The actresses were the first three women on the “Saturday Night Live” cast.
Women ofSaturday Night Livestick together forever.
Then known asNBC’s Saturday Night,the original stars were known as theNot Ready for Prime Time Players.
Laraine Newman and Jane Curtain hold up photo of Gilda Radner on ‘SNL50’.
She won an Emmy for her work on the cast.
She was briefly in remission, but her cancer returned and she died on May 20, 1989.
She received a posthumous star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2003.
John Belushi, Laraine Newman, Gilda Radner, Chevy Chase, host Elliott Gould, Dan Aykroyd, Jane Curtin, and Garrett Morris during a ‘Saturday Night Live’ season 1 sketch.NBCUniversal via Getty
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