Ruth Buzzi

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Ruth Ann Buzzi (born July 24, 1936) is an American actress, comedian, and singer.

She has appeared on stage, in films, and on television.

She is best known for her appearances on Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, a comedy variety show on television, from 1968 to 1973, for which she received a Golden Globe Award and five Emmy nominations.

Early life

Buzzi was born in Westerly Hospital, Westerly, Rhode Island, and is the niece of Rena Pauline and Angelo Peter Buzzi, a nationally recognized stone sculptor. In 1923, her father, who came from an Italian family, immigrated from Arzo, Switzerland. She was born in Wequetequock, Connecticut, where her father owned Buzzi Memorials, a company that her older brother Harold ran until his retirement in 2013.

Buzzi was a cheerleader at Stonington High School. She enrolled at the Pasadena Playhouse for the Performing Arts at 17, where she graduated with honors.

Personal life and health

Buzzi is a founding member of the Pasadena Playhouse Alumni Association. Buzzi paints as a hobby; she has never offered her oil paintings for sale to the public, but she has donated original artwork to charity, where they have sold more than $6,000.

Many children's charities, such as Make a Wish Foundation, the Special Olympics, The Thalians, St. Jude's Hospital, Big Brothers Big Sisters of America, and the Dallas Museum of Biblical Art, are all supported by Buzzi. She is involved in fundraising for the Utopia Animal Rescue Ranch in Medina, Texas, as well as other animal charities.

Buzzi lives on a 600-acre (200 ha) cattle and horse ranch near Stephenville, Texas, with her husband Kent Perkins. Buzzi and her partner, Robert Mueller, are avid car enthusiasts. Bentley and Rolls-Royce and Jaguar are two of the collection's most popular American convertibles and muscle cars, although it also includes several American convertibles and muscle cars. Some of her cars have been featured in television advertisements, paraded, and her blue Bentley convertible was on the front page of Vogue with Jessica Simpson behind the wheel. Some of their cars were donated and/or loaned to and on display at the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles, California, as part of the exhibit honoring Steve McQueen's cars. The 1960 Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud drophead coupe convertible, which was on display at the "Century of Elegance" exhibit, was on view at Buzzi's 1960 Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud drophead coupe convertible.

The museum on display was a 1965 Chrysler Imperial convertible formerly owned by Katharine Hepburn, and Buzzi and Perkins donated the vehicle to the museum in 2001, and it is on display in the museum. At the Concours d'Elegance national championship in Amelia Island, Florida, Buzzi and Perkins claimed first place in their class, with their 1961 Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud II drophead coupe. In the Los Angeles Rolls Royce Owners Club's "most luxurious car" competition, the car took first place.

Buzzi has appeared in many songs, including House of Pain's "I'm A Swing It," The Bled's "Ruth Buzzi Better Watch Her Back," and Loretta Lynn's "You're the Reason Our Children Are Ugly."

Buzzi suffered a string of strokes on July 19, 2022.

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Career

Buzzi was already a working actor with a union card in musical and comedy revues before graduating from college. Rudy Vallee, a 19-year-old singer, appeared in a live musical and comedy act during her summer break from college, enabling her to graduate with an Actors' Equity Association union card. After graduation, she was hired immediately for a lead role in an off-Broadway musical revue, the first of 19 in which she appeared around the East Coast. Barbra St. John Rivers, Dom DeLuise, Bernadette Peters, and Carol Burnett were among the young stars of the time starting their careers. She appeared in numerous television shows in New York, and her film work included national awards, including the Clio Award.

On television, she became the first national television celebrity on television, just after Carol Burnett was replaced by Dorothy Loudon on the series. She appeared on "Shakundala the Silent," a bumbling magician's handmaid's assistant to her comedian Dom DeLuise, who performed "Dominic the Great." Buzzi was a member of the CBS variety show The Entertainers (1964–65). She appeared in Sweet Charity with Bob Fosse's wife Gwen Verdon in 1966-67. She appeared in several small roles, including "the Singing Fairy."

Buzzi appeared in all eight episodes of The Steve Allen Comedy Hour in 1967, a variety series starring Steve Allen. Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In led to her appearance in the Allen sketches, which culminated in her being cast for NBC's latest show Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In. She was the first featured participant on every episode of Laugh-In, as well as the pilot and the Laugh-In television special. Flicker Farkle, the youngest of the Farkle family; Busy-Buzzi, a Hedda Hopper-type Hollywood gossip columnist; and Doris Swizzler, a cocktail-lounge habituée who often got smashed with husband Leonard (Dick Martin); and one of the Burbank Airlines Stewardesses were two of her regular characters on Laugh-In;

Gladys Ormphby, a drab brown with her bun hairdo covered by a noticeable hairnet knotted in the middle of her forehead, was her most popular character. Buzzi first discovered this costume while playing Agnes Gooch in a school performance of Auntie Mame. She used her purse as a weapon in most sketches, with which she would lash out vehemently at anyone who triggered her wrath. Tyrone F. Horneigh, Arte Johnson's "dirty old man" woman, was often the unfavorable object of Arte Johnson's "dirty old man" development. When they first appeared on television in the mid-1970s as part of the series Baggy Pants and the Nitwits, NBC collectively referred to these two characters as The Nitwits. Buzzi and Johnson all voiced their respective roles in the cartoon.

In several of the MGM Grand Hotel's Dean Martin Roastees in Las Vegas, Buzzi appeared as Gladys, boasting about notable roastees, including Muhammad Ali, Frank Sinatra, and Lucille Ball. Gladys screamed with her purse against the honoree, and she would also smear Martin when she made disparaging remarks regarding her appearances and her romantic prospects.

Buzzi appeared on the comedy That Girl as Margie "Pete" Peterson, a semi-regular. Fi and Fum, a time-traveling android created by Sid and Marty Krofft, appeared in The Lost Saucer, which ran from September 11, 1975 to September 2, 1976 (16 episodes).

She co-starred on the Canadian kid's comedian comedy show You Can't Do That on Television (also known as Whatever Turns You On).

Chloe, the wife of phone company employee Henry Beesmeyer (Marvin Kaplan) on Alice in 1981, was also a guest performer. In 1985, she appeared on Down to Earth as a guest star. Greg Garrison, Dean Martin's producer, recruited Dom DeLuise in one of his comedy specials. In 1977, she recorded "You Oughta Hear The Song" which debuted on Billboard's national Country Music chart, but Buzzi joked in 2022: "I'd like to thank the millions and millions of people who didn't buy a copy." In 78, I had to spend quality time at home rather than standing in front of all those empiring audiences."

Buzzi appeared on many television shows, including Donny and Marie, The Flip Wilson Show, The Dean Martin Music and Comedy Hour, the Dean Martin Roasts, The Alan Burnett Show, Tony Orlando and Dawn, Leslie Uggams, and Glen Campbell's variety series. She appeared on game shows on occasion and was a celebrity judge on The Gong Show. In the episode "Lucy Makes a Hit with John Ritter," she appeared on Lucille Ball's last comedy Life with Lucy as Mrs. Wilcox. She appeared on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson eight times and has appeared on more than 200 other television guest appearances.

In the Hanna-Barbera animated film Pound Puppies (1986), Buzzi voiced Nose Marie. She also appeared in The Berenstain Bears (1985), and appeared in hundreds of other cartoon series, including The Smurfs, The Angry Beavers, and Mo Willeep in the Big City.

Ruthie, the storekeeper, joined the cast of Sesame Street in 1993 as part of the Around the Corner project. Ruthie owned Finders Keepers, a company that sold items that had never been owned by fairy tale and nursery rhyme characters. Since the set was decommissioned in 1999, she returned to the show, often in inserts, but often as other characters. In animated inserts that were on the show from 1994 to 2008, she also spoke to Suzie Kabloozie and her pet cat, Feff. Ruthie in Sesame Street's Stay Up Late, actress Ruthie May's 25th Birthday, including the direct-to-video production The Best of Elmo and the documentary film Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland, were among her highlights.

Buzzi appeared in numerous national television commercials, including Clorox 2, Clairol, Ban roll-on deodorant, and Santa Anita Park, and she also appeared in television commercials for Sugar Crisp cereal. Linus the Lionhearted (1964-65), she created the Goodwitch character in the animated television series Linus the Lionhearted (1964–65).

Buzzi appeared in the "Weird Al" Yankovic video "Gump" and was also seen in other music videos with the B-52's and The Presidents of the United States of America. She appeared on Saved by the Bell, The Muppet Show, two episodes of You Can't Do That On Television's spinoff Whatever Turns You On Television in 1979 (as well as the entire run of You Can't Do That On Television's spinoff Whatever Turns You On Television's spinoff Whatever Turns You On Television's Spinoff Whatever Turns You On Television). On NBC's daytime soap opera Passions, she portrayed the eccentric Nurse Kravitz. Come on Over, a children's television show Come on Over, made guest appearances in 2006 and 2007.

Buzzi had a great nightclub performance in the United States, including at Sahara in Las Vegas and MGM Grand hotels. She appeared on stage for one year. She appeared to be out of seats and was reported that she had been given an extended stay but declined.

She appeared in more than 20 films, including Chu Chu and the Philly Flash, Freaky Friday, The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again, The Villain, The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland, and a few westerns for the Lucky Luke film, in which she plays the mother of the Dalton Gang.

She revealed on her social media page that she had officially retired from acting in 2021.

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Awards

• Five Emmy Award nominations and won the Golden Globe Award from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association in 1973 for her work on Laugh-In
• On November 22, 2014, Women in Film (Dallas, Texas chapter) awarded Buzzi their highest achievement honor, the Topaz Award, at their annual gala.
• She was inducted in 2002 into the NAB Broadcasting Hall of Fame, which bestowed the honor to the producers, director and entire cast of Laugh-In
• In 1971 she was inducted into the Rhode Island Heritage Hall of Fame.
• Lifetime Achievement Award by the Pasadena Playhouse of the Performing Arts
• Clio Award for Best Spokesperson in a television commercial for her series of Clorox-2 commercials, and was among the first of only a few Caucasian women to ever win an NAACP Image Award
• Buzzi was named a "Distinguished Woman of Northwood" by the Board of Regents of Northwood University in 2008