She stepped in for Angela Lansbury in '''Mame,''' wed the 'Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah' lyricist and almost broke up Archie's marriage on '''All in the Family.''
Paige, who was discovered in the 1940s while performing at the legendary Hollywood Canteen, died Sunday of natural causes at her home in Los Angeles, her friend Stuart Lampert announced.
Paige starred on her own network sitcom, playing a widowed nightclub singer struggling to raise her 10-year-old daughter, on the 1955-56 CBS seriesThe actress also turned in two memorable guest-starring stints in 1976, playing an attractive diner waitress named Denise who tempts Archie to cheat on Edith despite the fact he’s her adversary in the labor dispute.
The musical premiered at the St. James Theatre in May 1954, ran for more than 1,000 performances over 15 months and won the Tony Award for best musical.in 1990, “because everybody said we were going to be a flop. A show about a pajama factory? And we were a smash. It was a special time — it will never come again.”Romance on the High Seas
. In the screwball musical comedy, Paige’s socialite character hires a singer to take her place on a cruise so she can spy on her cheating husband . Meanwhile, Day and a detective fall in love on the boat.Paige’s third and last husband was Ray Gilbert, who won an Oscar for writing the lyrics to the best song winner “Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah” from Disney’s now-shelvedBorn Donna Mae Tjaden in Tacoma, Washington, on Sept.
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