Gilda Radner's life was cut too short when she succumbed to cancer in 1989 aged 42. But many tragedies marred her life before her cancer diagnosis.
Short revealed in his 2014 memoir, I Must Say: My Life as a Humble Comedy Legend, that the pair met when he was cast by ...
But before they were married, Wilder grieved for his third, Gilda Radner, the original Saturday Night Live cast member to whom he was married from 1984 until her death from ovarian cancer in 1989.
The “Saturday Night Live” 50th anniversary special on NBC included a moment where original cast members Jane Curtin and Laraine Newman paid tribute to their late co-star Gilda Radner.