Dena Dietrich, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Dena Dietrich

American actress

Date of Birth: 04-Dec-1928

Place of Birth: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

Profession: stage actor, voice actor, television actor, film actor

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius


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About Dena Dietrich

  • Dena Dietrich (born December 4, 1928, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is an American actress.
  • On television, Dietrich portrayed Grace Peterson in Adam's Rib, Dena Madison in Karen,:555 Estelle Milner in Paul Sand in Friends and Lovers,:818 Molly Gibbons in The Practice:850 Ethel Armbrewster in The Ropers,:910 and Pearl Newman in 13 East.:1072Her other television credits include recurring roles on Life with Lucy, Santa Barbara, All My Children and Philly.
  • She made guest appearances on Emergency!, Life Goes On, NYPD Blue, Murphy Brown, and The Golden Girls (as Dorothy's sister Gloria).
  • Dietrich appeared in such films as The Wild Party (1975), Disney's The North Avenue Irregulars (1979) and the Mel Brooks film History of the World, Part I (1981).
  • She appeared on Broadway in The Rimers of Eldritch, Here's Where I Belong, and The Prisoner of Second Avenue.
  • Outside of film and television, Dietrich provided the voice of the grandmother narrator on the dark ride attraction Horizons at Epcot in Walt Disney World from 1983 until 1999.
  • She studied acting at HB Studio.Dietrich is perhaps best known for her portrayal of Mother Nature in Chiffon margarine's 30-second commercials in the 1970s (1971–79).
  • Dressed in a gown of white and adorned with a crown of daisies, Mother Nature is seen sampling what she believes is butter, straight from nature.
  • An unseen narrator (Mason Adams) informs her "That's Chiffon Margarine, not butter." A perplexed Mother Nature replies that it would be impossible for it to be margarine because it tastes too much like real butter; the narrator responds in delight that the margarine is indeed so close to real butter that it could fool even Mother Nature.
  • Dietrich angrily responds "It's not nice to fool Mother Nature!" and commands nature to attack, such as through thunder and lightning or commanding an elephant to charge the camera.
  • "It's not nice to fool Mother Nature!" eventually became Dietrich's trademark catchphrase.
  • The melodic tagline for the ad reads: "If you think it's butter, but it's not...it's Chiffon."

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