LOS ANGELES () - Octogenarian actress Cloris Leachman has united the cast of celebrities who will grace the ballroom level on the next edition of ABC television hit "Dancing With the Stars," the network said on Monday.
Leachman, 82, an Oscar winner for her 1971 supporting role in "The Last Picture Show" and a record Primetime Emmy paladin for her TV work, will become the oldest contestant to compete on America's second-most watched series.
The previous ranking senior on "Dancing with the Stars" was old-timer actor George Hamilton, wHO strutted his stuff at age 66 in season two in early 2006, the Walt Disney Co-owned network aforesaid.
Leachman, currently touring in her one-woman usher, "Cloris!", latterly completed work in ternion new films. In 2006, she self-collected the eighth Primetime Emmy of her career, the most by a single actress, to surpass the seven earned by Mary Tyler Moore, on whose show Leachman became a household diagnose in the 1970s for her touch role as the self-involved Phyllis.
She also is remembered for her unforgettably zany sprain as the heavy-accented Frau Blucher in Mel Brooks' classic horror spoof "Young Frankenstein."
Joining Leachman this fall on "Dancing" is one of the biggest Emmy bridesmaids of all time, Susan Lucci, world Health Organization stars as the vixen entrepreneur and self-styled media mogul Erica Kane on the day soap opera "All My Children."
Lucci, who will celebrate her 10,000th episode on "All My Children" in November, in conclusion took domicile a Daytime Emmy as best actress in 1999, after existence nominated for a record 18 true years without winning.
The forthcoming seventh episode of "Dancing," featuring 13 celebrities opposite with professional dancers in a contest of elimination, premieres on September 22.�
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