created the role of the Countess and closed out-of-town in Marc Blitzstein's Reuben, Reuben, and played Ruth Sherwood in Wonderful Town at New York City Center in 1963. In Long Beach, California, she played Mama Morton in Chicago and fought with a vacuum cleaner as Pauline in No, No, Nanette. In 1998, she played Hattie Walker in the Paper Mill Playhouse's acclaimed revival of Stephen Sondheim's Follies. In 2005, she appeared in a road-company production of Nunsense, written by Dan Goggin. The following year, she completed her autobiography How I Lost 10 Pounds in 53 Years. In 1995, she was awarded a Golden Palm Star on the Palm Springs Walk of Stars. She appeared in The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! as Madam A-Go-Go, a mysterious fortune teller who appears in the episode "Fortune Teller". She also performed with The Fabulous Palm Springs Follies at the Plaza Theatre in Palm Springs, California. In December 2010, she, Donna McKechnie and Liliane Montevecchi starred in a production of From Broadway with Love, staged at the Lensic Theater in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Ballard was in the 2012 cabaret show Doin' It for Love, which premiered in Austin, Texas at the Paramount Theatre. Starring Ballard and Montevecchi, the cast included Broadway dancer Lee Roy Reams. (The Austin performance benefited the Texas Humane Legislation Network.) The show then went on to play in Los Angeles on March 8 and 10, 2012. Ballard announced her official retirement in 2015 at the age of 89. Death Ballard died at her home in Rancho Mirage, California, on January 21, 2019, at the age of 93. The cause was kidney cancer, according to a friend. Filmography Film Television {| class="wikitable sortable" |- ! Year ! Title ! Role ! class="unsortable" | Notes |- |1951–1955 |The Arthur Murray Party |Herself |2 episodes |- |1954 |The Steve Allen Show |Herself |1 episode |- |1954-1955 |The Colgate Comedy Hour |Herself |7 episodes |- |1956–1963 |The Ed Sullivan Show |Herself |4 episodes |- |1957 |Cinderella |Portia |TV special |- |1957–1962 |Tonight Starring Jack Paar |Herself |27 episodes |- |1958 |Make Me Laugh |Herself |3 episodes |- |1958–1960 |The Garry Moore Show |Herself |3 episodes |- |1960–1963 |The Perry Como Show |Herself |52 episodes |- |1962 |Play Your Hunch |Herself |2 episodes |- |1962 |The Tonight Show |Herself |2 episodes |- |1963 |Candid Camera |Herself |2 episodes |- |1963–1975 |The Tonight Show Starring