Gilda Radner

She won Tony Awards for her work on “Candide” and “Sweeney Todd.”

Gilda Radner was one of the first to make “Saturday Night Live hilarious.”

It’s been almost a quarter century since Gilda Radner died, cutting short the promising career of one of the funniest women of all time.

Gene Wilder, the comic actor known for movies including “Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory” and “Young Frankenstein,” has died at the age of 83.

Actress Joan Hackett died of ovarian cancer 30 years ago today at just 49 years old, the same devastating disease as comedienne Gilda Radner, actress Jessica Tandy, singer Dinah Shore…