She appeared in various roles of episodic television before starring opposite Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor in 1976's Silver Streak. In 1972, she appeared in the film adaptation of Philip Roth's novel Portnoy's Complaint. Her last Broadway appearance was in a 2006 revival of Barefoot in the Park. She also was an original cast member of the musical Pippin and Tom Stoppard's play Jumpers. She departed the soap for a starring role in the Broadway musical The Rothschilds which starred Hal Linden and with music by the Fiddler on the Roof team of lyricist Sheldon Harnick and composer Jerry Bock, who died just earlier this week. That same year, she began a two-year run on the soap opera Search for Tomorrow. before making her film debut in 1969's The Wedding Party directed by Brian De Palma and featuring Robert De Niro.
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That same year she had a brief part on a TV series called N.Y.P.D. In 1968, she hit the stage in the play The Sudden & Accidental Re-Education of Horse Johnson, which ran a mere five performances. She made her Broadway and film debuts practically in the same time period. Unfortunately, the cause for her disappearance appears to have been her health, particularly a form of chronic leukemia which has taken the actress's life at the age of 66. In recent years, she had begun to reappear again in smaller roles, and I always hoped for a comeback as she always has been one of my favorites. In the mid-1970s, Jill Clayburgh turned in great screen performance after great screen performance earning consecutive Oscar nominations for An Unmarried Woman and Starting Over in 19, then she seemed to vanish from the scene.