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->'''Gilda:''' I haven't been on television for a while.
->'''Garry:''' Oh that – yeah, what was wrong?
->'''Gilda:''' ''(matter-of-factly)'' Oh, I had cancer. ''({{beat}})'' What did you have?
-->-- Gilda's last TV appearance, ''Series/ItsGarryShandlingsShow''

Gilda Susan Radner (June 28, 1946 – May 20, 1989) was an American actress and comedian, best known as one of the original cast members (often referred to as the Not Ready for Prime Time Players) of ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'', on which she played such characters as obnoxious news correspondent Roseanne Roseannadanna, hard of hearing Emily Litella, nerdy Lisa Loopner, and "Baba Wawa" (a parody of Creator/BarbaraWalters). Shortly before she left ''SNL'', Creator/LorneMichaels directed her in a one-woman show on Broadway, ''Gilda Radner: Live from New York'', a performance of which was captured on camera by Creator/MikeNichols and released as the 1980 film ''Gilda Live''.

In the 1980s, Radner left television behind to focus on her film career. She met Creator/GeneWilder on the set of ''Hanky Panky'' in 1981, and although she was married to future ''SNL'' guitarist G. E. Smith at the time, she would state in her autobiography ''It's Always Something'' that meeting Wilder was "love at first sight". She subsequently divorced Smith and married Wilder. The couple would appear together in two more films, ''Film/TheWomanInRed'' and ''Film/HauntedHoneymoon'', before Radner's death from ovarian cancer at age 42. Her death led to the founding of Gilda's Club, an organization for those living with cancer and their families.

She was posthumously awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2003 and many female comics and SNL cast members continue to cite her as an inspiration to them.

A documentary about her, ''[[https://www.lovegilda.com/ Love, Gilda]]'', was released on September 21, 2018.

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!!Tropes:
* HarpoDoesSomethingFunny: When Creator/BillMurray wrote sketches that Radner appeared in, he would often write part of the sketch and then simply, "Gilda does something funny".
* NotLikeOtherGirls: Despite the bad blood between Creator/JaneCurtin and Creator/JohnBelushi, when asked on Andy Cohen's "Watch What Happens Live" if John thought Gilda was funny, Jane's reply was, "He thought Gilda was funny, but she really — he didn't classify her as a woman. She was Gilda."
* {{Tuckerization}}: Named after Creator/RitaHayworth's [[Film/{{Gilda}} most famous role]].
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