Ann Morgan Guilbert

She gave memorable performances in film and television and on stage throughout her distinguished career, and recently starred in Nicole Holofcener's 2010 Sundance Film Festival selection, Please Give (2010).

She last appeared on Broadway in "A Naked Girl on the Appian Way" (2005), with Jill Clayburgh and Hamish Linklater. This was her second appearance on Broadway; she had appeared many years earlier in "The Billy Barnes Revue".

They were together until his death in 1997.

She was 70 years old when she performed 'Grandma Yetta', Fran's seriously forgetful grandmother, for the last time on The Nanny (1993).

Other stage appearances include "The Matchmaker," "Arsenic and Old Lace", "The Road to Mecca", "Life Lines: An Afternoon with Ann Guilbert", "A Lie of the Mind", "Three Men on a Horse", "To Kill A Mockingbird", "Harvey", "Foxfire", "Blooding Wedding", "Misalliance", "Green Grow the Lilacs", "The School for Scandal", "The Royal Family", "Major Barbara", "Fifth of July", "Growing Gracefully", "Life Times Ten", "Nobody's Safe Here", "The Legacy", "Nite, Mother", and "The Immigrant: A Hamilton County Album", where she created the role of Alma, for which she won the 1988 Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Non-Resident Production, at Washington, D. C. 's Arena Stage. She was a graduate of Stanford University's Department of Speech and Drama. While at Stanford, she met producer/writer George Eckstein. They married and had two daughters, actress Hallie Todd, and longtime acting teacher and writer, Nora Eckstein.

Co-starred with her husband, Guy Raymond, in Mark Harelik's regional theater production "The Immigrant." The play was performed in 1986 at Los Angeles' Mark Taper Forum, and also in Denver and Washington.

They divorced in 1966, and Ann married character actor Guy Raymond in 1969.

Ann Morgan Guilbert was best known to television audiences as the Rob and Laura Petrie's neighbor Millie Helper on The Dick Van Dyke Show (1961) and as Fran Fein's feisty Grandma Yetta on The Nanny (1993).

Began her career as a featured performer and singer in the original Los Angeles, Off-Broadway and Broadway's cast of 'Billy Barnes Revue', a 1959 musical comedy revue with music and lyrics by Billy Barnes and sketches by Bob Rodgers, which was produced by her then husband George Eckstein.