Cass Elliot
Ellen Naomi Cohen was born in Baltimore, Maryland, on September 19, 1941. Elliot adopted the name Cass in high school, possibly borrowing it from actress Peggy Cass. She toured in the musical The Music Man in 1962, but lost the part of Miss Marmelstein in I Can Get It for You Wholesale to Barbra Streisand. She was inducted into the...
