She starred as Sophie Tucker in a short-lived musical that featured music and lyrics by Steve Allen.
Libi Staiger, who starred as show business legend Sophie Tucker in a 1963 Broadway musical and as one of two bickering sisters in Denny's commercials, died Wednesday in Austin, her daughter announced. She was 91., with lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green, music by Leonard Bernstein and direction by George Abbott.
Born on Jan 10, 1928, in Harrisburg, Illinois, Staiger often said she ran away to New York City as soon as she could. She arrived in her early twenties and loved telling people that she "picked up" her husband in a bar on the Upper West Side.Destry Rides AgainStaiger and close friend Shannon Bolin Kaye played sisters Rose and Edith Corlick in a long-running series of commercials for Denny's in the 1980s and '90s.
Her husband of 58 years died in 2009, and she moved to Austin in 2014 to be closer to her immediate family. In addition to her daughter, co-director of the Supreme Court Clinic at the University of Texas School of Law, survivors include her grandson, Max.
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