Diller was born Phyllis Ada Driver in Lima, Ohio on July 17, 1917, the only child of Perry Marcus Driver, an insurance agent, and Frances Ada (née Romshe). She had German and Irish … See more

1930s–1950s
In 1939, she met Sherwood Diller, the brother of a classmate at Bluffton, and they eloped, marrying Sherwood A. Diller in Bluffton, Ohio on 4 … See more

By 1997, as she passed her 80th birthday, Diller began to suffer from various ailments. In 1999, her heart stopped during a hospital stay. She was fitted with a pacemaker See more

• Honorary House mother, Alpha Epsilon Pi Fraternity at UCLA, 1966
• Golden Apple Award for Most Cooperative Actress – 1966. See more

Diller credited much of her success to a motivational book, The Magic of Believing (1948) by Claude M. Bristol, which gave her confidence at the start of her career. She was married … See more

Diller was one of the first solo female comedians in the U.S. to become a household name. She stated that making people laugh is a powerful art form. As a pioneering woman in … See more

• Phyllis Diller at the TCM Movie Database
• Phyllis Diller at IMDb
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