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Kaye Ballard (born November 20, 1925) is an American musical theatre and television actress, comedienne, and singer. Ballard was born as Catherine Gloria Balotta in Cleveland, Ohio, to an Italian American family, the daughter of Lena (née Nacarato) and Vincent James Balotta. Ballard established herself as a musical comedienne in the 1940s, joining the Spike Jones touring revue of entertainers. Capable of playing broad physical comedy as well as stand-up dialogue routines, she became familiar in television and stage productions. A phrase that her mother had used when Kaye was a child,... MORE

Kaye Ballard (born November 20, 1925) is an American musical theatre and television actress, comedienne, and singer. Ballard was born as Catherine Gloria Balotta in Cleveland, Ohio, to an Italian American family, the daughter of Lena (née Nacarato) and Vincent James Balotta. Ballard established herself as a musical comedienne in the 1940s, joining the Spike Jones touring revue of entertainers. Capable of playing broad physical comedy as well as stand-up dialogue routines, she became familiar in television and stage productions. A phrase that her mother had used when Kaye was a child, "Good luck with your MOUTH!" became one of her catch phrases. The phrase has been uttered in her sketches, and on television. During 1954, she was the first person to record the song "In Other Words" (later renamed "Fly Me To The Moon"). In 1957, she and Alice Ghostley played the two ugly stepsisters in the live telecast of Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella, starring Julie Andrews in the title role. From 1967–69, she co-starred as Kaye Buell, a woman whose son marries her next door neighbor's daughter, in the NBC sitcom The Mothers-in-Law, with Eve Arden playing her neighbor. She also appeared as a LESS