Catherine Gloria (Balotta) Ballard (1925 - 2019)

Born 20 Nov 1925 in Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio, United States

Died 21 Jan 2019 at age 93 in Rancho Mirage, Riverside, California, United States

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Biography

Kaye (Balotta) Ballard is Notable.

Kaye Ballard was an American musical theatre and television actress, comedian and singer.

Kaye was born Catherine Gloria Balotta in Cleveland, Ohio. She was one of four children born to Italian immigrant parents, Vincenzo and Lena (née Nacarato) Balotta.

After touring with the Spike Jones Revue in the 1940s, Kaye made her television debut on Henry Morgan's Great Talent Hunt, a short-lived program hosted which first aired in January 1951.

In 1954, Kaye became the first person to record the song "Fly Me to the Moon".

In 1957, Kaye and actress Alice Ghostley played the two wicked stepsisters in the live telecast of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella, starring Julie Andrews in the title role.

During the 1961–1963 television seasons, Kaye was a regular on The Perry Como Show, as part of the Kraft Music Hall Players, along with Don Adams, Paul Lynde and Sandy Stewart.

In 1962, Kaye released the LP Peanuts, on which she played Lucy van Pelt from the comic strip namesake of the album (with Arthur Siegel playing Charlie Brown), and dramatizing a series of vignettes drawn from the strip's archive.

From 1967 to 1969, Kaye co-starred as Kaye Buell, a woman whose son marries the daughter of her neighbor, played by Eve Arden, on the sitcom The Mothers-in-Law.

From 1970 to 1972, she appeared as a regular on The Doris Day Show, playing restaurant owner Angie Pallucci.

In 1954, Kaye starred on Broadway as Helen in The Golden Apple, introducing the song Lazy Afternoon. Among other roles, she would also portray Ruth in The Pirates of Penzance, Rosalie in Carnival!, Ruth Sherwood in Wonderful Town, Mama Morton in Chicago, and Pauline in No, No, Nanette.

Kaye official retired from show business in 2015 at the age of 89. She died from kidney cancer 21 Jan 2019, at her home in Rancho Mirage, California. She never married, nor did she have any children.

Sources

See also:

• Find A Grave: Memorial #196271689 accessed on 23 Jan 2019
• Wikipedia: Kaye Ballard
• Wikidata: Item Q5394883, en:Wikipedia
• Ancestry Profile
• "United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X4SB-XF7 : accessed 23 January 2019), Gloria Balotts in household of Vincent Balotts, Cleveland (Districts 1-250), Cuyahoga, Ohio, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 16, sheet 6A, line 29, family 9, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 1762; FHL microfilm 2,341,496.
  • Note: name is Gloria Balotts.
• "United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KW57-3Z7 : 15 March 2018), Catherine Balotta in household of Vincent Balotta, Ward 8, Cleveland City, Cleveland City, Cuyahoga, Ohio, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 92-182, sheet 14A, line 7, family 319, Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, NARA digital publication T627. Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790 - 2007, RG 29. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012, roll 3210.
• Kaye Ballard on IMDb
• Washington Post Obituary