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Actor: Postcards from the Edge. Gary Morton was a comedian who worked the famed "Borscht Belt" of resorts in the Catskills Mountains. Never as talented nor as renowned as such fellow Borscht Belt comics like Milton Berle, whom he caricatured in one of his few film roles in Lenny (1974), Morton nonetheless was personally popular among his fellow ...
December 19, 1924 · The Bronx, New York, USA. Died. March 30, 1999 · Palm Springs, California, USA (lung cancer) Birth name. Morton Goldaper. Height. 6′ 0½″ (1.84 m) Mini Bio. Gary Morton was a comedian who worked the famed "Borscht Belt" of resorts in the Catskills Mountains.
Apr 1, 1999 · Gary Morton, stand-up comedian and producer for the post-”I Love Lucy” television shows starring his late wife, Lucille Ball, has died. He was 74. Morton, who was married to the legendary...
Apr 1, 1999 · By Deseret News. RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif. (AP) -- Gary Morton, the Borscht Belt comic who married Lucille Ball and became her executive producer, has died. He was 74. Morton died Tuesday at Eisenhower Memorial Hospital, said John Caranci of Wiefels & Son Funeral Directors in Palm Springs.
Apr 1, 1999 · Gary Morton, a comedian and television producer who was married to Lucille Ball until her death in 1989, died on Tuesday at his home here. He was 74. The cause was lung cancer, a family...
Mar 30, 1999 · Gary Morton (born Morton Goldaper, December 19, 1924 – March 30, 1999), was a Jewish American stand-up comedian, whose primary venues were hotels and resorts of the Borscht Belt in upstate New York. He was born in New York City. In 1960, Morton met Lucille Ball in New York City a few months before she opened on Broadway in the musical Wildcat.
GARY MORTON was married to Lucille Ball for 28 years until her death, and became executive producer of her television programmes. He was a moderately successful stand-up comic who had graduated...
