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Lainie Kazan
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Actor Born: May 15, 1940 in New York City, NY Biography:Hofstra-educated singer/actress "Lainie Kazan" became a celebrity by indirection. In 1964, Kazan was engaged to understudy "Barbra Streisand" in the Broadway production of Funny Girl; the disappointed boos and catcalls that often greeted Kazan when she subbed for Streisand were generally dissipated by the standing ovations she'd receive at performance's end. In 1966, Kazan was hired for her first weekly-TV stint on "The Dean Martin Summer Show", exhibiting a keen sense of comic timing in the presence of such funsters as "Dom DeLuise" and Rowan & "Martin". A firmly established nightclub star by 1980, Kazan made her official screen bow in 1980's "One From the Heart" (her actual screen debut in an obscure 1968 film was passed over in the studio publicity). In 1982, she essayed her most memorable screen role, as the brash, blunt Brooklynite Bella Carroca in "My Favorite Year"; she would repeat this role... Full Biography
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