https://lebeauleblog.com/2017/08/29/august-29-happy-birthday-lea-michele-and-preston-sturges/

Isabel Sanford (1917-2004) is best known for playing Louise Jefferson on All in the Family and then on The Jeffersons, and for being the first African-American winner of the Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actress on a Comedy Series in 1981.

https://lebeauleblog.com/2017/08/29/august-29-happy-birthday-lea-michele-and-preston-sturges/


I wonder if her Miss Sanford's surviving family celebrated what would have been her 100th [!] Birthday? I also wonder if she'd have come around to wanting to embrace it rather than staying coy about her age. I mean, Rose Marie and Doris Day in recent years FINALLY decided that making it with one's faculties intact was impressive rather than something to hide!