MUMBAI : Veteran performer and comedian Mitzi McCall has passed away. Variety reports that McCall passed away in Burbank on Thursday. She was ninety-three. McCall will always be recognized for her outstanding performance as half of the comedic combo McCall and Brill, alongside her husband, actor and comedian Charlie Brill.
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The two went on to become mainstays on television, appearing on many variety shows. One particularly famous appearance was on The Ed Sullivan Show during The Beatles' 1964 American debut, an event that has since been immortalized in television history.
McCall made her stage debut in Strange Bedfellows at the Pittsburgh Playhouse in 1948, marking her entry into the entertainment industry in the late 1940s. Her hosting of the Kiddie Castle show on Pittsburgh's KDKA-TV in the early 1950s helped her become known as a talented and captivating entertainer. According to Variety, she was a guest on Studio 10 on KGTV in San Diego, California, around 1953.
Throughout her lengthy career, she made appearances on shows including The Twilight Zone, Life Goes On, Silk Stalkings, Seinfeld, Roseanne, Dharma and Greg, Becker, and Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In.
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