Friends of Gilda
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90 minutes
11/21/1993
Overview
Friends of Gilda was a 1993 ninety-minute television special made by CBC Television to benefit the Genesis Research Foundation, the research fundraising arm of the University of Toronto’s Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology. The fundraiser was a tribute to Gilda Radner, who died of ovarian cancer in 1989 and featured a long list of performers with whom she was friendly. Among these were the "surviving cast members" who had shared the stage with Gilda Radner in the celebrated Toronto production of Godspell which was her professional stage debut. Others appearing in the special knew her from Second City Toronto. Several—including Eugene Levy and Andrea Martin—fell into both those categories.
Cast List
Gilda Radner
as Self (Archival Footage)
Valda Aviks
as Herself
John Candy
as Himself
Eugene Levy
as Himself
Martin Short
as Himself
Nancy Dolman
as Herself
Victor Garber
as Himself
Jim Betts
as Himself
Valri Bromfield
as Herself
Andrea Martin
as Herself
Catherine O'Hara
as Herself
Carole Pope
as Herself
Dave Thomas
as Himself
Paul Shaffer
as Himself
Stephen Schwartz
as Himself
Marvin Hamlisch
as Himself
Robin Duke
as Herself
Avril Chown
as Herself
Jayne Eastwood
as Herself
Joe Flaherty
as Himself