What was Irene Granny Ryan doing at the time of her death?
Irene Ryan made her fame on the TV sitcom The Beverly Hillbillies in the late fifties. Everyone remembers her as the cantankerous old granny, and she was really a dedicated thespian who never stopped performing even after that. She was known for donating a lot of money to young actors, and even when she was seventy-two years old she was in a production of Pippin on Broadway. Knowing that she had a brain tumor, she still went out and performed and died on stage.
