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Kay Ballard
Birth name	Catherine Gloria Balotta
Born	November 20, 1925 (1925-11-20) (age 82) Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.

Kaye Ballard, also credited as "Kay Ballard", born Catherine Gloria Balotta on November 20, 1925, in Cleveland, Ohio, to an Italian immigrant father, is an actress who has appeared on Broadway and on television.

From 1967 to 1969, she co-starred in the NBC sitcom, The Mothers-in-Law, with Eve Arden.

In 2005, she appeared in a road company production of Nunsense, which was written by Dan Goggin.

She survived breast cancer and has never married.

On Broadway, she has starred as Helen in The Golden Apple, as Rosalie in Carnival! (with Jerry Orbach), and as Ruth in Joseph Papp's production of The Pirates of Penzance. She closed out-of-town in Marc Blitzstein's Reuben Reuben and played Hattie Walker in the Paper Mill Playhouse's 1998 revival of Stephen Sondheim's Follies. She also appeared as Molly Goldberg in an unsuccessful musical adaptation of the popular radio serial.

In 1957, she and Alice Ghostley played the two ugly stepsisters in the live telecast of Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella, starring Julie Andrews in the title role.

She appears on several of Ben Bagley's Painted Smiles recordings ("Cole Porter Revisited," etc.) and recently completed her autobiography, How I Lost 10 Pounds in 53 Years.

She has also made appearances on the American television game show Match Game, and in 1976 was a guest star on The Muppet Show.

• The Girl Most Likely (1957)
• A House Is Not a Home (1964)
• Which Way to the Front? (1970)
• The Ritz (1976)
• Freaky Friday (1976)
• Falling in Love Again (1980)
• Pandemonium (1982)
• The Perils of P.K. (1986)
• Tiger Warsaw (1988)
• Eternity (1989)
• Modern Love (1990)
• Fate (1990)
• Joey Takes a Cab (1991)
• Ava's Magical Adventure (1994)
• The Modern Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1998)
• Baby Geniuses (1999)
• Little Insects (2000) (voice)
• The Million Dollar Kid (2000)
• Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There (2003) (documentary)
• The Pool of Desire (2004) (short subject)
• Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age (2007) (documentary)

• Kaye Ballard at the Internet Movie Database

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