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Sep 18, 2002 · LaWanda Page, the acid-tongued comedienne who, as the cantankerous Aunt Esther, traded barbs with Redd Foxx on the 1970's sitcom ''Sanford and Son,'' died on Saturday in Los Angeles. She was 81.
LaWanda Page was born on this date in 1920. She was an African American comedic character actress. Born in Cleveland and raised in St. Louis, Page began her career as a dancer and chorus girl billed as “the Bronze Goddess of Fire,” and later became a stand-up comic. Her greatest fame began in her 1950s when comedian Redd Foxx, a childhood friend, asked her to join his Norman Lear sitcom ...
Lamont Sanford (nephew) Elizabeth (niece) Esther Winfield Anderson, known and feared as Aunt Esther, is a fictional character from the television series Sanford and Son. She was played by actress LaWanda Page, an acquaintance of series star Redd Foxx. Page was Foxx's first and only choice to play Esther. [1]
Sep 19, 2002 · Actress-comedian LaWanda Page, best known as the tough, Bible-toting Aunt Esther on the hit 1970s television comedy “Sanford and Son,” died Saturday Sept. 14 in L.A. from complications of ...
Feb 5, 2018 · Redd Foxx was actually LaWanda’s childhood friend. The great comedian gave her the biggest break of her career when he invited her to play his well-meaning, hot-tempered sister-in-law Aunt Esther on his hit series “Sanford and Son.”. She was 53 at the time. Ms. Page died in 2002 at the age of 81 from complications from diabetes but she ...
Long before her turn as the sermonizing Aunt Esther on "Sanford and Son," LaWanda Page was dazzling Black nightclub audiences - first as the flame-swallowing “Bronze Goddess of Fire”. Then, following in the footsteps of her childhood friend and eventual costar Redd Foxx, she became a queen of raunchy, tell-it-like-it-is stand up comedy ...
Sep 17, 2002 · LaWanda Page, the tall, imposing actress best known as the formidable Aunt Esther on ”Sanford & Son,” died Saturday of complications from diabetes at Centinela Hospital Medical Center in ...
