The comedian, forever known for playing the frumpy Gladys Ormphby, also was a Broadway star and a 'Sesame Street' stalwart.

She had other roles onstage and on TV, but none more memorable than the wary spinster fending off male advances on that raucous sketch show.

Her dour Gladys Ormphby became one of the show’s enduring gags and, for a time, a surprise feminist symbol as a woman who won’t take it anymore