* | July 17, 1917 Lima, Ohio, USA | |
† | July 20, 2012 Brentwood, Los Angeles, California, USA |
Phyllis Diller with Richard Buskin Like a lampshade in a whorehouse, my life in comedy New York, 2005 |
Anthony Slide Eccentrics of Comedy 1998 |
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Ronald L. Smith Who's Who in Comedy, Comedians, Comics and Clowns From Vaudeville to Today's Stand-ups New York, Oxford, 1992 |
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James Robert Parish and William T. Leonard with Gregory W. Mank and Charles Hoyt The Funsters New Rochelle, New York, 1979 |
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James Robert Parish The Slapstick Queens South Brunswick and New York - London, 1973 |
Monica M. O'Donnell (ed.) Contemporary Theatre, Film, and Television, Volume 1 Detroit, 1984 |
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Joe Franklin Encyclopedia of Comedians Secaucus, N.J., 1979 |