Kaye Ballard
Birthday: 20 November 1925, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Birth Name: Catherine Gloria Balotta
Singing funny girl Kaye Ballard was born to perform...and perform she has in a career now broaching seven decades. With a strong comedy background and tunnel mouth to rival Martha Raye, the broad and ...Show More
Referring to Kaye Ballard Lane in Rancho Mirage, California: Frank Sinatra had a street. Dean Martin Show more
Referring to Kaye Ballard Lane in Rancho Mirage, California: Frank Sinatra had a street. Dean Martin had a street. I have a lane. Hide
[When asked if $250 would be a joke, and whether Eve Arden, who starred alongside Ballard herself, w Show more
[When asked if $250 would be a joke, and whether Eve Arden, who starred alongside Ballard herself, were making enough]: Yes! We were all supposed to get a two-hundred-fifty-dollar raise the second year, and suddenly Proctor & Gamble wouldn't do it. So Desi said, 'Either you do it, or the show doesn't go on.' And all this when we were still in the top ten! What was so funny was that Eve and I were telling him, 'No! We want to do it!' It's fascinating the difference [in salaries] today. Eve and I didn't make that much money. Eve Arden who was a big star then, made six-thousand a week, and I made two. When you compare that today to one or two million dollars an episode!! It's crazy! Hide
On "The Mothers-in-Law" series: It's hard to get away from anything like that. It's like the Fonz. O Show more
On "The Mothers-in-Law" series: It's hard to get away from anything like that. It's like the Fonz. Only he made a lot of money. We didn't Hide
[Of Eve Arden]: Eve Arden was another class act to work with. Just classy, classy, and I bought a ho Show more
[Of Eve Arden]: Eve Arden was another class act to work with. Just classy, classy, and I bought a house in Los Angeles, and everyone said, 'You sold your house to Eve Arden?' I said, 'No!' I sold my 28 pier mortgage to Eve Arden; and she was just a wonderful, woman to work with. Hide
Kaye Ballard's FILMOGRAPHY
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