# Good-bye Millie! Ann Morgan Guilbert dies at 87 **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 16, 2016, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-bye-millie-ann-morgan-guilbert-dies-at-87/757521 "2016-06-16T13:52:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2016, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-bye-millie-ann-morgan-guilbert-dies-at-87/757521/1 "2016-06-16T13:52:44Z")
[Cite](http://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/ann-morgan-guilbert-of-the-nanny-dies-at-87-w210306) I guess that leaves Carl Reiner, Dick Van Dyke and Mary Tyler Moore. Guilbert was also hysterical as Fran Fine’s grandmother on The Nanny. The episode with Elton John as one of my favorites! ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2016, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-bye-millie-ann-morgan-guilbert-dies-at-87/757521/2 "2016-06-16T14:33:21Z")
Yetta on _The Nanny_ was a great career renaissance; she stole every scene she was in. I wonder how many other actors have had two such memorable TV characters that many years apart. ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2016, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-bye-millie-ann-morgan-guilbert-dies-at-87/757521/3 "2016-06-16T15:17:18Z")
Didn’t she show up on a few episodes of Seinfeld as one of the retirement community neighbors? ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2016, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-bye-millie-ann-morgan-guilbert-dies-at-87/757521/4 "2016-06-16T15:47:09Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > [Cite](http://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/ann-morgan-guilbert-of-the-nanny-dies-at-87-w210306) > > I guess that leaves Carl Reiner, Dick Van Dyke and Mary Tyler Moore. Larry Mathews is not dead either. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2016, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-bye-millie-ann-morgan-guilbert-dies-at-87/757521/5 "2016-06-16T16:57:23Z")
Reportedly, Carl Reiner offered to make her a full-time cast member on DVD, but she declined, believing she’d guest star in enough episodes each season to have it work out finanically, and they’d probably write better parts for her, since they would have to specifically write her into a story. ---
**Author:** ![Richard\_John\_Marcej](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Richard\_John\_Marcej](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Richard_John_Marcej)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2016, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-bye-millie-ann-morgan-guilbert-dies-at-87/757521/6 "2016-06-16T17:27:00Z")
> [@Shoeless](#): > > Didn’t she show up on a few episodes of Seinfeld as one of the retirement community neighbors? Yes. She was in the episodes about Jerry buying his dad a cadillac and when Klompus gave him the pen that could write upside down. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2016, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-bye-millie-ann-morgan-guilbert-dies-at-87/757521/7 "2016-06-16T17:38:21Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > Larry Mathews is not dead either. Rose Marie is also still alive. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2016, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-bye-millie-ann-morgan-guilbert-dies-at-87/757521/8 "2016-06-16T19:09:21Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > Rose Marie is also still alive. Holy shit you are right. I thought for sure I had heard she died a few years ago. 92 years old. ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2016, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-bye-millie-ann-morgan-guilbert-dies-at-87/757521/9 "2016-06-16T21:58:42Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > Rose Marie is also still alive. > [@Loach](#): > > Holy shit you are right. I thought for sure I had heard she died a few years ago. 92 years old. She is the new Abe Vigoda. For the record, I have always loved ‘Millie’. mmm ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2016, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-bye-millie-ann-morgan-guilbert-dies-at-87/757521/10 "2016-06-16T22:04:55Z")
She also played the grandmother on Life In Pieces. It was a very occasional role…I think she was in all of 2 episodes total. ---
**Author:** ![SpoilerVirgin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4491bb/32.png) [@SpoilerVirgin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpoilerVirgin)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2016, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-bye-millie-ann-morgan-guilbert-dies-at-87/757521/11 "2016-06-16T23:08:59Z")
I loved Ann Guilbert. She did an amazing job with Yetta. > [@Sampiro](#): > > Yetta on _The Nanny_ was a great career renaissance; she stole every scene she was in. I wonder how many other actors have had two such memorable TV characters that many years apart. There’s David McCallum, who was Ilya Kuryakin from U.N.C.L.E. in 1964 and has been Dr. “Ducky” Mallard from N.C.I.S. since 2003. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2016, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-bye-millie-ann-morgan-guilbert-dies-at-87/757521/12 "2016-06-16T23:38:59Z")
Poor Millie, teaming with Mary Tyler Moore on a hit sitcom appears to lead to a pretty high chance of long life. Many of her cast mates on both shows have beat the averages by plenty and most are still going. ---
**Author:** ![Richard\_John\_Marcej](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Richard\_John\_Marcej](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Richard_John_Marcej)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2016, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-bye-millie-ann-morgan-guilbert-dies-at-87/757521/13 "2016-06-17T00:01:11Z")
> [@What\_Exit](#): > > Poor Millie, teaming with Mary Tyler Moore on a hit sitcom appears to lead to a pretty high chance of long life. Many of her cast mates on both shows have beat the averages by plenty and most are still going. Well, she “could light up the world with her smile”, so… 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2016, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-bye-millie-ann-morgan-guilbert-dies-at-87/757521/14 "2016-06-17T02:39:22Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > Yetta on _The Nanny_ was a great career renaissance; she stole every scene she was in. I wonder how many other actors have had two such memorable TV characters that many years apart. Betty White as Sue Ann Nivens in the 70s, Rose Nylund in the 80s, and Elka Ostrovsky in the 10s. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2016, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-bye-millie-ann-morgan-guilbert-dies-at-87/757521/15 "2016-06-17T03:10:32Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > Yetta on _The Nanny_ was a great career renaissance; she stole every scene she was in. I wonder how many other actors have had two such memorable TV characters that many years apart. > [@SpoilerVirgin](#): > > There’s David McCallum, who was Ilya Kuryakin from U.N.C.L.E. in 1964 and has been Dr. “Ducky” Mallard from N.C.I.S. since 2003. Ron Howard began playing Opie Taylor on _The Andy Griffith Show_ in 1960. He narrates (and appeared as a guest star on camera) for _Arrested Development_ as recently as 2013. A fifty-three year stretch is pretty impressive and Howard is only 62 so there’s a good chance he can extend it. ---
**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2016, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-bye-millie-ann-morgan-guilbert-dies-at-87/757521/16 "2016-06-17T06:02:33Z")
My favorite Millie moments: 1. Rob and Laura have invited an old friend, a hypnotist, to a dinner party. I love the way Millie says, “Put me in a trance! Put me in a trance!” [http://www.hulu.com/watch/30466](http://www.hulu.com/watch/30466) at 2:45 1. For the community variety show, Millie does her impression of Jimmy Cagney. [http://www.hulu.com/watch/30467#i0,p12,s2,d0,f1](http://www.hulu.com/watch/30467#i0,p12,s2,d0,f1) at 4:35. 1. In a rehearsal, Millie performs her role as Cleopatra. Same episode, at 10:15. 1. For a later community show, Millie sings her audition song, “My Heart Got a Smack in the Face.” [http://www.hulu.com/watch/113984#i0,p4,s3,d0,f1](http://www.hulu.com/watch/113984#i0,p4,s3,d0,f1) at 9:50. ---
**Author:** ![MrAtoz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@MrAtoz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrAtoz)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2016, 12:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-bye-millie-ann-morgan-guilbert-dies-at-87/757521/17 "2016-06-17T12:04:19Z")
> [@rowrrbazzle](#): > > 1. For a later community show, Millie sings her audition song, “My Heart Got a Smack in the Face.” > > [http://www.hulu.com/watch/113984#i0,p4,s3,d0,f1](http://www.hulu.com/watch/113984#i0,p4,s3,d0,f1) at 9:50. That song has always been one of my favorite _Dick Van Dyke Show_ moments, bar none. Sad to hear about Ann Guilbert’s passing. She took what could have been a colorless role, the leading lady’s more plain best friend, and made it a source of several genuine belly-laughs. It demonstrates what a true ensemble show the _Dick Van Dyke Show_ was, that it would give its supporting characters bits like that where they could be the center of attention. I was never a fan of _The Nanny_, but I did enjoy knowing that she had gotten another good part later in life. RIP.