Joan Rivers
Joan Rivers ( born June 8, 1933 as Joan Alexandra Molinsky in Brooklyn, New York City ) is an American entertainer.
Life and career
Rivers grew up as the daughter of Russian Jewish emigrants in Brooklyn, her father was a doctor. She attended Connecticut College for Women and graduated then studying at Barnard College with a BA in English and Anthropology from.
She then worked in a department store and married in 1957 the son of her boss. The marriage was already divorced the following year. 1965 helped an appearance in Johnny Carson's Tonight Show in the meantime working as a comedienne Rivers to greater awareness. In the same year she married the British television producer Edgar Rosenberg. In 1968, she received her own television show and was still a frequent guest in the broadcasts of Carson and Ed Sullivan, they also had a child, her daughter Melissa. From 1983, now lives in California Rivers replacement presenter was at Carson's late-night show. Rivers was named in 1984 by the Harvard Hasty Pudding Theatrical Society Woman of the Year. In 1986, she joined the newly founded FOX Network, where she performed in direct competition to Carson. My three-year contract that would have supposedly earned her $ 10 million was not met: The Late Show Starring Joan Rivers was set after eight months. Edgar Rosenberg, who had produced the show, committed suicide in the same year. Rivers began some time later with the moderation of a talk show (The Joan Rivers Show), which ran in syndication. In 1989 she received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. For the moderation of the Joan Rivers show she was in 1990 awarded a Daytime Emmy. In 2009, she starred in the U.S. version of the reality show The Celebrity Apprentice and was able to prevail in this case against the other participants. Since August 2009, Rivers hosted on U.S. television reality show How'd You Get So Rich radio station TV - land in which she imagines self-made millionaires and their career. She also had a guest appearance, which finds its counterpart in her private life in the series Nip / Tuck: Since 1965, she goes into the hands of plastic surgeons. Since 1983 she is a customer of Gesichtsplastikers Stephen Hoefflin, the Michael Jackson and Elizabeth Taylor owed their mask-like appearance.
Rivers is also known as jewelry seller on QVC and commentator of red-carpet events. The latter she presents often with her daughter.