuit, Diller has never completely left the entertainment industry. In 2005, he was featured as one of many contemporary comics at The Aristocrats. Diller, who avoids the blue comedy, performs an old, somewhat obscene version of his routine, in which he describes himself fainting when he first hears the joke, forgetting the actual content of the joke.
On January 24, 2007, Diller appeared on The Tonight Show and did a stand-up before chatting with Jay Leno. Leno has stated that Diller will rarely call him to contribute jokes during his time as host of The Tonight Show. That same year he had a cameo appearance depicting himself in an episode of Boston Legal . In 2011, she appeared on the episode of her friend's reality show Roseanne Barr Roseanne's Nuts .
In January 2012, he recorded the song version of Charlie Chaplin Smile with Pink Martini's Thomas Lauderdale for the album Get Happy .
Author
Publicizing his first best seller in 1966 and releasing more during this decade, Diller's books on home life display his humility. The titles include the Phyllis Diller Household Directive , Phillips Diller Wedding Guide , and The Complete Mother . In 1981 he published The Joys of Aging & amp; How to Avoid Them .
His autobiography, Like The Lampshade at a Brothel - My Life in Comedy , co-written with Richard Buskin, was published in 2006. In it, Diller tells of an unhappy childhood with a lawless parent, emotional holding back, and the same unhappy first marriage. From this beginning, his style of appearance - telling a quick joke - came about, which he compared with music: "One joke follows the other with flow and rhythm... It's all natural."
In the early 1990s, Diller had many short, funny pieces published in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine.
Musician
Diller has been studying pianos for years and is a great player but decides not to make a career in the music world after hearing his teacher and mentor play with skills much higher than he thinks he can achieve. He still plays in his personal life, and has a custom made harpsichord.
Between 1971 and 1981, Diller appeared as a piano singer with a symphony orchestra across the country under the stage name Dame Illya Dillya. Her performance was peppered with humor, but she took music seriously. A review of one of his concerts at The San Francisco Examiner called him "a good concert pianist with a strong touch."
Artist
Diller, a self-taught artist, began painting in 1963. He worked in acrylic, watercolors and oil throughout the 1970s and filled his home in Brentwood, California with his portrait and is still alive. In 2003, at the age of 86, she held the first of several "art parties," selling her artwork along with her stage outfit and costume jewelry.
Personal life
Diller attributed most of his success to the book of The Magic of Believing (1948) by Claude M. Bristol, who gave him confidence early in his career.
Diller married and divorced twice. She has six children from her marriage with her first husband, Sherwood Anderson Diller. Peter was the first, born in 1940. Sally was next, born in 1944. Their third child, Perry, was born in 1945 but only lived for two weeks in a neonatal incubator. A daughter, Suzanne, was born in 1946, followed by another daughter, Stephanie, in 1948. Their sixth child, also named Perry, after Diller's father, was born in 1950. Sally was diagnosed with schizophrenia and Diller worked hard to take care of her. at home, but Sally is finally institutionalized. Diller lives longer than his two grown children. Peter died of cancer in 1998. Stephanie died in 2002 of a stroke.
Diller's second husband was actor Warde Donovan (born Warde Tatum), whom he married on October 7, 1965. He filed for divorce three months later, having found him bisexual and alcoholic, even though they were reconciled on the day before the divorce was final. Their marriage continued until he divorced Donovan in 1975.
Robert P. Hastings was his partner, from 1985 until his death on May 23, 1996. In a 2000 interview, he called him love in his life, saying that he admired him as an independent man.
The character "Fang," the husband who is often called Diller in action, appeared from ad-lib in the Purple Onion show. He held him in acting, realizing "I'm into something because the idiot I portrayed on stage has to have a husband, and he has to be more idiot than me."
He openly discussed his plastic surgery, the first set of procedures performed when he was 55 years old. In his 2005 autobiography, he wrote that he had undergone "fifteen different procedures." Much of the surgery was the subject of the 20/20 segment of 12 February 1993.
Disease and death
In 1997, when he passed his 80th birthday, Diller began suffering from various illnesses. In 1999 his heart stopped during his stay in the hospital. He was fitted with a pacemaker but underwent a bad drug reaction and became paralyzed. Through physical therapy, he can walk again. Approaching the age of 90, Diller retired from a stand-up comedy show.
On July 11, 2007, USA Today reported that she had broken her back and had to cancel her appearance on The Tonight Show, where she planned to celebrate her 90th birthday.. On May 15, 2012, Diller made his final interview receiving the "Lifetime Achievement" award from his hometown, Lima, OH as part of a comedian panel.
On the morning of August 20, 2012, Diller died at his home in Brentwood, Los Angeles, California, because it was natural at age 95. According to his family, he died with a "smile on his face." He was cremated, and his ashes scattered in the sea.
Influence and inheritance
Diller is one of the first solo female comedians in the US to become a household name. He stated that making people laugh is a powerful art form. As a pioneering woman in stand-up, she inspired many female comedians including Joan Rivers, Lily Tomlin, Ellen DeGeneres, Margaret Cho, and Roseanne Barr.
Barr, who listened to Diller's notes as a child, calls him a true and revolutionary artist, saying, "It's immortal, wacky, the tacky character he creates: the cigarette holder is a genius, paradoxically great." He is a losing hero of winning, female iteration from Chaplin's Little Tramp. "
Fellow comedian Joan Rivers rewarded the point of view of Diller's early career woman, saying, "He is the first that there is such anger and anger in comedy.He has an anger now in us all, and that's what makes him so funny because he talking to all the women sitting at home with five children and a husband who is not working. "
Diller has many gay followers from the beginning of his career, once said, "My first listeners are gay people because they have a high sense of humor." An obituary in Queerty noted its popularity with the LGBT community, calling it a "strong-willed enthusiast who challenges the status quo on gender and sexuality." He enjoys a gay man company, writing in his memoirs, Like a Lampshade at a Brothel: My Life in Comedy: "Gay men have the most beautiful sense of humor, and they are willing to laugh, they beg me and I pleading with them. "
Memories of the New York Times noted that Diller's flamboyant display echoed in Lady Gaga's concert clothing and that Eddie Murphy also interrupted jokes with a loud laugh, in a style reminiscent of Diller's persona.
Diller is a supporter of highly vocal plastic surgery when cosmetic procedures are kept secret. His public acceptance of having multiple facelifts, nose jobs and other procedures adds promotional and comedy values ​​to his actions. He told Bob Hope in 1971 that he experienced facial tightness because "I'm sick and tired because the dog drags me into the yard and bury me." The American Cosmetic Surgery Academy gave him an award for bringing plastic surgery "out of the closet."
In 2003, after hearing the contributions of Archie Bunker's chair to the Smithsonian Institution, Diller opened his doors to the National Museum of American History. He offered them some of the most iconic pieces of costume, as well as his gag file, a steel cabinet with 48 file drawers with more than 50,000 jokes he wrote on index cards during his career. In 2011, the Albert H. Small Documents Gallery at the National Museum of American History features Diller files and objects that are identical to their comedy personalities - an unkempt wig, wrist-gloved gloves, cloth-covered boots, and cigarette holders decorated with diamonds.
Awards and honors
- Golden Globe nominee for Actress in Television Series - Pruitt of Southampton - 1967.
- Won the Stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame - January 15, 1975.
- Living International Women's Living Legacy Award - 1990.
- American Comedy Award for Lifetime Achievement - 1992.
- Diller lives in St. Louis. Louis with his family from 1961 to 1965 and inducted into St. Louis Walk of Fame in 1993.
- Women in Lucy Award Film, acknowledging her achievement in enhancing women's perception through television media - 2000.
- San Diego Film Festival Gazette Award - 2004.
- Lifetime Achievement Award from hometown of Lima, Ohio - 2012.
- Diller's July 17th birthday is "Dill Phyllis Day" in Alameda, California, where he started his career on radio and television.
Moviesography
Television Jobs
References
Phyillis Diller is referenced to Glee, Season 5, episode 6 when Sue Sylvester, played by Jane Lynch, as "the legend of a single show business (s) born and raised here in Lima."
External links
- Phyllis Diller on IMDb
- Phyllis Diller in the TCM Film Database
- Phyllis Diller's interview video on Archive of American Television
- Works by or about Phyllis Diller in the library (WorldCat catalog)
- Phyllis Diller's TV Debut with Groucho Marx video, 13 minutes.
- Comedy upstart Phyllis Diller, 1977 in YouTube video, 6 min.
- NPR Interview, Phyllis Diller: Still Out for a Laugh
- Interview Diller Comedy Hall of Fame, Archive, 2006
- NPR: Not My Work: Phyllis Diller August 4th, 2007, Wait Wait... Do not Tell Me!
- Phyllis Diller in the Search of the Mausoleum
- One of the last complete interviews with Phyllis Diller about how he wants to be remembered on YouTube
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