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  • Category Television

    Address 7001 Hollywood Blvd.

    Ceremony date 01/15/1975

About
Phyllis Diller
Born:
1917-07-17,
Lima,
Ohio,
USA
Education:
Sherwood Music Conservatory, IL & Bluffton College, OH, USA
Ethnicity:
Caucasian
Death Date:
2012-08-20
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Phyllis Diller

Phyllis Diller is an American actress and comedienne. She created a stage persona of a wild-haired, eccentrically-dressed housewife who makes jokes about a husband named "Fang" while smoking from a long cigarette holder. Diller is credited with opening the doors of stand-up comedy to women.

Diller was born to Perry Marcus Driver and his wife, the former Frances Ada Romshe, in Lima, Ohio.

Diller attended Lima's Central High School, then studied for three years at Sherwood Music Conservatory in Chicago, Illinois. She then transferred to Bluffton College in Bluffton, Ohio, where she met fellow "Lima-ite" and classmate, Hugh Downs.

Diller was a housewife, mother, and advertising copywriter. During World War II, Diller lived in Ypsilanti, Michigan while her husband worked at the historic Willow Run Bomber Plant. In the mid-1950s, she made appearances on The Jack Paar Show and was a contestant on Groucho Marx's quiz show, You Bet Your Life.

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