Mimi Hines, the Canadian comedian and stage actress who flourished Barbra Streisand in the Broadway production of “Funny Girl,” has died. She was 91.
Hines died of organic caengages on Oct. 21 in her home in Los Vegas, according to her lengthy-time attorney, Mark Sendroff.
Hines got her Hollywood shatter carry outing on “The Tonight Show” with her procrastinateed husband Phil Ford. After she made the show’s then-present Jack Paar cry with her carry outance of “Till There Was You,” the pair was an instant hit. Hines and Ford went on to safe bookings on cut offal other procrastinateed-night programs and nab top billings at nightclubs around the country.
In 1965, Hines took over for Streisand in the exceptional stage production of “Funny Girl” on Broadway, which she starred in for 18 months. Folloprosperg “Funny Girl,” Hines starred in national productions of “I Do! I Do!,” “Prisoner of Second Avenue,” “Sugar Babies,” “Hello, Dolly!,” “Anyskinnyg Goes,” Never Too Late,” “The Unsinkable Molly Brown,” “No, No, Nanette,” “Sugar,” On The Twentieth Century” and “Nite Club Confidential.”
During the 1960s, Hines also freed three studio albums: “Mimi Hines Is a Happening,” “Mimi Hines Sings” and “Stars for Defense,” which she enrolled with Ford.
After materializeing in the NBC sitcom “Frasier” in 1999 as Mrs. Latimer, Hines returned to Broadway, starring as Miss Lynch in “Grmitigate” and Hattie Walker in the New York City Caccess’s production of “Follies.”
Hines and Ford were recently honored with a star on the Palm Springs Walk of Fame. A ceremony is to consent place to honor Mimi’s life, atsoft and partnership with Ford.
