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Kay Medford (September 14, 1914 – April 10, 1980), was an Academy Award-nominated American
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 character actress.

Born Margaret O'Regan in New York City
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, the daughter of first-generation Irish parents, she was the original "Mama" in Bye Bye Birdie
Bye Bye Birdie

Bye Bye Birdie is a stage musical theater with a book by Michael Stewart , lyrics by Lee Adams, and music by Charles Strouse.Originally titled Let's Go Steady, the satire on United States society is set in 1958....
, starring opposite Dick van Dyke
Dick Van Dyke

Richard Wayne ?Dick? Van Dyke is an United States actor, presenter and entertainer, with a career spanning six decades. He is best known for his starring roles in Mary Poppins , Chitty Chitty Bang Bang , The Dick Van Dyke Show and Diagnosis: Murder....
 on Broadway, and garnering excellent reviews. She lost the film role to another Irish-American actress, Maureen Stapleton
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.

She also appeared on Broadway in Carousel
Carousel (musical)

Carousel is a musical theater by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II that was adapted from Ferenc Molnar's 1909 play Liliom, transplanting the Budapest setting of Molnar's play to a New England fishing village....
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Kay Medford (September 14, 1914 – April 10, 1980), was an Academy Award-nominated American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 character actress.

Born Margaret O'Regan in New York City
New York City

The City of New York is the List of United States cities by population in the United States, while the New York metropolitan area ranks among the List of urban areas by population....
, the daughter of first-generation Irish parents, she was the original "Mama" in Bye Bye Birdie
Bye Bye Birdie

Bye Bye Birdie is a stage musical theater with a book by Michael Stewart , lyrics by Lee Adams, and music by Charles Strouse.Originally titled Let's Go Steady, the satire on United States society is set in 1958....
, starring opposite Dick van Dyke
Dick Van Dyke

Richard Wayne ?Dick? Van Dyke is an United States actor, presenter and entertainer, with a career spanning six decades. He is best known for his starring roles in Mary Poppins , Chitty Chitty Bang Bang , The Dick Van Dyke Show and Diagnosis: Murder....
 on Broadway, and garnering excellent reviews. She lost the film role to another Irish-American actress, Maureen Stapleton
Maureen Stapleton

Lois Maureen Stapleton was an United States Academy Awards-, Emmy Award- and two-time Tony Award-winning actor in film, theatre and television....
.

She also appeared on Broadway in Carousel
Carousel (musical)

Carousel is a musical theater by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II that was adapted from Ferenc Molnar's 1909 play Liliom, transplanting the Budapest setting of Molnar's play to a New England fishing village....
, Paint Your Wagon and Funny Girl (as Fanny Brice
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's mother); which role she recreated in the film version and was nominated for both a Tony Award
Tony Award

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 and an Academy Award
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 for her performances on Broadway and on film. She did not appear in Funny Girl
Funny Girl (film)

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s sequel, Funny Lady
Funny Lady

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.

She died from cervical cancer
Cervical cancer

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 in New York City
New York City

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 in 1980, aged 65.

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