"Good Luck With Your MOUTH!"

Kaye Ballard is no shrinking violet. Ms Ballard was born with the name Catherine Gloria Balotta. She is the ultimate Italian American and proud of it. Kaye started out in the 1940's  as a musical comedienne touring with Spike Jones. She proved herself to be very capable of playing broad physical comedy. She is a broad. In 1957 Ballard and Alice Ghostly played the ugly step sisters in Roger and Hammerstein's Cinderella on Broadway. In 1962 she was playing Lucille Van Pelt in Peanuts and recorded an album of the comic strip's funniest stories. Ballard then went on to star in a sitcom with Eve Arden called "The Mother-in-Laws" for two seasons. Then the Doris Day show where she played Doris' land lady and volatile restaurant owner Angie Pallucci for another two seasons. In the 70's she did a lot of guest star roles on sitcoms and appeared on games hows like "Match Game".
Ballard now primarily appears on stage in musicals in various cities around the country. She is often on stage in Palm Springs where she lives in a home that was once owned by Desi Arnez.