career to an end. Still, she appeared in a 1980s Goya commercial for its drink Coca Goya Colada while lounging on a chaise longue, shaking the two cans like maracas. Death Gingold died from heart problems and pneumonia at Lenox Hill Hospital in Manhattan on 24 May 1987, aged 89. She is interred at the Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California. Legacy Gingold's autobiography, How to Grow Old Disgracefully, was published posthumously in 1988. It was published in installments: The World Is Square (1946), My Own Unaided Work (1952) and Sirens Should Be Seen and Not Heard (1963). She also wrote a play titled Abracadabra and contributed original material to the many revues in which she performed. The Gingold Theatrical Group in New York is a company devoted to producing plays about human rights. It was founded by David Staller, a great friend of Gingold for many years, as a tribute to her. They specialise in presenting the works of Bernard Shaw and are the first group to present all of Shaw's 65 plays. Screen performances Film Dance Pretty Lady (1931) Public Nuisance No. 1 (1936) Someone at the Door (1936) - Lizzie Appleby Merry Comes to Town (1937) - Ida Witherspoon Meet Mr. Penny (1938) - Mrs. Wilson The Butler's Dilemma (1943) - Aunt Sophie The Pickwick Papers (1952) - Miss Tompkins Cosh Boy (1953) - Queenie Our Girl Friday (1953) - Spinster Around the World in 80 Days (1956) - Sporting Lady Gigi (1958) - Madame Alvarez Bell, Book and Candle (1958) - Bianca de Passe The Naked Edge (1961) - Lilly Harris The Music Man (1962) - Eulalie Mackechnie Shinn Gay Purr-ee (1962) - voice of Mme. Rubens-Chatte The World of Henry Orient (1964, scenes deleted) I'd Rather Be Rich (1964) - Miss Grimshaw Harvey Middleman, Fireman (1965) - Mrs. Koogleman The Itch (1965) (short subject) - voice of Woman Promise Her Anything (1966) - Mrs. Luce Munster, Go Home! (1966) - Lady Effigie Munster Jules Verne's Rocket to the Moon (1967) - Angelica Winter of the Witch (short) (1969) - the Old Witch Tubby the Tuba (1975) - voice of Miss Squeek A Little Night Music (1977) - Mme. Armfeldt Garbo Talks (1984) - Elizabeth Rennick Television The Tonight Show with Jack Paar and later Johnny Carson (frequent guest from 1958 to 1962) The Merv Griffin Show with Merv Griffin (frequent guest) I've Got a