Evicted from her rent-controlled apartment in 2009 to make way for construction of the Second Avenue Subway in New York city, which resulted in her suing the Metropolitan Transit Authority.
Was in Wisk commercials in the 1970s, where she said the famous phrase "ring around the collar" as she cleaned her husband's shirt.
She served as a Dream Whip spokesperson on episodes of "I've Got a Secret" during 1963.