Helen Hanft, Brassy Actress of Early Off Off-Broadway Scene, Dies at 79 by Robert Simonson

Helen Hanft, a brassy performer who established herself as a regular presence on the small stages of the Off-Off-Broadway movement of the 1960s and '70s to such an extent that New York Times drama critic Mel Gussow called her the "Ethel Mermen of the Underground," died from intestinal complications May 30 at Roosevelt Hospital.

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