Somehow this LA Times article, published when the Academy Awards were imminent, slipped by us, so we’re catching up:
“At 99, Connie Sawyer is one of the oldest members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences….Sawyer’s been in show business for more than eight decades — she began working in stand-up comedy in Depression-era New York at the age of 19, after a childhood spent in dance lessons and traveling with her mother to see performers like Fanny Brice in San Francisco…”
Ms. Sawyer will be 100 years old on November 27th. Read more here.
