Marilyn Michaels was born on Marilyn Sternberg, February 26,1943 and is a comedian, singer, actress, impressionist, author, and composer.
15 Facts About Marilyn Michaels
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Marilyn Michaels was born in Manhattan to Russian Jewish emigre parents.
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Marilyn Michaels's mother was cantoress and actress Fraydele Oysher and her father was Harold Sternberg, a senior basso with the Metropolitan Opera for 37 years.
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Marilyn Michaels later recorded for Warner Brothers and ABC Paramount and appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show, The Hollywood Palace, The Jackie Gleason American Scene Magazine and NBC's Hullabaloo, with Sammy Davis Jr.
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Marilyn Michaels would appear with Davis again on The Name of the Game, The Flip Wilson Show, and Sammy in Acapulco.
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In 1965, after signing with ABC Paramount and starring at New York's Copacabana, as well as Las Vegas and London, Marilyn Michaels starred for a year as Fanny Brice in the National Company of Funny Girl.
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Marilyn Michaels reprised the role six months after the year-long run ended when Carol Lawrence was injured before her turn as Fanny at the Westbury Music Fair in Long Island, New York.
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Marilyn Michaels later starred with Rich Little in a 1981 TV commercial for the Diet 7 Up Campaign, "Look Who's Turning Diet 7 Up".
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Marilyn Michaels appeared in a Playboy pictorial for Playboy as Bette Midler, Bo Derek, Julie Andrews, Barbra Streisand, Donna Summer, Lily Tomlin, and Brooke Shields.
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Marilyn Michaels reprised some of these characters while working with Debbie Reynolds on The Love Boat in 1982.
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Marilyn Michaels made her Broadway debut at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre in the original cast of Catskills on Broadway, which won the Outer Circle Critics Award for Best Comedy.
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Marilyn Michaels performed in her own revue, Broadway Ballyhoo, at Harrah's in Atlantic City, and was the host of the radio show The Broadway Hour on WEVD-AM New York.
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Marilyn Michaels has written two articles for The New York Times regarding the proposed revival of Funny Girl, and has composed the score, as well as co-written the libretto, to a new musical comedy, Alysha, with son Mark Wilk.
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On October 5,2008, Marilyn Michaels married her third husband, Steven Portnoff, in her Upper West Side apartment.
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Marilyn Michaels was previously married to Isaac Ribatzky from 1968 to 1970.