Immortalized by Jack London and pined for by artists and governors, Stella Hurtig was a turn-of-the-century superstar
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The Tonight Show favorite and king of observational comedy dies at 78
How a latter-day vaudevillian from Kansas City got himself to speak perfect Yiddish