122. Charlotte Rae

Gilbert Gottfried's Amazing Colossal Podcast

Starburns Audio

Visual Arts, Tv & Film, Comedy, Arts

4.8 • 3.9K Ratings

🗓️ 26 September 2016

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Edna Garrett (and Sylvia Schnauser!) herself, actress Charlotte Rae joins Gilbert and Frank to talk about some of the highs (and lows) of her life and career, and to share her memories of working on the 1950s nightclub circuit as well as on the much-loved sitcoms "Car 54, Where Are You?", "Diff'rent Strokes" and "The Facts of Life." Also, Charlotte lauds Nat Hiken, rooms with Cloris Leachman, partners with Paul Lynde and impersonates Zsa Zsa Gabor. PLUS: Wally Cox! "Hot L Baltimore"! The many talents of Fred Gwynne! Charlotte disses Joan Collins! And "New Faces of 1952"! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:55.7	and if we raise enough maybe I can finally get a new co-host. I'm thinking of the Scarlett Johansson robot.
1:15.4	Hi, this is Gilbert Gottfried. This is Gilbert Gottfried's amazing colossal podcast with my co-host
1:38.2	Frank Santopadre. Our guest this week is a popular and much admired actress whose career spans an
1:47.4	impressive seven decades. She's been nominated for Tonys for her work on the Broadway stage.
1:56.8	Appeared in feature films like The Hot Rock, bananas, rabbit test and hair and received an
2:05.0	Emmy nomination for her role in the TV movie Queen of the Star Dust Ball Ballroom. Notable TV
2:14.8	roles include Bilko, Love American Style, a Paul Lynch show, all in the family Barney Miller,
2:23.3	ER and the King of Queens and of course as the wise and supportive Edna Garrett on the hit
2:32.5	situation comedies, different strokes and facts of life. In her illustrious career she's worked
2:40.8	with everyone from Bert Larr to Jack Lugman to Stiller and Mira to LaDyLania to our former podcast
2:50.9	guest Julie Numer, Dick Van Dyke and Paul Dooley and she's still working. Recently appearing in the
3:01.1	2015 film Ricky and the Flash alongside Merrill Streep and Kevin Klein but with Ola Cheese
3:13.2	accomplice she'll always be known to yours truly as Sylvia Schnauser on the iconic series
3:23.6	Car 54 where are you? Please welcome the pride of Milwaukee Wisconsin, the funny, versatile
3:33.7	and unstoppable Caroline Ray. You're just called her Caroline Ray. Oh,
3:39.6	oh, you're full of it. The unstoppable Charlotte Ray. That's better. Yeah.
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