Lucille Kallen: Female on the 23rd Floor
Comedy pioneer Lucille Kallen (1922-1999) came to New York from her native Los Angeles to study piano at Juilliard. Realizing that she wasn't cut out to compete at the concert level, in the late '40s she began writing revues with Mel Tolkin, produced by Max Liebman at Camp Tamiment in the Poconos. In 1949 Liebman hired […]